Selling your stuff on EBID. advice for new sellers

wigglebeena

Tiscali and Ebay sitting up a tree, K - I - S - S - I - N - G.

peter_the_piper

wigglebeena wrote: »

Tiscali and Ebay sitting up a tree, K - I - S - S - I - N - G.

Is there smiley for "that just went over the top?"

mira666

lol, am now up to 3 sales and 1 item with reserve met, its starting to take off

KatieShopstoomuch

No bids yet on any of my things but i'm holding out going to list more later! I have two toby jugs i need to get rid of but i know nothing about them so thought i may be better taking them to the local auction in town rather than ebid?

mira666

4 sales, lots of views, sale now on

wigglebeena

Ebay is so dead at the moment, I'm going to start listing new items on Ebid only. If stuff's not shifting there's no point paying listing fees for it. Might start moving my low value items over too and deleting them off the Bay. Fee to price ratio is too high.

Mayday

KatieShopstoomuch wrote: »

No bids yet on any of my things but i'm holding out going to list more later! I have two toby jugs i need to get rid of but i know nothing about them so thought i may be better taking them to the local auction in town rather than ebid?

Could always try SpecialistAuctions.com -that's where the real collectors go to buy and sell- including me

soolin

I know MSE used to get discussed on the ebid forums a lot, but now the ebid forums are much quieter and a lot of the regulars have gone I'm not sure anyone reads this thread.

However on the off chance they do then ebid have another upcoming opportunity to take a bit of the market if they are quick and can spend a few pounds actually advertising. From October 16th media items must have free (inclusive) postage on ebay. At th emoment there are a lot of private sellers selling off childrens books, magazines etc at 99p with a small amount for postage which will suddenly start to look uneconomical with the new changes.

Ebid could hit this lower end of the book/magazine/CD market very easily and if people know that ebid encourage these sellers then buyers might go and have a look.

I don't think it will hit the higher end of the book market as once th eprivate sellers selling at 99p have gone our book sales should actually do a lot better, but for the small private seller ebid would be ideal.

Ebid have not yet capitalised on any of the ebay changes so I doubt they will on this one, but personally I think this is an ideal opportunity for a different site to take a real bit of business.

soolin

Just a heads up, ebid have had problems with their card authorisation company (not a bank) for over a year now so if buying lifetime memberships you really must have paypal as British cards cannot be used.

It doesn't seem to affect people who have already registered.

soolin

Gosh, I appear to be the only one on ebid now if you look at this thread recently which is a real turn up for the books :rotfl:

Anyway, firstly the newsletter from ebid today mentions the following stats:

Site News & Updates

• 2,633,483 Live Auctions RECORD
• 9,700 Categories RECORD
• 9,474 eBid Stores Live RECORD

Secondly, I actually sold somehting :eek: it took me 5 1/2 years and several hundred, if not thousands of listings but I have my first sale. It was one of my common items that I sell several of a week on ebay and I had to drop the price a bit to get a sale so after fees I probably made a smidgen less than I routinely get on ebay.

Forums are a bit doom and gloom, lots of people saying that sales appear to be poor this year, so I hope I don't have to wait 5 1/2 years for my next sale.