No fees and free eBay Stores help 4400 Singaporeans earn their living on eBay

[mandy]

Yahoo Auctions (431,235 listings) is number 1 by a large margin over also-ran eBay (92,000 listings) in Singapore and as a result FREE is a business model for eBay in Singapore:  free listings, free eBay stores, no FVF fees

According to a new research study conducted by ACNielsen, nearly 4,400 Singaporeans like him are ditching the typical nine-to-five office jobs and depending solely on eBay as their primary or secondary source of income.

Another 9,729 Singaporeans also look to eBay to help supplement their regular salaries, selling anything from clothes and shoes to accessories and watches...

Professional sellers can now choose to set up an eBay store to showcase their products and build their own brand on the site. Buyers can also look forward to their own "My eBay" page which centralises all their buying activities.

Even with extra features such as these, buyers and sellers here still do not have to fork out a single cent to transact online, unlike their counterparts in countries like the United States and Australia.

And eBay has no plans to change that as they "want to leave the marketplace free in order to create that vibrancy".

full article: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/s...81/1/.html

[iron_chick]

Do those free items show up on the dot com site? 

(If they do, it hardly seems *fair* since the items dot com sellers are paying to list *aren't* showing up on all of the international sites.)

[BellisimaJ.]

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Do those free items show up on the dot com site? 

(If they do, it hardly seems *fair* since the items dot com sellers are paying to list *aren't* showing up on all of the international sites.)
[/quote]

Yep, I believe they do. Just search "jewelry displays"

Unless they are paying to list on dot com.......and I don't think that is the case.

[bud]

Hmm,  I seem to remember reading something about "level playing field" and "free is not a business model".. maybe I was dreaming.

So can we sign up over there while residing in the USA and get free listings, stores, and FVFs?

[bargainbloodhound]

Malaysia and the Philippines are completely free too (and no listing fees in Hong Kong...and then there's China).

Do those free items show up on the dot com site? 

I don't know, I couldn't find anything on the Malaysia or Singapore sites.

India doesn't have listing fees (except in a couple of categories like real estate...India does pay FVF's though) but their items only show up on eBay India.  If they want them to show up worldwide than they have to pay an "International Listing Fee".  The Int'l listing fee is much less than eBay.com fees but you have to be an India resident to take advantage of it.

[xppman]

So there you have it folks.

The US based sellers are subsidizing a good portion of the
rest of ebay's online auction endeavors around the globe.

Now we see yet another reason why those fees
were raised on us all here now don't we? 

And they wonder way so many rely less on ebay
and their socialistic approach in an effort to rule the world.

Hail Meg the all might queen of communism.
Hail Meg I say.

Were not idiots.. We could see exactly what was going on here a long time ago.

Well at least most of us could.  :

This is yet another reason I refuse to list tons of my wares on ebay anymore
(other than the usual "the eyeballs are not their anymore" anyway)

I don't mind helping my brothers and sisters out around the globe
once in a while, but I sure would like to take the tax write off for
my charitable contributions being offered up through my fees to the rest
of the world by Marxist Meg.