topic Re: IS EBAY STARTED TOO OUTPRICE ITSELF? in Selling

IS EBAY STARTED TOO OUTPRICE ITSELF?

creekman51 — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 00:27:56 GMT

after ebay's finnished with you, paypal ect your losing about %15 as a seller i'm starting too wonder if its all worth it

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designers*n*more — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 00:47:46 GMT

Wish I had the brains and tech to set up my own auctions! Then I could charge myself what I want lol

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icyfroth — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 00:55:22 GMT

It would be ok it postage weren't so expensive, I think it puts a lot of buyers off.

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joethenuts — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 01:15:07 GMT

you could charge yourself double and make more money lol

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creekman51 — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 01:27:59 GMT

i always underquote postage cause ebay taxes you on it anyway i'd rather pay the extra out of my pocket than to hand it over to them

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indigorosey — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 03:35:31 GMT

Yes, for one of my businesses I have generated enough interest to launch a website. The upside is that people are prepared to pay more as they are not necessarily eBayers so less shopping around, and because it is WA based so no long waits for postage.

The operating costs are less but you need to put in a lot of work drumming up business.

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davewil1964 — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:51:55 GMT

B&M auctions will charge you at least that.

A B&M shop will have fairly high overheads as well.

There are heaps of auction sites that charge less than eBay...

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creekman51 — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 14:26:15 GMT

yes i relise this but when you sell overseas and get whacked by paypal as well your looking at a high end charge

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springyzone — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 23:46:23 GMT

So true about postage charges. I was looking at a basic little baby's cardi for $5 but postage was close to $9.

I thought.. nah, I'll look in the shops instead and see the price of a new one.

I think ebay is probably no longer a great venue for cheaper items, not if they need to be posted off in a parcel.

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saarzi — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 00:52:18 GMT

Fees and postage are only a small part.. they are NOT the whole problem. Sales knowledge and business planning (or lack thereof) is.

People need to stop deciding what someone else will pay for something without a little more sales education. Ill only pay up to $30 for a pair of jeans, but that doesnt mean someone else wont pay $100.

I regularly sell $16 tops to international customers where postage is an additional $25. Are the pre owned, no brand, tops worth $41, especially in other countries where there is more choice and cheaper options? I dont think so, but clearly others do. Had I decided $25 was too much for postage and reduced my prices or not listed internationally I would no longer be on Ebay.

I really think worth and how much people will pay depends highly on what demographic youre selling to, and how your sales pitch / point of difference. And sometimes these thing have NOTHING to do with the product itself.

Demographics these days, btw, are less often things like age / race / socioeconomic background. They are run on types (like personality and behaviour) and ignore these other inflexible factors. Sales has developed unbelieveably in the past 20 years.

If people will pay $20 for something and $200 for another thing, when both are made in the same sweatshops and with the same materials amd the only difference is a label, you know the purchase has little to do with price.

Doesnt this suggest to anyone the issue is something else?

I rarely ever shopped on ebay to get something "cheap". I always shopped here to get something different, a little unique, or that I cant get elsewhere.

Yes there are people who shop on price alone, but they arent the majority (refer to the majority of brands worldwide as an example) and if you base your whole business on this you are always going to lose out here.

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lane-ends — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 01:14:51 GMT

@gtx305 wrote:
Fees and postage are only a small part.. they are NOT the whole problem. Sales knowledge and business planning (or lack thereof) is.

People need to stop deciding what someone else will pay for something without a little more sales education. Ill only pay up to $30 for a pair of jeans, but that doesnt mean someone else wont pay $100.

I rarely ever shopped on ebay to get something "cheap". I always shopped here to get something different, a little unique, or that I cant get elsewhere.

^^ This, sell for unique appeal not mass market valuations.

many people buy on impulse for something that catches their eye and convenience.Thay often also turn out better customers than those scraping for cheapest deal.

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joethenuts — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 01:24:58 GMT

correct gtx what you think of a product can mean nothing, a few years back I had 30 cans of orange oil paint , i thought if i got $10 each i would be lucky . i put them on auction twice a week for 15 weeks , and in no order they ranged from $4 to $52 all sold and all started at .99. the average was about $25 .in fact to me I once sold on auction the most worst color paint in my mind a karki-greeny -greyish , it was hard to discribe the color , wall paint and it sold beyond retail price.

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arlottstreetstation — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 02:23:52 GMT

In my Category I'm finding that people are mainly using Ebay as a Catalogue these days. They use it to have a look at what's new & for ideas & then go off & source it either direct from O/S or another Direct Website. Also that way they don't caught with a Chinese Junk Merchant posing as being here in Australia selling inferior goods.

I actually opened my own Website on the suggestion of the BUYERS & many have since become regulars. I can still sell with my regular Markup but WITHOUT the Ebay Fees. It's a "Win, Win" in that the Buyers are getting the product cheaper & I'm still making the same profit - In fact more because I'm now capturing more Trade.

I haven't had to bother promoting the Website other than sending out Flyers etc., because of simple word of mouth from happy Customers. It took a while but it's really beginning to take off.

I'm keeping my Ebay Store for the moment even though it's causing all of the headaches with MBG etc. because the Store Fee is cheap advertising & I do still make the a few Sales.

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transport-posters — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 13:13:07 GMT

Just raise your item and postage prices to compensate. What else can we regular sellers do? We are stuck with eBay and so buyers are stuck with having to deal with higher prices for things they want to buy.

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ytwo000 — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 20:50:23 GMT

@icyfroth wrote:
It would be ok it postage weren't so expensive, I think it puts a lot of buyers off.

Yep..Was almost ready to a BIN memory stick till i saw postage via regular was $7.99 which is much more than the actual item price.

$7.99 postage for a tiny little usb stick ? OMG..