Scroll down to the bottom of my ebay to promotional offers.

try http://pages.ebay.co.uk/promos/2016/3158.html

I never get emails from ebay but the offers are usually on the homescreen on the mobile app (which I normally never notice, like this one until someone points it out from here). then its just click to activate using the app.

The 75% one a few months back was the best :smiley:

You clicked the link? http://pages.ebay.co.uk/promos/2016/3158.html

​I never sell. I get the emails regularly. Including this one. They don't seem to take the hint!

I thought you meant eBay had put the prices up from 10% to 14% recently. I see what you mean though, 10% for eBay and 3.4% for Paypal + 20p. What annoyed me is when they started creaming off the postage too, ridiculous.

I didn't know the global shipping programme cost extra?!

How does global shipping program cost a seller?

​Plus if there is a spurious dispute initiated by the buyer, eBay will always side with them.

​Global shipping has never charged me extra..

what do they charge through global shipping program? I was unaware that it was any greater than the normal final value fee.

agreed but no other option... better if you could suggest alternate & secure solution :wink:

I use the BuyItNow option and check what I'll be charged before listing on this website: http://ecal.altervista.org/en/fee_calculator/ebay.co.uk/
The global shipping programme does not charge to the seller, the buyer pays the shipping price set by eBay. It increases the market both for both buyers and sellers so essentially it's a good thing.
Selling on Amazon is cheaper e.g. item £40 inc postage is usually £3.55 vs £5.56

I've had my business on ebay for several years - there's no worse place online to sell stuff! Clueless customer service removing your listing, scammers and quite often rude customers thinking they are buying 'from a mate'. 10% discount for top sellers is a joke as at the moment any private (quasi business) seller can undercut your prices especially if you pay VAT. I cannot comprehend how come they offer to sell hundreds or thousands items a month without a business registration. I don't even want to mention PayPal...

Tbh, even though there's a 14% fee, I still use eBay, as you reach a very wide audience and you make more money than you would otherwise.

They have done for nearly 10 years?
Just add 10% for foreign shipment to cover excess fees for global orders.

where? is better?

Discogs is good for 12" vinyl
Facebook local groups are ok if the admin team are good
Facebook specialist pages are also good

fundamentally though ebay does have a mass market and stuff sells quickly

Personally wait for offer like this

I cleared £2.5k selling some of my trainer collection off in Jan.
I took advantage of their £1 max fees promotion (so much better than this one)... was brilliant for items selling at £120-£200 each lol

But I'd get atleast 15% more selling on ebay than anywhere else, so imo its still worth it, and I imagine their accountants have come up with similar figures.

And where else has more than 25 million visitors in the UK per month, and turns over nearly 100 billion $ a year? Amazon's not bad, but outside of racked up commodity items, books, DVDs and games it sucks - you need a unique internationally registered barcode for every product, and it handles second hand, collectible or other unusual items badly if at all. Plus it's even more expensive!

Etsy? Yeah if you're hand making things to sell to geeky hippys (of which I probably count as one!). Tesco? If you just want to sell to Tesco customers. Rakuten... who checks play anymore? You could roll your own and set up your own site, but then you'll spend all day every day nurturing your community of customers on social media and SEO'ing the hell out of everything trying desperately to creep up the pages of Google - not that it'll do you much good, because the majority of people still don't want to buy from a site without a name they already know attached.

Sellers get treated like dirt on all the major platforms. And ebay.... probably the worst. But also, and here's the kicker, the ONLY choice for a LOT of trade. You could throw all semblance of reason out of the window and try ebid, but otherwise there is no direct competition.

You have to sell where the buyers already are. Competition in this sector is a joke.

Honestly, it did all used to be better - I remember some article in an interview years ago with some top brass at ebay, saying how "ebay was the table upon which a trade was made". Salami tactics, one key principal at a time. Remember when sellers could leave actual feedback on ebay? Not anymore! All notions of neutrality were lost long ago, nowadays you just feel like one of those abused Tesco farmers.

Large companies see marketplace sellers as a commodity to be ground into the dirt, in order to satisfy their own customers and make them a higher profit margin in fees than they could hope for on buying and shipping their own stock.

You are totally right, I have been saying this to my friends for a while now, yet I still sell on ebay, because well.. it's kinda hard to shift goods elsewhere, but they are a total joke, I always use the Final Fee Calculator just in case of any changes with fees.

Whereelse do you recommend?

If this happens you could take it up with Royal Mail. My partner is a Postie and says that the pda they use will verify that it went to that address, irrespective of who signs. So that would be proof.

Spot on. I stopped selling. Had too many numpties. One bought some speaker stands for £10 (collection only) and wanted me to drive an 80 mile round trip to meet him halfway.

food for thought

Deeco, just as bad for small businesses. I had an online store for a couple of years but it's just not worth it any more.

Same here and I don't usually get any offers ,and usual drivel being spouted on this thread gsp costs the seller no extra and increases your market win win,it's been 14% for a while sellers fees and PayPal, I don't like it but where else would you get such a large audience

As a private seller you don't have to accept returns - Just tick the relevant box when setting up the listing - and you don't have to send an item until payment has cleared. (Yes, I know that Paypal can do chargebacks). Although it's not worth it for low price (sub-£10) items, if you use Recorded Delivery to send items it avoids a lot of headaches with potential scammers.

Also, you can limit your sales to buyers with a certain feedback rating & with particular ratings - and you don't have to sell to overseas buyers - Again, just take the trouble to complete the relevant boxes when setting up your listings.

Finally, I always take the opportunity to report bad buyers. This does eventually have an effect on that buyer's Ebay reputation longer term, even though there is no officially sanctioned way to leave negative public feedback on a bad buyer anymore. (Do be aware that you could get a strike as a seller for leaving negative feedback on the positive feedback template, even though it's always very tempting to do.)

A final plea to genuine Ebay buyers out there - Please don't leave seller ratings of 3 stars or less unless you have had a real problem with a seller. Even 3 star ratings create a negative strike on a seller's reputation - and Ebay won't remove them, even if they are undeserved.)

You're probably not the target demographic. This offer is possibly aimed at promoting sales by members that only occasionally list items; probably no point in promoting this offer to a member who already has reasonable trade.

What are their fees like?

I normally end the item and then "sell similar" just in case

Look at their rating system for an answer... it will tell you where you are short on it.

Sorry, no. Only items newly listed during the promotional period count for the offer. You could always end the listing & restart it if you could be bothered.