Time for another ebay whinge

[Dean Lofthouse]

Just sold my nightsight on ebay for £393 it cost me £700+

 

£393 inc £12 P&P

 

minus

 

£13.56 Paypal (part of ebay)

£38.08 final value fee

£3.20 insertion fee

 

Total ebay fees to sell a £380 item is £54.84 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I think ebay has got very dear since I first started using it things are almost not worth selling as ebay makes more than you sometimes

 

Right I'm off to slash my wrists

[Johny Walker]

told u dean should of sneaked of to pub

[jed001]

Yeah.... i heard from a few people now that they will only buy on ebay because of selling costs etc.

[Buzzsurgeon]

ebay have it sewn up, will take a big player with millions to invest to take them on.

[Stephen Blair]

i thought it was free:thumbdown:

[geoff]

Ouch! thats steep.

 

 

 

Monopolly?

[Rob D]

Ebay have really geared itself now to milk as much as possible from each sale. They have drastically reduced all the listing fees but then if you sell the item then they make a fortune.

 

For example I sell a mill on ebay for £249-00. Costs only 20p to list but ebay talkes £18-00 and paypal another £9-00.

 

The strange thing with ebay is even though I have videos saying 'go to my website it's £30-00 cheaper' I still get sales through ebay!?

[ad15]

and the irony is the ebay banner at the top of this page.....

[Dean Lofthouse]

I used to sell Dewalt on Ebay Rob and in the end it wasn't worth doing because ebay were making more than me.

 

In the last year I did it I turned over £68K on ebay, I would sell something for £300 and make £50 profit ebay would take half of that in fees.

 

I reckon if the taxman got onto ebay sellers and buyers he could solve the national debt in one foul swoop and leave us poor wood cutters alone

[skyhuck]

The tax man is already on to ebay in a BIG way