I'm adding to my pickers bussiness card that i want to sell on ebay for clients but don't know what to call it! any ideas would be really appriciated. thank you.

I have to agree with you 100% on this post!  From personal experience... I recently bought a "lot" of 600 Disney pins at an auction house for about $2000 (so lets say the original owner made about $1700 after fees taken out) .... i took those pins home and sold them on Ebay for about $7000!  if that owner had originally contracted a TA to sell them and split 50/50 he would have ended up with about $3500!!!

Plain and simple rodgers? I'm not knocking it so please don't take my curiosity as such, just never seen it done this way before.

There is a one time $20.00 set up fee any job of 10 items or more.

Fees:
•35% on items from $1.00 to $99.00
•30% on items from $100.00 to $499.00
•25% on items from $500.00 and up.


Terms & Conditions:
Listing fees will be the sole responsibility of the client. At the time of pick-up of your items or our meeting to discuss you items we will give an outline of these fees, which are, but not limited to the following:
•Listing Fees
•Buy it Now Fees
•Final Value Fees (once an items is Sold)
•PayPal Fees

No doubt you let them know by the time all those fees are factored in they will paying close to 50% if not more with the $20.00 set up fee. I've never heard of a set up fee before so that is a new one on me. The question I get asked is, "well exactly how much will I get when it sells?" When you answer them how do you estimate the percentage if/when you have charged the set up fee? I'm interested in how you explain it to your consignors since they don't understand the process much anyway.

Thanks

We have worked with non-profits.

Our service involved two different models.

One was setting them up in mission fish and helping them run a fund-raising program in which people from home (all around the world as well as local)  can list items to ebay and using the ebay giving works program allocate all or part of the sale to the non-profit. We listed items locally for the people that did not do ebay but had items to donate.

We also have listed items for a charity that was not registered with mission fish and handled all the listing and payments like what you described.

You have more control over your commissions with the second example. We charged a service fee for the first option rather than figure out commissions on items we did not get a direct payment for.

Depending on the size of the campaign will determine which model is best for your non-profit you are working with.

Also, working with non-profits is an awesome way to market your services to those individuals and businesses that may want to use your services in a non-charity capacity!

Michael J... If you're talking, you're not listening....If you're not listening, you're not learning.

One more thing, search "thrift store" on this board also.

50% sounds pretty dead on. If you sell an item for some one, no matter what it is, for say $100. Just the Ebay and paypal fees alone will exceed $20 easily. Even at $20, you the seller, are left with only a $30 profit after you give your customer $50. And you still have to take the time (and maybe money), to ship it out, on top of the time you took to list it.

So when all is said and done, for every $100 worth of merch you sell, your take is realisticly only going to profit about $25. Ebay and paypal get $25 and your customer gets $50.

If someone was going to hand me fifty cents on the dollar, and I don't have to do anything for it but give him my item to sell, i'd be ok with that.

  I list items on EBay, Craigslist, Amazon, local classifieds and local marketing areas for many people. My seller accounts range from 8K to 50+ sales. I am discusted by 50% charges. The idea of theft is the first to come to mind. I charge a 25% of sale price fee.

My clients are responsible for associated fees including Pay Pal fees. I work alone, extensivly research, describe correctly, appropriatly catagorize and accept responsibility for returns via description flaws. Funny thing is, I've NEVER had a problem because I am FAIR AND HONEST. I work when I want to, make an average of $300+ A DAY. One of my recent sales, i spent 13 hours researching and listing. at 25% I profited $525 for my efforts. I will  take $40+/hour any day. Good luck with your ventures, and do what you think will keep you in business. This business is VERY easy, and requires as much work as you feel like putting into it. 

I do this almost as a hobby but have a number of clients including a large vintage consignment store. Right now I charge 30% plus Ebay and Paypal fees. I also charge the client if there are shipping overages but we try hard not to have those. The reason for the overages was that I was getting free business space from a local postal agency (not a post office) who did the shipping. That is the only reason they gave me free space and their shipping was expensive. Now I'm moving into another space where I can charge regular Ebay shipping so I hope those overages will go away.  I am thinking about raising my rates on a sliding scale for outside clients (not the store) depending on the selling price.  I'm in between the locations right now, moving my stuff! So I have a little time to consider it.

I don't know if this was discussed in earlier posts because I didn't read all of them, but I will be selling items on ebay for an antique dealer. The thing is, I will be using their ebay account, not my own,  and no ebay or paypal fees will be coming out of my pocket.  I work in the same building as them so I will have to stay late or come in on weekends to post the items.  I also live an hour away from work.  What should I charge for listing these items? I am not an employee of the antique dealer.  Should I charge a percentage of the sale price of the item or a flat fee? 

@sell_thru_me, I wanted to applaud you after reading that!!! I recently had to deal with my first extremely rude buyer, and I think you've been there. Thanks for the posting!!

Hi there.

So to sell items for other people sounds like a lot of work. So let me get this right, you would take the photos of the items for the client then you would upload all the photos,

write a description answer all questions from potential buyers then once item has sold you would also look at wrapping it and shipping it?

Wow that's a massive amount of work just imagine if you had 10 on the go at the same time that would do your head in but also great for you as you will be making a significant amount of money.

So I think 50% is a fair price no matter what anyone says. If you sold an item say a camera that's worth $100 then you will I'm sure the client will be happy with $50.00 it's easy money for them and you did all the work..

Really?

Michael J... If you're talking, you're not listening....If you're not listening, you're not learning.