Ebay or Amazon Marketplace?

[Jay]

As a seller which service would you recommend?

[xbltheshadow]

If you're selling low-priced items, eBay is better. If you don't sell alot and don't subsribe to Amazon's special seller plan, you have to pay $0.99 + a flat fee for whatever category your item is listed in + a percentage of the final value, also dependant on category. It adds up quicky. For example, I recently sold a book on amazon for $3.00 + a $3.99 standard shipping credit. After amazon commission, I ended up with about $4.50 and I had yet to pay for postage for my book. In the end, I may have made $2 off that book.

A good side to Amazon is that you get to set your price. Theres no limit to how long you can keep an item up for sale, and they don't charge you until it is sold; which more or less they don't really "charge" you, they just take it out of the payment sent to you.

With eBay, its mainly auction based unless you want to pay extra fees for a buy it now or a fixed price item. And they hammer you with so many fees on tick-tack stuff, it's insane. Example, first picture is free, $0.15 for each additional or they allow you to buy a gallery package for something like $0.65 where you can add up to like 8 pictures or something. And if you want a more visible listing, more fees for that.

It really does depend on what you're looking at selling. Higher priced items I would try to put on Amazon if you can, lower priced items can go to eBay. And of course, both have risks of running into buyers that just don't follow any rules, so do this at your own risk. If doing eBay, make sure you set out your terms of the auction before finalizing it.

Edit: And please double check all the fees and stuff that each site charges. Amazon's (http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=1161240), eBay's (http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html) (trust me, WAY more than what's listed on the page, this is just the basic fees that will get your item listed), and Paypal's (http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-fees-outside) (Warning: eBay forces you to have a Paypal Premier or Business account)

[Dragon Warrior Jasen]

If you are going to do Video Game Related stuff, check out www.gamegavel.com. It is completely free, and has PayPal, Google Checkout, and MoneyBookers support. That way you don't have to get locked into any single pay type. And, since its free you can list everything and anything and keep ALL of the money and only share it if you use a payment gateway like PayPal, Google Checkout, etc.

[Sinnbox]

From personal experience with all three site mentioned in this thread I mainly sell on Game Gavel. Ebay is getting to be less and less seller friendly, and Amazon is a good site but they take a large chunk out of the selling price.

As a game seller I prefer Game Gavel because it is FREE to list, and there is NO Final Value Fee!!, also all the members of Game Gavel are there because they are Gamers, you wont run into little Bobby's aunt that wants to know why he cant play the copy of Sonic Adventure that she got from you on his PS2. All the transactions i have made on Game Gavel have been verry satisfactory, and all the members i have been in contact with are friendly and helpfull.