EBAY HAVE FINALLY GOT RID OF LOW PRICE SELLERS

[rota65]

YES AFTER 10 YEARS OF SELLING, EBAY HAVE FINALLY PUSHED LOW PRICED SELLERS OFF THE CLIFF, I SELL RECORDS AT 50p EACH AND WITH EBAY'S BUYER PROTECTION IT BUMPS THE PRICE UP TO £1.24 WHICH IS MORE THAN MOST OF THEM ARE WORTH, WHO'S GOING TO BUY A £1.50 LOAF OF BREAD FOR £3.75, AND I CAN'T BECOME A BUISNESS SELLER BECAUSE OF THE INSERT FEES AS YOU HAVE TO PAY EVEN IF YOUR ITEM DON'T SELL, I USED TO LIST 1000 RECORDS FOR FREE AND SOLD AROUND 150, NOW I CAN ONLY LIST 300 OF WHICH I WOULD ONLY SELL AROUND 50, THAT MEANS 250 INSERT FEES DOWN THE DRAIN, SO THANK  YOU TO THE IDIOT WHO CAME UP WITH THIS IDEA YOU HAVE LOST ANOTHER SELLER, PLUS I BUY LOTS OF RECORDS FROM LOW PRICE SELLERS, AND NOW WITH THE BP IT PRICES ME OUT OF MANY PURCHASES SO I AM BUYING LESS, BUT I DON'T SURPOSE EBAY GIVE A MONKEY'S, TIME TO GIVE E-BID A GO AND SUMMERS COMMING BACK TO CAR BOOT SALES, TO ALL MY CUSTOMERS IF THEY SEE THIS, CHEERS FOR YOUR CUSTOM.

[action_man]

@moldosgifts   "I sell low value items I'm having a great time".
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I'm a bit confused by that. You say you're having a great time, but when I check your sales history it doesn't appear that great to me. I'm wondering if you're even covering all your outgoings, let alone making much profit.

[action_man]

@susapric-68 In response to @moldosgifts saying they are having a great time and you're saying "Same, party time. sales up 16% last month and already 4% up on that this month".

I'm struggling to understand how you are making any money. Your sales history seems to suggest you're selling about £10 worth per day and out of that needs to come your stock, postage and all your fees. On the surface it isn't adding up. It looks like as a business seller your profits would be very small, if they exist at all. So, I'm stumped as to how you're both claiming to be doing well.

[susapric-68]

All you seem worried about is avoiding any fees. Who said they're losing buyers and sellers? Business sellers are doing ok and buyers are down across all online selling platforms

[susapric-68]

That's so funny. sold 2 today and 3 yesterday according to that. Somehow sold according to that around 80 items over the month yet feedback left for sales (Auto feedback after a sale) is over 250 for the month. Thanks for the laugh. Wait it gets funnier, musicmagpie sell less than 1 item a day according to that

[action_man]

That's so funny. sold 2 today and 3 yesterday according to that. Somehow sold according to that around 80 items over the month yet feedback left for sales (Auto feedback after a sale) is over 250 for the month. Thanks for the laugh. Wait it gets funnier, musicmagpie sell less than 1 item a day according to that
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I'm glad you found it funny and that you're laughing so much. That's what life is all about. I was only saying how things appeared to me, so I'm glad you didn't take offence.

[toocan_hobbies_was_jayds77]

We used to do costume jewellery, pin badges for collectors etc, and the changes, rises in postage mean this just can't be done any more. 

We've now diversified into an area I have more knowledge in and with sales averaging £15-20 each I can manage BP in so the customer pays for maple, 19.99 and I still get around 18.60.

Doing it this way seems to be more popular than when they see random amounts for BIN items. 

[rota65]

well done, but £2.99 ain't 50p, and hey whatever makes you sleep at night, is a good thing

[rota65]

yes it annoys all me mates too.........that's why I do it, not into modern tech only had a mobile for 2 years and I only use that for what's-up, 60 now too old to be bothered now, but anyway is that better

[rota65]

been there done that got the tee-shirt, 60s hard to sell as that generation is dying out now, when I buy job lots from auction houses of around 2 hundred, which cost around £20-£30 I will only want around 40-50 the rest can go, and hopefully I would claw my money back, when I sold job lots only around 8 from 20 listings sold, and I sold them cheaper then than I would now. but hey no worries I do have a job, ebay was just for my hobby.

[rota65]

glad to here it, but make-up is a lot easier to sell the old vinyl records

[rota65]

wasn't worried about avoiding fees, ebay took 13% of all sales plus 30p sellers fee, they always had a piece of the pie, as for ebay losing sellers, just count how many have left or leaving due to bp on this message board

[susapric-68]

Site traffic monitor sites are best to use not message boards, how many business sellers left when they brought in no fees that have now come back? If it's no good selling 50p items then as you bulk buy and take out what you want just group them all together and bulk sell them the same way you buy them, someone else might find something in the bulk they want. It's how you buy records so don't say no one will buy them. If business sellers can sell low then you need to work out a way to do the same

[susapric-68]

Nothing wrong with old vinyls, you just under price them because you want to under cut a business. People will pay if they want it

[papso22]

" just count how many have left or leaving due to bp on this message board"

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About 150 if I am generous.

[kath3735_wxmjn]

not even sure about that!   Lots say they are leaving etc but when you look they are still there with listings.   Just like the ones who say they have made no sales and do not realise that we can see what they have sold....

[moldosgifts]

I am don't worry about me and again though you were leaving the forum yet you seem more active than normal.

[moldosgifts]

You don't know my costs so again don't worry about me I'm doing very well thanks.

[susapric-68]

You sold one for £118 so made enough to cover nearly 4 auction buys so could have put the other 150 you got in the lot after the 50 you took out and listed for £30 and made you money back plus got 40-50 free records. Like you I do this as a hobby as I'm getting nearer to retiring and it scares me thinking about having nothing to do. I spent 20+ years working for the MoJ and know I have to legally register as a Business. Last thing I want is to stand in front of a judge and hear the Famous and over used phrase a judge says "ignorance is no excuse"

[theelench]

Well, lets guess at a nice round 100 have left?

As is often said here, this is the tiny minority of vocal ebay users and the majority are never seen on here.

Let's guess that the minority that are saying they've left are 1% of the total of ebay.uk private sellers.

I wonder how many of the other 99% haven't bothered to complain, but following their usual habit have silently stopped listing or moved elsewhere?

This thread is about low price sellers. 

How many more have just as silently left because they don't like waiting even longer for their payments to be paid into their ebay Wallet for a couple more days of ebay earning interest before they can start the process of getting it moved to their bank? 

How many more because ebay has asked for their NINO?

Or will leave when they can no longer opt-out of SD?

How many more who rushed in to fill the gaps when Free to Sell was announced are yet to sell anything, or found that their hopes of high auction prices for designer clothes were dashed and they sold for 99p to the only re-seller who managed to find them, have already given-up?

I would guess that the cumulative attrition rate of private sellers since the New Year has someone in ebay towers worried. 

[rota65]

No I am not on ebay to under cut anybody just wanted to get rid, said before just wanted my money back on what I bought, any profit just went on more records