I just received an email from eBay saying that they are reducing listing fees.

You asked, we listened. We’re reducing Insertion Fees and adjusting Final Value Fees to lower your up-front cost to sell on eBay. You wanted free Gallery, now you’ve got it–plus more feature discounts.

To any normal person, this sounds like good news. Less up front cost to sell your item along with free gallery pictures. Good? Wrong. Take a look at the new “Final Value Fees” on eBay’s website.

As you can see, eBay cut the listing price by a measly $.05 for auctions starting at $.01 to $24.99. Seeing as most of my auctions (and many others) start with a list price of $.99 to motivate bidding, this $.05 saves me nada. On the flip side, final value fees (eBay’s commission from your auction) have increased. Take a look at the new fees below to see what I mean.

From the email, they make it seem like ALL costs are going to decrease, but they fail to mention in any part of the email, that final value fees are increasing. Good work on part of their marketing department from their perspective, but from my perspective, this move by eBay will piss off even more people who are already pissed at the high fees in place today.

As many people know, eBay owns Paypal. Many sellers (including myself) are fed up with the fees from Paypal, let alone eBay. Now eBay has an even bigger chance to double dip and screw sellers out of their money.

These questionable ethics don’t fly with me. Personally I’m going to be moving more and more of my merchandise to Craigslist and I’m going to hope and pray that Google Checkout makes it big and takes a huge chunk of the market share away from Paypal.

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