I used to have a sellers store, and dropped it. I opened it up again today and remembered why I dropped it.

http://stores.ebay.com/SpaceGhost2Ks-Faceplates

eBay says oh yeah, it's only .03 per listing.

But that's if you pay them $299 per month for a mega store.

For us peons it's:
$15.99 per month for the store.
$0.20 per listing.
and FIFTEEN PERCENT of the final price of a fixed item, which is what stores have in them. (Other catagories are less but tv, movies, books and video games are 15%)

And then, PayPal takes a chunk, too.

I set up my recent auctions so that 10% would go to Child's Play.

So let's look at a $19.99 faceplate. Let's assume that I sell 16 plates in a month, so that $15.99 comes out to a simple $1.00 per plate.

+$19.99 final price.
+$6.00 shipping
-$0.20 listing fee
-$1.00 monthly fee
-$3.00 eBay final value fee.
-$2.00 Child's Play
-$6.00 shipping
-$1.04 PayPal (comes out of shipping, too)
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$12.75.

Twelve seventy five! Out of twenty bucks! Yeah, ten percent of that, or two bucks is going to charity, but that's still over twenty five percent!

This store is going to get about one week to prove itself, but numbers don't lie. It can't do it.

So, do me a favor. If you want any of those, drop me an email instead of buying them. I might have to eat the listing fee and the PayPal fee, but at least I won't get raped.

I wonder if Meg Whitman is going to run the state like that?