Help With Ebay Buying/Selling

(I know this thread lost steam a couple of weeks ago, but I just came across it.)

One thing to remember with ebay is that while it is a convenient venue for small volume sellers, the costs can add up. Here are a few tips to save some money along the way:

1) Each month they give you 50 auction style listings with no listing fees.

2) ebay generally charges for each picture after the first that is uploaded to their servers, so save money by uploading your pics to a third party site. I run my own business and have an internet-accessible server that I've set up a picture folder on, but there are some free picture hosting sites as well.

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3)Generate some volume so you qualify for the 20% final value fee discount for "Top Rated Sellers". All they require to qualify and maintain is that you have 100 transactions and $1000 in sales in the trailing 12 months, that you have excellent feedback, and that on all transactions after the 100/$1000 minimum is initially met, you offer 14 day money-back (minus shipping of course) returns. You then get your final value fee reduced from 9% to 7.2%.

I've seen people say that items that sell for under $10 aren't worth the effort. I would say that you SHOULD do a lot of these transactions up front to get to the 100/$1000 threshold and THEN move to higher priced items where you can qualify for the discount. A bit of work up front will save you a lot on the back end, especially with them bumping the final value fee cap up recently.

Cool, hadn't seen that. I'll probably just keep self hosting since it's pretty easy with Turbo Lister.

Thanks for the welcome! I've been lurking a while, researching things here and there as I help my parents inventory and re-focus their collection. Have also gotten into picking up a few rolls here and there to CRH thanks to the site, mostly just hoarding silver and copper.