View Full Version : [DEAD] eBay $.10 listing February 28th ONLY!
neudog
02-28-2006, 02:40 AM
Went to go search eBay around 12:30 a.m. and on the front page they had an ad for $.10 listings for Feb. 28th. If this has been posted moderators feel free to close, thanks.
LINK: http://pages.ebay.com/promo/10fixprice/
Roufuss
02-28-2006, 02:45 AM
Thanks a ton, time to unload a bunch of stuff.
neudog
02-28-2006, 02:48 AM
No Prob Roufuss. I just hope that CAG's can capitalize even though it might mean stuff on TL's I'm looking at goes up on the block.
jovherye
02-28-2006, 03:53 AM
Thank you! I can finally unload a bunch of my junk! By the way I'm under seller rynvhe.
vilhaim
02-28-2006, 07:43 AM
Too bad it's Fixed Price Listing only and not Auction style Listing
encendido5
02-28-2006, 10:03 AM
Awesome, time to unload all the crap I have laying around.
And vilhaim, why not just set a really high BIN price, and lower it every couple of days. I'm sure you can get the price you want even without the auction style.
Genocidal
02-28-2006, 10:12 AM
Tempting to try and sell some stuff, but kind of worried that with the flood of items today whatever I'm offering won't be bought. Thanks for the heads up OP.
dafoomie
02-28-2006, 10:18 AM
I just listed 5 things.
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZdafoomie
RandyTsai
02-28-2006, 10:29 AM
not 100% sure, but don't they charge a higher final bid price with an fixed price auction?
secretvampire
02-28-2006, 11:42 AM
Really makes me feel better since those fuckers are about to raise the final listing percentage again from 2.75% to 3%. Thanks for nothing, Ebay!
Rihan
02-28-2006, 12:43 PM
I never sold anything on ebay. What other cost would their be if I sold something for $20?
Your soul and first born son.
encendido5
02-28-2006, 12:51 PM
I never sold anything on ebay. What other cost would their be if I sold something for $20?
If you accept Credit Card Paypal payments, you're looking at around $17.50 after all the fees. That's not including shipping of course. If you don't accept Paypal, you can add $.88 to your total.
Pookymeister
02-28-2006, 02:58 PM
Of course i listed two things yesterday with $5 in listing fees....
Oh well, time to put back up all the stuff that didnt sell last .10 sale and more.
munch
02-28-2006, 05:00 PM
I might put my xbox and games up with this. So if I sell it, I only have to pay .10 to ebay? dumb question, but i've never sold before.
Pookymeister
02-28-2006, 05:10 PM
I might put my xbox and games up with this. So if I sell it, I only have to pay .10 to ebay? dumb question, but i've never sold before.
No, you still pay a final value fee which is a % of your sell price. Its plateau-based, but i dont recall the figures. It goes something like you pay %3 of the first $25, then 2.5% of $25 to $100, then 2% of the rest.
Easier to just look it up ;p
munch
02-28-2006, 05:22 PM
No, you still pay a final value fee which is a % of your sell price. Its plateau-based, but i dont recall the figures. It goes something like you pay %3 of the first $25, then 2.5% of $25 to $100, then 2% of the rest.
Easier to just look it up ;p
Cool, i'm going to check it out. And, if it doesn't sell for the price I want it'll only cost me .10? Sorry, i'm a newb to this.
WebScud
02-28-2006, 06:05 PM
Cool, i'm going to check it out. And, if it doesn't sell for the price I want it'll only cost me .10? Sorry, i'm a newb to this.
Yeah. You only get charged the listing fee if you item doesn't sell.
And I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that if you relist you item and it sells you are refunded the first insertion (listing) fee.
Roufuss
02-28-2006, 06:10 PM
And I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that if you relist you item and it sells you are refunded the first insertion (listing) fee.
According to the email I received today for one of my items not selling, if you re-list it a second time and sell it, they refund you the SECOND insertion fee upon selling the item (if it sells).
Ebay is pretty fun, and really easy... they hold your hand through everything pretty much.
munch
02-28-2006, 06:20 PM
I think i'm going to try it if i'm only out .10 if it doesn't sell. Sounds like a really good deal to me.
Mojimbo
02-28-2006, 09:49 PM
This sounds like a good deal but I'm a bit lost.
What do you guys recommend as far as auction options? Should I pay the extra I think it's $0.35 to put a picture next to my auction in the listings? To be honest I'd prefer to stick to paypal(either credit card or standard is fine) but I'm not sure if that's too limiting. What's a good length(for a BIN) and when should I set it to end? Also, this is only for Buy it Now listings, right? Sorry for the stupid questions, but my only experience with ebay is from buying an item a couple of years ago. Thanks a lot.
m0dem
02-28-2006, 10:48 PM
This sounds like a good deal but I'm a bit lost.
What do you guys recommend as far as auction options? Should I pay the extra I think it's $0.35 to put a picture next to my auction in the listings? To be honest I'd prefer to stick to paypal(either credit card or standard is fine) but I'm not sure if that's too limiting. What's a good length(for a BIN) and when should I set it to end? Also, this is only for Buy it Now listings, right? Sorry for the stupid questions, but my only experience with ebay is from buying an item a couple of years ago. Thanks a lot.
Good length for buy it now is 7 days because its up long enough for people to see it and if someone sees it on the 6 day and buys it you get your money early. And if it takes longer for someone to see it its up for 7 days
Mojimbo
02-28-2006, 11:03 PM
Thank you.
Since I'm a newbie I'd like to protect myself from fraud or shenanagins in general, do you guys think it would be a good idea to accept (credit card )paypal only and use 'immediate payment required'? Or is that too limiting for a new ebay seller?
Pookymeister
02-28-2006, 11:10 PM
Thank you.
Since I'm a newbie I'd like to protect myself from fraud or shenanagins in general, do you guys think it would be a good idea to accept (credit card )paypal only and use 'immediate payment required'? Or is that too limiting for a new ebay seller?
Immediate payment means you won't accept anthing BUT paypal, just so you know. Its a trade off between never getting non-paying bidders and not getting people who don't like to pay RIGHT AWAY.
YoshiFan1
02-28-2006, 11:35 PM
That's true that it might deter some people (especially money order users) but I liked immedieate payment required because it seems a lot less stressful for the seller.
kdunn77
03-01-2006, 12:14 AM
Anybody having trouble submitting listings? 11:00 pm EST
Roufuss
03-01-2006, 12:15 AM
Anybody having trouble submitting listings? 11:00 pm EST
I am, but I think the website is slammed with people hurrying to list stuff to sell.
munch
03-01-2006, 12:20 AM
It's taking me forever to load pics right now. Hopefully it goes through soon.
munch
03-01-2006, 12:38 AM
How do you change the stock photo? I can't figure it out.
Pookymeister
03-01-2006, 01:08 AM
How do you change the stock photo? I can't figure it out.
If you upload your own photo it should overwrite it. Unless you are trying to use it as your gallery, then there should be a dropdown to choose "First Photo"
Got 20 things up for sale now. I like when these sales come around, i get rid of alot of junk =]
Mojimbo
03-01-2006, 02:35 AM
I'm running out of time, can I just put up a bland listing to take advantage of the cheap listing price today and go back tomorrow when I have more time to format it neatly with pictures or is there an additional price for that? Thanks.
Pookymeister
03-01-2006, 02:43 AM
I'm running out of time, can I just put up a bland listing to take advantage of the cheap listing price today and go back tomorrow when I have more time to format it neatly with pictures or is there an additional price for that? Thanks.
as long as no one has bid(bought in fixed prices auctions) or not less than 12 hours left, you can change/add whatever you want.
dafoomie
03-01-2006, 06:48 AM
This sounds like a good deal but I'm a bit lost.
What do you guys recommend as far as auction options? Should I pay the extra I think it's $0.35 to put a picture next to my auction in the listings? To be honest I'd prefer to stick to paypal(either credit card or standard is fine) but I'm not sure if that's too limiting. What's a good length(for a BIN) and when should I set it to end? Also, this is only for Buy it Now listings, right? Sorry for the stupid questions, but my only experience with ebay is from buying an item a couple of years ago. Thanks a lot.
I was kind of in the same boat, I put 5 things up on ebay and didn't do any of the stuff that costs an extra fee. I also preferred Paypal, didn't require immediate payment, and listed USPS money orders as an option. I sold 2 things so far, both paid with Paypal immediately. I wouldn't worry about it too much.
I listed a bunch of crap (mostly the 'extras' I bought at CC for the Buy 2 Get 1 free sale) and sold 3 already. Woo-hoo. The funny thing is that yesterday evening I specifically looked at the ebay message board to see if there were any upcoming cheap listing days and saw nothing. Then I was on a few hours later (late Monday night) and got an email about it. Strange...
I know its too late now, but you wanna go 7 day for sure, and I would leave off any extra fee items. If you've got something that would benefit from extras such as gallery pics, etc, then it is probably something more valuable that will sell anyway and you can just list it some other time when eBay isn't flooded with crap like it will be for the next 7 days :lol:.
I mean, adding extra fees kind of defeats the purpose of using the 10 cent listing day to throw up a bunch of stuff and hope some of it gets bought without losing much money if very little does get bought. Though I suppose if you were going to list a high value item anyway (like a PSP) you might as well use the 10 cent day and add some extras (like gallery). I just get into the mindset of clearing out my shelves of games I'll never play, so don't think I need to spend any more than 10 cents to list them.
But a listing sale like this is the perfect way to get into eBay, or to get into selling something you aren't too familiar with. My wife is thinking of selling some of our kids older clothes (the nice stuff like Lands Ends, etc) but we have no idea how that goes, so we could use a day like this to test run some auctions. Unfortunately, eBay gave such short notice about it we couldn't get our act together.
My dilemma on the auctions I did run, is that since these games are such cheapies, I might forgo the delivery confirmation as it will take a pretty large percentage of the profit (if there is any!). I might, on these games, just take my chances with PayPal chargebacks as they are all low-to-no cost anyway. I mean, I'm selling some for less than $5 - that 55 cents for DC on 1st class mail is a big hit :D.
I have one auction where I'm selling an NBA Street for PS2 for $5 (which I picked up free at Best Buy a while back hoping to use for GR trade-in deals but it is worth squat even there). I set up all the auctions with the "Best Offer" option (which maybe wasn't the best idea). So I get a lowball offer for $4, which I think is hilarious. It has just been 1 day of 7, but I might take them up on it tomorrow, as I just want to get rid of it. But you have to wonder why they bothered. I don't usually do the fixed price thing (and thus get "best offers"). Is the offer good for the length of the auction? In other words, if I wait a few days, and then if I accept it, are they obligated to buy as in any other auction? I suppose there must be a mechanism for the buyer to cancel the offer. I know I wouldn't want to wait too long before hearing from a seller. The email from ebay says nothing about the length of time the offer is good for.
munch
03-01-2006, 09:01 AM
I paid a total of $2.20 to list my xbox lot. I don't know how much it usually costs, but I'm happy with it (especially if I get the price I want). No big deal if I don't, though.
Here's a link:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8264208838&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1
I paid a total of $2.20 to list my xbox lot. I don't know how much it usually costs, but I'm happy with it (especially if I get the price I want). No big deal if I don't, though.
Here's a link:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8264208838&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1
Well, I don't know what else you added to the 10 cents, but just the listing fee for a fixed price auction at $275 would have been $3.60 normally. So I suppose you would have paid $5.70 normally.
I didn't go over 10 cents on any of my listings and the first game I sold early morning Tues paid for all the listing fees for the others - so no loss except the time spent listing if nothing else sells :D.
Pookymeister
03-01-2006, 10:06 AM
I might, on these games, just take my chances with PayPal chargebacks as they are all low-to-no cost anyway. I mean, I'm selling some for less than $5 - that 55 cents for DC on 1st class mail is a big hit :D.
If you use paypal to print out your labels - DC is only .14.
If you use paypal to print out your labels - DC is only .14.
I thought that was only for priority? And doesn't PayPal charge you for printing labels?? I'll have to look into it. I'm kind of old fashioned though - I hand write my addresses and carry everything to the post office to mail there :D.
By the way, the auction that someone lowballed me on just sold at the regular price - WOO-HOO, an extra $1 for me. But in the mean time I got about 3 more $1-$2 off "best offers" :D. And actually, my only two high priced (meaning $30) auctions actually sold too - so all that is left is CC cheapness.
Pookymeister
03-01-2006, 06:22 PM
No - priority has free DC =]
And you dont have to pay anything - you just hit the Ship button in Paypal next to the payment and off you go. I think its a lot easier, and paypal emails the DC number to the buyer. Plus its a lot easier to prove you sent something if you do it that way.
No - priority has free DC =]
And you dont have to pay anything - you just hit the Ship button in Paypal next to the payment and off you go. I think its a lot easier, and paypal emails the DC number to the buyer. Plus its a lot easier to prove you sent something if you do it that way.
Damn, well a while ago they offered me some sort of shipping service and it was full of fees, so I always ignored that stuff afterwards.
I just found out a few weeks ago that you could enter the DC number into the shipping info and it gets sent to the buyer that way as well. I always just emailed the buyer directly with the DC before, and completely ignored PayPal. The only time I ever had a chargeback issue I was able to enter the DC then, so it was no problem (then the package got delivered anyway).
I'll look into it - I still don't get how the shipment thing works - do you pay for the whole postage up front? I would think you'd have to for the DC to be 14 cents. But then when I mail things at the post office they are always different prices according to weight. This new fangled technology has me confused :D.
I realize no one is probably reading this any more, but I thought I'd chime in with a bit of advise about the "best offer" issue. I just had another game where someone sent me a lowball offer sell at the regular price not long after.
I guess it makes sense - auctions where people are looking and sending you offers within the first few days are more popular and likely to sell for the listed price anyway some time within the 7 days. Now if you get an offer towards the end you might want to take it, especially if page views have been low, but the ones at the beginning are probably worth waiting on.
Pookymeister
03-01-2006, 08:18 PM
Damn, well a while ago they offered me some sort of shipping service and it was full of fees, so I always ignored that stuff afterwards.
I just found out a few weeks ago that you could enter the DC number into the shipping info and it gets sent to the buyer that way as well. I always just emailed the buyer directly with the DC before, and completely ignored PayPal. The only time I ever had a chargeback issue I was able to enter the DC then, so it was no problem (then the package got delivered anyway).
I'll look into it - I still don't get how the shipment thing works - do you pay for the whole postage up front? I would think you'd have to for the DC to be 14 cents. But then when I mail things at the post office they are always different prices according to weight. This new fangled technology has me confused :D.
Yea you basically have to weigh your stuff beforehand, since you have to enter in the weight online before paying(Comes out of your paypal account)
Yea you basically have to weigh your stuff beforehand, since you have to enter in the weight online before paying(Comes out of your paypal account)
Yeah, I just tried it and had to enter the weight. So either I need to buy a postal scale or I need to take everything in to the post office and weight it first, and hope their public scale matches their teller scales. Or I could just go with the higher price, but then that doesn't save me much :D. Not sure if that is all worth it to save 40 cents on DC. But I will probably use it when I send things priority mail as that cost should be fixed.
encendido5
03-01-2006, 09:19 PM
Well if you have a radio shack by you, you can try to get the scale mentioned here:
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=85900
I bought one and it works really well. No more having to guesstimate the weight...
Pookymeister
03-01-2006, 09:20 PM
Yeah, I just tried it and had to enter the weight. So either I need to buy a postal scale or I need to take everything in to the post office and weight it first, and hope their public scale matches their teller scales. Or I could just go with the higher price, but then that doesn't save me much :D. Not sure if that is all worth it to save 40 cents on DC. But I will probably use it when I send things priority mail as that cost should be fixed.
Ive seen $10 scales around from Radio Shack , so youd save your money after i guess 40 sales =]
And i don't know how busy your PO is, but i save about 20 mins of waiting in line by having everything paid for already and can just drop it off.
Ive seen $10 scales around from Radio Shack , so youd save your money after i guess 40 sales =]
And i don't know how busy your PO is, but i save about 20 mins of waiting in line by having everything paid for already and can just drop it off.
My PO is pretty empty and fairly close, so no biggie for me. When I lived in Tucson though it was a long drive and ALWAYS a 20-30 minute wait. Ugh...
I sent several items from this 10 cent sale using the PayPal label printing. Thanks for all the info, it works pretty nicely. As for the weights, I just guessed - almost all console games with bubble mailers are in between 6 and 7 ounces, so you can just guess 7 (same rate for 6.1 - 7 ounces). I had just one come up at 6 or under (an Xbox game - are XBox game cases slightly lighter?), so it would have been a bit cheaper to mail regularly (though the DC would have cost 60 cents then and the total would have been more).
I have just 2 minor complaints about the PayPal process. Of course I don't have any self-adhesive labels, so I just printed on normal paper. The labels are WAY too big (and I'm selecting the smallest option they have) and are a pain to affix to the bubble mailers while not covering the bar codes with tape as in their instructions.
The other (minor) complaint is that the DC info doesn't seem to work the same way. They don't scan the items when I drop them off! This is a bit of a pain because when I buy DC regularly they scan it right away and within a few hours it shows on the tracking info that the item was accepted at my post office - which proves to the buyer that I actually sent it. The PayPal DC numbers don't show anything until delivery.
But, overall, it has been positive as it has saved me a few $$ and I was able to use DC on all the things I sent out from this cheapy sale, which I was not going to do otherwise.
So, how is everyone doing from the 10 cent sale? I sold a few right away, then nothing for a few days, and now it has picked up again. So far I've sold nearly half of the almost 40 items I put up. Not bad at all - that is about what I was hoping for from the entire sale and I still have through Tuesday. Since most of this was crap I picked up at CC to use the Buy 2 Get 1 free sale I'm pretty happy with it. I did also add a few things that I have sitting around sealed that I can repurchase cheaper, later, with GR credit (like Kingdom Hearts).
YoshiFan1
03-04-2006, 06:58 PM
The other (minor) complaint is that the DC info doesn't seem to work the same way. They don't scan the items when I drop them off! This is a bit of a pain because when I buy DC regularly they scan it right away and within a few hours it shows on the tracking info that the item was accepted at my post office - which proves to the buyer that I actually sent it. The PayPal DC numbers don't show anything until delivery.
Which is part of the reason I haven't switched to online postage yet. When a buyer questions you where the item is, at least I know when I send them the DC number, it shows the item was accepted and sent.
I have seen people use the online postage at my local PO and I have yet to see it scanned once when that method is used.
dracula
03-04-2006, 07:38 PM
So, how is everyone doing from the 10 cent sale? I sold a few right away, then nothing for a few days, and now it has picked up again. So far I've sold nearly half of the almost 40 items I put up. Not bad at all - that is about what I was hoping for from the entire sale and I still have through Tuesday. Since most of this was crap I picked up at CC to use the Buy 2 Get 1 free sale I'm pretty happy with it. I did also add a few things that I have sitting around sealed that I can repurchase cheaper, later, with GR credit (like Kingdom Hearts).
i only put up 10 items and so far have sold 3. i would be happy if half of them sell.
The 7 days are just up in about 7 minutes...
Final tally: sold 28 of 41 items. Not bad, not bad at all.
The funny thing was my very last auction was for some POS crappy game from CC that I had reduced to $2.84 the last day. TWO MINUTES before the auction ends I get a "Best Offer" for $1. Of course I didn't see it in time to accept it (not that I would have). I have no idea what the guy was thinking.
In nearly every case where I got a "Best Offer" I simply waited a day or two and someone else bought it. I did accept a few when they were only $1 or $2 off my price, particularly if I had 2 of the same game for sale (or I have more at home that I didn't list).
Most of the ones that didn't sell were either complete junk from CC (though I managed to sell a few I didn't think I would) or higher priced items I threw up there for the heck of it (like an extra Taiko Drum Master I bought at CC a year ago for $35 thinking that was a great deal :roll:).
I haven't figured out the totals, but the money I made covered all of my CC purchases during that Buy 2 Get 1 free sale - so all the games I got with that sale (DMC3:SE, Ty 3, a few DS games, and several other things for the kids) ended up being free, plus I still have some junk left over to trade in or sell at the next 10 cent listing day.
Roufuss
03-08-2006, 03:58 AM
Sold everything minus 1 or 2 things, which will definately sell during the relist. Mostly a bunch of sealed Xbox games that I made $15 on each one. I'm very sastisfied, now my gf can't complain about me buying more games since I'm making a bit of extra cash to pay for them :D
Except that copy of Polarium I got at TRU for $2, that didn't sell at all, so I think I'll trade it in to Gamerush, if they still give $10 on it.
Ebay sure is addicting though... I already have a ton of new things to put up real soon.
But yea, best offer can kiss my ass. I rejected three best offers that were the SAME PRICE... if I didn't accept the price once, I'm not going to accept it the next two times. And yea, can't forget the guy who offered me $9.99 for a sealed Lost in Blue, sure buddy, that's a great deal.
I should add that of the 28 I sold, 5 are sending payment by methods other than PayPal, including one dude from Germany, which worries me a bit. Hopefully he'll send cash :D. I've gotten screwed on checks (once, from Canada, despite my acceptance of US checks only) and even international money orders (in US$) sent from other countries. In both cases my bank charged extra fees several days AFTER I cashed them, when I asked specifically at time of cashing if there would be fees with the answer being NO. That is probably a slightly higher percentage of non-PayPal than normal (I'd say normally it is 95% PayPal).
I expect probably 2-3 of these 5 to be non-paying bidders. A few are already a bit late since they won the auctions last Weds or so. Though why they would bother to use a BIN and then shrug it off is a bit wierd. I have one jackass from the UK who bought a fairly high-priced item (compared to my CC junk anyway) and then told me he would pay me on March 20th (after he got paid). It's no big deal if he actually goes through with it, but I politely suggested that in the future he should ask about that sort of thing before bidding, especially as he took out one of my 7 day fixed price auctions in the second day. Someone else could have had it.
On the plus side, I've already gotten 4 positive feedbacks from people who received their items from this set of listings already.
Roufuss
03-08-2006, 01:34 PM
I should add that of the 28 I sold, 5 are sending payment by methods other than PayPal, including one dude from Germany, which worries me a bit. Hopefully he'll send cash :D. I've gotten screwed on checks (once, from Canada, despite my acceptance of US checks only) and even international money orders (in US$) sent from other countries. In both cases my bank charged extra fees several days AFTER I cashed them, when I asked specifically at time of cashing if there would be fees with the answer being NO. That is probably a slightly higher percentage of non-PayPal than normal (I'd say normally it is 95% PayPal).
I expect probably 2-3 of these 5 to be non-paying bidders. A few are already a bit late since they won the auctions last Weds or so. Though why they would bother to use a BIN and then shrug it off is a bit wierd. I have one jackass from the UK who bought a fairly high-priced item (compared to my CC junk anyway) and then told me he would pay me on March 20th (after he got paid). It's no big deal if he actually goes through with it, but I politely suggested that in the future he should ask about that sort of thing before bidding, especially as he took out one of my 7 day fixed price auctions in the second day. Someone else could have had it.
On the plus side, I've already gotten 4 positive feedbacks from people who received their items from this set of listings already.
Making your auctions Paypal only and Instant Payment required solves all those problems :D
Pookymeister
03-08-2006, 01:50 PM
Making your auctions Paypal only and Instant Payment required solves all those problems :D
I started accepting Western Union for people who find out that they cant pay with Paypal for whatever reason (usually confirmed address issues since i only accept those). Its pretty easy, i just go to superfresh and fill out a form and they give me the money. It would be a hassle for a $5 item, but so far its been for 50+ things. No fees for the seller either, and you know you can't be scammed since you have the money in hand.
Making your auctions Paypal only and Instant Payment required solves all those problems :D
Yes, but I figure I have gotten dozens of items sold, or sold for higher prices, over the years because I accept checks/MOs. That has more than made up for any fees/hassle. Same for international buyers (probably more so there since a large percentage of my sales are out of the US). I just don't particularly like it when the two are combined - I wish you could require PayPal for foreign buyers but not force it on US buyers. I know you can do this via instructions in your auction, but people often ignore those :D.
Damn, just checked my email and they are having ANOTHER 10 cent listing day today (March 15th). I guess I can run a few more :D.
Noticed that myself. This deserves a new thread.