The eBay Auctions / Facebook / Gumtree / Shpock 2025 thread

[Fantazia2]

I see EBay have started rolling out their latest wheeze adding the Buyers fees to listings. So all those unsold pins sat forever are even less likely to sell now at the new higher price

View attachment 271086

Postage is still a bargain though.

Looks like they are not adding buyers fees to the postage amount, queue loads of sellers listing pins for 1p with £4000 delivery. No Collection.

 

[AlanJ]

Only for private sellers. Makes it easy to spot those business sellers who pretend to be private.

It’s a **** show. I’ve removed all my pinball parts from eBay. It’s just cr a p

 

[colin7070]

Ebay shooting themselves in the foot with the add-on prices. Anyone wanting to sell below a price point ie £999 now has to calculate this before posting. Puts me right off even more. £4086. 72 for a £4000 machine, grabbing b*stards.

 

[lukewells]

This is the dumbest way of doing fees. Now I am going to have to go through and edit 100+ listings to manually edit the price down so that the total is back to what it was before the bolt-on fees. It would have been more sensible to just go back to taking their cut out of the total if that's what they want

 

[Sgt GrizZ]

This is the dumbest way of doing fees. Now I am going to have to go through and edit 100+ listings to manually edit the price down so that the total is back to what it was before the bolt-on fees. It would have been more sensible to just go back to taking their cut out of the total if that's what they want

Yeah it’s ridiculous . Not least because now prices look mental

Wtf are they thinking. I’d rather it was just sellers fees again than this dogs dinner. Be interesting to see how long this lasts - can’t imagine anyone is happy with it .

 

[AlanJ]

This is the dumbest way of doing fees. Now I am going to have to go through and edit 100+ listings to manually edit the price down so that the total is back to what it was before the bolt-on fees. It would have been more sensible to just go back to taking their cut out of the total if that's what they want

But you’ve benefitted from no fees if you’ve somehow got away with private rather than business seller status. They’re now after any private seller who seems they can tag as a business sellers

 

[Fantazia2]

Also pointless doing free postage now, something they promoted for a while saying they would prioritise listing's with free postage.

 

[AlanJ]

They’ve ****ed up trying to rival vinted. It all started with used clothes and they then thought they could corner a market with no fees, but their business sellers kicked off big style , and it cost them a lot of lost revenue, so then they thought let’s follow on more the vinted model and do buyers premium to pacify the business customers and get some income back fromThe private sellers.

26 years on ebay and I’ve decided to leave.

 

[Fantazia2]

Doesn't vinted at least show the buyer fee? It's hidden on ebay.

 

[AlanJ]

Doesn't vinted at least show the buyer fee? It's hidden on ebay.

Exactly. They’ve reacted quickly and done a 50%chicken job.

 

[Jason Catrine]

I’ve listed my Outrun pcb tonight so heres how it looks as a seller. And i had to adjust my starting price down to £287 to get it under the £300 mark. Originally entered £300 as my starting price then when I checked the listing it had bumped it up to £312.72.

 

[cooldan]

Looks a bit dark

 

[Sgt GrizZ]

Not sure if correct but I read on an eBay discussion last night that they had tried this Buyers Fee shambles on the US site and it was so badly received they ditched it

 

[Sgt GrizZ]

£6500 TAF just listed on Facebook. Looks ok. Better be quick

 

[Moonraker]

£6500 TAF just listed on Facebook. Looks ok. Better be quick

That's some nasty wear on the house windows next to Fester's head.

 

[Sgt GrizZ]

That's some nasty wear on the house windows next to Fester's head.

Tbh I only glanced at it
Ok for 6500 then …. theres a vast gulf between ok and perfect and TAF pricing is in its own world anyway

 

[Bobbdobalina]

I think £6500 is strong money for that taf. Really nice ones are around the £7-7.5 mark.

 

[steve brum]

Where are the 7k nice ones?
I only see over priced chancers on ebay and dealer sites

 

[Bobbdobalina]

Where are the 7k nice ones?
I only see over priced chancers on ebay and dealer sites

Pretty sure there was a nice original one sold on here last year for £7 something.

Any higher than that must be super mint restos imo.

 

[Fantazia2]

Had a search, there was a ****ty "Restored" condition one for £12k a couple of years ago. It did get slated though.

 

[Bobbdobalina]

Had a search, there was a ****ty "Restored" condition one for £12k a couple of years ago. It did get slated though.

Maybe mistaken then. The one from tilt sold for £6750 end of 23.
Just don’t see the value when theres 20 odd thousand out there, but then again this is pinball

 

[Fantazia2]

Maybe mistaken then. The one from tilt sold for £6750 end of 23.
Just don’t see the value when theres 20 odd thousand out there, but then again this is pinball

Personally I think its overrated but people seem to want it more because its what they played back in the day, that sort of thing always seems to push up the values.

That £12k one was an absolute joke.

 

[steve brum]

There was a wave of reasonably priced ones but since then very quite

 

[thejefu]

What's going on here? Decal? Why's the second window from the bottom left got a square insert. I'm so confused.

 

[cmrl9]

FFS

At some point you have to wonder if they are putting in more effort to scam people than it would take to run a legitimate business ?

There plenty of people out there who don't understand unfortunately I was caught out at the very beginning

 

[cmrl9]

Maybe mistaken then. The one from tilt sold for £6750 end of 23.
Just don’t see the value when theres 20 odd thousand out there, but then again this is pinball

They sell in private for stupid money for fully restored minty fresh ones

 

[johnh]

Escape From The Lost World on Gumtree for £1k. https://www.gumtree.com/p/hobbies-c...om-the-lost-world-pinball-machine-/1493275605. Not my machine but I had one in the past and it was a lot of fun. Also, really delivers on the world under glass thing, very similar to Blackwater 100.

 

[RetroHeed]

Bond 60th

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/205273267974

 

[Arv]

Bond 60th

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/205273267974

And that turd of a game can stay in the box.

 

[Sgt GrizZ]

.