Advertising levels for noobs

Edited regarding the eBay advertising. It still makes little to no sense to me to pay the extra just to cross list to eBay.

New seller recommendation if you are opening a [URL removed]
There is no point selecting more than the 11% advertising rate.
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Below is incorrect info as shown to me by bluepennylady
The 13% rate gets you a defunct eBay advertising. Bonz used to operate a store on eBay and they would feed listings from Bonz to eBay if you had that rate selected. Then you would be responsible for the eBay FVF plus the 13% to Bonanza. This ended a couple years ago because the store they had closed. Any mods feel free to correct me, but pretty sure I am right.
Above is incorrect info as shown to me by bluepennylady
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Also, if you are going to open a booth, don’t select a plan first. Just use the listing fees up to $20 to make sure that it’s worth it for you.

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bluepennylady says: June 18, 2025

The 13% enabled the ability for the seller to post their own listings to eBay. Bonanza did not operate an eBay store, Each seller could connect their Bonanza booth to their own eBay account.

bluepennylady says: June 18, 2025

I personally used the feature. I retained seasonal goods here at Bonanza and would publish the listings back to my own eBay account during the appropriate season. The seller is responsible for the eBay FVF at ebay and pays Bonanza a nominal percentage on the transaction.

bluepennylady says: June 18, 2025

The publisher has the ability to increase the prices by the Bonanza FVF percentage. It works pretty slick. I always liked the publisher.

bluepennylady says: June 18, 2025

sorry forgot to say Bonanza charges 1.5% FVF for anything published to eBay from Bonanza that sells on eBay.

bluepennylady says: June 18, 2025

https://support.bonanza.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000609172-Publishing-to-eBay-FAQ

GravityVideo says: June 18, 2025

Gotcha, I misread that. I was thinking of the way Alibris used to have an ebay store for that purpose too.

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I have always wondered about that.
Why would I want to advertise on eBay(and actually selling) when all my items are on eBay first?

answered 1 day ago

side note, you have to have an ebay account in order to have your items advertised there, if you do not have an ebay account, then choosing the Ebay advertising level will do nothing for you except cost you more of an FVF here on bonanza

answered about 22 hours ago

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bluepennylady says: June 18, 2025

An eBay account can be created during the publisher onboarding. eBay can impose some restrictions sometimes depending on the seller’s product line. eBay does not allow all new sellers with certain product or price points to use third party tools. Bonanza publisher is considered a third party too

I have edited the post. I misunderstood the advertising page, taking it as it read. I should have looked deeper knowing how many statements on this site conflict with the actual workings of the site now.

answered about 14 hours ago

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