15% is a lot better than the 35% our local auction house would charge. Plus you get a wider audience on eBay.

Having a store only affects the insertion fees for fixed price items, not the final value fee or the PayPal fee. You can get your PayPal fees lower by signing up for a business account and doing several thousand dollars a month in payments.

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ou can get your PayPal fees lower by signing up for a business account and doing several thousand dollars a month in payments.

Really? I have the business account, now I just need the several thousand dollars a month in payments.

LOL!!

Baby steps, right?

To the OP, if I keep my overhead under 20%, I am one happy camper!

And those other places do not sell to 100's of thousands of people either.
I really never had a problem with ebay's fees but with MOST of there anti seller policies.

If only my buyers were in those places....

I've run a physical store. Compared to that, the fees here are really cheap.

I've done the flea markets. The swap meets and flea markets around here don't have many buyers.

I've done the bulletin boards, and yards sales. It's not worth my time, especially when someone tries to haggle down a $0.25 price. I mean come on.

eBay's fees are higher than other places. But they have the traffic for our items. We make money. I don't mind paying those fees.

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Hi gowld2000 and welcome to The Part Timers Forum! Well then DARN! They're not listening to us! If OMA posted once he's posted a thousand times they need to straighten up & fly right!

BBL: Blocked Bidder List... BIN: Buy It Now... BO: Best Offer... BR: Bid Retraction... DC: Delivery Confirmation DSR: Detailed Seller Rating FB: Feedback FRB: Flat Rate Box FVF: Final Value Fee IPR: Immediate Payment Required NARU: Not A Registered User OP: Original Poster OT: Off Topic PM: Priority Mail.... PS: Power Seller.... SNAD: Significantly Not As Described...... TRS: Top Rated Seller...... UIA: Unpaid Item Assistant..... UID: Unpaid Item Dispute

Hello 1273 . . . I just looked @ your completed listings and all of them were "auction style". The FVF's on those that sold should of been 9% not 12%. Were any of those the "just sold" items you were talking about?

As far as eBay's concerned, a 9% FVF is the best you can do unless you sell electronics (8% FVF) or quantities/higher priced items and qualify for their TRS discount as kris referred to.

I had an item listed here @ eBay for $189.99 . . . 30 days "buy it now" or "best offer". I had it listed for 3 months without any serious inquires. If it would of sold here for $189.99 my FVF would of been $14.40 + 1.50 listing fees + 5.81 PayPal fee (I didn't include shipping) . . . total $21.71

I listed it on another venue-ranch for $200.00 and it sold in less than 2 weeks. The listing fee was free and my final cost for selling on that site . . . $5.00 . . . you can also accept checks, MO's or Popsicle sticks if you desire.

There is 'life' outside of eBay.

A lot of people use a posting ID.

it shows the number of posts under one's avatar ....so i don't get what you mean.

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OK Dave , like you said they don't know people use posting ID's.

Who will save the river valley , that's my drinking water.! "Moxy Fruvous"

Was that Alfred E. Neuman talking or 'you'?

Some people use posting IDs so they offend someone on the boards (some people take things the wrong way or get easily upset), that person won't retaliate by buying an item and leaving a neg. Yes, people can be that petty, it has happened.

Guess I'm living dangerously.