The Frog's protest the FEE HIKE in ebay stores

omg I cannot show that frog to my partner he has a thing for collectable frogs.

those frogs are up each others butt! LOL

Thanks for bidding chop suey. Yup, there up each other's butt's just like the fee hike. :)

what greedy greedy frogs. If I win, I know what I am going to name them

I put it on my watch list goodluck

There are now over 200 Protest Listings which are being located through engine searches and have been reported by various media, and many more inside inventories... eBay must be held to deliver on the Promises which it implied to small storeowners!...ORGANIZE FOR FAIRNESS!! ...

I feel that eBay wants to "HIKE" the Store Sellers Fees, forcing us Store Sellers to terminate most of our Store Listings........eBay feels we should have more Auction Style Listings, as how eBay has been based upon that Feature. WELL.....if this is the case, then in all fairness, LOWER THE LISTING FEES FOR AUCTION!!!!!! Then maybe I would have 40 Auctions Listed and forget the Store! How can we make any cash at all with them "HIKEING" FEES?

BTW................I have considered Closing my Store as well!

I am closing! My rent is paid until midnight 8/14/06, I have everything marked down, called yesterday and talked to a CSR, because I had questions, she was very nice, but I got the impression that star_hollow is right on, there was not even a hint or a question about "WHY WAS I CLOSING"? I will still sell a few items a month on the main core site, but not near what I was doing. I still feel like they slapped me in the face, first they encouraged me to open, and then SLAP!!!!!!!

It really sucks, doesn't it? I took a lot of my books down and put them on paperback swap which is a site where I can just GIVE them away.

I'd rather just give them away to someone that wants them, so I can get a book in return, than just pay ebay to help me give them away and get nothing.

I just started in March - I will keep my store for now - just going to play the wait and see game.

I have my own protest.

I've cancelled over 100 items (going on 200). Trying to diversify now (not going to put all my eggs in one basket any more).

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~Good luck to all, Julianne

eBay auctions have gone down the tube as far as I am concerned. The sales are too low. Most of my sales are from my store. I list items there with "Make an Offer" and I know that I actually get higher rates for my store items rather than auctions by doing that. I think eBay looks at that and thinks "hey, we missed the boat here! We didn't think the stores would go over that well!" So they hike the fees because they're greedy and they want more income out of the stores. I think they figured most folks would use the stores as an inventory parking site. I was surprised myself that I did so well in the store. Now they want us to go to the Pro Stores which is ridiculously high. I barely make a profit now with all the fees imposed on us. I'm one of the "low on the totem pole" Power Sellers. I just squeak by with $1,000 plus monthly gross. If they close down the stores for small business, a lot of us will have to go somewhere else. Can anyone recommend a web site?

Wooo Hoooo!!! I just got a question through the ask seller a question on the frog auction and they put it in a "You Tube" movie. My frog's are now in a movie.

And thanks to orange for puting my frog's in the movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jzc1V_1gC0

My frog's have now made the number 1 page in a google search for "fee hike ebay". Way to go froggies!!!

Here is my protest auction: GIMMIE $$$ SAYS GREEDY COBB MAN LOSE EVERYTHING picture Item number: 220011701708

Maybe you can retire after sell of the frogs. OH I forgot this place gets a cut of the final price, there goes retirement.

It's just another example of big business putting the squeeze on the little guy. The only way they would EVER take notice is if everyone closed their store (which isn't going to happen)
I have over 3000 items in mine (and I downsized) and I do about 300 auctions a month. My eBays fees went from about $350 a month to over $600 this month.
I'm looking into getting a website and basically moving everything over to that, just keeping a bare minimum on eBay.
MY question is why hasn't anyone brought a class action suit against eBay for the little monopoly they have going with Paypal (they own it) Does anyone think it fair they collect listing and selling fees AND THEN a cut for using another one of their services??

Mike, your friends at Vendio miss you, please contact!