eBay India international listing fee sale

June 6, 2008

This post was written in June 2008; specific information contained within it may be out of date.

eBay India is holding a sale on the price of international listings. Sellers can choose to have their items show internationally for just 50% of the normal fee. The offer applies to BIN and auctions, single and multiple items, but not to SIF and classifieds. Other fees are charged as normal.

The offer is valid from 9th to 22nd June 2008. I’m assuming the “5 days only” in the title is an error generated when they copied the previous similar offer into the new announcement.

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International Site Visibility launches 20th May

May 16, 2008

This post was written in May 2008; specific information contained within it may be out of date.

Back in March, eBay announced that UK sellers would be able to buy visibility on eBay.com and eBay.ca. The listing upgrade means that items listed on eBay UK will be visible in the default search results on eBay.com and eBay.ca. This option will be available for UK sellers from 20th May, priced thus:

Start/BIN price ISV fee
£0.01 - £4.99 £0.05
£5.00 - £29.99 £0.10
£30+ £0.15

ISV is available for auction and Buy It Now items only, not for Shop Inventory.

There are of course some eligibility criteria: you must have more than 10 feedback, offer PayPal and list shipping available to the relevent countries (preferably but not compulsarily with the shipping rates listed). Some categories are excluded: Motors and Residential Property, unsurprisingly, and also DVDs and Video Games, presumably on the grounds of region compatibility. And the upgrade is only available from your home site: in other words, a UK seller can’t list on .com and use ISV to show up on .co.uk too.

Sales made using ISV will be eligible for volume seller discounts.

When this was announced, many sellers seemed cautiously enthusiastic, despite the exchange rate working massively in favour of US sellers listing on .co.uk. For those who sell one-offs and collectables particularly, I think it’s a great way to increase your potential buyers without having to split listings between two or three different national sites.

Will you be paying the extra next week, or are you sticking to your current listing strategy?

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International visibility for UK sellers - for a price

March 31, 2008

This post was written in March 2008; specific information contained within it may be out of date.

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eBay UK have just announced a brand new listing upgrade which will allow eBay UK sellers to buy international visibility for their listings. From May, British and Irish sellers will be able to purchase default visibility on eBay.com and eBay.ca for an additional fee based on the start price of their listings. UK sellers will pay between 5p and 15p, and Irish sellers 7c to 20c.

American and Canadian sellers are being offered a similar opportunity to appear by default on eBay.co.uk [edit: but not on .ie]. eBay say that they expect to add more international sites to this program in the near future.

If sellers need an incentive to pay for this upgrade, eBay have provided one: sales with paid-for international visibility will be eligible for FVF discounts. Conversely, if you choose to list on a site that isn’t your home one (e.g. UK sellers listing directly on .com), you are not eligible for FVF discounts on those sales. Tests in the Collectables’ categories on eBay UK, which have offered US visibility by default, will now be concluded.

No doubt eBay will be in for some criticism for charging for this, from those who want the return of the free visibility they once had. But at least sellers will now have the opportunity to choose to list internationally without having to split their listings between .co.uk and .com, and the extra bids and sales will hopefully more than cover the extra fees.

What do you think? If you’re one of the sellers who’s wanted US visibility back, does this give you what you wanted, or will you refuse to pay for something that was once there for free?

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