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Would you really sell on ebay ?

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Bud:
Fck the platform. I remember times when eBay fees were only 1 or 2 percent. Techinically nothing changed since then except for bureaucracy at eBay. It was WEB site before and it is still WEB site now. Why we pay way more now?

james_s:

--- Quote from: Bud on October 04, 2020, 05:35:31 pm ---Fck the platform. I remember times when eBay fees were only 1 or 2 percent. Techinically nothing changed since then except for bureaucracy at eBay. It was WEB site before and it is still WEB site now. Why we pay way more now?

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Because capitalism. They charge what the market will bear, same with nearly anything else.

nctnico:

--- Quote from: Bud on October 04, 2020, 05:35:31 pm ---Fck the platform. I remember times when eBay fees were only 1 or 2 percent. Techinically nothing changed since then except for bureaucracy at eBay. It was WEB site before and it is still WEB site now. Why we pay way more now?

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Because back then Ebay wasn't operating in a sustainable way. At some point there has to be a healthy return on investment. It goes like this will all start-ups. Sell at a low price to gain market share and then raise the prices to recoup the investments & start turning a profit. Nothing wrong with that for as long as people are willing to pay for the service.

Simon:

--- Quote from: james_s on October 04, 2020, 05:28:13 pm ---
I do rely on the photos to some degree and have been burned several times by Mouser using the wrong photo of a part. Digikey on the other hand has always shown the correct variant. IMO if the picture is not accurate then it is worse than having no picture at all, stock photos on ebay are less than useless. If there is no photo then I'll study the datasheet carefully and make sure the part number is exactly the variation I'm looking for, but if I studied the datasheet earlier and know there are a few different distinct styles of a part and I see the picture clearly shows the one I need then it's only natural to trust the photo. If you use a stock photo you had better say so very clearly otherwise you are sure to get returns.

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So you are saying that based on the attached photo you would make engineering decisions?

Do you agree that the photo shows that this is a custom through hole package, it has 2 rows of pins, is sort of DIP like but clearly not standard and there is one sensor port (as it is not a differential sensor) that points up vertically?

Right, all of those attributes also apply to the actual part sold.

If we want to be pedantic, you can only see 6 pins in the picture! the photo does not guarantee that there are 8!

SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: nctnico on October 04, 2020, 03:00:06 pm ---
--- Quote from: Simon on October 03, 2020, 09:02:44 pm ---At the end of the day if you are doing regular business you self insure to a degree. Again this is why I mark up eaby stuff, ebay is far more likely to yield problems than direct sales from my site so the ebay cohort get to pay the ebay share of self insurance.

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That is the way to do it. When I sell something on Ebay I price it with the Ebay & Paypal fees added to the price.

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Exactly, and as a buyer, I accept paying the higher price for something that I couldn't find without putting in even more effort than making the $ needed to pay those fees.

Compare with a local store selling something  -  you are paying their overheads and spending time going there and picking the item up  -  versus buying online, and having to pay the overhead of that process (intermediation fees and shipping, as well as seller overheads which may or may not be lower). 


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