New fee structure for private sellers

Later this week, on the 12th March, eBay are introducing a new fee structure for private sellers, (not full time Business sellers), on eBay.co.uk and eBay.ie.

From that date, private sellers who list in the Auction style format with a starting price of 99 pence, (or below), will not be charged a listing fee. The final value fee will be 10% of the final price.

So if you’re a private seller in the U.K. or Ireland why not take advantage of the new pricing fees and get your old books listed. Used books normally have some good results on eBay, but in times of recession they sell that much better, and every little income helps in these troubled times.

Retirement of Multiple Item Auction (Dutch Auction) format

From 6th May 2009 you will no longer be able to use the Multiple Item Auction format, also known as A Dutch Auction.

You don’t have to remove your Dutch Auction listings if they go over the cut off date as they’ll run out of time in due course. Any Dutch Auctions scheduled to start on or after the 6th May will automatically be cancelled. However to renew your listings for multiple items they must be listed in the fixed price format.

In the Fixed Price format you can decide upon 3, 5, 7 and 10 day listings or Good Till Cancelled. You can also select to accept best offers from potential buyers.

eBay recently announced that sellers may list up to 15 identical listings but only one of them can be in the Fixed price format.

If you’re listing your multiple items in a Dutch Auction, I would suggest that you have one advert as a fixed price listing and a few single item auctions. Then on the auction sales pages add a note at the bottom telling people that the item is available to buy now and add a link to your fixed price item.

It’s very simple to create such a link;

Open 2 tabs and have the Fixed Price item on one and your auction sales page on the other. Highlight the item number of your fixed price listing and click copy.

Then go to the auction items sales page and in the section entitled “Describe the item you’re selling” you’ll see a toolbar across the top. Click on create links and another window will appear.

Here you have a number of options, but select “Build a link to an item”, another window appears where you paste in the item number from the fixed price listing and add the text you’d like to display on the sales page; for example Click HERE to Buy Now.

Then click preview and you’ll see how it looks and the html code below. Right click in the html box and select all, then copy the html code and return to your sales page.

Find where you would like to place your link and type HERE then switch to the html view by clicking on the html tab at the top of the section.

Once you have the html code displayed simply find the spot where you typed HERE and highlight it, then right click and paste.

Switch back to the standard view and check your work.

If you’d like to change the position of the link from left to right or in the middle, simply place the cursor in front of the text and click the desired position from the toolbar.

Until next time, Barry Wells

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