Dear Sellers,
You have always strived to provide abundant variety, attractive deals and a great experience to our buyers and to enable you to do even better, we are making fundamental changes to the economics of selling on eBay.
To help you expand and grow your eBay business, we are pleased to announce significant revisions to the eBay India Fee Structure.
The fee changes have been designed to help you:
- Offer better value and great deals.
- Provide wider selection of items on the site.
- Grow your International eBay business.
- Promote and manage your business using eBay Shops and selling tools.
- Optimise upfront costs and grow a prosperous and profitable business on eBay.
In doing so, we have also simplified the fee structure to make it easier for you to calculate your cost of selling.
In brief, we have revised the following:
- Listing fees
- Final value fees (FVF)
- International listing fees (ILF)
- Home page featured fees
- Basic Shop subscription
- SM & SM Pro subscription
These changes will be effective for all categories and listing formats (except Classified Ads). Changes to Listing Fee, FVF, ILF and Home page featured will come into effect at 00:01 IST on 9th July, 2008 (TBD). The changes to Basic Shop, SM and SM Pro subscriptions will come into effect from 1st August, 2008.
Key changes in fee structure are as follows:
- Listing fee reduction:
Flat listing fees of Re. 1 per listing with a maximum cap of Rs. 1500 per month.
Zero insertion fees for Books, Movies, Music & Video games categories.
- The new price structure will have a flat listing fee of just Re. 1 for any item of any value in all non-media categories (irrespective of quantity listed).
- Media categories: There will continue to be no listing fees in Books & Magazines and Movies & Music categories. Additionally, no listing fees would apply to the Video & Computer Games category.
- Video & Computer Games will include only game CDs / DVDs & Cartridges etc
- Video Game Consoles will move into Consumer Electronics as a separate sub-category.
- Plus, the maximum listing fees you will be charged in a month will be Rs. 1500 – this means that if your listing fees exceeds Rs.1500 in a month, you can list additional items (over and above the maximum cap of Rs 1500) for free.
- Category-based Final Value Fees (FVF)
Flat FVF to be charged based on category of the item sold.
- Technology categories will be charged a flat 1% FVF.
- FVF for Books & Magazines, Movies & Music and Video & Computer Games (Not including Video Game Consoles) will be a flat 6%.
- All other categories will be charged a flat 5% FVF.
Current FVF
Proposed FVF
See a detailed list of categories and their classification
- International Listing Fees (ILF) reduction:
Listing exposure on international sites now available at Rs 5*.
*For more details please refer the tables below.
Current International Listing Fee
Proposed International Listing Fee
International Listing Fees would reduce to a minimum of Rs. 5 (as compared to Rs 15 earlier) making it more attractive for you to sell internationally by reaching out to global buyers. Learn more about selling Internationally here.
- Home Page Featured reduction:
Home page featured fee for multiple quantity listings reduced to Rs.150.
Learn more about the features and benefits of Home Page Featured.
- Changes in Selling Tools Subscription Fees:
- The subscription fee for Selling Manager is being revised from Rs. 149 to Rs. 199. Selling Manager has now been provided with the Auto-relist functionality to further enhance its features. Learn in detail about Selling Manager.
- The subscription fee for a Basic eBay Shop is also being revised from Rs. 199 to Rs. 249. Selling Manager continues to come free along a Basic Shop subscription. Learn more about Shops.
- The Selling Manager Pro now offers even better value with the fee being reduced from Rs. 500 to Rs. 399. Learn more about Selling Manager Pro.
All listings created on eBay India will be subject to the revised Listing Fees, Final Value Fees, Feature Fees and Seller Tool Fees. All other seller tools and feature fees remain unchanged.
We understand that you may need to make changes to your business strategy to accommodate these new fee changes. We encourage you to use any of the resources given below to help you with these changes.
- Download the Fee Calculator.
- Use our Customer Support Resources to help you understand your overall strategy.
- Learn more about these Fee changes with our FAQ section.
Your suggestions and comments are valuable to us and we encourage you to share your feedback with us on this thread.
We are confident you will appreciate that these changes are a step in the right direction and will help your business scale new heights. We look forward to receiving your continued support in providing better deals and increased variety on the eBay marketplace.
Regards,
eBay International AG
