for his sake, i hope it does better than that! I know my bid won't hold.

Math time. I don't know much about real Ebay fees. This is what I think I came up with...

At most, $100 "insertion fees" for Ebay for an auction type sale.

Paypal 2.9% plus some silly little extra fee (less than $1?)

So $3000 - 2.9% (84) - 100 - (piddly fee) 1 = 2812?

Is that about right?

I'm thinkin' it'll hit about $4.5k myself....

Nope... ebay changed it's fee structure last year. they made listing items incredibly cheap, but final value fees much higher. I don't remember the exact percentage, as I sell rarely on there, but figure with Ebay and Paypal fees, about 13-14% of final auction price....That is why there are tons of overpriced BIN on there, the fee structure is completely different. Ebay is trying to be like Amazon, except they are doing a really crappy job at it.

Correction, looking at their fees now, it looks like 100 is max..... Good to know.... the machine I sold was around 400.00 and the final fees were like 53.00.... it was insane... good to know it is capped.

I think that 's spot on, once an auction item goes over something like $1000 its a fee of $100, the 13-14% applies to buy it now

Dang... kind of screwed up all over ... If you have a reserve, then my previous statement stands. (If the reserve is met)...

With the way Ebay auctions have been going lately, it almost seems feasible to sell all of my machines on Ebay, buy back the same games from someone else and have money left over? lol

Not doing it. No way! But.....

I'm glad you got a good price even though you offered the game up for $3K and I think you should have honored that.

Did you arrange payment with him before he listed it on ebay? If not, you have no beef. Keep in mind that i was also the high bidder on his auction and I'm "ok" with what he did. Money talks, $hit walks.

I don't have a beef. I was just expressing my opinion that if you offer something for sale at a price that is reasonable, you should stick by it. I stand by that.

Fair enough, but i don't fault him for putting it on ebay.

I understand that as well.

Webfart don't apologize for that shit. You offered it here and elsewhere for $3k, NO ONE PAID, and then put it on ebay and got more. BFD!

Jalpert, your sour grapes over this sale is so transparent, it's almost laughable. You bitched and moaned earlier in the thread and now you're basically dragging webfart/loudknocker through the dirt because he didn't firesale price it to you.

How can I have sour grapes over something that wasn't even a possibility? I asked for pics, they never came, then the game was gone.

I'm not dragging anyone "through the dirt" the entire thread is up for people to make up their own minds.

You make it sound like this guy is some newb who was going to be taken advantage of. There is no doubt he had an overwhelming response but his price wasn't crazy low. Sometimes when you deal with Ebay you get top dollar, if that's what you're looking for post it on ebay.

My point is, he sounded so frustrated about all the "tire kickers" that he has since removed from his posts. What about the sellers who offer up items, just to retract the offer, then post on ebay just to pull the auction? How can you possibly be justified in bitching about nobody forking over cash in 1 day and then pull that shit?

Nobody forked over cash because the pictures sucked.

sour grapes.

Yes, that was my listing. You reminded me to take it down, I'm no longer in the market for a STTNG. Thanks.