Get double exposure by adding your Half.com listings to eBay Express
eBay announced sellers can add their Half.com listings to eBay Express, the new fixed-price portion of the auction site -- with no added fees.The change is effective April 1, but you have to opt in to the program.
I think this is a great idea, Half.com and eBay Express have both been a disappointment lately. This will juice both sites through increased exposure, and help sellers too. I might be tempted to close my eBay Store, and just manage my eBay business from my Half account.
Here's how it works:
You don't have to change your Half.com procedures
Continue listing on Half.com as usual.
Sales on Half.com will be processed as usual. You'll be notified through Half.com and paid by direct deposit twice monthly as usual.
When you opt-in to sell on eBay Express, your Half.com listings will show up on eBay automatically.
If you make any changes to your Half.com listings, the changes show up on eBay. Any price changes, new listings, deletions, etc., show up on both sites.
When a shopper buys your Half item on eBay, the transaction shows up in My eBay. It won't show up in your Half account.
Payments for your eBay Express sales are deposited immediately into your PayPal account.
To help you manage your inventory, your My eBay selling record, including the File Exchange tool, now has two additional fields to show where your inventory was listed and sold so you can clearly identify Half.com inventory sold on eBay Express.
For Half.com listings that sell on eBay Express, you are charged a PayPal fee and an eBay Express Final Value Fee.
These fees total the same amount as fees charged for Half.com listings that sell on Half.com. For example, if you sell a book for $25, you'll net the same profit, whether the sale happens on Half or eBay. See the math at the bottom of this page.
posted by Steve Weber at 3/19/2007
4 Comments:
It sounds like a good idea...I can't get the math to come out right on how they are charging eBay fees ($3.48) on the example of $25 book...$25 x 5.25% is $1.31 ...maybe a listing fee of $1.20 when sold? ...maybe gallery? $0.35...I still only add up to $2.86, so there is $0.62 in the eBay fees I can't account for...must be me. I want to understand that for sure before I opt in, especially since I have some lower priced books listed on Half.
I think there is still a need for an eBay store though - you cannot do LOTS on Half, nor can you add a new product page if the ISBN is not listed (like you can as Amazon Pro Merchant). And there seem to be far more missing ISBNs on Half than Amazon...besides all the pre-ISBN books you would want in your store that won't go on Half.
Ila...
The eBay final value fee charged for Express listings generated from Half.com is the difference between the commission that would be charged if the book sold on Half.com and the PayPal commission that is deducted from the total sales price including shipping. When you add the two fees together it will come out to the 15% now charged by Half.com
I went ahead and moved everything over and have already started having sales (322.93 total). Before this I had one book move in the last 6 months off of Half.com. Looks like this is going to be a good thing!
Ha! Guess I should have updated more of my reading on this blog before commenting on the newer Half.com entry. Thanks for posting details here Steve! Helps decide whether to try Half.com again. On a seperate note: Try searching for author K R Booker on Amazon... someone is trying some kind of scam selling books with a similar title to yours, definitely trying to snag book scouts hungry for info. And, check the two Sellers that each has! If you haven't already, you might want to do a warning blog entry.
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