Fees on watch selling for £3695, £250??

[ladyp-parker]

Hi, I'm selling a watch for £3,695. It states selling fees capped at £250 but online calculator says £350.

im confused! 

thanks

[m25jet]

If you're selling a watch worth £3,695 then I'd seriously urge to reconsider selling it on eBay!  Given that you've only been a member of eBay since Sunday 16th August 2020 eBay wouldn't give you a selling allowance in excess of £3,000 anyway, as first of all you would have to establish yourself as a reliable and trustworthy seller before eBay will even consider increasing your selling allowance.

Although this was some years ago now, when I first started selling on eBay I was only given a monthly selling allowance of ten items per month, or £100.00 in total sales per month, whichever came first.  Once I'd hit one of those limits that was my lot until the following month.  Once I'd established a consistent record of positive buyer feedbacks from UK buyers eBay offered me the option to also sell internationally, and increased my selling limits so that I could list more items for sale and also gave me a higher cut-off point with regards to the total amount that I could sell each month.  Therefore, unless this is a second account and you've also got another account that you've had for ages and have got a much higher selling allowance on, then I can't see that eBay would even allow you to list the watch for the price that you're asking for it, as it would exceed a newbie's maximum monthly selling allowance with regards to the maximum amount that he/she can earn from sales.

At the end of the day you really need to be aware of the fact that expensive watches are scammer magnets, and scammers tend to target new sellers with very little or no previous selling experience on eBay.  Therefore, do yourself a favour and hold off of listing high value high value watches for sale - eg:  Breitling, Cartier, Longines, Rolex, etc, and other high value items, such as high-spec digital cameras, mobile phones, Playstations, etc, and build up your selling experience to start with by listing the kind of items that scammers wouldn't be interested in.  Once you've sold quite a lot of items on eBay and have acquired a good understanding of the pros and cons of listing on the site, and are also more aware of the pitfalls of selling items on the site, especially expensive high value items, then perhaps you could reconsider the option of whether or not you want to take the chance with listing such items on the site.  The risk with these type of items is that if a buyer opens a false Item Not As Described case then eBay will always side with the buyer, in which case you would end up losing the money from the sale, and also the item if eBay had to force the refund and told the buyer that there was no need to send it back in order to get a refund.  There's no need to make yourself a target for scammers but selling high value items on eBay does carry a high risk of being scammed, so avoid making yourself a target for scammers and build up your selling experience by starting off with selling items that scammers are unlikely to be interested in.