They will have all the metrics they need and they will not be looking good .
They will have measured a upsurge in activity after giving all private sellers free selling last autumn but since the introduction of Buyer protection fees thing will start to drop . I think sellers didn't really pick up the impact in the way they have reacted to simple delivery , but I had stopped selling just before that but I also don't think they informed sellers in the same way. Sales would started to drop as low starting price auctions I.E the traditional 0.99p is not advertised to buyers as £1.74 so as result even if sellers didn't notice it sales will drop significantly as a result .
To me Simple delivery has caused total outrage with long term sellers and my reaction was the to stop selling immediately if there wasn't a permanent choice to opt out . I was about to resume selling at that point . For me Ebay had already made selling as simple as possible and this is 100 steps backwards probably designed for new sellers in mind .
I think it has just been a week but the deeper you get in into this the totally ludicrous Ebays current strategy have been with their recent changes which all revolve around there impossible to achieve free to sell strategy . Not only are alienating there private sellers they are destroying their traditional core business in the process. The paradox is it is now more expensive to sell then it was when Ebay charged seller fees , there dishonestly named buyer protection fees do nothing give the buyer any extra protection but a shoddy replacement for seller fees . And if you look at the different the seller receives and what the buyer bids and pays they are just renamed selling fees . Its a barley legal scam .
Because they are visible to the buyer when the listing is creating they will only lower the eventual seller amount , which means not only is the average buyer fee going to around 10% the impact is greater is has also reduced the seller price . This breaks a basic rule of any auction .
For any new sellers their campaign may have attracted the results are going to be that good
I did just look at becoming a business seller and I think they may have also been meddling there and although some pages recommends you should be become a business seller if your selling habits you can only do this now if you are a proper business
This is an absolute nightmare of Ebays own making , and would suspect many people in may be in a state of total despair with their current leadership
If Ebay are going stay in this market they have absolutely no choice but to revert most of these changes , so as peeved everyone is the best action let Ebay sort out their mess and keep up the noise .
