play.com, does anyone here still sell with them

uttermadness

Having looked at play.com today it appears that their prices for selling on the site have rose considerably since I last sold a few bits there. £43 for a shop seems steep compared to Amazon and ebay and I can find no mention of the old playtrade option which at least gave you a presence on the site without any upfront fees.


Does anyone here still sell on play and is it still worth being on the site as a seller?


Thanks in advance.

RFW

uttermadness wrote: »

Having looked at play.com today it appears that their prices for selling on the site have rose considerably since I last sold a few bits there. £43 for a shop seems steep compared to Amazon and ebay and I can find no mention of the old playtrade option which at least gave you a presence on the site without any upfront fees.


Does anyone here still sell on play and is it still worth being on the site as a seller?


Thanks in advance.

They're very much a professional seller site. I tried to negotiate with a rep to see if I could get an introductory deal to see how it went but they didn't want to know at the time.
Rakuten are a big player so have plenty of money to burn to get it right. I know a couple of people doing well on it but my personal opinion is that, as far as my business goes, I could put that fee into my own website.

melliott1963

Never sold, only bought.

But, to be honest, since Play.com stopped selling their own stuff and went over to a 'market place' only site, I've stopped using them. Prior to that I was ordering stuff every few weeks.

DCFC79

Not sold anything for a number of years now, way before Rakuten were involved, did order a fair bit of stuff from them in the past.

barmonkey

had nothing but trouble with them pretty much from the day Rakuten took over

forgotmyname

Buyer only here and I have never used them since the change either.

I used to buy all my memory and memory cards etc. But when it changed one seller had listed hundreds of SD cards so finding ones from another seller was a nightmare.

I gave up and never looked at the site since.