free listings on ebay

chprt

Ebay occasionally do some free listings days to post stuff you trying to sell. It is possibel to find out when these days are as i am looking to sell a lot of stuff and dont want to do it and then turn round the next day and its free to list


thanks Paddy

patwicklow

Normally at the end of the month they do free listing.but if your listing a good bit
use photo bucket to host your photos,
what i do is list an item with the starting bid of 1.49 and one photo then you can use as many photos for that listing via photo bucket so the cost to ebay is nil

Dodge

They always e-mail a couple of days in advance, and its always Saturday & Sunday

the GALL

Hey Paddy
I'm thinking of selling on Ebay, can you let us know how you get on with it Cheers Roy

LostBoy101

the GALL wrote: »

Hey Paddy
I'm thinking of selling on Ebay, can you let us know how you get on with it Cheers Roy

I've been selling on ebay for a couple of months now.

It all depends on what you are selling and the most popular market (I think) on ebay is the technology area (console games, iphones, computer drives etc.) I've sold 3 items so far on ebay but one item managed to get lost in Italy so I would avoid selling to Europe as it can get complicated so stick with UK and Ireland as a beginner.

The only thing that puts people off selling on ebay is that you have to pay fees.

The fees are:

Invoice: Which is what you send people before getting paid so they know how much to pay.

Listing fees: They can be avoided by selling on the free listing days as said above.

There may be a couple more but thats from the top of my head.

If you ever decide to sell on ebay I wish you good luck and enjoy!

CutePanda

On a related note: It always says that the seller has to be elegible. What does this mean? I've signed up and tried to list things, but it still has the listing fee, on said free listing days. Do you have to have sold things?

Dodge

LostBoy101 wrote: »

The fees are:

Invoice: Which is what you send people before getting paid so they know how much to pay.

Listing fees: They can be avoided by selling on the free listing days as said above.

I've never seen an invoice fee?

I generally list items for €1.49 (or less) or use the free days and don't incur any fees. After that e-bay takes 10% of the final valuation. (So if something sells for €20, they take €2). paypal charge too. it usually works out about 10% too.

All fees are on their sites though. Not much sneakiness about it. start off with small items, and that way you can sell without potentially losing money on the listings

raveni

LostBoy101 wrote: »

I've been selling on ebay for a couple of months now.
I've sold 3 items so far on ebay but one item managed to get lost in Italy so I would avoid selling to Europe as it can get complicated so stick with UK and Ireland as a beginner.

I'd agree with sticking to UK/Ireland initially to get to grips with the whole preocess.
I've sold to a fair few countries in Europe and haven't had any trouble except with Italy. I would say if you are going to post to there, only post tracked, it is common enough for things posted to Italy to go missing/arrive incomplete. You only have to google "Italian postal system" to see that it's not the most reliable.

CutePanda wrote: »

On a related note: It always says that the seller has to be elegible. What does this mean? I've signed up and tried to list things, but it still has the listing fee, on said free listing days. Do you have to have sold things?

Some sellers and categories are exempt from free listings, info about ebay fees can be found here.

Dodge

This weekend is free. From e-mail;


Only on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 February 2012


Valid for up to 100 auction-style listings with a starting price of EUR 1.50 or more


All other eBay.ie selling fees will still apply


Applies to items listed with Quick Sell or Advanced Sell
(Sell Your Item) forms in eligible categories


Items listed using professional tools are excluded


Open to all users registered on eBay.ie
(except business sellers and below standard sellers)

CutePanda

raveni wrote: »

Some sellers and categories are exempt from free listings, info about ebay fees can be found here.

I read that but I can't see anything about my question. It doesn't mention whether you have to have already sold things on your account, or if it is free for a private seller with no sales yet.