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Rest in Peace
United States
3039 Posts |
Wait until April 19th. That's when ebay is implementing free listings and free buy-it-now. Everyone and their uncle will put some coins up with a maybe it'll sell attitude. Why not? After all the listing will be free. Another change will be that the final value fee will include shipping. No more 99c coins with a $4.99 shipping fee to save the seller some money. Let's see what happens.  |
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Valued Member
United States
312 Posts |
Yeah, I'm pretty worried it'll be flooded with overpriced items. No incentive for a quick sale... Might as well price super high and gradually drop prices.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
19930 Posts |
Agree, idiots will be posting anything hoping to reel in a sucker.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
838 Posts |
Yes, I'm afraid the free listing promotion will lead to even more ridiculously overpriced BIN junk, just like on the local Craigslists.
Frankly, it's already hard to search for coins I want what with Chinese fakes, shipping gougers, idiots listing in the wrong category, and whacko "R-A-R-E Roosevelt dollar!" sellers.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1081 Posts |
I search ebay frequently for some IHC varities and such. It's hard enough finding some coins, but when you do, there is usually a BIN that is way too much, usually $80-$100 over retail estimates. It's extremely annoying and frustrating to search through all of that junk. But they do it for a reason, as I'm sure eventually someone will buy it. |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
2490 Posts |
"Wait until April 19th. That's when ebay is implementing free listings and free buy-it-now."Is this global? There's no info about this on ebay UK. Bob
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3345 Posts |
I am personally glad of this, just because now its a lot cheaper to post ads. Saves me some money.
But I agree there will be more scammers than before
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1348 Posts |
It will be a great week on ebay! |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
2448 Posts |
This idiot doesn't have a choice. I'll still have to sell...if I want to...on ebay. |
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Valued Member
United States
307 Posts |
Having never sold on ebay, I'm a bit confused about this "listing fee"? isn't the only fee e-bay charges the 9% of the total selling price? Is there a fee just to list an item for sale even if it dosent sell? |
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Rest in Peace
 United States
3039 Posts |
Normally without special promotions there is a listing fee (for items $1 and above), a buy it now fee, a final value fee and a paypal fee,ergo the name ebay. Edited by numismo
04/14/2011 09:48 am
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Valued Member
United States
307 Posts |
And the special promotion starts April 19th? Which fees are excluded?
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Valued Member
United States
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Everyone and their uncle will put some coins up with a maybe it'll sell attitude. Yeah, I'm skeptical about the changes too. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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And the special promotion starts April 19th? Which fees are excluded? I don't think it is supposed to be a special promotion, I think this is supposed to be their new regular fee structure until they decide to make another change. |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
2490 Posts |
AFAIK this is not happening in Europe yet. We'll continue with the higher fees and higher postal charges until ebay decide differently. |
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New Member
United States
18 Posts |
I've reached the point where I tend use the 'advanced' search feature on ebay to only look for coins that are being sold via an auction style format. That way, I weed out the hundreds of (laughable) BIN sales that clutter up searches and add pages and pages of results to my hunt. Granted, that sometimes means that I don't see the occassional Buy-It-Now deal...but then that seems to be pretty rare anyway. |
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Posted 04/13/2011 3:17 pm
