Free listings in media categories up to £4.99

bundly

sham63 wrote: »

At least with this promotion you can list at up to 4.99 for free - this is a good thing if you have items such as hardback books or vinyl LPs that might not sell - it hasn't cost to list and if they sell for the start price you won't be out of pocket.

A hardback book weighing a kilo costs £4.45 to post via Royal Mail. If you sell it for the top price of £4.99 you WILL be out of pocket after ebay/paypal fees.

flipper_2010

bundly wrote: »

A hardback book weighing a kilo costs £4.45 to post via Royal Mail. If you sell it for the top price of £4.99 you WILL be out of pocket after ebay/paypal fees.

A lot of my hardbacks come in at 950grams ish so only cost £2.70 to post so thats all good :j

bundly

So if you sell at £4.99 and pay out £2.70 for postage and Ebay and Paypal fees, how much money do you actually make and does it compensate for the time spent photographing, describing, wrapping, and posting the book?

flipper_2010

bundly wrote: »

So if you sell at £4.99 and pay out £2.70 for postage and Ebay and Paypal fees, how much money do you actually make and does it compensate for the time spent photographing, describing, wrapping, and posting the book?

Of course, takes a second to photo, minute to list and minute to wrap, then get someone else to take it to the post office :j

£2.70 postage
£0.37 PayPal
£0.50 eBay FVF
Maybe 3p ish for parcel tape
Still make £1.39 so its still 39p over my minimum for selling something

And the best thing of all, its one less piece of carp in the house :j

George666

soolin wrote: »

Thanks for that, while I am away could someone make sure this is bumped once a day as we get a lot of threads and questions about selling fees on media items for private sellers.

Bump Bump Bump

George666

George666 wrote: »

Bump Bump Bump

Bump Bump Bump again.

powertron

9.9% Ouch!

I recently sold an item I paid £23 for £33 on ebay.

After fees and p+p it made a loss...

AlwaysSomething

I just tried to list a disc at £1.39, and it wanted to charge me 10p for listing. What am I doing wrong? Category was Music>CD

Thanks

silkcutblue

flipper_2010 wrote: »

Of course, takes a second to photo, minute to list and minute to wrap, then get someone else to take it to the post office :j

£2.70 postage
£0.37 PayPal
£0.50 eBay FVF
Maybe 3p ish for parcel tape
Still make £1.39 so its still 39p over my minimum for selling something

And the best thing of all, its one less piece of carp in the house :j

Takes me about 15 mins to photograph it, edit the pic, type the ad out; then after the win, pack it all up, take it to the post office etc

That's about £6 an hour pay to draw even (on the time you took) so it actually means unless you are paid the min wage then it makes sense for me to take it to the charity shop (next to the supermarket so no special journey); I get rid of the cr*p, do a good deed, and don't make a loss making ebay and paypal rich

soolin

AlwaysSomething wrote: »

I just tried to list a disc at £1.39, and it wanted to charge me 10p for listing. What am I doing wrong? Category was Music>CD

Thanks

It should have shown nil when you got to the final screen, the first few screens do still show the insertion fees.