E bay users and account holders

[vw1]

Question if you sell on e bay who pays the postage you or them ? I know e bay take a % out for selling your item .

Thanks.

 

[Blobber]

The buyer pays the post but you have to specify the cost, ebay take a percentage of that too so bulk it up a bit and only send stuff with some sort of tracking/signed for service

 

[cheb]

Or you can list it as free postage and add the cost to the item price.

 

[julianf]

Or you can list it as free postage and add the cost to the item price.

...which is often simpler for fixed price items, but it should be noted that it's no good for auctions, as, mentally, buyers won't really account properly for the post, and will bid the same as they would have done if post was on top of the hammer price.

 

[Rickt]

Ebay has all changed now compared to what it used to be. For selling goods, payment used to go to Paypal. You only buy goods through Paypal now. Ebay brought in PM: [payment management]. When you sell ,the money goes to a holding Co [Ayden], then if the sale is OK, it's transfered to your bank account. Like many others I was not liking this new method. I opened a new on-line bank account specifically for the selling of goods and so far I have had no problems.
Weigh your items first , then check with the postal service or courier for pricing before you advertise and rightly so the buyer pays the postage.

 

[steveo3002]

if you choose to add postage then dont charge a penny more than it costs or you will have some moaner giving bad feedback on costs , i choose to add it onto the item, then the thickos think they got "free postage"

 

[Morrisman]

Or you can list it as free postage and add the cost to the item price.

I just tried to order some aluminium round bar off a regular supply shop, £12 for what I wanted....
Plus £8.50 postage and then VAT on all of that, so £24 all in all.

Same stuff off ebay, free postage: £12

 

[hotponyshoes]

I just tried to order some aluminium round bar off a regular supply shop, £12 for what I wanted....
Plus £8.50 postage and then VAT on all of that, so £24 all in all.

Same stuff off ebay, free postage: £12

You can't really compare a stockholders to somebody selling odd bits of bar on ebay though.

I sell odd bits of bar ends etc on ebay now and again, the most common complaint I get is from buyers who have a bit then come back a month later asking why I don't have any more in stock and then complaining about how much they will have to pay to buy it from a proper supplier....

 

[cheb]

Buyers wanting to collect from me isn't a problem I have to face very often.

 

[gaz1]

id prefer registered post the ones that do use it not rm as they dont even though you pay for it through the nose

the amount of buyers that do a con when its not registered saying that havent recieved the item is unreal

 

[hotponyshoes]

Adding postage to the item cuts out the opportunity to collect? Also it complicates matters if a buyer purchases multiple items at one time.

The seller should think about the pros and cons before putting the item up for auction, is my view.

Swings and roundabouts I think..
I've listed duplicate items with both postage and free postage (same total price) and the free postage ones definitely sell better.
But I think some of that is due to ebay promoting free post items more plus there is a search option for free post as well.

You can add the 'best offer' option then the buyers can offer a few quid less if they are planning on collecting but if you want to mess about with stupid offers and people not turning up then you may as well just list the items locally on Facebook and save yourself the fees...

 

[Seadog]

Adding postage to the item cuts out the opportunity to collect?

No it doesn't.

 

[Seadog]

I've just sold something on eBay. Value £91. It now transpires that the buyer lives in Canada. It'll cost nearly as much to post it again. You'd have thought that they might have mentioned the fact before bidding

 

[cheb]

Is Canada part of Ebay's international buyer scheme? You send the package to somewhere in England and after that it's Ebay's problem

 

[Morrisman]

You can't really compare a stockholders to somebody selling odd bits of bar on ebay though.

I sell odd bits of bar ends etc on ebay now and again, the most common complaint I get is from buyers who have a bit then come back a month later asking why I don't have any more in stock and then complaining about how much they will have to pay to buy it from a proper supplier....

It's not odd bits, it's cut to length, in whatever diameter I want.

 

[Rickt]

I've just sold something on eBay. Value £91. It now transpires that the buyer lives in Canada. It'll cost nearly as much to post it again. You'd have thought that they might have mentioned the fact before bidding

I got cought out years ago selling an item. The buyer was in Italy ,so I had to send it. It appears I hadn't blocked overseas buyers. You can restrict buyers from other countries in the settings. I will only sell & post within the UK. I mention this in my listings too.

 

[pedrobedro]

I got cought out years ago selling an item. The buyer was in Italy ,so I had to send it. It appears I hadn't blocked overseas buyers. You can restrict buyers from other countries in the settings. I will only sell & post within the UK. I mention this in my listings too.

I fell for that once and he was in Italy. It was a computer manual for a ZX80 and I told him it would cost £8 postage, he snatched my hand off.

 

[Rickt]

I fell for that once and he was in Italy. It was a computer manual for a ZX80 and I told him it would cost £8 postage, he snatched my hand off.

My item was a CAM [ conditional access module] , Viacess I think . In the days of digital recievers .ie D2-MAC , Spider boxes and the like. We spent a fortune on cards & CAM's , Iderto ,Viacess,Conax,Nagravision , then the multi CAM's ...Dragon cam , Matrix cam etc.etc. Programmers too , loads of them. They were sought after in the day ,but when sold we never got the full value back. Heres a selection I sold on ebay:

 

[Kram]

One thing that always annoys me as a buyer, lots of free, slow, RM post options that likely take 2 weeks, but never the option to get it posted same or next day with a fast service, so I rarely look on ebay any more if an item is on amazon.

 

[maroon]

But I think some of that is due to ebay promoting free post items more plus there is a search option for free post as well.

EBay take a slice of it. EBay can't take a slice of the postage cost. So it's beneficial for them to bump up free postage in the listing.

So if you knock two quid on postage and do the item two quid cheaper. You'll be a few pence better off.