eBay - Breading ground for con artists and scammers!!

[Esk247]

Yeah but can you reach the customers though? i don't mind paying £1 for every £10 item i sell in fees, i may even pay more than that depending on the mark-up, but from the items i've put on there Ebay is not even getting the flow of customers it used to, it's getting specialist ebayers who are looking for particular items.

When i list on ebay i generally get 3/4 hits in 2 weeks :| thats less than i get every day on my website, so i'm not even getting the foot fall on there now.

People use ebay for bargains or antiques. If you have a 500 year old grandfather clock on auction you'll make a mint, if you have a brand new computer system, boxed, sold in your shop too, you won't make a penny because they can buy that from PC World or Dell, why would they buy from an ebay site? unless you've been trading 10 years and your prices are much lower than the high street?

 

[saxondale]

I never consider ebay for "new" items, in our industry it`s considered bad form to be an ebay seller as trade.

 

[Vacman2000]

Gumtree is worse for scammers....

You just know it

 

[Vacman2000]

What the problem with the fees, am I missing something? 8.75% of the selling price and a few pence insertion fee seems reasonable to me for the audience you are reaching :|

Now we stand united, if you can stand the heat get out the fire.

I was immigrating to the USA a few years ago, when I was faced with a problem, what do I do with all my stock parts? £180,000 worth
Only 4 people in the country could even consider buying them, I couldnt even sell them for £18,000

So I thought I know, make carpet cleaning machines and put them on ebay.

Made a mint from it

Couple of years later I am back in the UK, guess what
I am going to do it again on ebay

 

[Solar man]

Originally Posted by DancingWithPoodles
it is breeding ground not breading ground. learn to spell first

Stop being so arrogant;;
and learn some manners please...