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Would you really sell on ebay ?
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nigelwright7557:
Ebay has millions of customers but millions of sellers to so often its a race to the bottom on price.

Its easy to knock up a website but then no one knows its there until it appears in the search engines which can be expensive to get to the top.

There are other auction sites but their customer base is small.

The only other one I have found where I sell anything is face book.
Trader:
This is funny, yesterday I read an article about the "Silk Road", they efficiently sold drugs worldwide C2C.

Now eBay has this monopoly alone.
nigelwright7557:
While ebay has millions of customers it also has millions of sellers all subscribed to the race to the bottom on price.

A couple of months back I turned over £500 on ebay, great stuff.
So did my monthly accounts and outgoings were over £600 !
So only person who made money was ebay.

I have since thrown a lot of cheap stuff listings out and kept my more unique higher value items.


Simon:
I came to the point where I stopped looking at other peoples pricing and decided that it was my way or the highway. I did quite well as a proper business and turned over £1.9k one january, this then halved each month until by April I had no sales, strangely my stuff could not be found on ebay for looking and instead all the chinese stuff was front of the que. So I jacked it in, flogged off all of the remainder of the stock to a member on here and won't sell anything for under £10 now on ebay. But for some years I did well with just basic through hole components that apparently people are happier wait for from china.
Jan Audio:
Yes in this hobby you easy get to the point you can open a shop.
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