Ebay shop

[gatefittingsdirect]

Hi all, 

Sales have been reducing a fair amount over the past couple of months, possibly due to a lack of potential customers using ebay these days compared to previous months? 

Looking at views on items we sell, many have zero views at all in the past 30 days, quite concerning. Most of our sales come from our own website, probably due to having to be at least 10-15% more expensive on ebay due to the high selling fees. 

We are considering cancelling our ebay shop as the less we sell, the higher the overall selling costs as a percentage of profit we make. 

Has anyone here cancelled their shop in the past, and has there been a noticeable drop in sales from doing so. Also, do you think there's still an advantage in having a shop on ebay these days, looking at what many customers buy it's quite obvious they never look at the shop, just buy from a single listing they have seen. 

Thanks in advance for any advice.

[the-nutwood-collection]

I cancelled my shop, and it made no difference to sales.  They were dismal when I had a shop, and dismal when I didn't have a shop.  The difference was that I was no longer paying eBay £25 +VAT for the displeasure of not getting any sales.

[therenewalworkshopltd]

If you wish to continue with 800+ listings, then if you cancel the shop subscription, it will cost you a LOT more in listing fees.
So I suggest that you don't.

I would hope that you are currently on the intermediate shop, as once you hit about 700 or so listings, it is cheaper than the the basic one.

If you are dropping to the basic shop, then you need to be listing at least 70 items to make it worthwhile.  Obviously if you list the entire allowance, it is the most cost effective.

[gatefittingsdirect]

Thanks for your advice. 

We're currently on the intermediate shop, and I'd not thought about listing/final value fees.

So we could possibly pay more for getting rid of the shop rather than keeping it in fees. On average we pay around 16% final value fees with no listing fees, and pretty much unlimited listings. 

[therenewalworkshopltd]

Not final value fees, they will be no different.

The calculation is all to do with listing fees.
You can work out the exact numbers easily enough, just check the fee page.

And the obvious one of course, is if you go to no shop at all, you will go back to spending 25p + vat on every single listing, every single month.  So 800 listings would cost you £200 (+vat), just to list.