155lee

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recently i sold almost 2ks worth of cossie bits on ebay.i got a lot of payments through paypal.all the listings were less than £2 each.obviously paypal took its cut but i got a bill from ebay for £206.i thought the paypal deduction included ebays money but obvioulsly not.i dont know how much paypal has had but i must have lost at least £300!i feel shafted.

stevenebm

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any time i sell through ebay now i will be puttin a buy it now price on with 10-15% above what i want to cover ebay charges and paypal as they are a joke.

666

ebay take 10% now (plus listing fees), paypal aint far behind

RichieST

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Another reason why ebay are fucking cunts.

I sold 60 quids worth recently in 2 seperate auctions, ebay took £8 of that!

skeg

The list fee, final value fee when added to Paypal fee's do leave you feeling 'raped' on some items I must admit. Someone needs to set up another auction site be it UK or otherwise but cheaper. Thing is Ebay would just try bid for it and take them over to remove the competition like Google with Youtube etc.

Its amazing, all the sites on the web and there's only really one decent auction site to sell your stuff.

RichieST

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There was another one, cant remember what it was called now, not sure it ever took off really!

Fil

QXL? if so i used that before i'd even heard of ebay think it was round before ebay even exsisted and was a UK company, saddly no more these days


oh found a link if anyones interested, http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...thenqxlitsbeen

seems ebay was about 1st 95 but not in the UK untill 99

dangerousbrian

there was 1 called ebid..dont know if its still going tho

godzilla

iTrader: (1)

I stuck a car on there the other week and put in the ad' it was advetised eleswhere (alweays do this then you get the messages coming in fast and furious asking how much to buy it now!) Anyway...... checked my billing the other day and Ebay had charged me £32!! The car sold within 18 hours of it being on there and my starting price was £350......cheeky or what!!

155lee

iTrader: (10)

tazbar was the other recent online auction site.dont know if its still on the go though as when i checked for cossie bits in the vain hope of getting a bargain it was all fiberglass whaletails and crap that was on.

Rich_bloor

yahoo auctions were best cos it was ALL free, but ebay bought that bit of yahoo years ago and closed it.

puma38

my boss posted an alfa on ebay, it was won by some joker in africa who wanted to send a chque for twice the value, obviously a scam and car wasnt sold, ebay didnt want to know and charged him £60 anyway, when he didnt pay it as he was in discussions with ebay over it by e-mail only they passed it on to a debt collectors and he ended up paying £120 Fuck Ebay, never go on it.

jaiscossie

just sold a dump valve for £45 on ebay, they charged me £6 on the final fee, what a rip off!!

BLACKCOS

they way it is now its just pushing up the price that everyone will be selling for. the days of getting a 99p bargain are gone

andy888

ye your looking about 20% with listing, final value and paypal fees. rip off.

jenwood

Money, money, money thats ebay!

James

Lambchop

iTrader: (1)

If you don't like it don't fucking use it

stevedohc16v

Some idiot bought a Ford Galaxy I was selling using the buy it now then rang me all apologetic saying he thought it was a diesel and he didn't want it, tosser, so I re-listed it and assumed I would get all the fees back from the first auction, but no, the final value fee was repaid but not the original listing fee, so it has cost ME £8 for some idiot to buy the car then change his mind, fookin disgrace and way to biased on the buyer now, if people dont pay for an auction they win they get an 'unpaid item strike' well woopy fuckin do.

Steve

Dicko&Vacant

iTrader: (3)

^^^^^ if you list something on ebay and it doesnt sell, why would you evn expect a refund of sellers fees? You pay to sell stuff, if it doesnt go, its tough shit :cry

155lee

iTrader: (10)

have to say some of the parts i had that i was getting stupid offers for or were not selling that i had advertised on here all sold very very quickly on ebay.most of the buyers had very little feedback and all paid instantly so that was great.just a pity it cost so much for the pleasure.

stevedohc16v

What even if some muppet buys it and doesn'y pay?? what the fook are u on about??

Steve

RWD_cossie_wil

iTrader: (9)

I have just had a right bargn off Ebay, so I can't complain, but I will not sell on there again as I sold an exhaust to a guy in spain, he has received it, and I have proof of delivery but paypal STILL took £170 off me inspite of documented signed evidence that it was delivered

thebigmacmoomin

I sold something on there, & by the time the listings fee, paypal fee & postage was added up, I lost out by about 20p. Not a lot, but still

When I sell, I always add a bit on for fees into the postage. Still try to keep reasonable as I can.

Andy

xr4x4rs

iTrader: (5)

i sold 5k worth of stuff, ebay took about 400 off me, paypal took a good chunk aswell

luckily i got most back in postage

thebigmacmoomin

& some listings you have to offer free p&p, like dvds & computer games.

Andy

EIL132

Agreed, has anyone sold something through a "normal" auction? 30% isn't unusual and I bet most will sell again. The money I've had through selling shite RS parts is amazing, standard RS turbo actuator = £35 You cant beat a big audience.

Stevie RS Boy

fcuking robbing ebay, i have just sold a chainsaw on bgay, breakdown as follows

Lisiting fee £1.50
Sold for £162.77
Final valve fee £17.82
paypal fee £6.16
Total Fees £25.48

auctual Chainsaw sale price £137.29

i wish there was another site which is popular that doesnt rob us, at least dirk turpin wore a mask.

yellowsierra

Exactly,
I had a nice touch a while back when someone on here said that some muppets were paying £30 on ebay for cossie gear knobs which only cost a fiver at fords

Too true it was so of i went the very next day down to fords and bought every one they had

"What the hell do you want with 28 gear knobs" was what the guy serving me said

I listed them at a "Buy Now" at £28 each and sold the lot

Tis great when you fall on something like that

Cheers passionford for the heads up

thebigmacmoomin

People on eBay dont realise that some stuff is cheaper new from a dealer than there.

Like Seat Leon Cupra R front splitters. Had one on my Focus Collection. £20 from a Seat dealer new (a few years ago, about £22 now I think). On eBay, £26.99 + £9.49 p&p. So £36.48 on eBay against £22 from Seat

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SEAT-LEON-CUPR...item35a4149b57

BLACKCOS

Try ebid lots of the traders from ebay are moming over there now cause of ebays rip off fees

Rich_bloor

FRS mk1 rs badges were on sale on ebay for stupid amounts back in 2003, i bought mine for my saff for about £12 from local ford dealer. (one big rs, and 2 little ones)