I make money, but I do not make any money selling inkjet cartridges and toner cartridges on ebay. It took me 5 days to be able to log into my account, there was a 2 - 3 day delay after I updated my mobile phone number with helpful ebay staff on the telephone, but then after the delay, the telephone number change did not go through as they said it would after between 3 hours and 24 hours, they said.
There are lots of sellers of inkjet and toner cartridges on ebay, and ebay I saw had an advert during the recent months, claiming that selling ink and toner on ebay is a great thing to do. Sellers like ourselves do not make sufficient profit on ebay, and frequently lose money on sales after ebay fees. Sometimes there is little that ink / toner sellers can do because it is a race to the bottom on price, and the cartridges have to be sold in good time because stock has a long but limited lifespan. For ink and toner suppliers, selling at a negative margin is a frequent occurrence for some of us.
It appears that ebay is run by unpaid computer robots, for example there is no email address for them that can easily be found, and if you want to send a message one screen comes up saying "Help yourself". Please be careful if you want to sell ink and toner on ebay, it can be possible to get lots of orders, but it goes towards pointlessness if almost everything has to be sold at negative margins, true information at least for us. The only people who were making loads of money on ink / toner was ebay, so those promotions they did inviting ink and toner companies and businesses was currently an invalid one. I'm not sure I will continue to run a tiny shop on ebay, running costs create net losses, not only do you pay approximately 10% on sales, you can pay extra to rank higher and lose even more margin. The people making the ink and toner for us should be well paid and there should be the opportunity to make a nice profit on a sale, and a nice amount of net profits by the end of each month, year etc.
