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Posted by alastair coombs on August 26, 2008, 10:46 am
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> > Hello there, I occasionally sell engineering bits and bobs on E Bay but
> > now that they've put there prices up and they demand that as a seller
> > you have to offer Pay Pal as a payment method and the costs that
> > involves I feel it's not worth my while selling through them. Is there
> > another auction site I could use where engineering minded people use?
> > Cheers
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> I just seen the latest changes this morning, and have been looking for
> alternatives.
> With the new changes, for auctions ending at =A325, you'll pay =A32.18 to=
ebay
> for final value fees (8.75%), and if the buyer pays with paypal, that'll
> cost you another =A31.05 (provided you're in the 3.4% + 20p band). So
> basically out of your =A325, ebay (who owns paypal) is getting =A33.23, o=
r just
> under 13% of your =A325.
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> As for alternatives,http://uk.ebid.net/is the best of what I've found so
> far, but it's still not that big a site.
> But going by the increasing level of discontent with the ebay/paypal
> monopoly, I'm pretty sure smaller sites like this will be seeing an incre=
ase
> in hits.
> I'll certainly be looking at ebid more often.
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> moray
ebid is good, we moved our company to ebid from ebay (feebay more
like) as we started to loose money.
Good luck
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> Hello there, I occasionally sell engineering bits and bobs on E Bay but
> now that they've put there prices up and they demand that as a seller
> you have to offer Pay Pal as a payment method and the costs that
> involves I feel it's not worth my while selling through them. Is there
> another auction site I could use where engineering minded people use?
> Cheers