Items spotted on eBay

[FrancoB]

Has anyone else been offered a Round 2 one for an extra £5?

What are the differences, is it worth the extra?

[cools]

I have. I'm not biting.

The difference is purely cosmetic IIRC: http://fighter101.net/main/index.php?op ... &Itemid=33"

[FrancoB]

Cheers dude.

[Rossyra]

I've taken a Round 2 for the extra £5.

[geotrig]

I've taken 2 for the extra £5.

[Rossyra]

They're manly black you know.

[Rossyra]

Nike Air Jordan manual

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Time-Killers- ... 5aeacdda86"

[yosai]

Ibara PCB

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/290801710505"

[cools]

Lee nooooooooo

[markedkiller78]

Poor show Lee

Would you not have got £200 clear here?

[yosai]

I was going to post it last night and then Red5 listed one.

It's not about the value, I don't need to sell it. The PCB was only bought to experiment with the JTAG. Now I don't have much free time.

[idc]

I was going to post it last night and then Red5 listed one.

It's not about the value, I don't need to sell it. The PCB was only bought to experiment with the JTAG. Now I don't have much free time.

Could have offered it up here for however much you would have ended up in your bank account after eBay take their cut. Sell it here for £175 or whatever, someone gets a bargain and eBay don't make a profit from you.

For the record, I'd have bitten your hand off for this one, if only I had the cash. If it's not about the value, you could just give it to me.

[markedkiller78]

Ebay fees are awful now. 10% for the sale, the listing fee & paypal come close to 15% total now.

Your £210 will only net £180

[pubjoe]

I noticed you mentioned they've gone up before, Mark.

They're roughly the same aren't they? I think it was once 5% for technology items though, which was nice.

To be honest, for the huge audience it reaches and the prices you can gain on ipods and stuff like that, there's no competitor. Even the likes of Argos and Dixons use it, as that 15% is small compared to commercial costs (and tiny if you were to pay a commercial middle man fee).

[Spectre]

The eBayPal 15% hit has destroyed the trade in quite a lot of items, long gone are the days you could pick up arcade related stuff on the cheap as people seem to overcompensate to cover the fees. If it's on eBay, it's on at around 150% of value. The sale of stuff like low value mvs carts is a joke; £20 minimum for **** like Fatal Fury and Super Sidekicks. Does anybody actually buy that stuff? Hardly anybody lists at 99p anymore it seems.

[pubjoe]

I still make use of it. As I say, have the fees even changed that much?

Sure they're big fat **** and raking it in, and there'd be room to drop prices, but I can't see how any serious ebay competitor can get in and drive prices down, sadly. Obviously you can sell specialist stuff to a small specialist audience on forums, but for everything else, ebay reaches an absolutely HUGE audience. 15% (the 10% part is capped at £40) isn't that much.

Also a large part of that markup goes towards buyer protection costs.

[baddy]

buyer protection = seller buggery

So many scams from buyers now that I stopped selling on ebay.

[tetsujin]

Ebay is for people who like being ripped off or are desperate buyers.. or both.

[pubjoe]

Damn right, I've been ripped off by people who know how to work the **** protection policy and I've moaned about it here several times.

There's a lot of things to moan about with ebay, but I still use it. The reason, a huge audience, an almost guaranteed sale of some **** that I'd otherwise have probably chucked, and for only (yes only) 15%. I'm pretty froogle usually but even I admit the fees aren't bad for what you get.

[tetsujin]

First thing I do when I see something on Ebay I like the look of but the BIN price is too high, I just email and tell them they are overpriced and tell them what I will pay. Notmally works for me.

Sometimes I get no reply.