New ebay PowerSeller Fees and Benefits
February 16, 2008
eBay recently anounced some changes to their fees and benefits for not only powersellers, but all users. They will now be providing lower insertion fees, Free galleries for all listings and lower fees for some of their packs.
Powersellers will now also get better exposure in search results, fee discounts and some increased protection. The biggest protection issue for me is the fact that powersellers can now be protected when shipping to an unconfirmed address. That was one of the single biggest issues for me and I sometimes turned away customers on big ticket items because of fraud. This will help alot.. at least in my opinion.
The fee discounts are nice, especially if you are a reputable seller with high feedback ratings. Now with the new detailed feedback ratings, powersellers with detailed seller ratings greater than 4.6 get some discounts. DRS’s greater than 4.8 received an even bigger discount.
Feedback rules have changed. Buyers can no longer received negative feedback. I personally don’t like this. I’ve had several terrible buyers that have caused nothing but problems and I like to warn other sellers of this. It is going to be all too easy for sellers to quickly get bad feedback for small issues because the buyers have nothing to lose. Seems a bit odd to me.
All of the details can be found here on eBay here.
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