Where to sell apart from ebay

[matt21]

I sell drawing boards in my spare time on ebay but the cost of ebays final value fees has gone up and has stung me an extra couple of quid per item all in. Where else could I sell these without setting up my own expensive website as I am getting fed up with ebays rip off style?

[MentalSarcasm]

Probably a stupid question but do you make them yourself or buy wholesale and sell on?

Just if you make them there yourself there are quite a few handmade sites out there you could try.

Failing that I believe Ebid is the most mentioned, but it's very small at the moment.

Edited by MentalSarcasm on Wednesday 15th October 23:12

[Simpo Two]

www.ebid.co.uk but as said, it's tiny compared to eBay. But if we ALL use it...

At least it's free to list so you have nothing to lose by trying

[matt21]

no dont make them myself get an order and then contact factory to dispatch to customer.

ebid sounds good will give it a try.

still making a profit through ebay but now making about 20% less per board sale despite a price rise compared to a year ago.

[dodgyviper]

Amazon - used them to sell books and its much better than ebay - or do you not set a fixed price

[plg101]

Gumtree, but its a bit variable depending on your city....

[anonymous-user]

www.ebid.co.uk is worth looking at for car spares now - over 250,000 parts.

sales are also increasing, had quite a few recent sales there, all have cost me nothing in fees

[smack]

anonymous said:

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Popular with people fencing stolen bikes and any other ill acquired gear

[H2DaE]

Now ebay is st I guess it's back to the drawing board for you...

Edited by H2DaE on Thursday 16th October 11:14

[matt21]

H2DaE said:

Now ebay is st I guess it's back to the drawing board for you...

Edited by H2DaE on Thursday 16th October 11:14

[matt21]

dodgyviper said:

Amazon - used them to sell books and its much better than ebay - or do you not set a fixed price

i do sell at a fixed price, never thought of amazon though??

[onomatopoeia]

dodgyviper said:

Amazon - used them to sell books and its much better than ebay - or do you not set a fixed price

I looked at Amazon for selling some unwanted books but couldn't find their charges.

[bromers2]

exchange & mart ?

[jcwuk]

www.loot.com

[Chocmonster]

onomatopoeia said:

I looked at Amazon for selling some unwanted books but couldn't find their charges.

You don't pay to list, just after the item is sold.

From the Amazon site:-

Individuals selling at Marketplace pay a GBP 0.86 per item completion fee, plus a closing fee of 17.25% of the sales price (11.5% for Electronics & Photo items) for each item sold.

More info:-
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.h...

They do set the delivery charges for you though and sometimes that can be restrictive.

[anonymous-user]

Chocmonster said:

You don't pay to list, just after the item is sold.

From the Amazon site:-

Individuals selling at Marketplace pay a GBP 0.86 per item completion fee, plus a closing fee of 17.25% of the sales price (11.5% for Electronics & Photo items) for each item sold.

More info:-
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.h...

They do set the delivery charges for you though and sometimes that can be restrictive.

17.25%? fk me, it's more expensive than theifbay

[chris_w666]

Chocmonster said:

onomatopoeia said:

I looked at Amazon for selling some unwanted books but couldn't find their charges.

You don't pay to list, just after the item is sold.

From the Amazon site:-

Individuals selling at Marketplace pay a GBP 0.86 per item completion fee, plus a closing fee of 17.25% of the sales price (11.5% for Electronics & Photo items) for each item sold.

More info:-
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.h...

They do set the delivery charges for you though and sometimes that can be restrictive.

The %ages are much higher than ebay or an ebay shop. The postal restrictions also mean that for some items the postage will be a loss.

[anonymous-user]

chris_w666 said:

Chocmonster said:

onomatopoeia said:

I looked at Amazon for selling some unwanted books but couldn't find their charges.

You don't pay to list, just after the item is sold.

From the Amazon site:-

Individuals selling at Marketplace pay a GBP 0.86 per item completion fee, plus a closing fee of 17.25% of the sales price (11.5% for Electronics & Photo items) for each item sold.

More info:-
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.h...

They do set the delivery charges for you though and sometimes that can be restrictive.

The %ages are much higher than ebay or an ebay shop. The postal restrictions also mean that for some items the postage will be a loss.

ebay isn't far behind when you inlcude the monthly shop fee, listing cost & final value fee & paypal costs

ebay said:

Subscription Fees
Shop Format
Fee

Basic
£14.99 / month

Featured
£49.99 / month

Anchor
£349.99 / month


Note: Shops subscriptions are for a minimum 30-day period.

Insertion Fees for Shops Buy It Now Listings
Insertion Fees
Shop
Insertion Fee

All categories

Basic
£0.20

Featured
£0.05

Anchor
£0.01

Media products

Basic
£0.10

Featured
£0.05

Anchor
£0.01


The following Insertion Fees for Media products apply to the following categories:

Books, Comics & Magazines (excluding the Accessories sub-category)

DVDs, Film and TV (excluding the Accessories/Storage, Film Memorabilia and TV Memorabilia sub-categories)

The Games sub-category of Video Games (change does not apply to the other sub-categories of Video Games)

Music (excluding the Music Memorabilia and Accessories/ Storage sub-categories)

Notes:

All listings must start at £0.99 or greater. Sellers are not permitted to start a listing in Buy It Now format for under £0.99.

If your item does not sell or if your buyer does not pay, you will not be eligible to get a relist credit for your insertion fees.

You pay the same Insertion Fee to list multiple identical items in the one listing as you would to list an individual item. For example, say the Insertion Fee payable for listing 1 item is £0.20. If you list 4 identical items in one listing, the Insertion Fee charged is the same (£0.20).


Final Value Fees for Buy It Now Listings in Shops
All categories

Final Sale Price
Final Value Fee

Item not sold
No Fee

£0.99 - £49.99
9.9% of the amount of the final selling price up to £49.99

£50.00 - £599.99
9.9% of the initial £49.99 (£4.95), plus 5.9%of the remaining balance of the final selling price

Over £600
9.9% of the initial £49.99 (£4.95), plus 5.9% of the initial £50.00 - £599.99 (£32.45), plus 1.9% of the remaining balance of the final selling price.

when you're paying 49.99 a month shop fee, a further 5p per listing x 1000 listings per month = another £50 per month and then 9.9 % final value fee on items up to 49.99 plus having to accept paypoo is fking outrageous

I set a store up on both ebay & ebid for a company.

The ebay store is costing hundreds per month and has returned only twice the sales as the ebid store, but the ebid store only cost 49.99 for LIFE, and then no more listing fees or selling fees for life or only 2% fee if sold with a galley picture.

[onomatopoeia]

Chocmonster said:

(useful stuff and link)

Thank you - spent ages lookng around for that and somehow missed it completely

[chris_w666]

JS99 said:

Stuff

Agreed Ebay isn't too far behind amazon but from the experience I have had the turnover makes the fee's worthwhile when using a basic £14.99 shop and selling > 75 items per month, usually I sell items for under £20.

Not looked into ebid but will do some digging around to see how it works. I have a friend who looked into amazon and did some listing on there to test the waters. Sales were slower than ebay and the fee's did work out higher but the costs of unsold items were lower due to their listing fees.