As was stated by another poster, my advice about the $400 item is because ebay is now chaging and removing some of the ONLY consistant seller protection sellers have and because you are a newer seller, scammers target you and your high dollar items. Sell the low dollar games first and when you get the unjustified not described (snad) scam and see how ebay's dispute system works in favor of buyers you'll understand why I will not list anything worth over $50 on ebay - no matter how cheap I got it for. I sell on ebay to make money not ship free stuff to scammers.
As I said in my post, you make your money when you buy, you buy cheap, that is great. But thinking that there is some set price that you should price something is thinking that will effect your sales, and not always in a good way.
If you are going to specialize, then you should price like professionals do, but if you are just buying and selling for fun and extra cash, then you should price according to what you have in it. ebay buyers love bargains and if you picked up a $50 item for a buck - if you price it at $50 it might sit forever, but if you price it at $25 it will move fast and you made profit.
I have a friend that buys at the same places I do (we go together quite often), and I know what she gets her stuff for, and she prices most of it a lot less than I would - but she moves it really fast. But she leans toward specialization and prices stuff outside her field cheap to move it.
When I said to go with you know, if you know something, you have an idea of how it will sell and what it will sell for. And the expanse of one category means that you will never be bored. In clothing for example, you have ladies, mens, shoes, jeans, and tons of other subcats, so while it seems focused, it really isn't. I tend to go with clothing and ignore toys, but will pick up a few stuffed animals and games because I know them - I leave video games on the table because I don't know them.
The best way to tell what something will sell for is to just hit completed on ebay. And look at all of the completeds - not just the ones that sold. If you have something that sells on average of $20 but only 5% of the ones listed actually sold - then it doesn't matter what you price it at, the odds are good it won't sell. Too many sellers will look at price sites and think they stumbled onto a gold mine but what they have is an albatross that might take years to sell.
So when you research, don't just look at the price something sold for.
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