Ebay has announced a significant hike in the fees it charges sellers to list an item for sale. The most significant up front increase is the gallery picture increase from $0.25 to $0.35. While the gallery picture size is apparently to be increased, one would have to wonder what increase in cost at Ebay is causing the fee hikes. On the backend, they are increasing the base percentage of each sale taken from 5.25% in most cases to 8%, a significant hike. Ebay answers questions here, but the one they don’t really ever answer is why should the cost of delivery not be declining instead of increasing? They of course have employees and hardware, but the main commodity is electrons and the cost of delivering them should be declining.
