Ebay

[xenophon]

Jimmy Choo strappies
Vintage K-way cagoule
Faconnable shirt

 

[Joe Pineapples]

Paypal is one of the worst services on the web. Cutthroat, crooked and poor quality of service.

 

[adrian29uk]

I'd love to move away from receiving/sending payment in paypal. The fees cut out much of the (poor) margin we make. But as Ebay own Paypal the less ebay charge for listing, the more paypal seem to take.

We love cash on collection, but it isn't always possible. We then write a receipt for our books, but as I say, not everyone is local.

One thing that grates me is these bloody PayPal fees. If I could remove that I would at least make another 35-60p profit on each item I sell. Would it be too much hassle for the customer to do a bank transfer online?

Failing that I don't know how much it is for your own POS machine and whether or not it works out more expensive once you factor in time to process these orders.

PayPal has everyone by the balls. I don't care about the 3.4% percent, the part that pisses me off is +20p rubbish. The +20p must be there profit. Multiply that by 1 million orders a day. Nice business if you can get it.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Drive by Truckers CD The Big To-Do
Washing machine

 

[surrey jim]

This is for sale if you are looking to spend a few pennies

2008 FIAT GRANDE PUNTO SPORTING T-JET RED on eBay (end time 09-Aug-10 10:46:38 BST)

do you post as deanhoyle on footballforums.net ?? Thought I had seen that car before!!

 

[steward 433]

Gator grip
Set of locking wheel nuts
13/16 af 1/2" drive deep socket

 

[Mackenzie]

Horse clippers
Daihatsu Fourtrak
Plastic racing bridle

 

[skipper734]

As I mentioned in the above post. Braun toothbrush heads...£3.50 for 4. Although they are in what appear to be Braun packaging and are less than half price, I think they are knock offs, they don't fit quite as well and the brush bit actually fell of one of them.
The Xenon headlight bulbs were bought in an attempt to make the old Citroen Xsara a bit less dim at night, I wouldn't have thought it possible to make the lights less affective but it is. Still for £6.80 what can you expect.

 

[severnside gull]

car for son
car for stepson
dishwasher

 

[empire]

shit loads of games for all consoles

 

[mccraque]

skis, dvd player, all in one lycra homosexual biathlon outfit for a stag do

 

[Gazwag]

A Yonex Tennis Top
3 Babolat Tennis overgrips
A pack of 24 large dice

 

[Gazwag]

One thing that grates me is these bloody PayPal fees. If I could remove that I would at least make another 35-60p profit on each item I sell. Would it be too much hassle for the customer to do a bank transfer online?

Failing that I don't know how much it is for your own POS machine and whether or not it works out more expensive once you factor in time to process these orders.

PayPal has everyone by the balls. I don't care about the 3.4% percent, the part that pisses me off is +20p rubbish. The +20p must be there profit. Multiply that by 1 million orders a day. Nice business if you can get it.

its called a monopoly

 

[Superphil]

One thing that grates me is these bloody PayPal fees. If I could remove that I would at least make another 35-60p profit on each item I sell. Would it be too much hassle for the customer to do a bank transfer online?

Failing that I don't know how much it is for your own POS machine and whether or not it works out more expensive once you factor in time to process these orders.

PayPal has everyone by the balls. I don't care about the 3.4% percent, the part that pisses me off is +20p rubbish. The +20p must be there profit. Multiply that by 1 million orders a day. Nice business if you can get it.

I just make sure that what I am selling covers these fees, you generally know roughly what something will sell for, so you cover the "costs" in the starting price, then it doesn't matter what it sells for. If it goes ballistic, then so what, you're getting far more than you were expecting anyway.

 

[Cecil]

Flip flops
5 Iron
Giant chicken outfit

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

2 x laptop a/c adaptors
10 x training bibs
Luke Wright Sussex CCC training shirt

I've got about 150 eBay positive feedbacks now. I agree a lot with what Tebebear says. Ebay has slipped into car-boot territory in the last few years and PayPal, whilst great for buyers, is a bit expensive for sellers. However, PayPal is great for transferiing money for other purchases outside of eBay. I bought an old BHA programme from someone on NSC and simply transferred the money into his PayPal a/c.

 

[Rowdey]

Schluter Ditra Mat
Makita Trim saw blades
Motorcycle instrument bulbs

 

[Pinkie Brown]

As I mentioned in the above post. Braun toothbrush heads...£3.50 for 4. Although they are in what appear to be Braun packaging and are less than half price, I think they are knock offs, they don't fit quite as well and the brush bit actually fell of one of them.
The Xenon headlight bulbs were bought in an attempt to make the old Citroen Xsara a bit less dim at night, I wouldn't have thought it possible to make the lights less affective but it is. Still for £6.80 what can you expect.

Every chance they are copies. There's plenty of 'copy' Colgate toothbrushes & toothpaste plus other assorted toiletries knocking about in less scrupulous wholesalers in the Shoreditch/Brick Lane area. Same thing with the lithium batteries you see on eBay. They're not the genuine article.

 

[the slow norris]

2 blades for my garden shredder
50 jiffy envelopes
A honda izy lawnmower

 

[Bozza]

I agree a lot with what Tebebear says. Ebay has slipped into car-boot territory in the last few years

The complete opposite is true. eBay now sell far, far more brand new and fixed price goods than they ever have done, and it's increasing all the time. This is intentional on eBay's part.

I guess what you describe could be a side effect of that, in that eBay are now far more focused on corporates using eBay for end of line and discontinued sell-offs and are neglecting the small trader and those just looking to 'get rid of stuff' now and again.