***Make Us Money in 2010 with Ebay Challenge***

hermum

viv. wrote: »

Hi
Sorry to be ignorant but how much is it to run a business account have looked on ebay but cant find the information?

Here are the fees,
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/fees.html
if you want to open a shop
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/storefronts/seller-landing.html
Good luck

hermum

smem wrote: »

Called time on March's total at £1070. Woke up to a few sales this morning just waiting payment then l will add to Aprils total. Good luck to everyone for this month.

Wow, I take it you're a business seller. Do you do ebay full time?

I boobed big time, listed a book with free p&p without realising. It sold for 9.99 postage will be £7.06 at least I think it was 6p falling to the floor meant that I didn;t really hear. Hoping to find a courier cheaper, it's just over 2kg. If not will be one to notch up to experience.
I did sell a book on Green met yesterday, yeah.
Good luck everyone for April & hope you all have a good easter & that the weather is kind to all you parents of school aged children

sparkleisshopping

I've sorted out my relists and got a system there for keeping track of what's sold and what hasn't without having to root through my ebay box. Got a few more bits of clothes to list and I found a pair of shoes the other day that I've hardly worn that I reckon are worth a tenner. I'm going to get lots of listing done this long weekend hopefully!

smem

hermum wrote: »

Wow, I take it you're a business seller. Do you do ebay full time?

I boobed big time, listed a book with free p&p without realising. It sold for 9.99 postage will be £7.06 at least I think it was 6p falling to the floor meant that I didn;t really hear. Hoping to find a courier cheaper, it's just over 2kg. If not will be one to notch up to experience.
I did sell a book on Green met yesterday, yeah.
Good luck everyone for April & hope you all have a good easter & that the weather is kind to all you parents of school aged children

No not a business seller just been lucky to find a niche in the market and doing steady sales at the moment - l only ever start my listings at £5.99 and my max item is £23.00 l always do buy it now as well. l also send all over the world China,Korea,Austrialia,Canada,US places that alot of sellers won't do.l think this also helps with my sales.

too_much_debt

smem wrote: »

No not a business seller just been lucky to find a niche in the market and doing steady sales at the moment - l only ever start my listings at £5.99 and my max item is £23.00 l always do buy it now as well. l also send all over the world China,Korea,Austrialia,Canada,US places that alot of sellers won't do.l think this also helps with my sales.

Is this stuff that you are buying specifically to sell on, if so, you should be registered as a Business with HMRC and with Ebay, they are getting stricter on these things now so be careful!

too_much_debt

Just seen Announcement on noticeboard about the number of items Private sellers are allowed to list.

Worth having a read!

KrazyKel

Had the last of my listings end tonight, Total ive made £180 - Very pleased
Wont have as much to list for a while - made use out of the free listing days.

too_much_debt

That is great KrazyKel, I'm not having much luck on my Personal stuff, sold one thing tonight out of about 70 (mostly comics but am keeping these now) and that went for 99p.

sparkleisshopping

People do buy the strangest things on ebay don't they! I have a load of stuff on 99p listings that I just keep relisting in the hope that it sells eventually. This morning I have a bid on a PS2 game (very suprised as it's version 6 I have and it's up to version 11 these days) and someone desperate to buy a very specific part for a cat flap and offering a really high BIN?!? It still suprises me what people will look for on ebay lol.

soolin

smem wrote: »

No not a business seller just been lucky to find a niche in the market and doing steady sales at the moment - l only ever start my listings at £5.99 and my max item is £23.00 l always do buy it now as well. l also send all over the world China,Korea,Austrialia,Canada,US places that alot of sellers won't do.l think this also helps with my sales.

Please please don't risk getting round the ebay rules by not registering properly, they tend to wade in with big heavy boots when they catch you. I tend to get lots of queries from people via friends and colleagues and the number of people being caught both by ebay and HMRC has never been this high, they seem to be catching a vast majority now and it isn't pleasant.

Make sure you change your registration to a full business account immediately, and obviously make sure you are fully registered with HMRC.