10% unlimited. 6k game will cost you $600.

Don't actually sell on ebay.

Use it as an advertising medium instead.

10% I think it was $750 max on a single item, $250 if you have a store. PayPal is about another 4%.

I usually have to figure 15%. Ebay fee, paypal fee, and shipping fee (yes, ebay puts a fee on shipping).

Last I heard there was a $750 cap on the ebay selling fee. I can't say I've heard about a cap on the paypal fee or shipping fee.

Ebay is decent for exposure, but really takes a big bite for that privledge.

Take cash in hand only. If not, be prepared to have the money you received removed from your account. This can happen at anytime for any reason the buyer is unhappy. Ebay has created an environment that is very burdensome (and expensive) to sellers and actually enables buyers to commit fraud. I would use Ebay only as a last desperate option. Actually I wouldn't use Ebay.

Ebay never used to apply fees for shipping. But then you started seeing auctions for, say, a 1957 Fender Stratocaster for $100.00 and a $12,000.00 shipping fee. Ebay had no choice. A few bad apples spoiled if for all of the sellers who were playing fair.

Your right. I guess I never sold a game over $7500 on Ebay. Paypal is 2.9% unless your sending it International.

People try to exploit Ebay and Paypal all the time and then complain about what a shitty service they provide.

In 2002-2004, I was cleaning out the attic and cutting a fat hog with selling items on Ebay. I got lots of dollars for items I would have had to let go for a few quarters at a garage sale.

Methods of payment were Western Union, Bidpay, money orders, and personal checks. I took a lot of checks. And then Paypal came along. As a seller you had a choice if you would accept Paypal, or not. At first, I did not want to pay that Paypal bite and would not set my auctions to use Paypal; But then I reasoned that many people did not like the hassle of the other ways to pay and if I accepted Paypal I would have more bidders and get more dollars from my auctions.

I have no real idea if my auctions generated more money with the Paypal option but Ebay and Paypal allowed me to sell items to several different countries in Europe.

So, yeah, there is the Ebay/Paypal bite, but a lot of times the bite is from a much larger pie, so you still have more left over.

Yeah, well, if you as a seller, would do due diligence with the shit you are trying to unload, you would not have these problems. If Ebay does not take care of the buyers it is out of business. Plain. Pure. Simple. Period. It takes buyer's money to make the mare go. And crappy sellers hose it up for everybody.

Before Ebay had these protections for the buyer:

1) I bought a video card. It was supposed to work. It arrived and is was NFG. No F'n good. I was out $25.00.

2) I had a friend who bought two pieces of collectable depression glass from two different sellers. Both pieces were chipped. The chips were very small and would not hurt the display of the piece, but the value was destroyed. The seller pretty much told him to F.O. He never went back to Ebay.

3) After Ebay put the buyer protections on I bought an old 8MM movie projector and movie camera. It was being sold as nice and working. What arrived was a projector with broken drive belts, and a burned out bulb, and camera that had lots of rattles because the guts inside had been shattered. The seller never checked things out before he placed the auction. That one had to go through Ebay arbitration. I got my money back including the shipping.

4) Recently I bought a discontinued see-thru scanner. It was sold as nice and working. When it arrived, it looked nice but it did not work. If the seller would have checked it out he would have known it did not work. This seller was a nice guy and rather new to selling on Ebay and he wanted good feedback. He refunded my money plus shipping.

Yeah, I know there are buyers out there who game the system. But there are a lot of crappy sellers who don't advertise their product correctly. Or they over-advertise it to try and squeeze some extra money ( How many of those old pins are really HUO? ). Or what about the seller who does not know how to pack something for shipping? I bought some used car parts several years ago. One of the parts was a piece of chrome trim about 5 feet long. The idiot seller tossed all of the parts in a box. He then wrapped the piece of chrome trim in some light weight cardboard. And then he taped the 5 foot long piece chrome trim to the 18" box of parts !! That piece of chrome trim stuck out from that box like a hard-on on a stallion. When the "package" arrived the piece of trim looked like a boomerang. It was absolutely useless.

So, before you get to whining about how Ebay makes it difficult for sellers, make sure you put up good pictures in your auctions. Make sure you tell the truth about what you are selling. And for damn sure don't try to make a sow's ear sound like a silk purse.

Ahh..sorry of I offend you. Maybe you are one of the "good" sellers on Ebay. But realize you are swimming in the same pool with sellers that shade the truth or outright lie about what they are selling. And then you have the honest seller who means well but turns out to be a blooming idiot who could not pack a box of Kleenex for shipping.

If your buying busted up crap on Ebay that's your stupidity. My viewpoint is that of the honest sellers that have been screwed. Doesn't matter how much "due diligence" you do or how honest you are, you will get screwed on Ebay. Go cry about your busted bumpers elsewhere, this doesn't pertain to you.

Arm & a Leg

paypal is actually 2.9%

better hurry, ebay is dropping paypal as a payment option this spring

ebay does not protect sellers anymore. wont even let a seller give a bad buyer neg feedback. how much sense does that make?

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/ebay-reinventing-paypal

My God, don't sell a pin on ebay-ever! Your exposure risk is massive. 600-750 for fees is not what I'd call attractive, either. There was a thread here recently about someone who was selling a pin on ebay, ended up selling it OFF ebay and they still went after him for fees. I'm sorry, but that is simply unacceptable.
Think of it this way-when you sell on ebay, even if you're alright with the fees, you are, in essence, letting the buyer hold the item for 30 days for free. If they are unhappy about ANYTHING, and I mean ANYTHING, Paypal/Ebay will pull back funds and THEY STILL HAVE YOU PIN!. Good luck getting it back.

Rumor has it they are about to add one testicle to the equation.

I just list them as local pickup only, cash only, paypal not accepted. I do that for all high dollar items I sell there because it's simply too easy to steal from people there due to ebay's policy of always siding with the buyer. I say this as someone who has been on eBay since it first launched in the 90's. Unfortunately thieves have flocked to it because it's just too easy to rip people off there now. For stuff < $100 I will use paypal on ebay, never had any issues in that price range.