eBay

bohomodernstyle · ‎03-22-2018

THe basic description of a sale is you sell an item for what you are willing to sell it for and what a willing buyer will buy it for, PERIOD. Not what only buyers in Florida, or buyers in Illinois will buy....but ANY buyer. This is NOT free trade, but deceptive marketing. I wouldn't be surprised if some sellers file suit. The grouping situation is also deceptive. If I have a great description on my item, and great photos, and provide great service, but I charge more - why should Amazon "pick" s cheaper alternative? Not all of us can buy in bulk so we can sell at the cheapest price. We sell one or two of an item and make a few dollars. It is not in the interest of the buyer OR the seller to have items "grouped" similarly. You take out any willing buyer/willing seller option. You guys need to stop trying to get promotions and "justifying your jobs" by thinking up dumb ways to mess with a good basic system. Work on your customer service and quit manipulating our view. The reason we are here is because you are NOT Amazon. Stop trying to copy them. Looking for other platforms to sell on because you are ruining this for all but the big guys.

Daneille
"lesthefireman"

timemachine777 · ‎03-23-2018

@richardwillardcollectionwrote:
try a search for any wigit...."from Pakistan" or "from Canada" or "from united kingdom" and you will get that...then try it "from united states" this works pretty good for me.

I use Google search a lot to find things on eBay.

timemachine777 · ‎03-23-2018

@tunicaslotwrote:
You know nothing about me nor what I sell. You can have opinions about my stuff all you want. Fact is that I do know what to sell and for what. I recently sold a book on eBay for 3 grand, and I just sold one the other day on eBay for 155.00. BTW...that one was just a damaged 20 year old book.

Congrats on those sales - so Ebay is working for you then! Again - sales depend on how desirable an item is and whether your item is listed when that seller is looking for it.

I too sometimes like a real book in my hands - but as I said - garage sales or bag sales at the library each year and I can get those books for next to nothing. Last summer I came across a box of boxes in the syfy genre which my husband and son would like. The seller worked for the publishing company and had 4 different compleat sets - I was trying to see how many there were per set and if it was worth it - he came over and said - take the box for a $1 - I gave him $5 because I'm not about to take advantage of people and there were at least 80 books and the family was thrilled! After they are read - I'll be able to sell them here and make much more than my initial investment because complete series seem to be better sellers than piecemeal.

You never know what you'll find or what some things are worth. I was at an auction once and my wife wanted to leave. I wanted a few items in a lot of 3 boxes of books. So I asked the runner to get them up for bid twice, and both times that auctioneer ignored me. She eventually left and I stayed.

After the place really thinned out, the auctioneer finally put up the 3 boxes, as they were in a rush to finish up. I ended up paying a few bucks for the boxes. So when I got home, my wife said what was so important in those boxes that you had to stay there. I replied...just some reference books.

As I was pulling out all the big reference books, under them was another box that was old and faded. The cover said: The legend of Sleepy Hollow. When I opened the box there was a pristine mint, never read copy in natural leather and gold gilt, from 1899 with photogravures by Coburn. Swans galleries in NYC had put an est on it for 2,500.00. Unexpected prize.