More thoughts about eBay

[Lobo]

I haven't even tried selling anything on eBay in ages. I'm curious as to what %the fees are up to these days? How much does PayPal take?

In my experience, when listing fees, final value fees, and PayPal fees are added up, it generally costs about 10% (varying with item prices, lower-priced items will be somewhat higher than higher-priced items due to the tiered structure of eBay fees).

Since what I do on eBay is limited to a few items at a time, and done mostly for advertising to connect with customers who want other items, I consider the cost to be acceptable.

Edited May 5, 2009 by Lobo

[Johnny B]

I stay away from FleBay. They are to anti gun for one and having to deal with PayPal is to much of a hassel for me. And I know a couple of guys that PayPal ripped off. Justclosed their accounts and will not let them have the money in the accounts. I sell on GunBroker.com. Anything from guns to knives to sheaths. And about anything else. No paypal and a small listing fee.

[JLSleather]

I use Ebay nearly every day, if only for a couple of minutes. Just getting some good deals from time to time. I paid $100 for 100 ft of really nice 2 1/2 oz calf. And then there's the occasional search for those old patterns I used to have before somebody decided they needed them worse than I did. Which is fine, long as I don't ever buy a "vintage" craftaid that shows up with my initials on it

But, I couldn't help the other day ... still choking ...

One guy appears to be doing well enough ... selling $20-30 items that couldn't have cost more than $8-10 to make, and involving almost no labor. Looks pretty rough to me, but people are buying it, so I guess that's the interest.

Not for me, but sometimes I'm almost in awe what people will spend their money on.

[UKRay]

I used to use eBay's services a lot - almost exclusively in fact. Then eBay put their charges up and made the rules harder to comply with and then - the final straw for me - they started siding with buyers who ripped me off. Originally I had more than 100 items listed on eBay at any time but instantly cut back when the hassle started.

I now have my own website but still run an eBay shop that has around 10 items in it. All are what I would call 'regular stock' items that I carry all the time and all are easy sellers. Every eBay listing has a link to my own website and the name of my business is very clear on each listing.

I sell consistently from the eBay shop, but don't take any chances as I always sell at a fixed price. I don't care if the listing runs for months as every time somebody looks at it they see the URL for my own site. Obviously, on my site, I don't pay any fees for selling although I do accept PayPal payments and have to accept their charges. I am thinking of changing this to Google's payment system because when you list your products with the Google system it also flags them up to the search engines at the same time. Every little helps!

I should say, my own site is just a little cheaper than eBay too... I pass on the benefits.

Ray

[leatherman1457]

ebay sucks big time,but I still use it on occasian. If they were not out to screw the sellers I would sell a lot more. I use to have hundereds of item on the site till they changed it to where the buyer can leave a negative and i could not do anything. so ebay only gets a few dollars a month when they could get hundereds if they would just go back to the way it was in 02 to 05 . I mainly use ebay to try and get away with using my website on it and try to get people to go to my website and buy tools from there. I only use iit to make a little money. sure wish they had a good place to sell but I will just have to wait till some else can compete with slezebay