Looking for an eBay broker in St. Louis
Need someone in St. Louis to help me sell a variety of things where I’ve had no success on local Craigs’s List and Marketplace.
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Need someone in St. Louis to help me sell a variety of things where I’ve had no success on local Craigs’s List and Marketplace.
dbfolks166mt
·3 years agoNot a lot of details on what you are wanting to sell as others have mentioned. The splits that @onefootflipper2 mentioned noted are probably about right. The other thing would be that if I was the consigned seller I would be issuing you a 1099 regardless of the reporting thresholds so that I could deduct your payouts on my own federal and state income taxes.
You are in a large metropolitan areas you may be better off doing as others have suggested with yard sale, donation or finding a local consignment auction house/store many of which also list their items on ecommerce sites.
stephenmorgan
·3 years agoYou would be better off to get someone to teach you how to use eBay.
onefootflipper2
·3 years agoYou probably aren't going to find anyone competent who is willing to do consignment.
People wanting someone to sell for them usually have this fantasy idea of the person doing it for 10 percent of the money. While in reality if you can even find someone to do it then you are not going to get more than 1/3rd. You would get 1/3rd, the person would get 1/3rd and the other 1/3rd is lost to seller fees and other overhead.
People wanting others to sell for them also usually have an overinflated idea of the value of their items based on looking at what is for sale instead of looking at what is sold.
I am in the area, but I certainly won't do consignment and I don't need any new inventory at the moment.
maxine*j
·3 years agoDefinitely.
And besides the emotional drama that develops because people nearly always have an unrealistic idea of the value of their stuff,, there are issues such as: The sales will be on the seller's 1099K, so he will have to do extra book-work in regards to his tax filing. There are questions such as: "How will the refund be handled when a buyer waits 179 days and then files a claim with PayPal or does a credit card charge-back?" Is the consignor willing to wait 180 days for his money? If not, will he guarantee to cover the loss if this happens, and how will he guarantee that? "Who eats the loss if a buyer gets a refund but the returned item is damaged or a sorry substitute is sent?" And those are just a few issues, among many.
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gurlcat
·3 years agoI consigned 50/50 with a local junktique store guy for a couple of years. There were some good reasons to do it, like the fact that his idea of worth wasn't usually unrealistic (he'd run his store for decades so he knew), he actually got pretty interesting and sometimes lucrative stuff, and the post office was immediately across the street from his store. He could just keep items sellable to walk-in customers (and he was good about letting me know immediately if something sold, so I could end the listing), but if it sold on Ebay I could just go there, pack it in the store and trot across the street to ship it.
It got less ideal as time wore on, however it wasn't that any of those facts changed; it was just some personal things about him that got tiresome. Like he always wanted to talk politics and wouldn't take a hint that I wasn't interested, also he liked to make dirty jokes all the time, not even funny ones but totally predictable ones I could just about mouth along with him, lol. But most frustrating of all, even after 2 years he couldn't seem to 'get' the things about Ebay that I had told him repeatedly. Like how much money even the tiniest bit of damage takes off the value of things, and how hard it is to sell something with no brand mark anywhere on it, not only because people collect brands, but they use the names to SEARCH -no matter how beautiful this blue vase is, there are thousands of blue vases already listed, and including "Beautiful" in the title doesn't help, lol. Oh and he had no idea how clean most people like things. So often I would get there and he'd be like "Here ya go, I already cleaned it up for ya" -and there would still be so much visible filth. I wasn't kidding when I said he ran a JUNK-tique store; he let his big dogs roam around, pooping and shedding all over the place. Really he could have used a CAT because there were mouse droppings all over stuff. Ew.
So long story short, when the news came out about the IRS requiring reporting of all sales over $600 ... well I had already been reporting and still getting tax refunds, but I took this news as my drama-free escape route from this dude, ha. "Bad news, Wyll. The party's over I'm afraid."
terrycece62
·3 years agoWhat kind of items do you want to sell?
However I agree with prior posters that informed you that you will have it difficult to find someone to enter in a complicated and more then likely time-consuming arrangement you are seeking
Is your items expensive highly sought after or otherwise collectibles items that will demand a high price?
If not have a huge well-advertised organized yard sale and then as suggested donate unsold usable items to Goodwill or favorite thrift store ran by your charity
mtgraves7984
·3 years ago"... where I’ve had no success on local Craigs’s List and Marketplace."
@bj_us_nseqvry
Do you think that the items need more eyeballs? 👀
Do you think that the items need niche buyers? ðŸŽ
Do you think that the items need international exposure? 🗺
I ask because I feel if you've had no luck in those ^^^ venues, you'd have less luck here. But that's just me... ðŸ˜
gurlcat
·3 years agoI'm confused about what you're saying. Why would they have less luck here? Those differences you listed are precisely what makes things MORE likely to sell on ebay than small local sales listing sites.
gurlcat
·3 years agoI would generally agree that consignment relationships that work, with both parties equally happy in the end, are very rare and hard to form. But I won't give any specific alternative suggestions unless you want them, and if you want them, you must provide more information. Like what kind of items do you have to sell? Since you're looking for someone local I'm assuming it's items too large to ship, but I don't know. Are they new items, used, antique? There are lots of things I wouldn't recommend for a yard sale (not in THIS heat) and if you have valuables it can be hard to keep an eye on them unless you have multiple helpers. I took some serious losses to theft in one of my yard sales.
maxine*j
·3 years agoIf the things did sell on CL or MP, the chances of their selling on eBay at a profit are just about zilch. Have one big yard sale before the summer ends, and donate whatever doesn't sell.
There are so many pitfalls and problems with selling for others that nearly no-one will even try -- and certainly not for stuff that has already proved unsalable.
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playwithitagaintoys
·3 years agoIt ain't happening. Nobody is gonna do your work for you. Donate and move on
chapeau-noir
·3 years agoI would suggest offering to sell your items to a reseller outright. Consignment can get quite complicated. I know - I used to do a lot of consignment and still do some.
ms.rodriguez*
·3 years agoThis is something that will be very difficult to find. Nobody wants to sell for someone else. You have to pay taxes , etc. No one wants to take on that responsibility.