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| SilverSolder:
Keep in mind that it is the buyer that pays the fees, and the shipping, and the sales tax, etc., in reality... Just make sure your price covers all the costs! |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on September 27, 2020, 12:20:12 pm --- Keep in mind that it is the buyer that pays the fees, and the shipping, and the sales tax, etc., in reality... Just make sure your price covers all the costs! --- End quote --- Easier said than done. If I end up selling the item to somebody who lives in the next town over it is much cheaper than if I sell it to somebody who lives on the other side of the country. Since I pay fees on the money I spend on shipping in addition to the money the item sells for I have to be really careful to not come out negative. |
| jogri:
Apart from maybe one or two items i've used the regularly occuring promo codes to sell my stuff: Those give you a fixed 3€ sales tax, and you get 50 of them. If i was unsure about selling some gear i just put it up for a price way above market value so that no one is going to buy it in a hurry and either removed the listing or lowered the price when i knew if i would keep it or sell it. The only real problem i have with ebay is the abysmally bad seller protection: I've sold a HV PSU that had a rather peculiar design where it had a power resistor in series with the output, and the buyer used it for electrolysis (he was probably too dumb to realise that electrophoresis and electrolysis are not the same thing), cooking the resistor in the process. Complained after two weeks that it arrived damaged, ebay refunded him completely and i got a negative review from him, a broken PSU and lost quite a bit of money in shipping charges for a 30 kg PSU. (Btw, the next buyer of the repaired PSU needed help finding the power buttom on the front of the unit [not sure if he should play around with HV if he fails at this], so maybe dangerous items on ebay attract quite a lot of morons) |
| Simon:
sometimes they do deals but ebay is not cheap because they don't have to care. I severely mark up my products on ebay (the few that I can be arsed to put on there) I put a note with every ebay or amazon order inviting people to buy direct. |
| wraper:
--- Quote from: Simon on September 27, 2020, 06:58:08 pm ---I put a note with every ebay or amazon order inviting people to buy direct. --- End quote --- You can get banned for that |
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