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@heihachi_73 wrote:
Selling cars would have a detrimental impact to the ability to relist items (the 3 free relists), as $12000 would be reached quite easily even if you only sold two or three cars. I sold an 88 SV21 Camry (EFI, manual, 4 wheel discs, regassed aircon, new starter motor and wiring loom) for $2000 five or so years ago, I had no thoughts whatsoever of listing it on eBay.
Also, thanks for highlighting my typo, "us" should have been "is"! 🙂
Another way to make easy money is raiding Salvos/Vinnies/Savers etc. for rare/interesting things, they always seem to have bargains mixed in with laughable ripoffs, for example a Guitar Hero game controller could be considered a toy by whoever put it out for sale so it has a $5.25 price tag on it (for some reason, the Salvos just love ending in 25 cents), when it could reach up to $50 on eBay.
Sorry heihachi, I didnt even notice the typo ....I checked and I dont think there is any this highlight 
As to the $12,000 limit for free relists, the important thing is if you can reach the $12,000 figure, a few listing fees are not going to matter much. We have only ever had the 3 free relists on our previous non store account on one occasion for around 6 weeks. ( while I was ill and not listing ) The rest of the time we where selling over the limit with only 40 monthly freebies and what ever others we got from helpfull forum posts. This wasnt with cars, it was just with normal items valued at anything from $7 to a few hundred dollars.
The point is that the only way to make money on ebay is to list and sell lots of stuff that buyers want to buy. And generally, the more expensive, the better. Anything else is a distraction. The more you sell, the more profit you make and the less important fees become in the overall business mix. Until ebay changed the free listing numbers offered to stores, I was paying to list several hundred items, over and above my store freebies each month. This was still cheaper than going to the next store level which cost around $500 per month. Ebay fees including listing fees, where taking over 20% of my turnover, but I was still making very good profits as I simply factored the ebay fees into my selling price and in effect, the buyers paid the fees for me.
The point I am trying to make is that if you are making good sales, the selling fees are only a minor cost of doing business and are certianly much cheaper than renting a bricks and mortar store, paying for electricity, public liability insurance, employees to keep the shop open while you take time off etc. etc.
While sellers need to keep an eye on ebay fees as with other business costs, they are not all that important and can distract sellers from the main game which is turning over the most stock possible at the highest profit margins attainable.
