What is the deal witg Ebay fees?

[mybuddyinc]

^^^^^^^^^

Exactly what Gary just said is what I do. No need for "value" stuff. No store (your really have to sell a lot to make that even some what better). Use the "usually" monthly free listings. Most of the time set a start price with a BIN price. If they don't sell at either, can relist lower, without fee. It's still 8-10% ebay, and 3% paypal, but that's all it should be. If you price your shipping fees fairly, but with some profit, you can almost equal out the paypal 3%.

BST is good, but limited. My feeling between the two is: Net54 you have more "specific" buyers seeing you're stuff, but less of them. Whereas ebay you have more people, but can get lost in with the larger numbers of sellers (i.e less specific).

[rsn1661]

I quit selling when they said l had to take paypal. I didn't sell much, but didn't want them in my bank account with all the stories l have read on the ebay boards.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by rsn1661

I quit selling when they said l had to take paypal. I didn't sell much, but didn't want them in my bank account with all the stories l have read on the ebay boards.

I had my bank account hacked through PayPal. Now we have an account just for PayPal and only add $ to it right before we use it and when I sell on eBay we pull the $ out as soon as we get it.

The fees do seem outrageous unless you have owned a brick and mortar store and then they seem very reasonable for the service they provide.

[buymycards]

Open a store. It is only about 20 bucks per month and you will get 100's of free listings. Don't spend your money on the added value fees.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by buymycards

Open a store. It is only about 20 bucks per month and you will get 100's of free listings. Don't spend your money on the added value fees.

Overall, when considering everything, the ebay fees aren't that bad. However, their policies need a major overhaul to put sellers back on level footing with buyers. Sellers should be able to leave feedback, imo.

[Cozumeleno]

Originally Posted by Leon

Overall, when considering everything, the ebay fees aren't that bad. However, their policies need a major overhaul to put sellers back on level footing with buyers. Sellers should be able to leave feedback, imo.

I've always found the bidder policy strange as well in relation to that. They allow you to block buyers if you enter an ID, but you cannot preemptively block zero feedback buyers (which have overwhelmingly been a trouble area for me). You can only change your settings to block those with negative feedback from bidding on your auctions. And because buyers cannot receive negative feedback, the only people that would have that are those who would sell an item and receive a negative. The system is just too flawed.

[Stetson_1883]

Join ebid.net and start a revolution!

I have a store (see below) and pay 3% max on all sales.

The traffic is not there but that could change if people started to wake up and abandon ebay.

I did it and you can too.