Breakdown of eBay Store listings lost by category

[thentavius]

I'm really amazed by this fee hike.

After buying up the company (name I've forgotten) whose website infrastructure they worked in to offer fully branded websites...
 
after pushing eBay Pro Stores and increasing the types of eBay Stores offered...

after pestering sellers with everything from on-site ads and email to snail mail postcards about opening a store...

They effectively make stores useless.

Usually I can spot their reasoning. This one, I have no idea. They've been trying to create the whole store climate for years now, after abandoning the auction concept in favor of the stores format. Now they suddenly want to "encourage" all of us to start listing as fixed price or auctions again? After they've proven to most of us that those formats were no longer eBay's main focus?

Huh?

Maybe it was a spoof email afterall.

[maryrussel]

[quote author=thentavius link=topic=4822.msg21203#msg21203 date=1156095566]
I'm really amazed by this fee hike.

After buying up the company (name I've forgotten) whose website infrastructure they worked in to offer fully branded websites...
 
after pushing eBay Pro Stores and increasing the types of eBay Stores offered...

after pestering sellers with everything from on-site ads and email to snail mail postcards about opening a store...

They effectively make stores useless.

Usually I can spot their reasoning. This one, I have no idea. They've been trying to create the whole store climate for years now, after abandoning the auction concept in favor of the stores format. Now they suddenly want to "encourage" all of us to start listing as fixed price or auctions again? After they've proven to most of us that those formats were no longer eBay's main focus?

Huh?

Maybe it was a spoof email afterall.


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This is the same problem I am having. It just doesn't make sense. You just know there will be another increase in listing fees for the "core" soon. So how are they going to justify that to all the store owners who are currently being suckered into moving their listings?

[thentavius]

Mary--it just baffles me.

All of their other changes have made some kind of "sense" from at least one point of view (even if it doesn't make sense from the seller's pov). This time, I'm stumped.

I literally received a postcard in the mail two weeks ago, encouraging / inviting / inspiring me to open an eBay ProStore.

??????

[amy]

After buying up the company (name I've forgotten) whose website infrastructure they worked in to offer fully branded websites..

Kurant maker of Storesense--now called ProStores

I literally received a postcard in the mail two weeks ago, encouraging / inviting / inspiring me to open an eBay ProStore.

eBay still wants people to open eBay Stores and ProStores so they can get the monthly subscription $$, but they want store owners to list in auction/fixed price format not store inventory (and if you have a ProStore they want you to use it to launch litems to eBay auctions and for checkout after the auction)