How Many people on Mylot have sold or are selling now on Ebay??

So what are the fees for and how much are they usually on an average? HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

Thanks so much for the response, because you stated it exactly how I feel.. I didn't want to be as forceful because I didn't want to scare anyone away from my discussion, but you stated it 100% right.. I did put loudfrog in my favorites and am going to check it out as soon as I catch up on my posts.. I have also sold on Craigslist and never had to pay a penny.. The boxes, and supplies will get to you after awhile.. thanks and good luck to you..

Ebay charges listing fees which vary, and final value fees which are a percentage of the price the item sold for.. I believe that Craigslist is all over the United States and it is free to list and sell something on there.. I recently sold a white lattice arbor that we no longer has a use for on Craigslist.. It was so much easier than doing ebay.. Sometimes my ebay fees were over a 100.00 a month and it didn't seem as if I was making any profit.. You have to pay Paypal fees also if you accept paypal..

The best thing is,it's an E-Bike! These things are selling well on Ebay,it seems..Mine folds,so it'll go in the back of the car.On a full charge,it'll go maybe 20 miles-great for a commute-it's a regular 5 speed bike with electric power assist-it will push you along at about 15mph on the flat,but you do have to pedal some on hilly stuff-If it were more powerful that you didn't need to pedal,it would be classed as a moped or motorbike,you'd need to tax,insure,and have government approved inspections on it's maintenance..For Me,it's the best of both worlds-I can get some exercise,save petrol,and not be worn out when I get there!

You are using your brain now.. That is great, think of the gas money you are saving.. You are really looking to the future and will be saving tons of money on gas and electricity.. I will remember about the free listing days should I get back on there.. Thanks so much and have a great day..

Ebay is, at times, its own worst enemy.. There is getting to be too much greed going on in the world today and it is not really good for business.. Thanks for the thoughts and have a great day..

I hope your sales continue to go well.. I did enjoy the listing and selling on ebay but it seemed to be getting out of hand with the fees and the dishonest buyers.. Thanks for the comments..

Good luck with your quilts, they are usually in high demand, especially if they are handmade.. The American market is flooded with the ones that are made in China to look like quilts but they are not good quality.. thanks for the comments.. Thanks for the comment

I appreciate your comments.. I am glad that you have found a site and established your own store, that must be so much fun and I hope profitable.. Buying on ebay can sometimes, be better than selling on ebay.. Good luck in your store and its future.. Donna

yes but what if when you want something no one has sold it before and so it becomes blind trust, there is no compensation for ebay if you get swindled, I know there are good people on ebay, but I have so little money that I cannot take the chance.

Everyone on ebay isn't bad but the ones that are ruin it for everyone else.. I worked hard on ebay, I sold under james1949, but I am no longer a registered user.. Anyone can check my feedback and see that I tried as hard as I could and worked as hard as I could.. I was completely honest in my auctions, I described every little detail about my items, I put plenty of pictures and I charged the exact shipping cost.. I was fair and reasonable, but so many weren't fair and reasonable, they are the ones giving ebay a bad name.. It is good to be leary of ebay and the strangers selling on there.. It is also good to check the feedback before purchasing anything.. Better to be safe than sorry.. Have a great day and thanks for the comments..

It is hard to part with your hard earned money without knowing who you are giving it to.. I did have 1599 feedbacks when I quit but that has gone up to 1663 now but I had at least 2375 auctions on ebay because that was the number of feedbacks that I had left for others.. Not everyone leaves feedback for the auctions, if they did leave it for every single auction, then people would have a better idea of who they were dealing with..

It has been and still could be a profitable business for some, but ebay has gone up on their fees so much that ebay is the only one making the big profits.. And you have to watch out for unscrupulous buyers.. You can be cheated big time on ebay..

When I was selling, I sold a huge variety of items.. Most were yard sale items that I had found just to sell on ebay.. Some I purchased for a couple of dollars and sold for over a hundred dollars.. I have never tried purchasing new items to sell on ebay because I didn't figure the profit would be that much.. The shipping charges need to be figured using a good scale, because you can lose a lot of your profit by just miscalculating the shipping.. Thanks for the response and have a great day..

I noticed that especially when I was checking out some Beanie Babies for a friend, she wanted me to see if they were selling now, so when checking ebay, I noticed that there were hundreds of Beanie babies listed but none getting bids.. So Ebay was making a killing on all of the fees when sellers listed the beanies but no one was getting bids on them.. The ebay market was flooded with beanies.. The only one making money on these listing was ebay.. The sellers weren't getting bids even if they started them out at 0.01 and inexpensive shipping.. so with the thousands of beanies listed, can you imagine how much ebay made off of them alone..

Just an add on thought. I am really upset that they no longer allow us to sell teachers editions. As a homeschool mom I know how important it is to have the TE. Ebay however claims that there is no guarantee that the person buying isn't a child using the TE to cheat. Blah! A few years back I did really well selling lots of 500 coupons on ebay too, then they did away with letting us do that. You can still post coupons, but no more than lots of 100 with no more than 20 of a certain coupon. With the fees and postage costs I can't see why ppl are still listing coupons! Marsha

I wish you luck on ebay but the way things are being changed around, ebay is still going to be the big money maker, never the sellers.. If sites such as ebay and Paypal weren't so greedy, then everyone could make a decent profit.. Thanks for the comments..

Well, I did have some bad experiences on ebay but this discussion will help me to make up my mind as to whether I will try it again or not.. I tried to be 100% honest and give good service, but there are too many people who really don't care and they ruin it for others.. Thanks for the post.. Have a great day..

I started out doing really well but ebay has changed over the years.. I had too many bad experiences with ebay, even when I followed the rules exactly as I was supposed to, I honestly went over and beyond good customer service but still had to many bad experiences.. Ebay has changed.. Thanks for the post

If you really want to do a job and do it good, then it takes all of that posting, packing and shipping, but you do want something to show for your efforts, such as a profit.. But ebay has gotten so greedy that they are the only ones making money.. It is a great concept and will probably be around for a long time, but I would like to see more competition for ebay, then they may lower their fees..

You used to be able to make money on ebay but with the higher fees and the Paypal fees, it is getting impossible to do very good on ebay.. Thanks for your comments on this.. Have a good evening..

Uhhhh...... Ummmm......... Oh, the car is in the shop. Yeah that's it, the car's in the shop today and for awhile as well. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

Sounds like you have experience with the grandpa thing, oh well, I tried

Some of the items that I sold on ebay were purchased at yard sales for about $2.00 each and I can give 4 examples, right of the top of my head, of my $2.00 items that went for over $100.00 each.. One of my first auctions was for a bottle of Elizabeth Arden perfume which was discontinued and it sold for $102.50, I had purchased it at a flea market where I set up for $2.50.. Well, needless to say I was hooked on ebay.. But over time, ebay got greedier and it seemed as if you were doing nothing but paying fees and buying gas to go to the post office to stand in a huge long line with your arms loade down with packages just to get them mailed.. Shipping costs even went up higher.. The sales went down as more people started selling on ebay and instead of a few of each item, there were hundreds of them, now, I do believe, it is easier to buy on ebay that to sell.. I do have a few more of the discontinued fragrances that I would like to sell on ebay but really not sure if I want to get started again.. I will just have to wait and see.. Have a great day grandpa.. That sound good, I never had a grandpa, both had passed away before I was born.. So, can I borrow the car tonight grandpa??

Your words seems to be very true

I beleive that ebay is being flooded with new sellers and the market is being flooded with too much merchandise.. So it might be suffering from overkill now.. Too much merchandis and not enough customers.. Good luck and thanks for the comments..

I agree. There is no reason that eBay has to keep hiking their fees. If they would have left them alone, some sellers would not have abandoned it so they would be making the same amount of money (if not more). I can't see eBay having that many expenses... server equipment, upkeep and programming. I have no idea how many employees they actually have. If you can get your buyers to pay via Check, Money Order, or another method than PayPal, you may not do too bad. Paying the fees on both systems (eBay and PayPal) is getting out of control, IMO. I've never really used Craigslist, but I'm not a fan of it as you can really only sell to your local area. It's time to start looking around for an eBay alternative.

That is not good to be paying such high fees, ebay is getting richer and we, the sellers are going in the hole, thanks for the input..

have you checked into other places to sell. i list on a few sites?

I don't like the new feedback system as one of the last negatives that I got was from a buyer who had broken the bottle of perfume and said that it was broken in shipping but there was only a tiny small drop of perfume on the envelope, not a whole bottle full, how could a good sized bottle of perfume spill on an envelope without leaving signs of it spilling on there.. Paypal found in her favor and I had already left a positive feedback for her, so then she got by with leaving a negative for me.. I had insured the item with my own money but she sent it back to me instead of following the procedure that the post office required, so she got her money back, I was out my money and she got a positive feedback while I got a negative.. That was so wrong.. The more that I read, the less chances of my going back on ebay are..

I think your experience is an example of eBay becoming more and more a place for businesses to sell their wares. Buyers tend to forget that there are real live people with lives to live on the other end of their transaction.

My ratings were always pretty good up until my mother got sick and I had to spend a lot of time with her and couldn't get to the post office everyday, but I always made sure that I sent personal emails to each person to explain and ask if it would be ok to ship their packages a day or so later, they were all still shipped in good time.. Even if they had said that it was ok, they would leave comments on my feedback such as, "slow shipping", or "shipping was a bit slow" and it looked bad on me, even though I had emailed them and explained why I couldn't get to the post office as soon as the auction ended, my mother was dying at the time, there was still comments such as this left for me.. I am pretty sure that with all of the responses that I have gotten to this post that I will not be back on ebay soon, if at all.. I believe ebay has changed for the worse, not the better.. I do appreciate your comments and it has helped me to make up my mind.. Have a great evening and thanks