Going to a higher FVF fee on other items is going to be a disaster. We already pay very low insertion fees. with almost constant promo days (.05 since the fee changes early in the year), plus can use all the .com promos. Most sellers can strategically use those and the relist credit to never pay full insertion fee anyway, so there is no savings to be had from lower insertions.

Add that expected change to Canada post more then doubling some rates next January,and the high $..and the Canadian seller contingent is going to get a lot smaller..

what will ebay take into account before applying the SLF model?

Will they prioritize the classifieds model, less income but more “collection” volume, against the SLF, more income arguably less “collection” volume, since it might be quite harder to collect money on non “powerselers” -vehicle dealers- .

Are gumtree and kijiji so called “experiments” sheding some light unto this?

Definitely SLF with the existing classified ads option is out of the question (how will they collect if they publish sellers contact).

This bites the big one!!

Perhaps the Successful Listing Fee terminology is used because eBay does not base that fee on the final value selling price. Whether your car sells for $100 or $100,000 you pay the same Successful Listing Fee. In contrast, the Final Value Fee is a percentage based on the final value selling price. Maybe eBay is just trying to make a distinction to avoid confusion or potential problems.

Ebay are expensive to list on, they need to correct this, but an imbalanced hike in FVF’s will not encourage the sellers.

But we will see.

Mark

This could be a hint at future changes – an overall fee structure based on SLF’s – Insetion Fees and FLV’s are dropped and replaced by a SLF ?

Phew thank goodness for that ,we were wondering how we would combine shipping?