{"id":676,"date":"2009-08-23T10:46:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T18:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/?p=676"},"modified":"2020-11-30T10:43:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T10:43:39","slug":"new-ebay-rules-affect-indies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/new-ebay-rules-affect-indies\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Music News: New eBay Rules Affect Indies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/hand-money.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-701 alignleft\" title=\"hand-money\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/hand-money.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a>Indie retailers will face another massive hurdle this September when<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/\"> eBay<\/a> introduces a rule that means they will have to double the advertised price of many of the records they sell. Ebay has a new rule which means sellers are expected to absorb the price of domestic postage costs in to the starting price of CDs or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/vinyl-record-manufacturing\/\">custom vinyl records<\/a> being sold is expected to cause widespread hardship and chaos for hundreds of Indies trying to offload old stock through bulk deals and those that have a sideline in second-hand product. Some are expected to close.<\/p>\n<p>Proper Distribution indie sales manager and retail expert Graham Jones said \u201cEvery indie uses eBay, it\u2019s a fantastic way of clearing out old stock, so this isn\u2019t good. If sellers have to add a typical \u00a33.20 postage charge to their upfront price it will make their stock look far less attractive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theunsignedguide.com\/news\/527\/indies-boxed-into-corner-by-new-ebay-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unified Manufacturing<\/strong>\u00a0is an L.A. -based one-stop-shop that offers very affordable CD\/DVD\/USB replication, custom printing, promotional products, warehousing and fulfillment and many more. If you need an Instant Quote on a project and you want FREE SHIPPING, simply\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/instant-quote\/\">CLICK HERE<\/a>.    \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indie retailers will face another massive hurdle this September when eBay introduces a rule that means they will have to double the advertised price of many of the records they sell. Ebay has a new rule which means sellers are expected to absorb the price of domestic postage costs in to the starting price of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[99,124,158,197],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unified-manufacturing-news","tag-cd-sales","tag-ebay","tag-indie","tag-sales"],"contentshake_article_id":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30675,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/30675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}