In general, the rewards for high-volume business sellers are to enable us to compete with low volume private sellers, who have lower overheads (and probably don’t need to make any particular price to cover the cost of the item). It is unlikely that even with volume discounts a business seller can afford to sell too many items very very cheaply, as they would soon go out of business.

If the discount were applied at the point of listing, like CLDs, it could probably be made site dependent, but I don’t think eBay are going to want to completely alter their accounting procedures.

It’s worth noting that both eBay Singapore and eBay Netherlands have notices up today saying that many of their members list on other national sites, and will be entitled to the discounts thereof.

More clarification is needed from eBay as to exactly how this is going to work for individual members.

I will be getting the 30% as the fvf coming from the USA is not triggered.

It is the site I am registered on that qualifies my discount.

So basically, when the bill goes through, it takes it off.

I am expecting an email to clarify this

Mark

I would say no discounts because you are not a member of the US/Canadian PS program.

Do you know what discounts a UK Seller listing on the US site will receive in the way of discounts?

If anything?

Mark

Historically eBay’s attitude to sellers is based on its perceived market power in each territory.

They have been much less generous in the UK as they don’t feel threatened by Amazon’s UK 3P seller offering. Simple as that.

I was really hoping for free gallery and they didn’t give it to us. That would have saved me a substantial 5 figure sum per month on fees. I’m gutted about that.

The linking of DSRs to FVF discounts is a ridiculous nonsense unless you sell mainly expensive high value items. And to get the maximum discount you would need to offer free shipping. Maybe that will work for a few people, but how many will really benefit?

UK fees will only fall significantly when eBay UK feels the chill wind of competition. And the only entity that could do that is Amazon. As Amazon’s UK 3P offering is so pitiful, we might have to wait a very long time for that day.

we are raving maniacs

with this fee discount thingy we may just use one or two of them now to get them up the powerseller discount levels

its free money to us,

though if we did not I would certainly not loose 45% on postage charges, to up a star rating, to gain 40% on ebay fees

Unlike the US announcement, the UK announcement says NOTHING about country of registration, just that you’re a business seller/PS.

I feel sick. I can’t believe they can mess us about like this without even proper information. What company can seriously deal with its customers by random posts on what employees BELIEVE on message boards? Oh yeah…

Discounts only apply if listing on your ‘home’ site? For you & me that’s not good.

Bronze: 20% (sorry, Bronzies: no extra for you )
Silver: 25%
Gold: 30%
Platinum: 35%
Titanium: 40%
In other words, Powerseller level now really is worth something. This is a change unique (as far as I know!) to the UK, and is not happening in the US. ”

We get discounts BUT

nowhere near the English version of events………..thinking of moving to the UK?

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I like the idea that good service and ratings will be rewarded by means of a fee discount.

I’m not bothered about the feedback changes. I’ve coped with a harsher system on Amazon.

I like the fact that we are given all this information about changes in one go. eBay’s lack of communication with sellers about site changes has always frustrated me. It’s good to have information to work with and will certainly help me to plan for my business going forward.

This is one of the most positive things I have written about ebay in a fair few months!