I suspect EBay is increasing fees

[rdemaree]

In lieu of lost revenue due to trumps tariffs I suspect eBay might be trying to make it up on their end by practically making it so if you use promoted listings starting in January that each sale will essentially be mandatory for the fee whether the buyer clicked the ad or not and also pushing the triple the cost EIS program to take in higher shipping fees for the same item as before.

Both seem like a cash grab to me in an effort to save some of their losses from trump’s shenanigans causing less sales so why not just take more seller fees and shipping fees per sale to make up for it.

Obviously I could be totally wrong but that’s how it feels to me as a seller who relies on eBay income.

Thoughts / opinions?

I opted out of EIS and promoted listings because I don’t see why selling and shipping costs should fly to the moon when we are getting bombarded by trumps trade war, Canada posts constant protests and the overall less than ideal economy right now. It’s honestly a shame eBay isn’t doing more to help sellers right now.

[reallynicestamps]

I didn't understand how the latest iteration of PL worked , so I ended all my PL listings last month. 

For the record, I only used the 2% minimum fee, and only on about 10% of my listings.

And yet my PL sales were actually less than 10% of all my sales. 

To be fair, I get more Views when I have PL enabled, and more sales, just not on the PL enabled listings.

[rdemaree]

From what I gather if you use promoted listings going forward you will be charged the fee regardless whether the customer clicked the ad or not as long as someone else had within 30 days effectively being at minimum a 2% fee increase on promoted listings indefinitely.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong but that’s the way I understand it. It appears to be a regressive fee in that the new changes help nobody other than eBay. You pay the fee more often and get nothing in return.


I have similar feelings towards EIS which is much more expensive, slower and more restrictive in what can be sent vs chitchats, stallion express, Canada post eBay labels from the past.


Being a small business e-commerce seller in Canada is just a trash heap right now.