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Ina Steiner
Ina Steiner is co-founder and Editor of EcommerceBytes and has been reporting on ecommerce since 1999. She's a widely cited authority on marketplace selling and is author of "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars" (McGraw-Hill 2006). Her blog was featured in the book, "Blogging Heroes" (Wiley 2008). She is a member of the Online News Association (Sep 2005 - present) and Investigative Reporters and Editors (Mar 2006 - present). Follow her on Twitter at @ecommercebytes and send news tips to ina@ecommercebytes.com. See disclosure at EcommerceBytes.com/disclosure/.




As a seller who has significant exposure to markets outside the US I have resisted opting into management payments. With 20-30% of my gross coming from markets other than the US market no amount of savings by opting in could compensate me for the lost income from overseas market and quite frankly no amount of gain could compensate ebay for my lost sales.
I am happy to see them open the German market to managed payments. But it is just one market of many and it will take them years to do this. In the meantime I expect to take a significant hit in sales.