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| Ground_Loop:
--- Quote from: bdunham7 on September 26, 2020, 06:37:03 pm --- --- Quote from: SilverSolder on September 26, 2020, 06:29:49 pm ---Yeah, it's expensive. But I put stuff up on eBay anyway, because - who knows - someone might just desperately need the obscure item that perhaps doesn't have a high value to me. I'm always grateful when someone has listed e.g. some strange transistor from their parts bin that I can't find anywhere else. --- End quote --- There you go. I've sold $200K + on eBay in the past 20 years--including some pretty high-value items over $10K--with minimal problems and while I can complain endlessly about various things from silly policies to lack of customer service, I can't make the case that the service isn't worth the money. I just sold two Tek CCD hybrids to a guy 2000 miles away with a spiky 2430A and he was even happier to get them than I was to sell them. The odds of that transaction happening outside of eBay is quite low and both his and my scope would have just gone in the junk otherwise. The biggest issue with eBay right now seems to be inexperienced sellers that don't know the rules nor how to pack anything. --- End quote --- I'm pretty sure I'm the one you sold them to. Thanks again. |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Jan Audio on September 26, 2020, 03:33:42 pm ---Ebay is charging 105 euro if i sell something for 1000. + paypal also want to charge 46,50 according to this site : https://finalfeecalc.com Would you really sell something and give them for then 150 euro for the service ? crazy --- End quote --- It's not crazy, you are paying for the huge search audience. Most sellers charge more on ebay to compensate, I do. |
| Simon:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on October 01, 2020, 02:33:57 am --- --- Quote from: Jan Audio on September 26, 2020, 03:33:42 pm ---Ebay is charging 105 euro if i sell something for 1000. + paypal also want to charge 46,50 according to this site : https://finalfeecalc.com Would you really sell something and give them for then 150 euro for the service ? crazy --- End quote --- It's not crazy, you are paying for the huge search audience. Most sellers charge more on ebay to compensate, I do. --- End quote --- That is the only reason I bother with ebay and yet I still sell around as much if not less that my own site does. They are not wortch the money from a platform perspective, they are just a massive referal fee agent. Try running an actual business and dealing with them. Invoices that come downloaded in a zip file and are in HTML rather than PDF - because they can not give a toss about customers who gladly come back for more punishment because it's the only way to sell. I try to buy direct from peoples websites rather than through ebay/amazon but it can be hard and feels like they have just taken over anyway. I see Amazon are starting to call sellers partners, that is insulting! I am a ripped off customer, their back end is as complicated and hopeless as ebays but even more expensive to use so once again, note telling you how ripped off you are and how I am worse off as a seller. |
| peter-h:
Ebay works. Yes it isn't cheap but it is hard to sell something secondhand any other way. Ebay also have very good SEO and they pay google a lot of money for the ranking, IOW they pay to expose your advert. Otherwise, nothing stops you knocking up a website and stick a page on it entitled "For Sale" and see what happens. I can tell you... nothing will happen :) I've been running a couple of websites; one for 20 years and one for 8 years and both have excellent SEO, but it took all those years, and above all a lot of relevant and verbose content. The main thing to watch, IME, is stupid people buying something which they then don't want, or they thought it was something else. Paypal (mandatory for Ebay in the UK, at least) gives people 45 days to change their mind. And the world is full of truly stupid people :) So one needs to do - very good photos, showing the entire item close-up - a very good and honest description; not the usual Ebay one which is often illiterate and way too brief - a clear statement of what is included ("you will get what is shown in the photos") - reference reviews (ebay no longer allows URLs so tell people what to google) - not sell junk IOW, make it hard for stupid people to buy the item, and if they do, cover yourself so a Not As Described claim is likely to fail. Paypal are bast*rds anyway and protect mostly the buyer... If selling IT gear (cameras etc) sell them FAST and as soon as you bought the replacement; if you sit on stuff like that for a year, it will fetch much less I've had some problems but only a few, out of many hundreds of items sold. BTW I had a curious one the other day: a buyer who bought a £200+ item, but has zero feedback and joined Ebay the same day. "Obviously" a fraud, but apparently Ebay now allows "guest" buyers and that is how they appear. Time will tell... |
| Simon:
The old buyer is always right is a bit of a myth both with paypal and ebay. On both I have disputed claims and won. If someone is trying it on they generally get told to go away. I had one idiot buy a µCurrent off me. He claimed not as described because it did not turn up with the PCB screwed to the base. I went to town on the guy, I immediately escalated it to paypal and wrote back to him knowing that they would read it also that this is a piece of precision engineering equipment and if he was too stupid not to be able to put 4 screws in he had no business buying it in the first place. Guess who won! |
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