I just happened to look at some of my sales stats for the past few months with just my eBay sales alone. I noticed something a little frustrating. My sales are actually going down! What is crazy is, this is the time when they are supposed to be going up!
Here we are in late October, and then November, and then December. It is the holiday season! My products are year round products, and actually some increase during Christmas time. But the slow sales are a bit disappointing. They have decreased by almost $1,000! Not only that, but the my eBay and Paypal fees have only decreased by about $300.
The good news is that I do expect much lower eBay fees now. I have canceled my eBay store now that they have offered the 30 day good til canceled format for fixed prices. I am also getting as much traffic to my listings as I was with the store, so that saves a big $16 a month.
Not only that, but the one GOOD thing eBay did do, is that they lowered the listing fees for fixed price format down to only $0.35, REGARDLESS OF QUANTITY. That was pretty awesome. That means you can list your entire inventory, and it is only $0.35 per listing. Not bad at all. They did, however, raise the final value fees. But I anticipate that this will actually lower my monthly eBay fees, since the majority of my wasted fees were going to having relist unsuccessful auctions all the time.