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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;iPen, post: 2695317, member: 69760&quot;]FYI, starting May 1, 2017 eBay will roll out <a href="http://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/seller-updates/2017spring/stores-updates.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/seller-updates/2017spring/stores-updates.html" rel="nofollow">new fees for Store subscribers</a>. Instead of the standard 6% rate for listings posted to the Coins &amp; Paper Money category (not sure what they&#039;re called in other countries), it goes up to 6.15%. Most of the other categories will experience the same 0.15% fee increase. Granted, it&#039;s <i>not</i> a huge increase for most sellers, but after reading their justification, it&#039;s a load of...</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>&quot;We periodically evaluate fees, credits, and benefits. We are increasing our investment in our platform, marketing efforts, and tools to enhance both the seller and buyer experience. We believe that the current final value fees are appropriate for ensuring the best marketplace health and competition.&quot;</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>In other words, they&#039;re not doing anything substantial and any interface or marketing changes were likely already planned, making the fee increase coincide with a convenient excuse. And the last statement, ...increasing fees &quot;are appropriate for ensuring the best marketplace health and competition&quot;? No, they have it the other way around. Unless they mean that these fee increases will ensure practically similar competitive results, thereby, maintaining the status quo &quot;best&quot;. All in all, it&#039;s not a huge increase for sellers and a huge increase for eBay, but their reasoning is not sound. It does make me wonder exactly how much market power eBay has, or what target performance eBay is trying to achieve and why.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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