selling cds on ebay/promo cds

Mrking

Hey,

2 questions:

I have literally 100's of CDs i want to sell on ebay. Ill be selling them for 99c or even less but im wondering whats the story with the postage? I have to send them with a tracking number and over here it costs €5.75! If I don't they can claim they never got them.

Is there anyway around this? for €5.75 and the cd at €0.99 they could buy them new!

Also I want to sell promo CD's I have collected over the years. I read somewhere you can't sell them (And when i did try years ago IMRO took them down!)
Yet eBay is FULL of promo cds. any advice?

Thanks a million

mid

I would think if you got an 'item not received' claim on paypal for these CDs, they genuinely didnt receive it as its only worth €1.

If someone was making false 'item not received' claims on paypal I'm sure they will do this for higher value items as the claim will always be linked to their account, so why would they risk it to gain something worth 1 or 2 euro.

So I'd recommend using non-registered post for cds.

obliviousgrudge

People rarely claim this, you'll actually find most people on eBay are quite honest and good to do business with.

I havent had a bad experience yet, in over 2 years.

allthedoyles

We sell items on eBay of lesser than € 10 value . Have found the majority of eBayers are genuine .

An odd one will claim item is not received and we normally give a refund , once it is agreed that negative feedback will not be left .

Recent items that we posted took 3 days to Germany and 12 days to UK .

Ensure you state clearly the processing time etc , to ensure you don't have people looking for items in advance of receiving them .

You have to trust buyers and if they are constantly saying that they did not receive item , they wont last on eBay .

When you are selling these CD's , state clearly that they are absolutely genuine , original and like new . If some are scratched / not playing properly , don't sell them on eBay .

We have sold many promotional CD's/books on eBay . You know the ones that come free with newspapers .
We always state that the item was bought with the newspaper etc .

The general rule is , that if you buy something , you own it , so you are entitled to sell it.

the groutch

most of the claims of items not received are high end electricals (phones, laptops, games consoles, etc) or flavours of the month (new release games, popular toys, etc).
scammer won't be bothered with a 99c CD

you could always bunch some of the cds together, and then charging for registered post would be more cost effective

mgbgt1978

You don't sat where you are , but if you are near dublin (or anywhere north of it) it will probably work out a lot cheaper to take a spin up to the north and post any UK bound cd's from there.
If you have the same end date on all your auctions you could post them all together.

By the way i have only ever once bought an item on ebay from an Irish seller (out of 278 purchases). No reflection on Irish sellers....just the lack of them.

Mrking

So it wouldnt be worthwhile to post up there. I wish an post would lower there rates to add a tracking number. Surely basic economics.? If they lowered their postage charges, more irish people would use ebay to sell things.

And I understand they mightent claim for low paid items, but i sold a dvd for €7 inc P+P and he claimed he didnt get it! He was in USA. eBay paid him his money back but thankfully the guy didnt leave me any bad feedback, infact no feedback.

Naos

Mrking wrote: »

Hey,

2 questions:

I have literally 100's of CDs i want to sell on ebay. Ill be selling them for 99c or even less but im wondering whats the story with the postage? I have to send them with a tracking number and over here it costs €5.75! If I don't they can claim they never got them.

Is there anyway around this? for €5.75 and the cd at €0.99 they could buy them new!

Also I want to sell promo CD's I have collected over the years. I read somewhere you can't sell them (And when i did try years ago IMRO took them down!)
Yet eBay is FULL of promo cds. any advice?

Thanks a million

With that BIN (Buy it now) price and that shipping charge, it's possible your items may be ended for attempting to circumvent fees (even though you're not).

I'd advise you post the items but leave aside the tracking, most buyers on ebay are genuine and you're far more likely to sell with a lower postage cost.

I'd even go so far as to say build some of the p&P cost into your BIN price as a lot of the cd's are sold in the UK with free shipping and buyers may feel ripped off paying 99p for a cd but a high postage cost.

Ardennes1944

Mrking wrote: »

Hey,

2 questions:

I have literally 100's of CDs i want to sell on ebay. Ill be selling them for 99c or even less but im wondering whats the story with the postage? I have to send them with a tracking number and over here it costs €5.75! If I don't they can claim they never got them.

Is there anyway around this? for €5.75 and the cd at €0.99 they could buy them new!

Also I want to sell promo CD's I have collected over the years. I read somewhere you can't sell them (And when i did try years ago IMRO took them down!)
Yet eBay is FULL of promo cds. any advice?

Thanks a million

any eminem cd's?

Gamesnash.ie: Pat

Here's my advice for you:

If you incorporate the charge for registered postage into the listing you will have great difficulty in selling them. As you say they're not worth the expense.

What you need to do is build in an allowance per item for the chance that one / some of them will go missing or be claimed lost or stolen. If you took an average of 1 in 100 going missing at a cost value of €4.00 (assuming thats what you would get per cd and a reasonable 1 in 100 guess - could be less could be slightly higher) or so that's only approx €0.04 of every other sale that funds the missing cd fund as such. That €0.04 spend is a lot more attractive than outpricing yourself by registering the postage and trying to recoup it.

Naos

Gamesnash.ie: Pat wrote: »

Here's my advice for you:

If you incorporate the charge for registered postage into the listing you will have great difficulty in selling them. As you say they're not worth the expense.

What you need to do is build in an allowance per item for the chance that one / some of them will go missing or be claimed lost or stolen. If you took an average of 1 in 100 going missing at a cost value of €4.00 (assuming thats what you would get per cd and a reasonable 1 in 100 guess - could be less could be slightly higher) or so that's only approx €0.04 of every other sale that funds the missing cd fund as such. That €0.04 spend is a lot more attractive than outpricing yourself by registering the postage and trying to recoup it.

It's bad buyer perception though to pay 99p for an item and then £5 for postage.

As stated previously, I'd drop the tracking and just send it as per normal post. You will lose some, but you need to incorporate this into your costs anyway.

Gamesnash.ie: Pat

Naos wrote: »

It's bad buyer perception though to pay 99p for an item and then £5 for postage.

As stated previously, I'd drop the tracking and just send it as per normal post. You will lose some, but you need to incorporate this into your costs anyway.

That's pretty much what I said

Naos

Gamesnash.ie: Pat wrote: »

That's pretty much what I said

Haha, I was merely restating what I'd said in the post before yours