Warning to ebay sellers

soolin

stevew8975 wrote: »

Did someone mention the "M" word...

:doh:

Getting to page 3 without the M word is better than usual.

maybe they could all vote with their feet and go to ebid, they could do with a buyer over there, any buyer would do, I'm not fussy.

yeslek

Victoriajayne wrote: »

Regarding the issue of high volume listing for private sellers, I wonder what the cut-off point is ?
OP, can you recall how many listings you'd uploaded before it flagged up a problem ?

so If I listed everything at BIN I'd be fine to list everything?

I'm concerned as I've been trying to sell my beanie collection (150+) CD collection (200+) as well as various other bit's and pieces along the way that only seem to go in drips and drab's by mean's of constant re-listings over the last 6 months (at most I had 460 listings but would sell 2/3 avg a week - most of the bulk items at the 99p they were listed at)

marleyboy wrote: »

you could even try doing a carboot sale

thats exactly what I plan to do next bank holiday Monday as most item's listed for 0.99 sell at that price so take out the postage and I'll prob get the same sorta price at a car boot


edit - nope, just tried it. Limit is 100 listed items, period!
great, so either I set up a couple more seller accounts or rotate the listings....meh. hope the car boot goes well, may have to make a habit of doing them instead :think:

Pembroke

yeslek wrote: »

so If I listed everything at BIN I'd be fine to list everything?

I'm concerned as I've been trying to sell my beanie collection (150+) CD collection (200+) as well as various other bit's and pieces along the way that only seem to go in drips and drab's by mean's of constant re-listings over the last 6 months (at most I had 460 listings but would sell 2/3 avg a week - most of the bulk items at the 99p they were listed at)


thats exactly what I plan to do next bank holiday Monday as most item's listed for 0.99 sell at that price so take out the postage and I'll prob get the same sorta price at a car boot


edit - nope, just tried it. Limit is 100 listed items, period!
great, so either I set up a couple more seller accounts or rotate the listings....meh. hope the car boot goes well, may have to make a habit of doing them instead :think:

You could always sell some as job lots, say 25 CD's for 24.99 start price, then if you said something like "mixed lot ideal for car boot sale" somewhere in your sales description, you would still get a minimum of 99p per disc like you want to when you sell them individually and if you do a mixed lot of various styles of music you could make them even more attractive to other sellers.

Also try comparing the prices of your CD's with Ebay and Amazon, you may find that some discs are worth more than 99p so you could go a bit higher in price and offset some of the Ebay fees on the job lots.

Of course you could also sign up to Amazon and maybe Play.com and put some of your discs on there. Advantage is no upfront fees you only pay when you sell and no PayPal as Amazon / Play use their own payments systems. Only problem is there is a minimum withdrawal system on play that I don't find very helpful.

Good Luck,

Pembroke.

Always_Harassed

I have just been told to change my account to a busines seller and I am just genuinely clearing out before a house move. The past few times I have listed I have sold very little so just relisted them, it only took a few minutes. They are obviously not looking at content but just quanity.

What do I need to set up a new account. Do I need to use a different credit card etc.

soolin

Always_Harassed wrote: »

I have just been told to change my account to a busines seller and I am just genuinely clearing out before a house move. The past few times I have listed I have sold very little so just relisted them, it only took a few minutes. They are obviously not looking at content but just quanity.

What do I need to set up a new account. Do I need to use a different credit card etc.

No it is easier than that. You just change your existing account to a business one. Look in your account details and the change can be made there. Just remember that in future you will need a refund policy and also your geographic address available on every auction.

TurkishDelight

yeslek wrote: »

edit - nope, just tried it. Limit is 100 listed items, period!
great, so either I set up a couple more seller accounts

Do you have under 25 positive feedback? Becuase they made it so that brand new accounts can't flood a while back.

That applies across all accounts too, so you'll only be able to have 100 in total. If you had 100 accounts that's one each.

Always_Harassed

soolin wrote: »

No it is easier than that. You just change your existing account to a business one. Look in your account details and the change can be made there. Just remember that in future you will need a refund policy and also your geographic address available on every auction.

I don't want to change to a business account due to the tax etc. I genuinely am only selling my own stuff. I have just checked and I only sold 20 items in the last 2 months and a lot of them were 99p. I don't think that makes a great business. I also tend to only list on free days and you don't get them as a business. The last time I paid for listings I only sold about 1 in 8 and recent listings have been 1 in 11 so not really worth my while.

RFW

Always_Harassed wrote: »

I don't want to change to a business account due to the tax etc. I genuinely am only selling my own stuff. I have just checked and I only sold 20 items in the last 2 months and a lot of them were 99p. I don't think that makes a great business. I also tend to only list on free days and you don't get them as a business. The last time I paid for listings I only sold about 1 in 8 and recent listings have been 1 in 11 so not really worth my while.

Without getting into the whys and wherefores, if you are registered as a business seller on Ebay because of a change in their rules but you are selling your own personal goods then you are not liable to tax , that's a completely different area.

I know some sellers sell personal items on a business account, as long as you can identify them and separate them from your business sales (if you have any) then there wouldn't be a problem.

DaveAshton

vinylmusic wrote: »

around 1995 onwards

That would include now. Unless you're saying 2010 is before 1995

cyberbob

Always_Harassed wrote: »

The last time I paid for listings I only sold about 1 in 8 and recent listings have been 1 in 11 so not really worth my while.

If your selling ratio is that low. Your either trying to sell items that wont or aren't worth selling or there is something wrong with your listings. So its worth re looking at what you are doing. Also peoples sales always go down (and prices) on free listing times as so much rubbish and Tatt is listed the Market is flooded so no one can see the good stuff