death to ebay

[3leggeddog]

well ebay is good and all, but i was just emailed some info on a site called gasdriven.com.it is a new auction site that is supposed to have no fees for sellin your stuff.i have not used it yet so i'm not 100% sure about it,but it sounds cool.the guys from everything2stroke emailed me the info,so i'm passin it on to all of you.


well after checking into it a little more ifound out that they are charging aswell,sounded good though :(

[raptor]

Listing Fee

Second Category Fee 0.10 USD
Additional Pictures Fee 0.10 USD
Highlighted Items Fee 0.25 USD
Bold Items Fee 0.25 USD
Category Featured Items Fee 0.50 USD
Home Page Featured Items Fee 1.00 USD
Reserve Price Fee 0.25 USD
Buy-it-now Fee 0.25 USD

[bonkers_200s]

too run a 3 day add in my local paper = $50-$60

Ebay for 7 days = what?? $1$2$3

All hail the mighty ebay!!!

[83185s]

i agree with bonkers

[KASEY]

theres an easier way to make money off ebay without paying any fees.
anyone follow the stock market??? ebay missed there numbers by .01 so they got several downgrades which sent their stock price tumbling ,,,,so at $85 A SHARE ITS A BARGIAN ,,, morgan-stanley is going to upgrade ebay monday morning,,, i got 150 shares @ 84.05 so list away guys i need the money,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[thefox]

too run a 3 day add in my local paper = $50-$60

Ebay for 7 days = what?? $1$2$3

All hail the mighty ebay!!!

Have you ever tried to list something more expensive like you would list in the paper? I sold a dirt bike on eBay about 5 years ago for $800; it cost almost $70 in fees!! That would have cost me $20 in my local paper. EBay gets listing fees and a fee based on the selling price. As much as I can complain I still sell stuff on there. Sure I won't sell a whole machine again but you can't find a place to list parts that will get more people looking at them.

[MO350X]

I can say this with confidence-you WILL NOT get the price for your item locally that you will on Ebay.
So you're paying a fee for millions of folks to see it.

A week long newspaper ad here is $26.
You deal with a bunch of phone calls that get you nowhere and if you're lucky you get a joy rider or two with NO intention of buying or they try and low ball you.

Ebay-you get e-mails that are easy to answer and take up 500% less time than meeting with the joy riders.

It cost me $62 to sell my X almost a month ago on Ebay.
A car is at least $80.