Ebay is still a good avenue

Soooo...

Ebay is still a good place to sell stuff because of the bidding.

I'm selling a Hayman Reece weight distribution set and have tried all the popular FB pages and Gumtree at a reasonable price but no joy, just low ballers.

Threw it on Ebay and it looks like it will sell for far more than I hoped even with the fees taken off end price.

It's interesting though with the bidding format getting people sucked in like gambling perhaps, not sure but Ebay was the win for me so don't discount that if you are trying to sell anything.

I wonder if Stalkbook had a bidding algorithm set could be a huge winner for them!

Silly silly, your patent application possibilities have now become public knowledge:-( Unless....the good folks here kindly can sign NDA’s ASAP , lol :-)


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I found the same when we sold our bus. Not even an auction, just a prepaid 28 day classified ad. Better 'quality' buyers & more of them.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Cuppa

I found the same when we sold our bus. Not even an auction, just a prepaid 28 day classified ad. Better 'quality' buyers & more of them.

---

Agree advertise in relevant forum for target audience. Gumtree, although free (and probably why), has seriously low-brow audience generally. Exceptions to the rule in all cases though.

Just be careful selling second hand stuff on evilbay. Unless its cash on pickup. I hope you have heaps of pics and show any defects there may be, even a tiny scratch. Just look on the eBay forum to see all the disaster sales where buyers claim items aren't what they are bla bla bla and the seller just has to wear it.
I go through it maybe twice a month of people trying to blind side me with similar shit on my store. Hence me shutting it all done, including the Dawes and needle valve kits.

eBay is a great place to sell stuff, just be prepared for the worst and hope for the best I say.

Cash on pick up, any complaints I have 11 acres and an auger...


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

6’ vertical auger is only good for 5’11” fleabay scammers :-)


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Mrs MB tried her best hand at a home equine fleabay business years back. I believe the e- ‘business fleas’ outweighed the under $10 items for sale and inturn collapsed the $20+ rugs etc...FWIW


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Had my Patrol on ebay and gumtree, no hits from eBay and shitloads from gumtree, I know where I’ll be advertising again when needed.
On another note, ordered a rhino pioneer roof system on eBay this Tuesday and the fuker hasn’t even sent it yet! Ad said he had 5 left at the time.
Tried contacting the seller who has nearly 50000 sales and no reply, I would expect a message or something when you fork out $1100



Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Maxhead

Had my Patrol on ebay and gumtree, no hits from eBay and shitloads from gumtree, I know where I’ll be advertising again when needed.
On another note, ordered a rhino pioneer roof system on eBay this Tuesday and the fuker hasn’t even sent it yet! Ad said he had 5 left at the time.
Tried contacting the seller who has nearly 50000 sales and no reply, I would expect a message or something when you fork out $1100



Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

---

Thats no good mate, my listing is sky rocketing at the moment, don't jinx me...lol

$275 for that, tell him he is dreaming.

Attachment 74805

the fees are outrageous though in my experience sold some 2nd hand alloys Ebay automatically marked the price down well under what I wanted for them and they sold, you beauty I thought.

It took 20 odd days for paypal to transfer the funds to my paypal and then I lost 2.50 in paypal fees and then a month later ebay wanted $10. I'd love to know how you are marking them cash on pickup on your listings.

After all that it put me off selling on eBay.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by TPC

$275 for that, tell him he is dreaming.

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...id=74805&stc=1

---

^^^ My first stalker :tease:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by gubigfish

the fees are outrageous though in my experience sold some 2nd hand alloys Ebay automatically marked the price down well under what I wanted for them and they sold, you beauty I thought.

It took 20 odd days for paypal to transfer the funds to my paypal and then I lost 2.50 in paypal fees and then a month later ebay wanted $10. I'd love to know how you are marking them cash on pickup on your listings.

After all that it put me off selling on eBay.

---

I guess it depends on the item you're selling, I said pick up only so would be expecting cash on pick up.

If anyone uses Paypal for this transaction they have a long wait until they can physically take the item off of me.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by MB

6’ vertical auger is only good for 5’11” fleabay scammers :-)


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

---

Chop em in half and dig 2 holes. . .

Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by AB

^^^ My first stalker :tease:

---

I was going to ask a bunch of stupid questions on ebay but thought I better not risk more bids.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by gubigfish

the fees are outrageous though in my experience sold some 2nd hand alloys Ebay automatically marked the price down well under what I wanted for them and they sold, you beauty I thought.

It took 20 odd days for paypal to transfer the funds to my paypal and then I lost 2.50 in paypal fees and then a month later ebay wanted $10. I'd love to know how you are marking them cash on pickup on your listings.

After all that it put me off selling on eBay.

---

Payment options in Ebay

Payment options

PayPal

Your PayPal account email address (to receive payments):
Require immediate payment with Buy It Now


Use this option if you want the buyer to pay immediately with PayPal. Your item stays available for purchase until payment is complete. You need to specify a postage cost to require immediate payment. Learn more

Money order / Bank cheque

Personal cheque

Visa/MasterCard

American Express

Bank deposit

Show buyers your bank account number in checkout
Add your bank account data
- opens in a new window or tab

COD

Pay on pickup

Other (add instructions)

Escrow

Additional checkout instructions (shows in your listing)

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by gubigfish

the fees are outrageous though in my experience sold some 2nd hand alloys Ebay automatically marked the price down well under what I wanted for them and they sold, you beauty I thought.

It took 20 odd days for paypal to transfer the funds to my paypal and then I lost 2.50 in paypal fees and then a month later ebay wanted $10. I'd love to know how you are marking them cash on pickup on your listings.

After all that it put me off selling on eBay.

---

You just need to say in a non descriptive way thats its cash only on pickup. As eBay dont allow cash transactions you just dont put on their, cash on pickup, as ususally this gets picked up and they will end your listing. I put all pickups are to be paid with Mr. C.ash, or similar. The fees charged are relative to the value of the item, some see it excessive, the more you sell the less the fee's get, but its a business, you are entering an agreement when you use their site to sell your goods. But eBay is managed by numpties to know sweet fa.
It does amuse me when people list an item and say that if you pay via paypal you have to pay their paypal fee's. Big no no. Same as eBay, your using their service to benefit you, it aint gonna be for free is it.
So when selling, like I said earlier, you need to make sure all your bases are covered. Never assume the buyer knows something that you may have neglect to leave off the listing, even a tiny scratch of something. Anything! Because if you get the right, ahem, wrong seller, they can make things very difficult very quickly for you and turn things to their favour very easily, even when they are doing the wrong thing. eBay are notorious for siding with the buyer. Its happened to me on the few occassions when I first started, I learned from this, and now when people try to pull one over me, I know how to react the right way to get eBay to side with me. I getting out of it totally now and have gone back to full time work, mainly due to the explosion of the uneducated buyers filtering through that just have really no clue, on anything. Some of the question I get, I really cannot comprehend how they even remember to breathe. Plus online shopping has slowed quite a lot over the last two years, I think people hare turning back to the old fashioned bricks and motar shopping more these days.

Anyhow, thats my take on eBay, I did it full time for 4 years. It has its good parts and bad parts. If you dont want fee's, and are willing to wait longer to sell things, there are free sites around.

I sold a car bar on eBay. Guy picked it up tonight and we got chatting about cars, just before he leaves he points to the Patrol and says "if you need 4wd stuff let me know, my brother in law runs (I didn't get the first bit) offroad in Dandelong, you're got my number call me."

Sometimes it's the contacts you make.

Sent from my A1601 using Tapatalk