Oh really? Is this why eBay's listings were by down
3-4 million listings, the week prior to the
boycott? Let's understand the actual amounts of
money we are talking here. The lowest insertion fee
is .20 and is for items under $1.00. The typical
user lists between 24.99-49.99 and $50.00-199.99
which was $1.20 and $2.40. Additionally, eBay has
many "extras" that can be added to enhance the
visibility of one's auctions. These include extra
photos, at .15 per photo, and double category
listings, which doubles all the fees including
extras, which can double the highest listing fee of
$4.80 to 9.60, and all the extra photos, gallery
fees, highlight, or even bold lettering.
In other words, eBay can make more off all the
extras than they do on just the listing fees. Based
solely on a very conservative 3 million auctions,
and the 1.20 listing fee as an average, NO extras,
and not including their commission fees, starting
at 5.25% eBay's losses are incredible: $3.6 million
PER DAY! Now imagine all the extras and you can see
how much damage Donahoe has caused eBay already.
Oh, yeah, and let's not forget, he hasn't even
taken office yet. Yet, his plans are already
costing investors money!
And then comes round two.