FREE LISTING Today ONLY at Ebay (Jun 28th)

[RDMustang1]

I love you man!!! This is awsome, I can put up all the auctions I've been afraid to do with the fear of losing money on the listing fee! I am in heaven!

 

[telstar1]

Can somebody please explain to me how eBay works?
Do they take a percentage of your final auction price, or is it a fixed amount?

Thanks,
Telstar1

(I know I can probably find all of this at their site, but I'm sure they'd make it sound better than it really is for the seller)

 

[Southerncentralrain]

Is it against hot deal's rules to post good deals found in ebay's new stores since they are not auctions? Just wondering...

 

[Luckylindy]

Gives me a good reason to finally auction off my $100 coupon for Office XP. Thanks

 

[mithrandir2001]

<< Can somebody please explain to me how eBay works?
Do they take a percentage of your final auction price, or is it a fixed amount? >>


You can go to their seller services home page to look up all the fees.

In a nutshell, you have listing fees, final auction value fees and potentially payment processing fees. Listing fees are charged for each item and are priced depending on the opening bid amount. Any kind of listing option (bold face, category featured, etc.) will increase the listing fee. At the end of the auction, eBay takes a percentage of the final bid amount - the final auction value fee - and this percentage decreases as the item increases in value. If you use their BillPoint service to handle CC transactions, you will pay an additional fee for this processing. All the fees can get very expensive, but I &quot;tolerate&quot; it because I can sell stuff at a price I would never receive if I sold local only. A forum like AT FS/FT is a nice compromise since it is free and reaches a continental audience, but pricing is frequently below what you can get on eBay.

 

[JumpOnDeals]

For those who still need proof of this promotion, look at the lower right corner for the promotion.

Steve

 

[p0ntif]

this is flaming!

 

[Kwad Guy]

Hey iwearnosox:

Could you provide more details on when the best (and worst)
times to have your auction close are? I have wondered this for
a long time, and eBay is (predictably) cagey about telling you!

Kwad

 

[lilstevo]

i wanna know about good auction times as well.

 

[RDSport323]

does anyone have any programs that helps you list your products?
you know how some items look all flowery, or professional, or... just look nice..

or perhaps a program that can, rather than having to type the description, just take it from the products homepage?

i need one of those

thanks

 

[BruinGuy]

Cool, I need to get some things up, save me a little bit of cash

 

[kingz]

RDSport323, any HTML editor will do. If you have Office installed, FrontPage will do fine. You can also download programs. check out tucows.com, or download.com, or hotfiles.com

 

[OGB]

Do these free listing days occur every thurs??? Or are they just once in a while???

 

[LukFilm]

They occur very rarely. Actually, this is the first time, I think.

 

[JCFlex]

Awesome deal! I can list my goodies with a decent staring bid, and if they don't sell, I'm out nothing!

 

[supesman]

No, they've had free listing days before in the past but not for a while yet. Take advantage of this people, this doesn't come very often.

 

[Josh]

Bah! I was banned

 

[iwearnosox]

<< Hey iwearnosox:

Could you provide more details on when the best (and worst)
times to have your auction close are? I have wondered this for
a long time, and eBay is (predictably) cagey about telling you! >>



Sure. I have some graphs but it's probably not proper to disseminate them, so:

eBay peak traffic occurs every week at 6:30-7:00 pm pacific time on Sundays. Friday and saturday traffic has been very weak lately, about 70% of Sundays traffic. Mondays have been very good lately, about 90% of Sunday's traffic. The slope from Sunday to Friday is actually a steadily declining slope, then a peak again the following sunday.

Never, ever end your auction between the hours of 11pm and 10 am-ish pacific- traffic nosedives and doesn't become more reasonable until then. (10 am traffic is about 70% of that daily peak, steadily climbing with a point of inflection @ about 4pm pacific, until peaking @ 6:30-7 pm.)

Beware of the July 4th holiday, it will be like most holidays, reducing the traffic below typical summer numbers. If you're launching your auction today have it be a three day auction (only commodity type items should be sold like this- video cards, processors, etc.) Do the rest as a 10 day auction, ending the Sunday after next. It leapfrogs the holiday (hopefully) and will get you a better yield on what you're selling, provided post holiday traffic is good and your items don't depreciate. (Like all the junk sitting around me now that needs a home!)

Hope this helps!

Sox

 

[novon]

What's up, I got charged!

 

[halik]

hey iwearnosox,
i thought about making site to create ebay listings. if you assume average auction has about what 400-500 hits, there's a lot of room for advertising. Now if you get an average $2.5 CPM, every two listing bring you 2 bucks

 

[iwearnosox]

<< $2.5 CPM >>



Hahaha, you're lucky if you get that nowadays.

By creating listings, you mean like andale, auctionwatch, auctionworks, etc? =)

 

[iwearnosox]

*

 

[icup]

The reason why ebay is doing this is to fudge their numbers. They will charge you so they can record the $$$$ for the quarter ending june 30. Then they will refund the $$$ back after June 30. Why do you think they picked June 28? Because a 3 day auction will end on July 1st. They are trying to scam their stock holder into thinking they are still on pace with their growth projections. It may be a good time to short sell ebays stock. Alot of sellers and buyers have left ebay because of ebays new rules and their computer system is so fuked up.

 

[FatDragonn]

set reserves on your auctions. you get the insertion fee back and only have to pay a buck for reserve auction fee. insertion fee could get pretty depending on the reserve.

 

[GetReal]

icup - I hate to burst your bubble, but eBay refunds the fees instantly to your account so your theory does not hold up. Check your account and you will see). eBay has these free listing days two or thrre times a year. There is no predictable time, but from past free listing days, they seem to correspond to the standard 7 day auction closing on a holiday. As mention earlier in this thread, the 4th is one of the worst days to end your auctions. Use the 3 or 10 day option instead