It really goes by category. E-bays biggest (and by biggest I mean largest money makers) are electronics! The changes are geared for this category. They’re tired of typing in “v3 leather case” and getting 15,000 search results. Thats confusing and large sellers are able to spam their listings and get more sales.

For these larger sellers who are able to negotiate their fees after you hit the $500,000/month mark, it hits ebay hard in the pocket book when the sales could be made from smaller sellers and putting the full listing and FAV $ in their pockets.

The rules are pretty fair for both small and big buyers
1) Those with quantity will take advantage from “velocity” over a 30 day period.
2) Smaller buyers items will still rotate in the core.

REMEMBER- Its just not your velocity. It deals LARGE in part with Feedback, DSR and open disputes. Smaller sellers are more often than big companies, able to manage these problems with more personal attention.

Have you ever seen a powerseller that has thousands of feedback with 100% feedback? RARE, you might if they sell napkins but not in an electronic field etc.

If the things mentioned above for smaller sellers are achieved you stand a fair chance of even exposure. Get your search standard raised as well. IT PAYS OFF BIG TIME! (20% increase in sales) but must hit 98% with negs and neutrals combined which for alot of sellers is tough to achieve.

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There are an amazing number of sellers who are oblivious and not all micro sellers either. Many have no clue what their overhead is. This is the other side of the ‘buyers who do not read the listing’ coin. I am sure a lot of the FP30 listings will be OOAK items which can’t achieve the full benefit of the format.

So far as communication from eBay, quite often things are clearly stated but contradictory statements are made within the announcement. Sellers (those who do pay attention) have learned to ask questions rather than assume because assumptions are expensive. None of this will help with a bot, or a CSR who does not understand the policy they are enforcing.

If you type in

1) Motorola Cell Phone
2) Motorola F3
3) Cell Phone
4) Unlocked Cell Phone

and a bunch of other keywords with HIGH traffic, my test FP30 auction comes up first and has almost 100 sales of this cell phone within the first 3 days selling about 35 pieces of it daily.

This velocity will shoot us to the top. Let me say one thing, dont procrastinate right now. IF and only IF FP30 fits your model, you better get them out. Gaining Velocity right now is VERY important. Forget “deduping” the system, you will always lose in the long run.

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Hence my surprise… Yet this Powerseller had no idea…

Maybe eBay sellers are tuning out after so many annoncements of change. I am unsure of why she was not informed, Scot Wingo calls it “Seller Fatigue”…

What do you think?
Scott

1. The UK landing page for the promo that was heavily emailed and of course blogged by all and sundry
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/buyitnow08/index.html

2. Phone calls through the Seller Alert programme to UK sellers that I’ve heard taking place to explain the changes

3. An offline booklet sent in the post to UK shop holders (I received mine last night) explaining the changes to shops.

4. eBay UK appearing at ChannelAdvisor’s Insite tour

With eBay changes they are always quite complex and in my experience further complicated by many sellers not clearly reading or digesting the changes and asking questions that are already clearly stated. I think in the UK they have done a reasonable job.