I used to sell stuff I no longer wanted on ebay quite frequently 10 or so years ago. I remember the fees being around 3 or 4% then you could chose to accept or not accept paypal. Seemed like a pretty good deal.
I think the last thing I sold was about 5 years ago and remember thinking the fees had gone up a lot. Maybe it was 5% and they now all but FORCED you to accept paypal as the method of payment. Then, anything over $200 they could hold onto your money until the person left you positive feedback. One item I sold the person never left feedback and I didn't get my money for 30 days! I decided at the time that I wasn't going to use them anymore. I was living in a large city and CL was beginning to take off there and I bought and sold stuff on there with pretty good success. With CL you might have to wait awhile for the right person to come along but when they did the brought you cash and you kept all of it.
Now I have an item which is very specialized I want to sell and it has sat on CL for months without selling so I went over to Ebay to check on selling it there. I read over the terms and they now want 10% of what I sell it for plus various insertion fees! Plus, 3% for paypal
Does anyone here sell on Ebay anymore? When did the fees get so dang high?
I think the last thing I sold was about 5 years ago and remember thinking the fees had gone up a lot. Maybe it was 5% and they now all but FORCED you to accept paypal as the method of payment. Then, anything over $200 they could hold onto your money until the person left you positive feedback. One item I sold the person never left feedback and I didn't get my money for 30 days! I decided at the time that I wasn't going to use them anymore. I was living in a large city and CL was beginning to take off there and I bought and sold stuff on there with pretty good success. With CL you might have to wait awhile for the right person to come along but when they did the brought you cash and you kept all of it.
Now I have an item which is very specialized I want to sell and it has sat on CL for months without selling so I went over to Ebay to check on selling it there. I read over the terms and they now want 10% of what I sell it for plus various insertion fees! Plus, 3% for paypal
Does anyone here sell on Ebay anymore? When did the fees get so dang high?