{"id":1337,"date":"2008-01-29T20:06:42","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T01:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/ebay-lowers-its-auction-fees-005\/"},"modified":"2008-02-01T10:18:59","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T15:18:59","slug":"ebay-lowers-its-auction-fees-005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/ebay-lowers-its-auction-fees-005\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebay Lowers its Auction Fee&#8217;s $0.05"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/logoebay_x45.gif\" title=\"Ebay Logo\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/logoebay_x45.gif\" alt=\"Ebay Logo\" \/><\/a>Well that will teach me to believe headlines in the press.\u00c2\u00a0 I posted the earlier pieces on eBay during my lunch hour.\u00c2\u00a0 When I got home, I was able to read the information on eBay itself.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the reduction in fees for listing an auction is $0.05.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.ebay.com\/sell\/update08\/basic\/\"><strong>\u00c2\u00a0 <span class=\"bigbluehead\">Basic Fees<\/span><\/strong><\/a> <!-- top section --><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bluehead\">Insertion Fees<\/span><br \/>\nThe insertion fee for Auction-style and Fixed Price listings will be reduced as indicated in the chart below. Also, all listings will now include the Gallery picture feature for free!<br \/>\nStarting or Reserve Price Current Insertion Fee Insertion Fee (effective 02\/20\/2008)<\/p>\n<p>Insertion Fees for Auction-style listings<br \/>\nStarting or Reserve Price Current Insertion Fee Insertion Fee (effective 02\/20\/2008)<br \/>\n$0.01 &#8211; $0.99 $0.20 $0.15 Lower fee!<br \/>\n$1.00 &#8211; $9.99 $0.40 $0.35 Lower fee!<br \/>\n$10.00 &#8211; $24.99 $0.60 $0.55 Lower fee!<br \/>\n$25.00 &#8211; $49.99 $1.20 $1.00 Lower fee!<br \/>\n$50.00 &#8211; $199.99 $2.40 $2.00 Lower fee!<br \/>\n$200.00 &#8211; $499.99 $3.60 $3.00 Lower fee!<br \/>\n$500.00 or more $4.80 $4.00 Lower fee!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The 50% reduction appears to be derived from the elimination of Gallery Fees.\u00c2\u00a0 Formerly an extra $0.35<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Gallery picture feature fee for all listings will be free<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On lower price items, the reduction of $0.05 on the listing and the elimination of the gallery fee would reduce the current combined fee by 50%.\u00c2\u00a0 But of course not all of us used the gallery on every listing.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom Line &#8211; I don&#8217;t think this will lead to a significant long term increase in listings.\u00c2\u00a0 What do yoy think?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well that will teach me to believe headlines in the press.\u00c2\u00a0 I posted the earlier pieces on eBay during my lunch hour.\u00c2\u00a0 When I got home, I was able to read the information on eBay itself. It appears that the reduction in fees for listing an auction is $0.05. \u00c2\u00a0 Basic Fees Insertion Fees The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebay","wpcat-55-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe0C4-lz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}