You can open an online store for a few dollars. But keeping it open might come down to a few cents.
That’s what some veteran eBay sellers in Delaware are saying after the online auction giant said it would increase the fees it collects from every sale made at eBay “stores” starting Tuesday.
Penny by penny, item by item, sellers say, those fees make it less profitable to do business as a store, where individual sellers offer many goods at fixed prices rather than put them up for auction.”I’m considering closing the store altogether,” said Mark Erskine of Georgetown, who runs a vintage collectibles store on eBay with his wife Shelly. “I’ve taken 200 things off-line in the past two weeks because of this.”
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