Again, I think it is great that it will work out for you and I’m sure many other people who already purchase services from outside providers.

There are already hundreds of third-party tools available for eBay sellers, and Project Echo gives them the opportunity to integrate much more tightly with eBay.

Generally, a third-party tool should more than pay for itself with efficiency gains and (sometimes) real savings – for example with cheap image hosting, free scheduled relisting, and optimizing relisting credits (ChannelMax).

The eBay developer community will always offer something that eBay don’t do themselves. An analogy would be Microsoft – it’s their job to provide the platform but we don’t expect them to create every single piece of software for Windows, that’s what the developer community do.

I look at it this way

I pay a subscription fee of 50 dollars + 10 for my pictures every month for my store- I feel eBay has a responsibility to its customers to make sure they offer the best possible tools available.

This is clearly eBay tossing the job to someone else rather than provide the best service for what I already pay for. I have no doubt that they will cease developing better apps for selling manager and it will become the job of 3rd party providers which will cost me additional fees.

To me it’s not a choice of using or not using, paying or not paying… it’s simply more convenient to access them through eBay :-D

am I interpreting this accurately?

Rather than eBay put up the fund to provide cutting edge tools and services to their customers which is included in the cost of the store subscription- they are allowing outside developers to experiment with my store management tool and anything useful I’ll have to pay additional fees??

Is this correct?