@iksacraftwrote:
I will never sell on ebay again. How dare you take 1/3 of my money. I was sucked in with your free fee for selling to only find out you took 1/3 of the seeling price. NEVER AGAIN WILL I SELL ON EBAY. Not only that using Paypal costs me money, my $600 camera that sold for $400 is now only worth $325, that rubbish!
It would be interesting to see what the promotion said. Your average person gets access to some free listings every month on ebay anyway. Every now and again, with special promotions, they may get access to more. But while it is free to make the listing, it isn't free from fees, so you would have been up for ebay plus paypal fees and while they may not come to a third of the price, still make up a fairly hefty chunk.
I can understand you are disappointed as you may have paid $600 for your camera and you say it is new, never used.
But there are some things you never mentioned in your listing.
-when & where you bought the camera (so people know how old it is)
-why you are selling it
As a buyer, I would want to know those details & want to know if it had any warranty left-in Australia.
When you tick that box that says new, never used, the ebay system defines that as maybe a factory second, although if so, I would expect it to be mentioned in the actual listing.
Plus people don't know how much you paid for it originally.
If you showed the original receipt I think people would be more inclined to take it as genuine.
Put it this way, I am surprised you got bids without people asking a lot of questions first.
So all in all, without improving your ad, you were unlikely to get more than the 300s I would have thought. The only way it may have got more is if someone could come round and actually look at it before you sold it to them but ebay doesn't really allow that exchange of addresses etc any more.
You are right, you possibly would have been better advertising on a different place-gumtree or facebook marketplace, no fees at all with them but possibly not as big an audience either.
