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eBay’s Wild West Could Return With Free Listings
Free listings on eBay — up to 100 a month for sellers who start auctions at 99 cents — could change the online selling world as we know it: back to the way it used to be. (The company will still take a “final value fee,” 9% of the selling price or $50, whichever is less.) according to a story at WalletPop.
The days of scoring deals from people posting products in their living rooms — of playing the auction theory games to get the best possible outcome — were they over?
The company is hoping the answer to that question with the new, low-priced free listings, is “no.” And we all hope that the answer to that question is, “people will post their great CDs and used camera equipment and one-of-a-kind new-in-box Princess Whatever Barbies again,” and we will troll through the listings, we will post our own Boppy nursing pillows and antique butter churners (paddle only) and take part, once more, in the Great American (online auction) Dream.
Photo by eBay.
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susanna on January 30th, 2010 6:46 am
Even if they let you post for free, ebay has gotten so expensive that I think twice before I sell any items on ebay.
Angela Shupe on February 1st, 2010 5:08 am
I wish they would, then maybe I would consider selling on the site. The way they have it now I don’t know how anyone is able to make money there.
Nancy on February 16th, 2010 7:09 am
Free listings with 99 cent auctions: eBay is trying to gain back the market share they lost when they ousted all of us with their high fees and incessant rules which was directed specifically at people trying to sell good used items at a reasonable cost to the buyer.
Sellers will lose money on anything that sells at that price…once you figure in the final value fee, the paypal fees and the other costs of doing business since eBay has now also started capping shipping fees to a certain price.
I have things I wanted to list there that I can’t because the weight of the books costs more in shipping than the $4.00 that ebay allows. Sorry but I’m not eating that!
Been there, done that, and won’t fall for the hype from eBay on it this time.
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