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by thenextcorner 4835 days ago
Headline is disturbingly inaccurate

Don't you know that this is a simplification of the fees for casual sellers, where before, there were multiple tranches for listing an item, and if it sold successfully, you also paid a final value fee.

The new fees represent a simpler and better to understand system, where the first 50 items per month for casual sellers are free to list, and easy to understand final value fee.

This is in fact a decline in % of what you would pay!

2 comments

That's absolutely not true. It's simpler but the final value fee is quite a bit higher. Yesterday I listed an item for $1200, which would have a total fee of about $56. Four weeks from now that would rise to $123. I assure you that I checked my facts and figures carefully before choosing to post here.
For someone who's only selling one thing every now and then it's a totally bad deal.