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Australia Ebay Changes.

 
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Posted 03/28/2013   8:21 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add KGV Collector to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Over the past 9 months ebay Australia has made some extremely great changes to the ebay system and the cost to use ebay.

There is talk from ebay that we are going to spit from our Asia partners and form our own Australia & New Zealand ebay. I hope the good changes keep happening and we do not go backwards.

Quotes from our ebay concerning the changes.


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eBay Vice President and leader of ebay's Korea businesses, Jooman Park, will lead ebay Australia & New Zealand from July following a decision by current leader Vice President Deborah Sharkey to move to ebay's global headquarters in San Jose, USA.



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ebay Australia and New Zealand Pty Ltd Management Changes
SYDNEY, Australia - ebay Vice President and leader of ebay's Korea businesses will lead ebay Australia & New Zealand Pty Ltd from July following a decision by current leader Vice President Deborah Sharkey to move to ebay's global headquarters in San Jose, USA.

Jooman Park joined ebay Korea's subsidiary Internet Auction Company (IAC) in 2002 and has led ebay Korea for over 8 years, helping to grow IAC and GMarket into Korea's leading online marketplaces.

Sharkey joined ebay's Sydney team in October 2003 and has led ebay Australia & New Zealand Pty Ltd since December 2008 helping to grow ebay's position as Australia's leading online marketplace. ebay has over 7 million Australian unique visitors a month (Nielsen NetRatings).

"I've enjoyed four great years at the helm of ebay Australia & New Zealand Pty Ltd," Sharkey said. "Having worked almost my entire professional life in Australia and Japan, I am particularly excited about returning to the US to continue to work for ebay."

Senior Vice President and General Manager ebay Asia Jay Lee said of the changes: "Deborah's leadership has enhanced ebay's reputation as a great partner for businesses of all sizes and a favourite shopping destination for millions of Australians. Deborah's agility, results-focus and inexhaustible energy for ebay will continue to serve the company well in the USA.

"Jooman will build on the excellent progress the team is making in defining the new Australian retail landscape," said Lee. "By successfully partnering with businesses and establishing online retail standards in Korea , Jooman has driven ebay's Korea businesses to market leadership positions. This experience will help boost Australian ecommerce for the benefit of local businesses and consumers."
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Australia
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Posted 04/01/2013   9:54 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add KGV Collector to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
From the 1st May 2013 ebay Australia is changing fees for sellers with stores. Having a featured store you get 200 free buy it now or Auction listings. Store cost stays the same.

Auction listings that are now costing 50c will change after your 200 free listing to $1 under $100 per listing and $1.50etc

BIN listing after 200 free listings stays the same at 20c per listing.

Final value fee goes up from 7.9% to 8.4%

With Australia ebay I have not seen any free listings in the past 9 months.
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Posted 04/04/2013   04:25 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add KGV Collector to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Our ebay bill for March Amount Due:AU$527.31c For the last 31 days. Selling collectables as a featured store with the inferior BIN listings.

Last 31 days
Sold 384 items
Unsold 1487 items
Current listed 428 items

To save some costs:
We are not listed 60 items Tues
We are not listed 100 items Fri
We are not listed 100 items Sat
Could increase listings per week by 260 items.

Increase listings by 1,000 per month & relistings 500 lots per month. That is a conservative increase of 1,500 listing per month.

New changes for ebay Australia we can list everything auction style with a 7.5% final value fee if we change to an Anchor Store Package on the 1st May 2013

Anchor Store Package ($499.95 a month) - UNLIMITED FREE Fixed Price listings and for collectables UNLIMITED FREE auction listings.

Can change back to the $50 feature store for the extremely slow Jan & Feb selling period.

We would have to be crazy not to change over with the new billing changes for ebay Australia is starting on the 1st May!
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Posted 04/10/2013   05:27 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add KGV Collector to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Really looking forward to listing auction style again come the 1st May!

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Posted 04/27/2013   02:16 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add KGV Collector to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
So the melting pot for Australian ebay auction style stamp listings starts next Wednesday. What will be the outcome?

The people with no shop get 40 free auction listing then it costs them $1.50 per listing per 1c to $100 lot.

A $20 Basic store 80 free auction style listings then $1 per 1c to $100 lot.

A $50 Feature store 200 free auction style listings and then $1 per 1c to $100 lot.

A $500 Anchor store unlimited free auction style listings. 7.5% FVF

An Australian Anchored store will cost about the same to run as a USA Anchored store. I wonder how long ebay Australia will keep offering this deal with Anchor stores that starts 1st May, which is next Wednesday?

Prepared with and more to come!

500 KGV lots. Have not sold much in this area since we were forced to leave ebay USA 9 months ago.

450 lots high value decimal.

350 lot international post stamps.

300 lots letter rate decimal. Still working in this area.

250 unusual lots. Mostly sets and mini sheets and sheetlets.

120 lots personalised stamps.

And 150 coin lots.
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Posted 04/27/2013   08:00 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Battlestamps to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The ebay.com site has been giving away so many free auction listing days of 100,000 to 200,000 recently that there really isn't a reason to pay the store subscription. We'll see what next month brings, but I wouldn't call getting "free auction listings" with a store subscription free as you paid for them. If you pay money for something it's not free.
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Posted 04/27/2013   7:33 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add KGV Collector to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
We have not had a free listing on ebay Australia in 9 months that we have been here. I am surprised that no other Aussie....

Battlestamps your ebay to my ebay is like!

Krill v Great White Shark.
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Posted 05/15/2013   11:55 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add KGV Collector to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
End of the 1st week with the new billing system as an ebay Anchor Store and could not be happier!

The cost of $499.95 for the store is up front so we had to pay for it a month in advance. That bill was on top of our normal one and it took place today. But there were some full on starting problems.

Started the Anchor store at 7.30am 1st May and was promptly charged an extra $500 for April's ebay bill because Australia ebay billing is based on USA time....!?!?

Went looking to email ebay and found a phone number and very, very, very politely asked for help please about being charged $100 per hour for an anchor store on the last few hours of the 30th April because we are billed by USA time in Australia! Then the bill was removed by the ebay's phone person from $500 to $18 because she could see it was an injustice and was sorry she could not remove the $18 charge as well. Now that is what I call "top shelf" treatment.

Good on ebay! The way things, like this should happen!



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Posted 05/24/2013   08:51 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add KGV Collector to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Totally Awesome! Unbelievable!

And then it gets exciting!

Who said stamping was boring!

And then it gets better and better and better!
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Australia
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Posted 06/20/2013   02:31 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add KGV Collector to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It is good! I wonder how long it will last?

One thing that comes in selling a lot is buying to replace stock.

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Australia
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Posted 12/03/2013   05:56 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add KGV Collector to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Well it is 6 months since the change and it has worked out really spot on.

Ended up listing about 3,500 lot per month and for this currant week we have 883 listings.

We have averaged over $2,000 per month and no more than $3,000 per month since the change.

Half of the sales is not classified as income as it is declared as to replace my stamp collection. Plus the normal other running costs taken out and it is a nice little income for us.

Our stock or more the stamp collection is very healthy going into 2014.
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