Ebay claims "operating cost per listing" as reason behind price increase
Posted by kevin Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:40:49 GMT
Ebay has always pissed me off, even though I use them quite a lot lately. They basically have no competition, and are the catch-all advertising for selling anything on the internet. It’s a stupid system that needs to change, but how do you redirect all those searchers that have “ebay” imprinted on their forehead as the only place to shop online besides amazon?
They also just charge too damn much. 6% on large listings, plus $6 for each item you post (whether or not it sells).
From http://pages.ebay.com/sell/announcement200607/overview/index.html
And, when you compare our operations costs for an average Store Inventory listing and an average core listing – factoring in the duration of each – our cost to host a Store Inventory listing is more than 50% higher than for a core listing. In fact, current Store Inventory insertion fees don’t cover eBay’s costs for hosting them.
Bullox! It’s run by a bloody computer, buy a few more servers and show us the revolution of computers. You should be able to host kazillions of auctions with no noticeable speed decrease. Google shows us how easy it is to scale… This is such a “I don’t understand how computers work and I’m a marketing person” response…
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Ya, looks not that good... But guys, that's their right, they can do whatever they want.
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