5p listing day on eBay - Thursday 31st May

bobcox

Be careful, this reduced price does not include a reserve price. You have to pay an extra fee to sell something with a reserve. Be prepared to sell your expensive items for less than the postage!

GregtheHammer

On the last cheap auction listing day I ended up selling a lot of items for the 99p asking price, not what I had in mind!

I certainly will not be making use of it this time around.

windswept

:mad: Kick the small business again ebay!
Who in their right mind is going to start new items off at 99p?
It's commercial suicide, excuse me, I'm off to turbolister to schedule a £200 kite package @99p:rolleyes: !

StaffsSW

It depends on the product - I've always listed mobile phones and digital cameras at 99p start, simply because I know it will attract attention.

Selling household stuff (which the site will be full of by tomorrow night!) with a 99p start is risky as the demand is not always consistant enough to guarantee any more than 1 bid - especially as the market WILL be saturated for the next 2 weeks, with much of the original auctions being relisted due to not selling.



Windswept - if you regularly start your auctions at a much higher price then you have to take advantage of the free relist policy I outlined some time ago. It is high volume sellers of high value items that can really clean up with some hefty fee savings. How many auctions are you likely to list in the next 3 months with £100 + starting bids?

If you list 100 kites in the next 3 months, costing £2.00 as an insertion fee - you can save yourself £195 in fees...

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=385968

Now there's a tip for the MSE Weekly newsletter! ;-)

windswept

I don't do auctions at all anymore, I was fed up of them going for the starting bid, usually half price! I stick to BIN nowadays.

Contains_Mild_Peril

Anybody else having trouble with Turbo Lister this evening? I'm getting "program not responding".

ragjoy

sorry to thick,but what does the 5p cover ie:gallery,end of auction payment etc.
i never used ebay this way before.
thanks ragjoy.

LULUBELLE_2

ragjoy wrote: »

sorry to thick,but what does the 5p cover ie:gallery,end of auction payment etc.
i never used ebay this way before.
thanks ragjoy.

The 5p covers just the listing fee - any other features (gallery, reserve, bold, etc., etc) you pay the normal fee for.

ragjoy

LULUBELLE wrote: »

The 5p covers just the listing fee - any other features (gallery, reserve, bold, etc., etc) you pay the normal fee for.

what about the sellers fees does that still apply,if so what are you gaining?
i dont get it.:o

Contains_Mild_Peril

ragjoy wrote: »

what about the sellers fees does that still apply,if so what are you gaining?
i dont get it.:o

You still pay the Final Value Fees (commission on items sold) so all you're saving is 10p on the basic listing fee for most items starting at 99p or less. If you're selling media products (books, CDs etc) you save nothing.