05-16-2010 06:50 PM
04-21-2014 11:12 PM
Point taken....but post 208 seemed an honest effort to learn something.....
so where's the harm in trying.....
04-22-2014 11:39 PM
I have learned a lot now. I paid an expensive lesson for my mistakes but this will be the final lesson to pay. Thank you guys all for your help and next time I will not repeat the same mistakes again.
04-23-2014 03:56 AM
@amigaclassiclover wrote:I have learned a lot now. I paid an expensive lesson for my mistakes but this will be the final lesson to pay. Thank you guys all for your help and next time I will not repeat the same mistakes again.
I've avoided a lot of mistakes by reading these boards. There's lots of great info and very experienced members here. Come back often.
04-27-2014 04:11 PM
I'm about done with them, myself. Too expensive. They need some competition....
04-28-2014 07:38 AM
04-28-2014 09:53 AM
How much would you pay in fees at a tractor auction ?
Those r some nice tractors, but I can't tell if you're getting good money for them.
04-30-2014 06:45 AM
Unfortunately, I got slammed too.
Frankly, takes all the profit one hopes to make out of an item, and in some cases, makes it useless to even place it on eBay.
I'm currently looking at alternative sales site that specialize on what I have to offer; but many are also skimming large fees from the top, even Amazon is doing this. I stop selling with them a while ago, and it seems eBay will be next.
05-05-2014 09:49 AM
BOTTOM LINE - 13% is too much for selling items commercially online. There is no profit to be made and still be competitive. YOu can't just raise the price to cover the fees and free shipping, the buyers will simply go direct to the distributor or local retail store.
You can't compare eBay to an auction-house that sells tractors, eBay does NOT compare to a Barrett Jackson auction. I equate most of the eBay transanctions with that of flea-Market sales, where you have the commerical sellers who show up every week and those who are there to sell off used goods from their garage. No percentages sre skimmed at the final sale.
Since eBay has to be profitable to stay alive, a reasonable compromise would be to charge a flat rate for a seller-store depending on volume and additional resources used to maintain, and less expensive final value fees to the casual sellers.
A reasonable casual seller fee would be 5% with a 25 cent minimum and not to exceed $100. Now for cars and tractors, you have eBay motors, which is a totally different category of sales that I know nothing about so I'll refrain from sharing my opinions on that.
I just closed my Business account - Store because I didn't have enough volume and the items was selling I was loosing too much money on.
05-05-2014 10:13 AM
You can't compare eBay to an auction-house that sells tractors,
ohhh, around here I can pretty much do what I want !
05-07-2014 09:49 PM
And I LOVE the-ranch......
05-09-2014 07:59 AM
I believe the reply before yours is from an eBay staff member? Of course, we're about 100,000 people shor of what we need to get a response 🙂
05-28-2014 11:27 AM
Ebay have changed their pricing structure
http://sellercentre.ebay.co.uk/introduction-ebay-fees
I have a bag that I think will sell for £4.99. It will cost me £3.90 to post.
I could start at 99p with £3.90 postage, or £4.99 with £3.90 postage, or £8.89 with free postage. Or use BIN. Either way (assuming it goes for £4.99 on the auction, and it's one of my 20 free posts) the fee (including paypal fee) is £1.40
£1.40 of £4.99 is 28% !
05-28-2014 05:56 PM
That can't be right ??
@ 28%........no one would be selling anything...not even BBF !
06-23-2014 11:33 AM
EBAY IS TAKING ALOT OF OUR PROFIT. I JUST REALIZE I MADE LESS PROFIT THEN EBAY. The fees are soooo expensive. i started sellig again and wow almost 15% fees betwwen ebay and paypal. slowly people will start looking for other sites cause thats just to much money. i work with cell phones and alot of my customers even said they no longer sell on ebay i now understand why.
07-01-2014 08:42 PM
I agree