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I think if you price your machine right on ebay it sells first time around unless it's Jan in which case you may have to hold back a few months, doesn't look good when your pin keeps getting relisted week in week out (unless you don't give a toss about selling in which case the only people that get wound up are the price police : - ) I think ebay fees have forced sellers to list with an inflated BIN in the hope that the machine sells outside ebay, there is definitely a shortage of interesting titles for grabs and the trend seems to be getting worse, I think it's a sign of the times as collectors hold on to the cream with the knowledge that it may be a struggle to re-acquire the same title without a lengthy wait or an eye watering price hike.
 
I've just received the eBay invoice for selling my spare MM playfield and it works out at 10%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My fault for not checking but holy crap, £65 in fees! I never realised it was so high. That's me done with high-value items on eBay, it's just not worth it.
 
Yup, ebay is good and evil, sellers wishing to avoid the evil but still advertise on ebay are forced to establish a price that is realistic but also above what it is likely to sell for, too high and people will laugh and post stuff on forums, too low and someone hits the buy it now button and you have a walletectomy in store esp on any high ticket items.
 
I just sold a watch for £200. eBay charged me £20 and then paypal charged me another £10. The owners must be making billions a year!?
 
jonathan said:
I just sold a watch for £200. eBay charged me £20 and then paypal charged me another £10. The owners must be making billions a year!?
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And due to clever tax avoidance, it's all close to being tax free too...
 
The internet is screaming for some decent competition to the thieving money-grabbing monopoly that is eBay/Paypal. I don't understand why it hasn't come along?
 
Steve said:
The internet is screaming for some decent competition to the thieving money-grabbing monopoly that is eBay/Paypal. I don't understand why it hasn't come along?
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If you are buying from ebay its great. Not so if you are selling. Ebay is greedy and what they charge is pure greed, Just think how many items sell every minuet and they are taking a 10% cut of all of that.
They are rakeing it in and everyone that goes on or uses ebay is helping them.
There are other internet selling/buying sites out there but because no where near enough people use them to buy and sell they will never catch the ever growing ever getting greedier ebay.
Anyone with something to sell knows that he or she will put his or her item to a bigger buying audience on ebay than any other selling site, thus to get some of the moneys back that ebay/paypal charge it goes onto the price of the item he or she is selling (if its a buy it now), thus the buyer loses out not ebay or paypal they just get bigger and fatter.
Tosser's
Rant over. Right where did I put my beer.
 
I know...

but you have the classifieds here, the wiki on ukpinball group, classifieds on pin side etc all of which I would sooner buy from than any eBay style site.

pinball is expensive enough without somebody making 10-20% just for facilitating the sale
 
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