Aldi goods on Ebay

Emmia

sammyjammy said:

£4.99 each in Aldi and on Ebay for upwards of £23.99 for 2, just seems wrong to me and a bit sad.  I guess its on Aldi if they don't limit how many one person can buy.

Thanks for responses, very interesting.

Even if they limit, nothing stops someone buying to resell at a profit.

Pollycat

I think with buying on eBay, Vinted and charity shops it pays to know your brands.

TU, F&F, George & Nutmeg ae Sainsburys, Tesco, Asda & Morrisons.

TU clothing is pretty good quality and I'd match their jersey dresses against Monsoon any time.

I've noticed the same with candles.
I looked at a pair in a charity shop, boxed, with a name I'd never heard of and it turned out to be Dunelm.
Not worth the price.

ballisticbrian

Reselling at a profit is what is happening when you are in Tesco or Sainsburys as well. It's just that the "cloak" is removed for a second on eBay and you see how the trick works. Do you think the supermarkets supply you for any other reason than profit?

Vectis

It seems like a strange thing to criticise.

If the op, or anyone for that matter, had something to sell, wouldn't they try and sell it for as much as they could, irrespective of what price they initially paid?

Take it a stage further, you buy a house, don't you at some later stage hope to sell it at a profit, sometimes a very large profit? I don't think anyone would think, 'Oh, we only bought the house for £X amount 10 years ago, we'll just put it on the market for £X amount again.' If there's a chance of making a profit, why wouldn't you?

RHemmings

sammyjammy said:

I was doing a search for reviews on an Aldi hair product earlier and Ebay came up as selling it, at 300% of the Aldi price.  Just curiosity really but who buys these things?  I understand people might not have an Aldi nearby but I just can't understand who would pay these prices - I'd rather go without if I couldn't source it myself. 

It just seems wrong to charge such hyped up prices.

My first response was 'people who don't do their research'. As you point out, those that don't have an Aldi nearby. Even so, 300% is a very big margin and surely there is an equally good product available nearby for less. 

I've once fallen into the 'list at a higher price on Ebay than it's selling for on Amazon trick'. I bought the product and it arrived delivered direct to me from Amazon. When I saw that I (genuinely) LOL'd. But, I was a bit more careful since then. In my case, it was a maybe 20% price differential. Not 300%. 

ballisticbrian

RHemmings said:

sammyjammy said:

 it was a maybe 20% price differential. Not 300%. 

To be honest, It wouldn't pay to have a markup of only 20% because of the eBay fees, even assuming if they got free delivery on Amazon. Depending on the cost of the item and category, they may have ended up with a couple of % markup which would simply not pay for your time as a business. There could also be VAT and corporation (business) tax to pay on that thin sliver.

RHemmings

ballisticbrian said:

RHemmings said:

sammyjammy said:

 it was a maybe 20% price differential. Not 300%. 

To be honest, It wouldn't pay to have a markup of only 20% because of the eBay fees, even assuming if they got free delivery on Amazon. Depending on the cost of the item and category, they may have ended up with a couple of % markup which would simply not pay for your time as a business. There could also be VAT and corporation (business) tax to pay on that thin sliver.

I don't know how their side of it worked out. Only that I received a Amazon item and when I checked the price on Amazon, it was only about 20% cheaper. It could be that the Amazon price had been going up and down. Or something. 

se2020

Amazon also do something called 'order fulfilment '
You (the seller) send your stock to the amazon distribution center (or buy it from the wholesalers and get them to send it directly to amazon)

Amazon then pack it and send it to the customer. 
That way sellers can sell stuff in amazon but also sell the sale stock on ebay (and other places) at the same time.
You don't even have to list it for sale on amazon if you don't want to.

Lots of those 'how to get rich from ebay/amazon' utube videos on how to do it..

Not such a high profit margin for the seller but you don't need to do any packing or posting and you don't need any room to store the stock.


You also get ebay sellers that just pick hot selling amazon items then list them on ebay at a higher price. Those sellers are easy to spot from the feedback as buyers are not happy if they buy something then the seller takes ages to dispatch (as amazon were out of stock) or don't dispatch at all (as the amazon price has jumped up)