Fees becoming too high
 

So...This isn't a selling post. However, what the hell is with these new fees? Last month it was 9% (ebay). This month it is 10% + ($0.30 + 2.9% to PayPal) = 12.9% + $0.30

It's no longer worth selling anything under $20. You lose like 30+% on a $5 item.

Are there alternative websites to sell on? Selling on multiple forums will be too much work.

There is also a final value fee coming on auctions that are ended early for the amount it was when auction was ended early.

When is that comin?

All the fees, plus the possibility of the ebay internet tax. We're going to see less and less sellers in the not so distant future. Slightly off topic, but maybe we'll get an influx of toy shows again, like in the early 2000's.

I can't speak the words to describe this....on the forums. I yelled them.

Any amount or must a bid be placed?

Once a bid is placed there will be a value value fee even if you end it early. It will be waived once in a twelve month period. I'm not sure the date, just saw it browsing eBay messages they send me.

ah so they won't assess a fee if there are no bids on the item and it is ended early?

I guess we need Yahoo! Auctions to make a return?

No sorry, I don't YAhoo anything.

Man, that was a pile of a crap back in the day...

If anybody wants to become the next internet billionaire, creating a new eBay may be your opportunity.

A new ebay, with a huge advertisement budget...Anyone got 500 million to invest? We could do it!

We haven't seen a new "ebay" is for that reason...they can outspend any entrepreneur...Maybe Google will make one?

And because it was, I have a TMNT Vol. 1 #1 first printing. :)

mmmm...

There are other websites, less popular sites.... but still there...for example: Delcampe:
http://www.delcampe.net/?language=E

Allcollection:
http://en.todocoleccion.net/

I already found tmnt items in Etsy: (not handmade ones.... :) )
http://www.etsy.com/

Priceminister (only spanish and french versions...)

Anyway i must confess ebay is my main store for find items....but i listed some stuff only in a small spanish version of Allcollection... :)

In Australia we have gumtree. Not sure what the deal with it is but its kinda like a trading post... I think its a branch off ebay but dont hold me too it. I know listings are free to a degree

Ebay is almost a necessary evil though. It sucks when they raise their fees but unless you find the perfect buyer through a specific collector forum there is no way you can reach the same market that ebay does. In some situations you might fetch the same price but overall ebay is going to net you a higher sales price. Plus you can probably sell your items much faster.

Some people are actually doing better with the new fee structure. My friend who sells loads of video games on ebay used to pay about 15% in fees and with the new fee structure they now pay 10%. That's a huge savings on an annual basis for her business.

They raised fees on my toy store by 3%. Bad for me.

no wonder i can't find anything reasonably priced on ebay anymore...

^^^ agree 100%..... I can't even remember the last time I got a "steal" on ebay....

steals are becoming very very tough. 3 years ago I was getting 4-5 packages a week from good ebay scores. Not even close now.

You are SOOO lucky!!!!:DI'm happy for you!

Ya'll obviously not checking my listings. I start loose figures for around 3.99 + calculated shipping.

Etsy
 

I use and sell on ETSY.com. I have my current NECA customs on there too. I like it better than eBay in terms of fees (i.e. it costs $0.20 USD to list an item, and they charge 3.5% transaction fee).

There are guidelines to sell on Etsy but you can find vintage TMNT figures and TMNT artwork for sale (items either have to be vintage or hand-made; no current items unless personally altered). They sold a TCRI canister on there a month ago for a great price!



Though the market is smaller and you are more likely to wait longer to sell items, I have had flawless transactions on there. I've not been scammed as a buyer or seller. People that buy on there usually are serious and pay.

That's my alternative to eBay. I list on both sites in the shotgun selling approach.

Hope this helps.

This thread title reminds me of this:


:lol:

Seriously, though, having been a buyer but never a seller on ebay, I am curious to see how all the changes will affect the future of online business. I love scoring the occasional $1 purchase for an old book or magazine, but I also feel bad for the seller who will probably be getting next to nothing for their stuff. Sounds like it's gonna be even harder for sellers to make out and for buyers to find the great deals. :ohwell:

This is why I rarely ever do auction style format anymore. 95% of my listing are fixed price auctions. I'm starting to see this trend more and more on ebay, which makes it harder to get a steal these days.

Tell me about it. I just sold a TWD S2 Blu Ray Zombie Head set for $275, and to see all that money coming out sucks. But yeah, if you sell something for cheaper, it does hit pretty hard.

I definitely like this. Too often I see an item listed for auction and when I go back to bid on it, I find that the seller ended early. Probably because some interested buyer and the seller reached an agreement outside of eBay. In fact, I see it happening with sellers promoting their eBay postings on this site all the time for both auction listings and BIN. I've even had my bids canceled because "item is no longer available." That's just not right. If people are going to post that way, they should turn to Craigslist and not eBay. Maybe sticking it to the bad sellers like this will relieve the rest of us from other fee spikes for a bit. But probably not LOL.

The last 30 seconds is the biggest bidding war. Anyone ending their auction is really losing out. I've seen lots sit at 99 cents, and in 30 seconds it shoots over $200+

This. I can barely afford to eat right now.

If I'm selling something in the future, I would list with a very high price on Ebay to attract eyes and make the buyers contact me and then direct them to the other site where I listed the item with an acceptable price :D

This works only for very rare stuff though.:-?
I don't know how to get rid of craps for the money back.

This is defiantly how 99% of the auctions i've bid on go. I haven't seen a price jump that much but defiantly seen an auction go for 4 times the price it was at the 1 minute mark.

While we're on the subject of eBay's changes, is anyone else experiencing a frequent change in how search results look? More specifically, for awhile when I submitted a search, at the top of the page there were helpful icons for "sold items" and "completed listings." Every so often that view goes away and is replaced by the setup where "sold items," "completed items," and numerous other search criteria appear as little checkboxes along the lefthand side of the page. The views have gone back and forth several times--and I'm using the same computer and browser.

Yeah, that happens to me all the time too. One of the things that is really annoying is the "completed listings" option disappearing when it changes. I depend on this to help my judgment in purchasing and it's just periodically gone. I'm ok with wanting to constantly evolve but some sense of normalcy would be nice.