Sunil, You'd think so but it's not quite true. With home sellers, those who sell a few items: Even eBay has limits to what they can charge before they chase off customers. Plus there are other on-line auction sites that are just waiting for eBay to stumble and some of these sites process a reasonable volume of on-line auctions. The fees that eBay charges may seem high but when you consider the market exposure, the fees become very reasonable. That is unless you sell a $10.00 item on eBay that you can easily sell locally for $10.00. When pricing for eBay sales, you need to factor in the additional cost & make sure that the expanded market exposure will support the additional selling price. In other words, that $10.00 item needs to sell on eBay for $12.00. If you have something unique, collectable or not likely sold locally then you should do well with eBay. Most sellers don't understand this & ask too little for an item or they try & sell common items that really have no business on eBay. With retail sellers: In addition to what I stated above, retail sellers usually have their own web store and possibly a retail location. With a business, it's more of a cost verses gain calculation. In my case, I'd have to hire another Employee to generate the sales that eBay generates. EBay marketing costs less! By the way, we have 2 on-line stores, one on eBay & the other a on-line (non eBay) store: http://stores.ebay.com/Tom-Hargrave-Sales http://www.kegkits.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=SFNT <http://www.kegkits.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=SFNT&Store_Code=W> &Store_Code=W
Thanks, Tom Hargrave 256-656-1924 www.kegkits.com _____ From: Sunil Hari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 11:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] selling cars on ebay and ebay can charge what they want b/c they have a near-monopoly on the online auction game. On 6/16/07, Tom Hargrave < <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I agree 100% with Allan. The amount of $$$ I pay eBay per month exceeds my house payment by at least 3X but the return is worth the cost. Thanks, Tom Hargrave 256-656-1924 www.kegkits.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allan Streib Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 8:56 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: Banned List Subject: Re: [MBZ] selling cars on ebay "Kaleb C. Striplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I thought $40 was expensive but $90, that is insane. Yeah but if you have a car that people will pay crazy money for as so often happens on eBay, worth $90 to get extra hundreds or thousands of $$ for the car? Allan -- 1983 300D 1966 230 _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com <http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ <http://www.buymbparts.com/> For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com -- Sunil Hari 1992 300D 2.5T - 290Kmi - for sale [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 513-205-7474 _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
