What happened to people making offers and asking questions on ebay?

[Lucas00]

Just checking in since testing the auction theory, have actually made two ebay item sales. One to a forum member and one on ebay. So I'm not sure if that was a coincidence, luck or it actually worked. I'll check in again next week.

[Beercan collector]

Originally Posted by Lucas00

Just checking in since testing the auction theory, have actually made two ebay item sales. One to a forum member and one on ebay. So I'm not sure if that was a coincidence, luck or it actually worked. I'll check in again next week.

I’m guessing your sense of decorum might prevent you from providing a link here to your eBay items but I wouldn’t mind seeing what you have ,
If not maybe somebody else will post it
Thanks
Eric

[Lucas00]

Originally Posted by Beercan collector

I’m guessing your sense of decorum might prevent you from providing a link here to your eBay items but I wouldn’t mind seeing what you have ,
If not maybe somebody else will post it
Thanks
Eric

It is on my n54 profile (for some reason the two hyphens turn into 1 long one on here so it's hard to search). I admittedly don't want to post a link and get a bunch of inorganic exposure because I'm testing it but I have no problem in sharing it. Most of what I have for sale is also on the site, but there's some that's not.

https://www.ebay.com/usr/lucas--d

If anybody sees something they like I'd obviously rather sell here and skip ebay altogether 😂.

[Beercan collector]

Thanks
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trk...&_ssn=lucas--d

[Snapolit1]

Culture in the US doesn't put much emphasis on bargaining. Not like in Europe or Middle East. Many people I know are just totally incapable (or disinterested) in bargaining/negotiating. Many other cultures you walk into a shopping mall and a TV is marked at 699 something, you offer 200. And threaten to walk away at 300. Not how we typically operate in the US. Walmart and Target don't really care how much you think something is actually worth.

[Mark17]

For all of the slamming of ebay, I remember several years ago, when people were complaining about them collecting sales tax. In my home state, I have to send in sales tax collected, in late January, for the previous year. I am SO THANKFUL I don't have to deal with collecting and sending sales tax revenue to dozens of other states, to comply with the law. All I have to do is remit to my state the sales tax collected for my non-ebay transactions. The rest is taken care of.

I'm happy to pay a little marginal fee on that collected sales tax, considering the headache it saves me.

[BioCRN]

Advantage to the seller that doesn't need to worry about inventory turnover. At least that's how it works for me.

I haven't had anything for sale on EBay for a while, but I had some BIN stuff with relatively high (not crazy) prices that I did not care at all whether it sold quickly.

I put the stuff up and priced it above the current market, waiting around for any potential surge in hobby or item interest to claim it.

It is absolutely 0 issue for me to have these cards in a few large cardboard boxes waiting for a purchase and package. The slow pace of sales actually makes things less annoying.