[kj] OT: selling shit on eBay

[Brendan Quinn]

I have done fine buying about 15-20 items on ebay, which involves getting
them shipped to NZ, but that's usually not much of a drama. I haven't used
it to sell anything, I use a local website for that (which by the way looks
a million times nicer than the god-awful busy weird ebay website!)

 

The one issue I had was where I bought a guitar (for $666 interestingly
enough) that I really wanted, a black Guild S-100, the seller decided not to
sell to me in the end. I was pretty pissed off because from what I could
tell, that was a good price for an original Guild of that model. Who knows.

 

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of culturevirus
Sent: Saturday, 2 February 2008 10:11 a.m.
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] OT: selling shit on eBay

 

I heard on the news just the other day that eBay will be changing that
policy. The new scheme would be no listing fees, but a slightly higher
percentage of the final sale. Similar to Amazon. Check to be sure that I
heard right and see when they implement the new pricing scheme.

I've sold a few things in the past and my only bad experience was my own
naivete when it came to estimating shipping cost. I ended up stating a fixed
shipping cost that would cover my expenses, but forgot to factor in overseas
bidders. I ended up with little profit on that sale.

As a buyer I'd suggest that you keep the initial bid fairly low and let the
market drive the price up. I generally pass on bidding on items with a high
opening bid, even if it's a price I'd be willing to pay. Purely
psychological I suppose, but you see it live auctions too. I'd also suggest
keeping shipping charges at your cost. I know I don't like to see that the
seller is obviously trying to make money off of that part of the sale. Put
your "buyers" hat on and most of the things to do or not do will be obvious
to you.

I am culturevirus

"A. Madani" <a.madani at anirrationaldomain.net> wrote:

I'd do Amazon.com - the big problem with selling on eBay is that you have to

pay listing fees, regardless of whether your item sells or not - and a 
commission when it sells. With Amazon, you only pay if an item sells so 
it's less out of your pocket in the long run.

There's also musicstack.com, but I'm not sure how it works.

Hope that helps - good luck.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexander Smith" 
To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 

Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 3:37 PM
Subject: [kj] OT: selling shit on eBay



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>

> Hey again, gang....

>

> Who here has sold stuff on eBay? I'm thinking of parting with some of my 

> unwieldy collection of compact discs. Don't get excited -- I'm keeping 

> all my KJ stuff, but I'm thinking of pawning some old Blur CD singles 

> (don't ask me why I bought them in the first place -- I no longer can 

> understand their appeal) and some of Julian Cope's iffy stuff (stuff like 

> AN AUDIENCE WITH THE COPE 2000).

>

> Suggestions? Horror stories?

>

> Alex in NYC

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