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Ash Burton
Title: AshRaiser
Joined: Nov 10 2008
Location: Florida
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After my rant about Ebay jacking up prices I decided to let most of my NES games go on Ebay. I actually ended up making a little over 700 off of them. It helped that I got 170 for a sealed copy of Rad Racer that I picked up a year ago on ebay for 10 bucks. God bless capitalism.
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Ash is probably just home humping his SNES collection.
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Rydog
Title: Dragon Slayer
Joined: Aug 11 2009
Location: Massachusetts
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| Ash Burton wrote: |
| After my rant about Ebay jacking up prices I decided to let most of my NES games go on Ebay. I actually ended up making a little over 700 off of them. It helped that I got 170 for a sealed copy of Rad Racer that I picked up a year ago on ebay for 10 bucks. God bless capitalism. |
Not so bad when your on the other end of the transaction.
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
Joined: Jan 15 2009
Location: San Diego, CA
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| Ash Burton wrote: |
| After my rant about Ebay jacking up prices I decided to let most of my NES games go on Ebay. I actually ended up making a little over 700 off of them. It helped that I got 170 for a sealed copy of Rad Racer that I picked up a year ago on ebay for 10 bucks. God bless capitalism. |
This is a little out of place in this thread, but since people are discussing selling their collections, I want to ask this.
I've been considering selling some stuff on ebay for a while (not game related.) How much does their listing cost/fees/cut of the profits eat in to how much your end up ultimately pocketing? That's been the one thing holding me back from actually listing something.
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anorexorcist
Title: Polar Bear
Joined: May 21 2008
Location: The Cock and Plucket
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Ebay takes a lot now, a small listing fee(depending on what price you start the listing at) + 12% of the price it sells for I think.
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Douche McCallister
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Title: DOO-SHAY
Joined: Jan 26 2007
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I was going to sell my Wii games on E-bay and had everything all set up for a bunch of lots. When I saw the Fees I said "What the Fuck!" closed out of the browser, basically wasted an hour or so of my life. 20% Final Value fee for Video Games? Really? Not to mention listing fees and all the other bullshit. Fuck E-bay, I honestly don't know how these other companies aren't gaining new people like wild fire.
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Berserk007
Title: Freelance Skull Grinder
Joined: Aug 21 2009
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ebay will get you more exposure for sure but there are plenty of other alternatives to sell your stuff, basically over glorified classified add forums.All it does is cut out the middleman, most everything gets paid with Paypal anymore anyways but with eBay you get that added bit of security. Sorry I don't have any site names or anything but they shouldn't be hard to find.
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Rydog
Title: Dragon Slayer
Joined: Aug 11 2009
Location: Massachusetts
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You guys are super wrong on the ebay fees....you pay 8.75% on the first $25 of value ($2.19), and then 3.50% for the rest of the value, plus anywhere from free to .50 to list, plus paypal also rakes the pot.....so if you sell something for $100, you would pay about $8 in fees.
I think 8% is very fair for the amount of buyers you reach, and it is much simpler than you would think once you are all set up. Douche is right that some items have higher fees, a $50 video game sale would probably cost you around $5-6.
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Douche McCallister
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Title: DOO-SHAY
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Thats in auction form too. Look at the Fixed or buy it now prices. Just plain sick.
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