All EBAY/PayPal related posts here please

[abigsmurf]

Yeah, they almost certainly absorb the costs through fees (which is why there's a limit on the discount)

[Malc]

This is the most relevant thread I could find for my question.

I'm looking to sell a camera which is worth roughly £300 and I was considering using Amazon to do so. I just wandered if anyone else has sold an item through Amazon, how do they charge you for the item? (Like do they take 20% of the profit for themselves etc?)

[Number45]

It's a flat 10% at the moment, up to a maximum amount of £40. I sold my DSi on there (£120) recently, and by the time they'd taken their commission and Paypal fees from me they'd had over £15 - was thoroughly pissed off!

I wouldn't sell anything on eBay at the moment unless it was over the point where £40 didn't seem extortionate. But you'd lose at least £30 of whatever you ended up getting.

You're a blue, try the non-gaming section on here first.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

Ooh, you win - your buyer is dumber than my buyer!

(I personally think mine just doesn't to pay, so is BSing me)

Well mine is pulling the same trick I think, because it took him a wk to ask for a swap then when I said no I didnt hear a dicky bird. I guess he didnt want to part with any cash or didnt have any in the 1st place, so I've had to file for non payment.

Bloody to$$ers!

[Gruce]

Does anyone know if it is possible to set up a PayPal account and not tie it to a card/bank account. I would set one up and have someone PayPal me some money, then I would gift that money to my real account and thus bank account.

I have someone who wants to PayPal me some money but I don't want them to know my real email address and start searching for me online and such. Not dodgy honest. Any ideas?

[QualityChimp]

I was moving house so had to sell my Reading Festival tickets this year.

One pair that I sold never got paid for because PayPal rejected the buyer.

At first, the buyer was communicating and asked where to send the cheque but then I heard nothing for about 3 months.

Despite messaging him and reporting him to eBay, I didn't hear anything else of either of them.

So I trawled back through to the emails from when the auction was won and found his postal address.

Googled for it and found he had a stall at a farmer's market and a contact number. Tried it a few times and it rang out but finally got hold of somebody who works with him. I remained polite and calm thoughout and he found me the seller's home number.

I phoned that a few times and that went to answerphone too, but eventually managed to speak to the seller's wife or sister (they shared the same surname) and she gave me his mobile number.

Finally spoke to the buyer and told him I've not had payment and he said it was for his manager so didn't know I hadn't been paid. I just told him my bank details and asked him to pay it. He said he'd check it hadn't been paid yet (fair enough), but i assured him I wouldn't have made the effort to find his mobile if I had been.

A few days later, I got the payment into my bank.

So, there was a happy ending to the story, but it scared me how easy it was to track somebody down!

Oh and don't try to avoid paying me or I'll come for your kneecaps...

[fallenangle]

Fantastic and dogged detective work - I thought the story was going to have a bad ending but no it worked out OK. Nobody would want to have to go through all that every time chasing a payment though.

[Sketcz]

Any ideas?

They can send the money to me and I'll send it to you with a 15% middle-man fee.

(that's a joke, I want nothing to do with your gun smuggling, Gruce)

[Gruce]

[Number45]

Anyone thinking of using Amazon as an alternative because of the 10% fees on eBay:

Individuals selling at Marketplace pay a GBP 0.86 per item completion fee, plus a closing fee of 17.25% of the sales price (11.5% for Electronics & Photo items) for each item sold.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=3149301

[fallenangle]

Anyone thinking of using Amazon as an alternative because of the 10% fees on eBay:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=3149301

But they do (or did) mitigate that why 'giving' you a postage compensation payment. This may bear no relation to the real p&p costs but, generally, for lightweight items like games/CDs/DVDs it does (or did) benefit the seller.

Unless it has changed recently when you set a price for your item Amazon do tell sellers exactly how much you will get in the end. All you have to do is subtract the real p&p costs.

Not having sold on eBay I can't compare them but I sold around 200 items in Amazon Marketplace over 4 years and typically I ended up actually making 70% - 75% of my initial pricing. So if I offered a game/CD/DVD at ?8 I'd reckon to get a bit <?6 in my pocket at the end of the whole process.

[ChrisF]

I just flog my stuff on Play.com!

[Number45]

Play are also 10&#37;.

I seldom revisit old games, and clearing some space would be nice, so was thinking about maybe trimming my collection down. I honestly don't think it's worth the hassle though. :/

[Sketcz]

Stupid international bidders!

Some guy from Australia wins an auction of mine at &#163;26, and asks me how much it is in AU$. So I invoice him, since with PayPal they handle the conversion. You just go in, choose to pay, and they tell you how much they'll pull from your account so I get precisely what I'm owed. It handles things automatically.

Guy replies with this now:

Please Adjust AMOUNT to pay so it is in AUD

Jesus christ, who am I dealing with here? Either he doesn't have paypal (in which case I'm screwed), or he's trying to get out of paying.

This is the LAST time I allow anyone outside of UK/France to bid on my auctions.

Oh god how I hate eBay. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it.

[fallenangle]

Just tell him just what you said ie. that when he uses PayPal the GB ?26 will be converted into AU$ automatically and he'll see how much he's going paying to pay in AU$ before he has to click to confirm payment.

You can't tell him exactly what he's going to pay in AU$ until the moment he enables the payment because the exchange rate PayPal uses varies from day to day.

I'm just wondering if that's what he's trying to get around. If you quote him an exact amount in AU$ that's what he'll send you, irrespective of the current exchange rate, converted in GB? by PayPal.

I'm not sure who pays the currency conversion fee in this case, maybe that's it. There's no reason for him to expect you to pay it, that's his business when deciding to bid on an UK auction item. Of course, even if you did what he asked, you can simply cover yourself by bumping up (within limits) the AU$ cost anyway.

So what his game is, if any, I really can't think. Probably just thick.

Anyway the balls in his court; you've set out your terms and conditions in the listing, he's accepted them in making the bid and that should be it.