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Ebay selling Question
ReMan - 7/8/21 at 12:44 PM

Wow its so quiet here atm, are you all on Facebook?

Anyway... Ive only ever sold stuff on Ebay auctions, where the item lasts a week or whatever, then if not sold you re-list. You used to get so many re=-lists, I'm not sure now.

But the question is how do you and how long for, can you list an item with a fixed selling price?

For example I have an old books/magazines that lets say I want a fixed price fiver for, but as they are limited audience want it to stay live , for as long as it takes? until it is sold.
Can you do that as a private seller or do you need to be a business an set up a shop or something?

The help on ebay is like wading through ebay lovers treacle

nick205 - 7/8/21 at 03:09 PM

Can't answer the question, but have you considered other selling places?

Maybe an enthusiast forum for whatever the books/magazines are about?

Smokey mow - 7/8/21 at 08:29 PM

I mainly sell using fixed price listings and they normally run for 30 days but you can set it to automatically renew and relist again if it doesn’t sell in that time.

ReMan - 9/8/21 at 07:20 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Smokey mow
I mainly sell using fixed price listings and they normally run for 30 days but you can set it to automatically renew and relist again if it doesn’t sell in that time.


I think this sounds like the combo I need for least faff!
Cheers

ReMan - 9/8/21 at 07:22 AM

quote:
Originally posted by nick205
Can't answer the question, but have you considered other selling places?

Maybe an enthusiast forum for whatever the books/magazines are about?

Good call. The only thing with that is that as much s I love to hate ebay it is a good platform with a big audience and greed for payments etc.
These are nothing particularly valuable, so testing the water
Cheers

ReMan - 15/8/21 at 11:29 PM

quote:
Originally posted by ReMan
quote:
Originally posted by Smokey mow
I mainly sell using fixed price listings and they normally run for 30 days but you can set it to automatically renew and relist again if it doesn’t sell in that time.


I think this sounds like the combo I need for least faff!
Cheers


Update: Got to having a go at this this evening and found I can only select 10 days MAX
Hence wondering if you need to do something different to get 30 days?
I just can't imagine all the traders re-listing every 10 days?

indykid - 16/8/21 at 09:41 AM

I haven't sold anything since they played silly buggers with the payments and paypal, but I've had best success putting things on as auction starting at what price I want for it and adding best offer.

You can always ignore the offers, but otherwise, it just keeps rolling over until it's sold or until you kill the auction. Everything with an offer has sold for more than the start price with a counter offer.

coyoteboy - 16/8/21 at 02:46 PM

I've stopped selling on ebay. It's just too damned expensive. Ebay fees (which always work out more than they quote at the start) plus paypal fees, plus postage fees. Crazy - I sold a thing for £100 recently (reasonable used price for the thing) and eventually I got about ~70. Sod that, I had to list it about 10 times to sell it, they're not exactly increasing my chances of sale.

7 day auctions seemed to get the most bids, but usually didn't break reserve. Short ones got people stabbing a trial fairly close to what I wanted but didn't get multiple bidders. Now I just stick em on facebook marketplace.