I am not good at Math, so I am confused about ebay fees.\nIf I have an item to sell on ebay, the price is 100 Euro. For making it sell fast, I have to include some special features provided by Ebay. For example: pictures, bold letters..\nSO how much will I pay ebay? If no body buy, will I have to pay ebay?  If somebody buys it, how much will ebay get? \nIf I relist it, how much will I pay for the relisting?\nPlease also provide me your own experience about how to figure these fees and how to minimize them, Thank you very much!!!!!!!
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The eBay fees are divided into to categories\n\n1.listing\n2.if it sells (final value)\n\nThe listing fees include a fee which increases depending upon the starting price and fixed extra costs for enhancements like the gallery image, subtitles and featured listings\n\nThe final value fee is a sliding charge depending on the final price which the items sells for.
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I have my own eBay business.    The first thing I would do is buy some inexpensive things on eBay, just to get some positive feedback.  The first thing I bought was a VHS tape for $.99.  The trick to being successful is to pick a category that doesn't have that many sellers, and is something that people want.  If you pick a category that comes up with 500,000 items up for auction, people just aren't going to browse through that category to see what everyone has.  Even when you refine your search on a category that big it usually comes up with 30,000...still too many for browsing.  I always ship USPS Priority Mail because there is a flat rate box (12x14x3) that is one price, no matter how much it weighs....so if you can fit it in that box it's only one price. The Post Office will also come and pick your shipment up for free with Priority Mail, so there's no going to the Post Office and customers get their product in 2-3 days.  (I've found that people don't want to wait for their stuff longer than 3 days.)  I don't want to tell you what I'm selling because I don't want the category to get overloaded with sellers.  But I do well, I am able to support myself, no problem.  I actually started out with only $500.  When you put your product up for auction you have a choice of a 7 day or a 10 day auction.  I always do the 10 day auction starting it on a Friday.  That way you have 2 weekends for people to look at your stuff.  Some sellers don't accept PayPal as a method of payment because you have to give a percentage of your profit of a sale to them if it is used by your buyer.  I personally won't buy from people that don't take PayPal because you have protection against a seller that is trying to rip you off.  I have only had good experiences with my customers and  with PayPal, and I have a 100% positive feedback rate.  If you have any more questions you can email me at:\n\nebayenigma@luv2kre8it.com
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I haven't followed eBay promotions lately, but I experienced in the past that they send you an email like "free listing on <date>", but when you actually click on "details" and read the whole thing, then there are lots of "if-s" and "but-s". Like "Buy Now" being excluded, or certain categories, or if you add a photo and bold headline then it's the usual price, and so on.....
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I sell a lot on eBay. I also have a website (not related to selling). I've often wondered what is cheaper; hosting your own e-commerce website/store or paying eBay the monthly fees for a store. There are too many influencing factors. One could spend very little on a website yet pat oodles for marketing it. An eBay store already gets you the eBay name. You ask a loaded question I could rant and rave about for a day.
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First, how is the person paying for it? NEVER ship anything until you have received payment. If they are paying by money order or cashier's check, wait until you receive it and then you can ship the item. It is not a good idea to take personal checks. If you do, give it 7 to 10 days to clear their bank before you ship the item.\n\nIf they pay by Paypal, then you can go through Paypal and pay for postage and print out a shipping label. You have to be very sure you have weighed the package properly, however. \n\nIf you are new at this, it would probably be better to mail it from the post office in the beginning.\n\nA key thing to remember is to stay in contact with the buyer during all this. Let the buyer know when you receive payment, when you ship their item out, and leave positive feedback for them if it was a good transaction.\n\nI have been on eBay since 1997, so feel free to email me if you have more specific questions.
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yes,  just be smart,  always read the complete description, especialy the SHIPPING CHARGES and include them in the price you willing to pay.  Pay attention to the sellers rating,  I would rather pay a few extra bucks to buy from someone with a good rep than take a chance.  Also shop the item on nextag or a another similar site like yahoo shopping to make sure your not gettin excited and paying to much.  Same goes for those sites,  they have seller ratings for a reason.
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Try the Yahoo Auctions!!  They don't charge listing fees!!\n\nAlso, list unique things!!\n\nEBAY is alright as is Yahoo Auctions......just be extremely careful NOT TO LOOSE MONEY!!\n\nWhat I did, I went to auctions sales myself and purchased items for a reasonable amount of money.  Turned around and placed the items on EBAY and YAHOO AUCTIONS.  Don't expect to become a millionaire overnight.  IT TAKES TIME!!
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She needs to contact the seller. When is the auction ending? Only the seller can retract the bid but you have to contact them before the auction ends. Even if she bid 2 pounds, there is a limit of increments...so if she bid 2,000 pounds and if the bid was at 2 pounds, then it would only go up .10 penses at a time. I dont think its possible to bid 2,000 pounds and have the auction set at 2,000.\n\nTell her to contact the seller as soon as possible. As the seller, it is his responsibility to retract bids when the buyer requests it, otherwise, he has to pay seller fees again if he doesnt retract it right away and if the buyer bails out too late.
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There are a couple of ways to do this. First you can list the buy it now price for 1 lot. In your item description be very clear on what they are bidding on. If you have 10 lots put 10 total and in your description tell them what comes with a lot. The other way you can do it sell individually. I would not recommend this as if you are selling something for 1.00 ebay automatically charges no less that .35-.50 cents to list... then you have a end of auction fee... if you do them in lots and you sell them lets say for $5-$10 then you are only hit the one fee for each lot and not for each piece. So you still have the .35-.50 to list and your end of auction fee probably .30 . This is opposoed to selling them piece by piece and only making a few cents or sometimes you can even lose money!!!!
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I have been a top Ebay seller for 4 years and just recently when the fees went up again I decided it if just not worth all the time and effort I put in. Wait until you see all the fees incolved? You have to look at your bottom line to see if you will acutally make any money.\nHere are the bases for the fees:\n\nListing fee (Ebay)\nFinal Value Fee (Ebay)\nAll the Extra Fees to get your products NOTICED (Ebay)\nPaypal fees (for payments especially out of country)\nMaterials fee (for shipping)\nCost of doing Business (all the computer ink to print invoices, the paper for notes to buyers, the paper to print on, the printer ink as I go through tons of cartridges)\n\nAdd all these fees up. Ebay loves you to list your items at less than a dollar but they now have a new policy that you can not list low and have a high S&H to cover the costs incurred. They call it circumventing fees. What is happening to Ebay is that it has become a BUYERS PARADISE. Low cost items sent cheap. Ebay does not even want us to recoop our time involved by adding a handling fee. This is ludicrious.\n\nMany Sellers are pulling out. Just jump on there now and you will see less items offered. Pick one item and search for it. When all this was going down I was involved in the Powerseller discussion boards and many sellers were bailing out. I think Ebay is close to being FINISHED unless they change in 2007.\n\nAlso to get CHINA involved as a seller on Ebay, they have offered them listings for FREE while you and I pay standard rates. Why is this fair? The other problem is CHINA can sell anything cheaper than us USA sellers. Some of it is cheap knock-offs but some is good. Buyers are always going to buy the cheapest items on Ebay so they will buy all this junk China is peddling.\nI even saw custom made Bridal Gowns sold (and shipped to US) for $39 full price. Are you kidding?\nSo I would suggest you do extensive research before you buy products to sell on Ebay. Many of us are finding that WEB Stores are the best way to go.
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I have been with eBay as a seller and buyer for 9 years and I never heard of this. Be cautious. I only accept Paypal myself .
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paypall isn't ebay, don't confuse the two and screw your customer, if the money hit paypal, you should ship!!!  ebay cannot take your money.  they may try and charge you but stealing is stealing
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Most sellers prefer that you pay them with paypal.  You can learn about paypal here:\nhttp://www.paypal.com\n\nOr, if the seller states in the auction they accept money orders: after you win the auction, get the total purchase amount from the seller, along with their address, purchase a money order and mail it to them.  After they receive your money order they ship your item to you.  \n\nOnce again, this takes longer than a paypal payment, so you have to allow a little time for them to get your money order payment, and then they ship.\n\nCheck out some nifty ideas, tips 'n tricks for buying & selling on eBay, and find links to helpful sites:\nhttp://www.themainsail.net/helppg.html...
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Ebay is recently changing its system and charging ppl to sell in ebay.. i guess that's the problem but it's gonna be okay soon.\nmeantime check if you've put Ebay into your restricted site by mistake? if yes, you can undo that in Tool-Internet Options.
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If you want to buy, it stills a good deal,just beware of sellers with high shipping cost,they are some taking way to muc advantage with that...they suck..but still sometimes you can get a pretty good deal,the best way to find something and not paying high shipping cost is to search first locally,there are sellers that allow local pick up I had found from stollers to furniture,playstations 2,rugs and misc items locally and went and pick them up with no extra cost,and excellent deal I would say (I've got the PS2 for $50 and I went and picked it up and save $15 on shipping charges)if you can not do that always ask for combined shipping on multiple items...\nIF you are selling that is another ticket,ebay just raise their auctions fees, I still dont know how that works but they charge you whatever they want...plus Paypal fees and all that you end up with at least $1 to $4 short after you sell something..again sometimes it is worth it but it is getting way to expensive...\nI hope I helped with this long answer
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I suggest you take the ebay tutorial and learn all about it.  No one can explain it all to you in detail.  You can start here:\nhttp://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/index.html\nhttp://pages.ebay.com/education/selling.html\nhttp://pages.ebay.com/university/\nhttp://pages.ebay.com/sitemap.html\n\nAnd, if you run into problems, go here:\nhttp://chatboards.ebay.com/chat.jsp?forum=1&thread=21\nIt is a chat room to help newbies and users with problems or questions.  I am a volunteer in that room as well.
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I am VERY interested but never did anything like this before.\n\nIn fact i do not even know how to use e-bay.  I did go to the site and looked at the specs.  Looks good to me.\n\nHow do I get in touch with you?  How much do you need from me now?  Then again in May?  Each month after that?