Hello there, I occasionally sell engineering bits and bobs on E Bay but
now that they've put there prices up and they demand that as a seller
you have to offer Pay Pal as a payment method and the costs that
involves I feel it's not worth my while selling through them. Is there
another auction site I could use where engineering minded people use?
Cheers


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Nourish wrote:
> Hello there, I occasionally sell engineering bits and bobs on E Bay but
> now that they've put there prices up and they demand that as a seller
> you have to offer Pay Pal as a payment method and the costs that
> involves I feel it's not worth my while selling through them. Is there
> another auction site I could use where engineering minded people use?
> Cheers
> 
> 
I fear you are stuck with their monopoly. Auction sites are all about 
large numbers of 'cruising' buyers who happen to bump into your items.
When Yahoo was running auctions the situation was better as ebay and 
yahoo were both fairly large and as a buyer, there was a good chance of 
finding things of interest. It takes a real enthusiast buyer to surf 
round a whole list of tiny general auction sites on the offchance of a 
specialist (engineering) item coming up.
If you can live with fixed prices then Homeworkshop ME ads could be a 
way ahead perhaps?

Good luck
Bob

"Nourish"  wrote in message 
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> Hello there, I occasionally sell engineering bits and bobs on E Bay but
> now that they've put there prices up and they demand that as a seller
> you have to offer Pay Pal as a payment method and the costs that
> involves I feel it's not worth my while selling through them. Is there
> another auction site I could use where engineering minded people use?
> Cheers

I just seen the latest changes this morning, and have been looking for 
alternatives.
With the new changes, for auctions ending at £25, you'll pay £2.18 to ebay 
for final value fees (8.75%), and if the buyer pays with paypal, that'll 
cost you another £1.05 (provided you're in the 3.4% + 20p band). So 
basically out of your £25, ebay (who owns paypal) is getting £3.23, or just 
under 13% of your £25.

As for alternatives, http://uk.ebid.net/ is the best of what I've found so 
far, but it's still not that big a site.
But going by the increasing level of discontent with the ebay/paypal 
monopoly, I'm pretty sure smaller sites like this will be seeing an increase 
in hits.
I'll certainly be looking at ebid more often.

moray

On Aug 24, 1:43 pm, "moray"  wrote:
> "Nourish"  wrote in message
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> > Hello there, I occasionally sell engineering bits and bobs on E Bay but
> > now that they've put there prices up and they demand that as a seller
> > you have to offer Pay Pal as a payment method and the costs that
> > involves I feel it's not worth my while selling through them. Is there
> > another auction site I could use where engineering minded people use?
> > Cheers
>
> I just seen the latest changes this morning, and have been looking for
> alternatives.
> With the new changes, for auctions ending at £25, you'll pay £2.18 to ebay
> for final value fees (8.75%), and if the buyer pays with paypal, that'll
> cost you another £1.05 (provided you're in the 3.4%  20p band). So
> basically out of your £25, ebay (who owns paypal) is getting £3.23, or just
> under 13% of your £25.
>
> As for alternatives,http://uk.ebid.net/is the best of what I've found so
> far, but it's still not that big a site.
> But going by the increasing level of discontent with the ebay/paypal
> monopoly, I'm pretty sure smaller sites like this will be seeing an increase
> in hits.
> I'll certainly be looking at ebid more often.
>
> moray

ebid is good, we moved our company to ebid from ebay (feebay more
like) as we started to loose money.

Good luck