Should ebay get rid of free sub-99p listings?

cyberbob

GreenNinja wrote: »

If you can't sell it, what makes you think the charity shop will be able to?

ANything a charity shop makes is profit. they do not have listing fees or postage or even paypal fees. And they got the item for nothing. So they can sell at a lower price

flipper_2010

I love the free listing. Have a rolling stock of about 200, you'll probably hate me for that, but it does all eventually sell, otherwise it would all just sit in the house making a mess and I must de clutter before I can move!

I hope they don't stop the listings for everything. I mainly sell books which will all have to stop from October

DaveAshton

trrk wrote: »

Do you have a better suggestion? As a book lover I'm loathe to see books in a perfectly readible condition go in the bin.

I vaguely remember hearing (a couple of years ago now... ) about a service where you'd put your name on a mailing list, and send and recieve books you and other people no longer want. Don't know if it ever caught on

If you want money for the books though, Green Metropolis is a great site.

mippy

BookMooch is great - you post books off and get points which can be used to 'mooch' other member's books. So unlike some swap sites, you don't need to agree a trade before sending off.

chja

Best thing eBay has ever done.

I'm clearing out all my household clutter and its quite easy to have 200-300 rolling listings doing this. Probably generated about £400 since this started - money I just wouldn't have otherwise.

I understand that business sellers may find their profile diluted or price undercut, but that's capitalism chaps.

chja

cyberbob wrote: »

ANything a charity shop makes is profit. they do not have listing fees or postage or even paypal fees. And they got the item for nothing. So they can sell at a lower price

Just hope they don't loose it all in Iceland again !

sunnysea83

best thing theyve done, ive listed loads for free and still got the same price as i would if i started them higher and ive got loads of bargains too.

my_gorgeous_ellie-belle

Oooh, i list everything at 99p, well mostly unless i couldn't bare to see it go for that then i'll list it at a minimum i'd be willing to let it go for. But whilst clearing out my house, mainly my wardrobe and my daughters, i have made over £600 (not inc postage as thats used for posting of course) in the last 90 days. So 99p listing are an absolute blessing for me. Clearly 99% of my listing can't be tat because everything bar a few items sell first time around. I Usually do a max of 3 rounds of 7 days on an item and if it doesn't sell it goes in the recycling bag for to be sorted and shipped to needier people

ChrisCar_2

Do your maths before using the free listing option.
As a business seller I can't use it, it still costs me even if I start an auction at 1p but I have benefited as a buyer.
I received two parcels yesterday which I won at the sellers minimum bid price ie 99p or under and both sellers took a loss.
They both paid more to send me the goods than I paid for them, as they were free P&P.
Both sellers only accepted Paypal so I couldn't even send them a cheque and save them the Paypal fees

StaffsSW

The free 99p liostings is a stealth way of removing small private sellers from the site, by making overall listing too expensive for them.

Bait them with free listing fees, move the main categories to free P&P, reduce the back end incentives for smaller sellers (final value fee discounts, fee discounts for free P&P etc)

Before long it will only be the private sellers with no fnancial sense that will be left using the sites.

It is still overall cheaper for me as a business seller to list low value items due to reduced insertion fees, and final value fee discounts. How can a private seller compete, even with free insertions?