Spiky

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as selling bits is getting annoying


can some please tell me what are the costs of selling bits on ebay

and the costing for reserve's???

what if i pull out early????

cheers people

Lou Lou.

it varies depending on how much the item is for sale, should only be a couple of quid i put a jacket on there with reserve of £60 with 1 photo cost me £4, if you pull out early they give you a bad selling name so would make it hard to sell future stuff
god luck

Spiky

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cheers

so it's a percentage???

Escy

yes - they usually rob you of any profit you've made

proper robbing cunts - your best of not having reserves but start the auction a little higher, it costs you less that way

Spiky

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maybe i'll test it with something small then

Lou Lou.

not sure it did not say but it does give you the price before you confirm to def sell

gurnE

You have a listing fee which varies depending on what options you choose (a reserve, gallery photo etc)

And then they charge you a % of the final sale price

Spiky

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wounder how much i'll get for PAS pipe

cheers for the info though.

Porkie

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I didn't check the small print on reserve prices .... and it cost me over £500

ON STUFF I NEVER SOLD ANYWAY

Spiky

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Escy

like i said, robbing c u n t's

they must be raking it in bigtime.

saff_cossie

It is well expensive if you are not careful. I stuck a load of old bits and pieces on there that were too good to chuck. I didnt get much for them and didnt mind the odd pound or two to list but got a bill last month for 35quid. Thats over half of what I made anyway!

Not bloody using it again unless I am going to make a killing.

SPADGE

Ebay is a great way of selling anything providing you understand the rules!
I never put reserves on anything but always put the starting price as the lowest i would take that way no reserve price fees! Also be sensible if there are 5 of what you are selling on there already don't bother as it won't make much! There are 24 pages of dross on there now as compared to when i 1st started using it a year or so ago when there was only 5 or 6 pages of cossie stuff!!! I personaly wouldn't bother using it unless what you are selling is rare/unusual, standard parts are just too common to be worthwhile!

Spiky

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cheers dude

MAD ANDY

The way ebay see it, they are providing you with a service to sell something, and naturally they want a small percentage of whatever you make too (fair enough, summat you may have sold for £10 in the paper may get £25 on ebay, if they take £2-£3 thats alright

Once you start putting reserves in, you are less likely to sell it than you would be with no reserve, hence ebay charge you for the reserve price. I put my engine reserve on ebay as £3,500 and got charged £35 reserve price. Should the engine have reached £3,500 the £35 reserve would have been credited back to me, but as I ended the auction early they kept the £35 as they have lost out on making any money, again, fair enough (looks like this has now changed though to 2% instead of 1% up to £4,999) however I was only ok with this as I knew they would do it, think the shock comes when it first happens to you and you dont realise

fee's are not expensive though:

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/account/fees.html

to do it as cheap as possible though, start your listing fee at 1-99p with no reserve, and if 5 mins from the end your price is way off what you wanted and you dont feel its going to have many last minute bidders (check 'My Ebay' for how many people are 'watching' your item) then cancel all bids and cancel the auction, this way you only lose your 15p-30p listing fee

Spiky

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cheers andy