Ebay's free postage costs us more!!

soolin

lyndsey80 wrote: »

I think some people use EBid now. I have loads of stuff to sell, was on a roll for a while then got too busy to list things. Keep meaning to sign up to EBid and see how things go on there

I think I am the only regular poster on the ebid thread now and in 5 1/2 years I have only had one sale:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=483786&highlight=ebid&page=22

jasonwatkins

All of my listings finished last night, 3 items sold and i'm going to come out of it about £3 quid down all told.

Not much I accept, but when you're as skint as I am, it's certainly significant

Pound

eBay's only real competitor is Amazon and they have a limited range of items.
So eBay are free to keep increasing prices knowing that most people will just accept it.

ZarZar1990

Hi Nic!
I'm in the same boat as you I'm afraid, I'm simply astounded at how much eBay charge now! :eek:
I try to just stick to free listing days, as it really gets my goat when they charge me extra for this and that, and then don't let me charge for p&p on things such as a book, which is heavy! and costs a lot to post!

Hope you're okay
xxx

jasonwatkins

I think sticking to free listing days is maybe the way to go, but then some of the most basic listings on ebay don't cost anything to list - I listed 8 items a fortnight ago and my total fees were about £1.70.

I think the real way to go though is to just try and list things that you don't have to give free postage for.

Esqulax

Same boat

After uni I had a few programming books to sell.. now, theyre chunky books, and 1st class RM is about a fiver, add to that the packaging (say £1) and £1.75 doesnt even come close to covering it. so i had to start the bidding at £5, which ups my final sale fee, ups my insertion fee, and also makes me look like a blagger. It also doesnt entice page views.
Although i did put in the description that the starting bid is £5 to cover postage as its a heavy book.

Its a real shame, as i quite liked ebay. one of the really good things with it that ive been doing recently however...
I was always annoyed that when i sold something i'd have to front the Postage from my pocket, then get it back from paypal, which takes like a week to transfer (takes seconds to take money FROM my account though.. go figure), but now i print the postage label from paypal, by popping in the weight and clicking a button! its a lifesaver if i have a few heavy things going on the same day!

jasonwatkins: thats all well and good, but when one is clearing out, generally the first things that go tend to be DVD's, Computer Games and Books.

jasonwatkins

Esqulax wrote: »

jasonwatkins: thats all well and good, but when one is clearing out, generally the first things that go tend to be DVD's, Computer Games and Books.

Of course I agree ..

Maybe it just needs someone to win the next big euro millions lottery and launch an auction website targeted at the people ebay are trying to drive away

gemtur

I list my books as 99p then select 'heavy bulky/other courier' and list P&P as £1.60. Not had any problems yet.....

jasonwatkins

gemtur wrote: »

I list my books as 99p then select 'heavy bulky/other courier' and list P&P as £1.60. Not had any problems yet.....

I know a lot of people do do that - I can't imagine ebay will let it go on much longer though.

soolin

gemtur wrote: »

I list my books as 99p then select 'heavy bulky/other courier' and list P&P as £1.60. Not had any problems yet.....

Oh dear, don't forget when this ebay account is banned you can't use or open any other ebay account.