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Less fees on Ebay store items when your web site refers

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  1. patriotslover

    Joined: December 2005
    Posts: 24

    Well the site has been quiet the last few days so I thought I'd share my lastest discovery.

    As you may or may not know Ebay gives you a 75% break on final value fees if you are bringing in your own customers. So if you have buttons or links on your web site redirecting buyers to your store you are entitled to a 75% percent discount on final value fees if they buy.

    But just sending them with re-dircting pages and hyperlinks is not enough ebay's system will not acknowledge the hyper link if it is not coded correctly.

    The catch is the URL has to have the suffix / tag/ whatever you want to call it at the end:
    ?refid=store


    So essentially it should look like this:



    This discount on Final value fees only applies to store inventory listings which are "Fixed" in price. If someone comes in on one of your links and bids on an auction type listing it does not count.

    Either way this could save you a few bucks and potentitally put a few buck in your pocket.

    For all of the details paste this link into your browser after you've signed into ebay:

    http://pages.ebay.com/storefronts/refer ... t-faq.html

    I discovered this last night and after updating all of the redirecting pages on my web site--I couldn't sleep.
    I kept thinking of how many FVF I'd lost or given away. And then my thoughts turned to how that is soooooooooooooooooo over.


    -PL
    Posted 4 years ago  |  Login or Register to Reply

  2. patriotslover

    Joined: December 2005
    Posts: 24

    PS.

    It also applies to any e-mail marketing you might do. If you use it on everything---something's--got to give.

    -PL
    Posted 4 years ago  |  Login or Register to Reply

  3. mrsmogiel

    Joined: December 2004
    Posts: 54

    Trying to understand why you would want to redirect one that is buying from your website over to ebay as you are paying an additional unnecessary fee ... unless it is the opposite- redirecting from ebay to your website....
    Posted 4 years ago  |  Login or Register to Reply

  4. patriotslover

    Joined: December 2005
    Posts: 24

    Hi,

    The store on my website is not up and running yet. So while it is under construction I need to redirect traffic. However just creating hyper links without the tag is throwing money away.

    This tag is also helpufl when you are doing promotions for your ebay store. Or if you have multiple sites.

    There are prompts that once activated invite people to join your newsletter while they are browsing your store.
    This becomes a neat little mailing list that you can do advance notice sales with. It encourages repeat business.

    This little following is faithful and after particular items. Whenever I get something new in I send out the "newsletter". Over the last few months I've been able to identify some of their interest.

    I have seen multiple purchases triggered with this newsletter literally with in minutes of sending it. However, I was not adding the tag and so the purchases were not triggering the the lower FVF. And that had me stumped as I am tracking all hits and traffic from a variety of sources and things were not adding up.

    During December I gave everyone on the list first crack at new inventory. Store listings are not immeadiately visible to buyers however with a URL you are allowing them to jump the line.

    I have created discount codes, gave shipping discounts for multiple purchases--especially on items that could be packed in the same box and shipped for the same cost (1 pound of Priority Mail is $4.05 to all 50 states, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico--- Use your Paypal ATM card at Click -N-Ship and its only $3.99).


    I like to think of it as easy money. And definitely more fun than waiting for someone to buy.

    -PL
    Posted 4 years ago  |  Login or Register to Reply

  5. richspsxparts

    Joined: June 2004
    Posts: 209

    I do this, and here's why:

    I sell repair parts for PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, PSP. Many items I can get from China or U.S. suppliers in large quantities -- so I never run out of stock -- not permanently anyway. Other items are very rare and I can only get them by pulling them from systems with other bad parts. In the case of the xbox for example, there are 3 different version motherboards and you can't really interchange them ... so if I find a good version a motherboard, for example, I put it in my ebay store because I only have ONE. If I put it on my website, I'll sell 3 before I can take it back down and leave 2 people highly upset.

    Also, New items that have been opened and returned you may wanna put in your ebay store to liquidate them.

    Rich

    MrsMogiel wrote:Trying to understand why you would want to redirect one that is buying from your website over to ebay as you are paying an additional unnecessary fee ... unless it is the opposite- redirecting from ebay to your website....
    Posted 3 years ago  |  Login or Register to Reply

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