06-07-2006, 03:59 PM
Growth re-accelerated in eBay Germany auction listings after the site lowered listing fees in the Books and Music categories to .01 Euro and raised FVFs to 12% in those categories.
full article: http://ebaystrategies.blogs.com/ebay_str...n_eba.html
Quote:After some sleuthing, here's what we think is going on:
* eBay recently lowered the price for media category listing fees.
* The eBay.de fees are here
* On this page, you will see the normal eBay fee structure (.25 euro on up)
* In the little box to the right with the title: "Ausnahmen bei der Angebotsgebühr"
o This translates to: "Listing fee exceptions..."
* Which goes on to detail:
o Fixed price listings in Books: .01 Euro
o Fixed price listings in the Music category (CD, Vinyl, etc.) .01 Euro
* Now the corresponding FVFs have been jacked up to 12%, but this is a listing discussion.
* Following eBay's IR instructions on listing counts, I found:
o ebay.de musik-> 1,450,618 (WOW this is a LOT of listings)
o ebay.com music-> 390,412
o ebay.de Bücher-> 2,626,855 (WOW, if you thought CDs was high this is nutty)
o ebay.com books-> 509,129
full article: http://ebaystrategies.blogs.com/ebay_str...n_eba.html