Ebay Changes...

It was expected...people were selling $100 items for 99 cents plus $99.00 shipping to avoid the fees.As I've stated before, anytime somebody comes up with a way to circumvent the system,they will come up with a way to prevent it.

But most coins cost less than $3 to ship, including delivery confirmation and a padded envelope. You can build ebay's fee into your shipping cost so it doesn't effect you at all.

When I had 4 spots in different antique malls around town, each month I paid $650 in space rent alone, PLUS 10-15% commission on anything that sold! I can't tell you how frustrating it was to do over $700 a month in sales and STILL end up owning money to the places selling my stuff, without getting a check! No kidding, it happened.

ebay has devised a system that allows ANYONE to become an entrepreneur. It's allowed me to quit my "real" job, buy a house and watch my 2 sons grow up as I work from home. I know I can't put a price on that.

There's always going to be changes at ebay, some for the better, some not. But they'll never adopt business practices that intentionally push anyone out of business. It's against their own interest. I guess my point is this- it cost money to make money, no matter how you slice it. ebay is an opportunity....what one makes of that opportunity is their decision.

My comments are not directed at anyone above, I just want to point out that ebay may weed out certain practices, but it's not their goal to keep anyone from being successful. The fees are inevitable , but when paid each time you make sales, they're not very noticeable.

Good point- depending on how you already sell, this may benefit sellers.

I think this is fair in all honesty.

I just think they could of done something different then doing this. Coin selling will not be affected that much (buying will though-harder to find deals). It will be the bigger/heavier items that will take a hit.

There is allot of people that get around ebay fees with high shipping weight, I reported one not a week ago who was selling a windows 7 DVD for $5.00 with $99.00 shipping. Its things like this that is the reason they are making this change.


I think its going to be the other way around, I don't think coins will be effected much because allot of people already offer free shipping on coins, its the heavier stuff that costs allot to ship that is going to be harder to find the deals on. But either way I understand this change and I think it will keep the sellers honest, and probably should have always been this way

Interesting that everyone has been commenting from the seller side, but none from the buyer's.

With free insertion fees, I expect far, far fewer true actions, and almost everything listed as effectively fixed-price. The days of ebay bargain hunting are, I'm afraid, coming to an end.

Hopefully I'm wrong, but I'm not optimistic.

I read where ebay is actually trying to switch over to an Amazon look and feel. All categorized and everything set in stone. Even though ebay is the big boy I think all added up, they are fighting with buy it now.