ebay c-nts

[chico enrico]

register it - pay for insurance .....up to £6 on top of postage if a foreign buyer!! So lets say someone buys a shirt off you for £4.99 and they live abroad. You pay £3 or whatever postage plus £5+ insurance to send it, get stung for 9percent ebay fee plus listing fees.

result minus a few quid !!!

It starts this month, i am not sure exactly what date but there'll be some very angry people!!

No you don't. There has always been a separate field to enter any additional cost for insurance/registered delivery charges.

I sold a valuable record last night. the postage I filled in for the POSTAGE field was £2.80 and in the ADDITIONAL POSTAGE CHARGES field I entered £1.40 to cover registered post, which also includes the 50p my ebay fees/ charges were.

so. 100% profit. no money lost to ebay or on postage charges. as i've always done it since 2002.

 

[cesare]

I've never had any problem buyers - I've bought a few things I haven't been too impressed with though.

Me too, but I mostly mark it down to my inexperience/naivety. E.g. I paid £50 for 4 laptops thinking I could cannibalise em/repair/sell on ... bloody stupid idea. Firky recycled the best working one for me on here though, so hopefully at least someone got a tiny bit of benefit. The other three I just had to chuck away All my own fault.

 

[chico enrico]

Thanks lovey, I'll definitely ask you for advice if I go down the ebay route x You are very good at this, and you've got loads of experience with it. But I'm a novice, have bought some stuff and sold a couple of things. My account's virtually inactive, and summoning up the courage to get active on it again when things are getting so much more complicated ... well, paying £10 for a stall on Spitalfields looks more and more attractive iyswim.

£10 a stall at Spitalfields? My ex used top do a stall there in 2000 - 2001 and i think it was £40 then. As I understand it prices have rocketed since those days, which is why you haven't had folk doing car boot sale type 'stalls' selling their old stuff since the place was taken over and revamped.

My good friend runs THIS: http://www.willsmoody.com/

http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/whatson/wills-moody-jumble-sale-article-6653.html

i'll email you her details. You'll do better there than at Spitalfields, Brick lane, Bethnal Green Rd anyway, believe me. I've done stalls there twice selling stuff I wouldn't even bother putting on ebay and would be surprised if even charity shops would take and i've cleared up both times. It's great there. You can just sit and have a drink and blether away to folk whilst your junk goes flying out. And only £6 a stall.

 

[chico enrico]

I got emailed a new ebay user agreement earlier today, so obv some stuff has changed. Not sure I can be arsed to read it all though.

To be honest, unless you have over 400 sales it doesn't really affect most folk. More a safeguard against scammers if anything.

 

[cesare]

£10 a stall at Spitalfields? My ex used top do a stall there in 2000 - 2001 and i think it was £40 then. As I understand it prices have rocketed since those days, which is why you haven't had folk doing car boot sale type 'stalls' selling their old stuff since the place was taken over and revamped.

My good friend runs THIS: http://www.willsmoody.com/

http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/whatson/wills-moody-jumble-sale-article-6653.html

i'll email you her details. You'll do better there than at Spitalfields, Brick lane, Bethnal Green Rd anyway, believe me. I've done stalls there twice selling stuff I wouldn't even bother putting on ebay and would be surprised if even charity shops would take and i've cleared up both times. It's great there. You can just sit and have a drink and blether away to folk whilst your junk goes flying out. And only £6 a stall.

Midweek Spitalfields stalls are really cheap atm (£10) it's just the weekend that you can barely get a look in/very pricey. But it's quiet, city suits and boots wandering round and maybe forking out for pricey looking stuff as gifts in their lunchtimes. The old part of the market is still going strong for antique/ex-services uniforms/medals etc on a Thursday.

I'll take a look at those links, cheers.

Hey, you're very welcome to take some of my stuff off my hands, and ebay it for yourself. I need to get rid of loads (moving in with button and just too many possessions) and if you can sell it for yourself, I'd love that, don't want anything. Over the next three months, yeah I'd like to sell a few bits for myself, but most of it is stuff I'd rather give away than throw away iyswim.