Enhanced Membership Pricing - It's Free!

We are excited to announce changes to the pricing structure of the eBay Developers Program, effective November 14, 2005.  These changes will make it even easier for developers to innovate and make money building applications using eBay Web Services. 

With these changes, membership in the eBay Developers Program and Standard Application certification are now free.  API calls using the unified schema are also provided free. Members will continue to be charged API usage fees at their previous rates for any calls using the legacy schema. In addition, all members of the program will now have access to Developer Live Chat, live technical support with an eBay Developer Technical Support engineer, at the low cost of $75/hour, or $250 for four (4) hours.

We are making these changes to thank our current members for their great contributions and to remove cost as a barrier to innovating and building a business on the eBay platform.  To learn more about these changes, read the press release or the email from Developers Program Director Greg Isaacs.

If you have any questions or feedback you would like to share about this announcement, our Program Manager, Tina Mazzei, will be hosting four (4) special "Office Hours with the Program Manager" sessions in the Developer Coffee Talk forum over the next two weeks to answer your questions. Meanwhile, if you’d like to read more about the new pricing structure, review the chart on our Benefits and Fees page, or see how your membership benefits have been enhanced.