30-08-2020 11:36 AM
Hi, I'm selling a watch for £3,695. It states selling fees capped at £250 but online calculator says £350.
im confused!
thanks
me-lady, please please don`t sell that watch on this site, i`m almost willing to bet you`ll regret it!!
IF you do insist on selling it here, consider listing as collection only for cash on collection or bank transfer in your presence when collected, DO NOT post the watch, AT ALL.
If you add a reserve price you will be charged an additional fee for that, it is non refundable even if the item doesn't sell.
The final selling fee is capped at £250.
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.
Hi I would wait for a £1 ebay promotion free to list only pay £1 fees.
I cannot see any watch for sale on this account and i doubt very much if you would be able to actually list it at the moment because it would probably be over your selling limits.
Personally i would not risk selling something of that value on this site as you can be scammed very easily.
The golden rule here is don't list anything you cannot afford to lose,there is no 100% way that you can protect yourself from scammers.
Don't use online calculators. All Ebay's fees are listed in the Seller Centre and in the Help pages, and are the only ones which are correct.
And do reconsider selling such a valuable item on Ebay. It's a scammer magnet. Criminal gangs trawl Ebay and the 'net, looking for such items, especially those sold by inexperienced sellers. If I were you, I'd sell it through a reputable auction house.