NO LONGER SELLING DUE TO SIMPLE DELIVERY

[rugbyguy1960]

AS OF 15TH APRIL MY DAYS AS A PRIVATE EBAY SELLER WILL STOP AFTER 19 YEARS.

I AM FED UP OF THE GREED OF EBAY AND I HOPE OTHER EBAY SELLERS DECIDE TO NO LONGER LET THE EBAY CONTROL FREAKS HAVE THIS MUCH CONTROL OVER PRIVATE SELLERS.

[stamp_hammer]

I've sold 260 items on eBid in the last 60 days. Not as busy as eBay in its pomp, but easily outselling the eBay of today.

[kath3735_wxmjn]

i think it depends on what you sell, mine are mostly clothing and have had 1 sale over the past couple of weeks since i started (that was a jigsaw) but i have had more views than i have had over the past few months on e bay.  I am just putting a few on each day and am getting more familiar with it, was confusing at first.  Have to wait 21 days for payment as a newbie but that is okay with me.  Hopefully the more private sellers go there the more it will get known about and used.  I had never heard of it until mentioned by 'theleench'.   What makes it worse is that i actually liked this site until they brought in SD which is one change too many for me.

[johnwash1]

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@fuzzy_spiral wrote:

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Not sure which are the best alternatives to selling though, a certain other e-named site seems to want a high 'buy in' just to sell anything at all, well unless you are happy with a handful a month, and it doesn't seem to have a very active hobby community (Warhammer, RPGS and the like) anyway, but maybe the £60 would be worth it long term.  Not sure.

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@fuzzy_spiral 

That's actually a fallacy.  That site has several models, you can instead pay a small fee for each listing.  I believe @theelench works this way still, after years of using it.  I can't advise further myself because I have the full deal.

Which I got free because I joined so early that perks were being handed out 20+ years ago.  I feel there's a lesson there.  Very probably, with a variety of new sites starting up, even though such sites look utterly hopeless today, it may be worth taking the long view and joining, giving them a try.  You never know, in a few years time when they've grown enough to be monetised, you might get an early adopter's special.

Ebay are living in very interesting times.