OT: Ebay & PayPal Charge Way too Much

I sold a jetski for 3500 and ebay/paypal fees were horrendous, told the buyer to pay cash on pickup.
ive since closed paypal after reading a bad writeup on them and cut back using ebay as well.
Intend on using tradingpost more from now on though i havent checked there fees, hopefully not as bad as feebay.
Cheers.

G'Day GB

Have you tried OZTION at all?? I haven't yet , but thought i might give it a go next time i want to sell something

Cheers......Borgy

Gone Bush
Good to see your learning mate , but don't learn the hard way, yeh.. stick with EO , I had a few items to get rid of before I keft El Arish, made up some for sale signs on the PC, stuck them on the PO window and sold the lot , Garmin Quest, Exercise Bike, Guitar, and a laptop, ,

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I haven't had any problems with either Ebay or Paypal.

As for the Trading Post, I've been trying to sell the Courier for months. They've stuffed the ad up, used the wrong pictures, put it in the wrong category and they are a nightmare to deal with on the phone if you get the wrong person but the contrast if you get the right one is astounding.

I've only received one genuine phone call in three months - he bought it at the original price after a 6 hour drive to look at it but his girlfriend was involved in financing it and they split up or something and the sale fell through at the 11th hour.

I've dropped the price substantially from the price I had it sold at, and I'm sick to death of phone calls from people trying to sell me another option for selling the thing.

I've not had a single contact from the Trader Ad on here.

I don't think it helps being away from Melbourne but then again there aren't many vehicles sold fully set up ready to go.

I've not tried ebay but I'm nearly at that point....

Any suggestions welcome.

Dave

Gone Bush
I have tried to earn you all to them.
You should have read my blog some months ago re Ebay & PP, LOL, they are not user friendly people at all.

Pay Pal & Ebay evils

Cheers Colin.

What? You didn't know the fees involved before deciding to list it on ebay?

I am always aware of the worse case fee scenario when selling anything, and choose whether to commit to the contract based upon this.....most times allowing for these fees to be built into my acceptable price (eg reserve price or starting listing).

Less than 10% in fees is not too bad by todays standards for some auctions/tenders.

Andrew