[kj] OT: selling shit on eBay

[T.B.]

"Alexander Smith" wrote:


Yeah, all of it sounds like just a wee bit too much trouble for the
sake of getting forty bucks for an old Julian Cope disc. Ugh.

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I've sold probably about 300 items on eBay since '98 ranging from a single 
$2 cd to a $2,000 guitar and $5,000 amp and just about everything inbetween 
and I've bought about three times that amount in mechandise from hundreds of 
auctions I've won.  Out of all those transactions, I think I've been 
outright burned maybe twice by non-paying buyers and a couple times by 
people who's items I paid for but never receieved or got a refund for. It's 
still a learning process though and it really helps to know the market for 
whatever you're selling or buying.

Seriously, if all you're looking to do is sell 1 or 2 items in the forseable 
future, especially something like cds, you're better off posting in any of 
hundreds of music-related forums, especially those relating to the artist(s) 
you selling cds of. or if there's a decent used record store locally that 
buys and sells truly collectable music items, trying that option.

As others have already posted in your thread, in regards to eBay, little 
things like listing fees, sold item fees and shipping costs chip away at 
your profit margin especially for something that's only going to sell for 
20 - 40 bucks, not to mention the time and effort to list and keep track of 
the item(s) in the first place.

T.B.