Do you think EBAY Is actually overated or What?

It's still a viable site for some things but not nearly as good as it was 7-8 years ago. I mostly sell so this is from a seller's perspective. I'm primarily a bookseller and sites like Amazon & ABE are tons better for selling books than eBay. In it's heyday, eBay was a good antiques site but when the powers-that-be started favoring buyers, most of the quality sellers went back to selling at catalog auctions. Those sales are usually live on eBay but the highest bids are almost always on the auction floor. Ebay is still a good site for collectibles - eg. Baseball cards, Hallmark limited edition ornaments etc.

No, I don't think that Ebay is overrated. I enjoy buying and selling on Ebay. I don't make a lot of money but I do usually make enough to buy the items I do from there and to help pay for the books for school for my kids since I homeschool we are always buying books.

Not at all! I love Ebay! I was addicted to ebay for about a year. Now I just buy birthday presents. I sell lots of books on half.com, which is a website from ebay. Have you tried to use ebay?

i like ebay, i dont make a crazy amount of money but their fees are getting a lil out of control, i can find some good deals on there, tons of presents and gifts are on there at a steal.. i have sold on there for about 8 years, started with college text books and haven't quite stopped yet, its really good for cd's that i buy, rip to my ipod and then need to get rid of.. i'm dvschic on there, u can look for me..

There is money to be made on ebay... the problem is that they are very greedy on the fee side of things... you really need to be listing a lot of items to make a decent amount of money... and of course, every time you list it costs you even more money so constantly relisting an item that doesn't sell isn't good. The other problem is that people on ebay can be really stingy... if something isn't listed at half the retail price then it's hard to sell it... of course all the competition doesn't help for sellers either because they are always trying to undercut one anothers prices which really cuts down your profit margins... I've noticed that a lot of items only sell for about $5 profit because of this. There are alternatives out there though who don't charge listing fees. You can find them on my blog at www.I-hate-ebay.blogspot.com

ebays is overrated big time. i mean half of the stuff on it is junk.

I think eBay is overrated, but whenever I try to sell items elsewhere, I don't get the traffic that I do on eBay. I am an artist and I sell art there. But, there are some much better sites for artists to sell, except they don't get the traffic and sales that eBay does. So, I stick with eBay.

I don't really like ebay I have bought a few things off there but to be honest i have never really been to happy. I think I have only really been happy with 2 purchase and that was because I couldn't get them anywhere else. Although strangely enough I am still a little addicted and have to have a look at least once a week.

i think its overrated. yeah you can make money on it. its not all that. the reason why people are saying that is because they are new to ebay.

I like ebay for purchasing things cheap but not necessarily for selling things. I find that they charge alot of small fees and you still have to pay even if your item does not sell. I find that some of the items I look at for potential bidding are somehwat more expensive than on other lesser known auction sites, like ioffer. All in all tho I like the website because of the huge selection of items up for auction.

I've bought the odd thing on Ebay. You really have to watch shipping prices. Not all sellers are reasonable about them and if you don't watch out the cost of your bid plus the shipping can be unreasonable. I haven't tried selling yet, but have been considering it. The recent changes to how the sellers accounts are managed have made me concerned about what it would be like to sell on Ebay.

I'm totally agree with you my friend, EBAY is a good place to buy and sale goods online, and in my area many shoppers have 'opened" a shop on that site. but I must say that they should first try to create some hype in their own area instead of trying to be the best in a virtual world.

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99% of what people say they make on eBay is bullsh*t! If you want to find someone who is honest about how much they are making it will be the seller who says they spend 40+ hours a week busting the butt selling on ebay. There are large niche businesses that sell higher priced products that make a decent amount of money with not much effort, but anyone who says the consistently make mad ends in just a few hours a week is full of crap. You can make a decent profit selling an item on there if you are smart watch the market and are lucky, but there is a difference from selling a garage sell or thrift store find for a big profit once in a while to doing doing it all the time. for example I bought 4 crappy Bose 901 speakers which most people have been led to believe are wonderful, for $10 each at a thrift store. I sold the 4 speakers for $750 total and then made $50 each on the stands. This was both smart marketing and a lot of luck finding them cheap. I pick up nice vintage audio equipment regularly for cheap and sell it a couple of times a years for a total profit of a couple of grand. So that said it is possible to make money on ebay, but it will require you to put concerted effort into it and be willing to not make a profit just to get the merchandise out of your house before you start losing money.