Tips for managing High Volume Listing fees
I've never paid these myself so can't comment on the value you get from paying them, but of course you can't sell something if it's not listed.
There are a few ways to look at this.
If you have a lot of items that are not fast selling, and there are a lot of reasons for this, you can build the HVL fees in to your listing price as just one of the extra costs. You will already know the minimum price you want for an item, add on your success fees, any promotion fees, and if you think your item might take 8 weeks to sell then add on 8 x HVL fee of $0.10 = $0.80. If it sells before then, well you've saved a few cents. If it doesn't sell after 8 weeks, maybe try adding on HVL fees to cover a longer period =eg 12 weeks is only $1.20 or of course 15% less than that if you are a Top Seller.
Options to minimise or reduce paying HVL fees
- Rotate your stock and/or use My Products, along with it's setting to keep within your FREE listing allowance. You can then leave it rotate your listings if you have more than your free allowance ie if you have more products activated than your allowance.
- Or, have a week every month or six weeks of $1 res listings to build up your free listing allowance for the next six weeks.
- Or, rather than paying the HVL fees, one week try spending what you might usually spend on HVL fees, on Promotions instead.
Good luck.
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Callum Community SuperuserSome really good tips there.
Another option to consider is having a popular, high selling, low price item to keep your sales up. Even if you are selling an item at cost or only making 10c per item it can allow your listing allowance to increase for your other items. Can be better than the risk of losing money on $1 reserves. Take a peek at large sellers feedback and see what they have that is popular. Think about what you are always needing or buying. Consider reducing your best selling item to see if it will generate even bigger sales. Think phone cables, covers, protectors, inks, batteries, watch straps etc
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Hi, these are really helpful.
Just wondering is there a tool like tradevine, trademe store allow you have more than 10,000 listings like some professional Seller?
Thank you!
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Gary-NZStocked Community Superuser
Hi Cess. Anyone can have 10,000 listings. You don't have to be a TM Store, or use Tradevine or any of the other listing tools, and using one of those doesn't get you more listings. Being a TM Store does mean you have 150 listings before HVL fees apply, but that's a long way short of 10,000. I'm sure if you get in touch with Trademe and say you have 10,000 listings to load, they will give you a special deal.
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Who do I contact regarding a refund of listing fees?
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Gary-NZStocked Community Superuser
Amee. As Trademe are the ones you pay the fees to, you would need to contact them regarding any fee refunds you are owed. Just use the Contact us link at the bottom of any page.
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$0.10 per additional listing. I'm trying hard to waive those 0.10 cents I'm allowed 50 listings after that I still get charge 0.10 cents every time I list something , thanks for the tips guys , so far I keep listing to reach more sales ..
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