Selling on Amazon vs. Ebay

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This thought came from another discussion about OOP DVD's...

Does anybody out there have experience selling on Amazon vs. selling on Ebay?

The reason I ask is that Amazon seems consistently higher than Ebay or Half.com on "rare" items. The question is, does anybody actually buy these. Anybody got any stories?
 
Amazon charges more fees for sellers. Amazon charges $0.99 plus a 15% comission which is usually more than EBay fees. I think Half.com is the best since it's still part of EBay but there is no $0.99 transaction fee like on Amazon (still 15% comission) and like Amazon, there is no listing fee and the item is listed until it sells.
 
Another vote for half.com, both buying and selling, although sometimes I will buy from eBay or even Amazon marketplace if I can't find what I am looking for on half.
 
I sold a copy of Super Monkey Ball 2 on Amazon back before it went PC. It sold the day after I put it up for sale. I'm sure the speed of that sale is the exception rather than the rule. I haven't sold on Half.com or on eBay, so I can't compare them to Amazon, but if I were to sell something again, it would be on Amazon.
 
I've sold VHS tapes on Amazon that I did not want to sell at auction -- fees are steeper, nd the feedback mechanism is not great. Probably should have listed them on ebay's half.com instead.

EDIT - I remember that I chose not to sell on half.com, because if the deal went sour somehow I did not want it to effect my sparkling ebay rep (197 positive ratings, 0 neg).
 
Amazon.com and Half.com don't allow International buyers for games. So the best place to sell is Ebay in my opinion, international buyers are the ones willing to pay the most for the games..
 
Half.com allows you to ship to Canadian buyers. A few weeks ago I sold a game to someone in Canada. What happens is you ship the game to a distribution person in Michigan. They then ship the game to the person in Canada for you. The buyer pays for the shipping fees like normal and you only pay for shipping the game to Michigan. The person you ship the game to is set up with Half.com so it's not an individual doing this on there own.
 
[quote name='chosen1s']So,

Has anybody actually listed anything on Amazon and had it sell?[/quote]

I've sold tons of crap on Amazon. CDs, games, books, etc.
 
[quote name='YoshiFan1']Half.com allows you to ship to Canadian buyers.[/quote]

Yea, but as far as I know Canada is unfortunately the only other country that half.com allows shipping to :(
 
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