eBay India Fee Changes Gallery Fees Eliminated, Free Listing in Media Categories

[mandy]

Highlights:

Gallery fees eliminated
Lower listing fees for media categories (continuing trend started in UK and Germany

At eBay, it has been our constant endeavor to improve our buyer and seller experience. Some initiatives we have recently taken in this direction are a new Home Page layout, Feedback 2.0 and improving feedback adoption through promotions like Cricket Mania. The new Home Page layout helps us showcase interesting inventory like 1Paisa auctions, whereas Feedback 2.0 is a result of frequent community feedback to incorporate more details in the Feedback system.
Providing our users with better value is also a key focus area, and we have tried to address this through introducing new features like "Markdown Manager" using which sellers can run discounted promotions in their shops, thus helping sellers showcase their offerings better and helping buyers find good bargains.
To achieve our twin objectives of better value and improved user experience, we are introducing a new Fee Structure for all categories.

Key changes are:
• All listings created on eBay India will be subject to new Listing Fees, revised Final Value Fees, revised Feature Fees and Seller Tools Fees. These new fees shall be applicable to all listings in all formats (i.e. BIN, Shop Inventory format, and Auctions) created on or after 11:59 PM IST on 31st March 2007
• Listing fees shall apply to all listings by sellers who have listed more than 20 listings on eBay
• No Gallery Fees will be charged, however sellers will need to select Gallery while creating the listing to avail the feature
• Listing Fees will be credited if your item does not sell successfully (including Unpaid Item) for the first time, but is successfully sold in the 1st re-list instance
• Fees associated with Services & Real Estate and Cars & Bikes categories remain unchanged

The new Fee Structure will be as follows:

All categories except "Books & Magazines" and "Movies & Music" will be subject to the following Listing Fees and revised Final Value Fees. This Fee structure will also be applicable to the "Mobiles & Accessories" Category.

Starting Price (Rs.) Listing Fees on
Start Price/ BIN Price (Rs.) Final Value Fees on Closing Price Gallery Fees
<= 2,000 Rs. 1 5% of the closing price, minimum Rs. 3.00 FREE
2,001 to 10,000 Rs. 3 5% of the initial Rs. 2000, plus 3% of the remaining closing value [Rs. 100 + 3% of (Closing price less 2000) ] FREE
> 10,000 Rs. 5 5% of the initial Rs. 2000, plus 3% of 2001 to 10000, plus 2.5% of the remaining closing value [Rs. 100 + Rs. 240 + 2.5% of (Closing price less 10000)] FREE


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"Books & Magazines" and "Movies & Music" categories will be subject to the following revised final value fee.

Starting Price (Rs.) Listing Fees on
Start Price/ BIN Price (Rs.) Final Value Fees on Closing Price Gallery Fees
<= 2,000 No Listing Fee 6% of the closing price, minimum Rs. 3.00 Free
2,001 to 10,000 No Listing Fee 6% of the initial Rs. 2,000, plus 3% of the remaining closing value
[Rs. 120 + 3% of (Closing price less 2000)] Free
> 10,000 No Listing Fee 6% of the initial Rs. 2000, plus 3% of 2001 to 10000, plus 2.5% of the remaining closing value
[Rs. 120 + Rs. 240 + 2.5% of (Closing price less 10000) ] Free


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Seller Tools will be subject to the following fee changes.
Seller Tool Current Fees (Rs.) New Fees (Rs.)
Selling Manager 200 149
Market Place Research Fast Pass 50 40
Market Place Research Basic 199 175
Market Place Research Pro 1099 999
Feature Fees will be subject to the following fee changes:
Feature Current Fees (Rs.) New Fees (Rs.)
Gallery Fees 0.25 FREE
BIN 1 2
Gallery Featured 50 60
Gallery Plus 0.25 2
Reserve Price (Minimum) 50 65
Scheduled Listings * 0.5 1
*Scheduled listings continue to remain free if you are listing from any seller tools (Selling Manager/Selling Manager Pro and Turbo Lister).

All other Seller Tools and Feature Fees remain unchanged.

We understand that our sellers may need to make changes to their current business plan to accommodate these new fee changes. So, we encourage you to check the Managing your eBay Business Strategy, download the Fee Calculator, attend our Online Workshop on 23rd March, or use our Customer Support Resources to help you understand your overall listing strategy.

To learn more about these Fee changes, read our FAQ section. Your suggestions & comments are valuable to us and we encourage you to share your feedback with us on this thread.

We are aware that, as a seller, you have a choice of outlets through which to sell your products. We appreciate that you choose to do business with eBay. We will continue to work hard to ensure that our sellers and buyers continue to have great eBay user experiences.

http://www2.ebay.com/aw/in/200703202002282.html

[amy]

Gallery fees eliminated
Lower listing fees for media categories (continuing trend started in UK and Germany

Gallery should be free everywhere.

[Boucher]

[quote author=amy link=topic=8777.msg47707#msg47707 date=1174526208]

Gallery fees eliminated
Lower listing fees for media categories (continuing trend started in UK and Germany

Gallery should be free everywhere.

[/quote]

They should be but how could they run discounts everywhere else if our gallery images were given to us free of charge? Someone's got to fuel the global domination of eBay and it starts with our outrageous Gallery fees.

BTW, don't you use Picture Pack? Then Gallery is kind of free, right?