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Well described as a necessary evil. You have to look at Ebay in a different way. I cant stand their operating methods BUT I couldnt afford not to have them.

We pay £25 for the middle shop. We list at 5p an item and have over 400 items on there every month. So for £45 a month (not including sales fees because technically if you have a sales fee you have sold something so you must have an element of profit unless your sums are wrong) £45 a month gives us access to the world with our products. Ebay gets your items into the search engines and more importantly we get a lot of leads from the ebay shop that we never have to pay any fees on. £45 wont even buy you a business card slot in a local paper seen by probably about 5000 people. Because the products we all sell are not just off the shelf items a lot of the time people call to ask questions, you have the chance to convert it to a non ebay sale.

I would have packed up 6 months after starting if it wasnt for Ebay and we have been going 5 years. I would say you cant afford to not be on it.

gstk;47800 wrote:Well described as a necessary evil. You have to look at Ebay in a different way. I cant stand their operating methods BUT I couldnt afford not to have them.

We pay £25 for the middle shop. We list at 5p an item and have over 400 items on there every month. So for £45 a month (not including sales fees because technically if you have a sales fee you have sold something so you must have an element of profit unless your sums are wrong) £45 a month gives us access to the world with our products. Ebay gets your items into the search engines and more importantly we get a lot of leads from the ebay shop that we never have to pay any fees on. £45 wont even buy you a business card slot in a local paper seen by probably about 5000 people. Because the products we all sell are not just off the shelf items a lot of the time people call to ask questions, you have the chance to convert it to a non ebay sale.

I would have packed up 6 months after starting if it wasnt for Ebay and we have been going 5 years. I would say you cant afford to not be on it.

wot he said !!!

it true if you can earn as much through your own website then great but as gstk says you cant buy advertising space in the local rag for what ebay charge monthly and you are quite right i have a firm customer base building up on my web site mainly because the public might send me an email which goes like this "seen your item on ebay can you put this picture on it" my reply normally is "yes thats no problem heres a link to the item on my web site " but some people prefer the safty of ebay so its horses for courses really

It is 20p for the listing and around 10%, but the 20p only counts for the listing, so if you are selling 1 item it is 20p, if you are selling many items 20,40 or more items you 'll get only 20p. So it is expensive for minimum and cheap for optimum items.

Its £14.99 for basic shop listing is 20p buy it now, so you need to be listing at least 50 seperate items to be worth it, (normaly 40p with no shop)
The next shop is high amount and less listing fees think you need to list around 250 to make it work then then next one is in the thousands.
fvf is 10% on most things, but 5% on some, and 12% on clothing


Paypal is 20p + 2.5%
or
If your item is selling for less than £9 inc p&p the micro payments are best at 5p + 5%

I have the middle shop and it is only 5p for a 30 day listing.

I have cheapest shop and its 10p listing on bin. Mind I am a top rated powerseller so get 10% discount off fees (was 20% but was reduced)

also dont be afraid to ask them to review the numbers, i started my ebay shop to sell a lot of low cost items, but with the 100 items or £3,500 i phoned and explained that 100 items would be less than £300 in total, they have now re-reviewed it and did 2 things, gave me 2 weeks credit back on the shop and have given me 300 item limit for the new month, i have not had the shop for long enough for them to lift the limits, but was extremly happy that they lifted the limit from 100 items to 300 items, as the shop was costing me money, however the exposure to my own store has been worth it and i have seen sales increase on there

mrs maggot;61178 wrote:also dont be afraid to ask them to review the numbers, i started my ebay shop to sell a lot of low cost items, but with the 100 items or £3,500 i phoned and explained that 100 items would be less than £300 in total, they have now re-reviewed it and did 2 things, gave me 2 weeks credit back on the shop and have given me 300 item limit for the new month, i have not had the shop for long enough for them to lift the limits, but was extremly happy that they lifted the limit from 100 items to 300 items, as the shop was costing me money, however the exposure to my own store has been worth it and i have seen sales increase on there

Well I have a limit or 2500 items and 25k a month, I used to have no limits until someone accused me of selling off of ebay ............ but yes they said I can double my limit monthly if want to. But that hasn't arose yet.

yep, they have said once my 90 days is up i will get an auto limit of much the same charlie, so here is hoping,

Yup been selling on there on and off since 2nd jan 2001 or so my feedback profile says lol...........