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Ebay will be measuring the success of this change to non regular FVF promos from regular to random.
- If their metric is total listings and everyone does this, then total listings will not decrease and so they will think it a success and are less likely to offer promos in the future.
-If their metric is a drop in revenue, then the fewer items you sell, but at higher fees to ebay, may actually mean they make more. I think this is why they are doing it. But you will sell less so make less.
Either way I will be de-listing items so Ebay see a drop in both metrics which hopefully will encourage them to start offering FVF promos again. If after a month or so none have been forthcoming I will either relist with 10% added to price, or use other channels more.'
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An interesting take on this. To clarify, ebay are a business, so assuming no other priority, the driver will undoubtedly be revenue.
In my opinion Ebay have appeared to go from the sublime to the ridiculous with 80% off fees and no listing fees working out at less than the old paypal fee . It is a distant memory but do you remember listing fees; doing away with them would have had a huge impact on ebay listed items? Fees at 12.8% albeit including the merchant service element is too much in my opinion, so I will be taking some action that will inevitably choke off demand for the items I sell. I think that this thread, that I happened to stumble on, shows that there it not too much concern over this for most at the moment. On that basis I don't think it will change the habits of that many sellers. The worst thing that can happen is for sellers to ignore this and effectively absorb the extra fees.
I was very pleased when the 80% off carried on for a long period of time but confused as to the intended reason for it. I was thinking that it was a means to boost listings and sales, if these were significant criteria in company valuation for whatever reason.
Selling low price items is difficult on ebay, as a private seller because of the 30p blanket charge and fees on postage which inevitably makes up a disproportionate percentage of the transaction and an automatic loss.
I hope your action will not prove to be a waste of selling opportunity on your part with absolutely no change in the intended direction of ebay. Perhaps you have an alternative selling platform to suggest that could possibly compete with ebay. I mainly sell car parts and regrettably ebay with their search visibility attract the sort of buyers that make this succeed.
