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After 8 Years On Ebay Im leaving
 

Over the years ebay made me some money..I got lucky found a niche and did sales of over 100k in my best months..over the last 3 years things have gotten progressively worse, buyers are unreasonable and fees were killing my business..Luckly I dodged a lot of bullets with my account being so aged and got the benefit of the doubt being a TRS & PS....many aren't as luck as me. As a good riddance to the game I thought I would pass on any info to readers...
Ask me a question....

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What were you selling that made you 100k?

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What sort of questions are you looking to be asked?

on 100K what was your Net?
How much of the work did you have to do yourself?

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yes! what did you sell?

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your business has gone under and you're setting yourself up as some sort of ebay guru, lol wut?

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Lend us a quiddddd.....

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Is Jon Snow still alive?

Yessssssssss

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What were you selling?

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can I have your eby acct :heh:

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I see there are NO answers to the questions. LOL> Just what everyone expected.

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How much a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck chucked with 1 tooth? I'd like the answer I Monthly and Yearly please.

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If you consider "Zombie Status" 'alive' then yes....

What I want to know is, were those the Dothraki?

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If a tree falls in the forest and nothing is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

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I would like to know everything about your successful business. tell me all!

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Looks like the OP may have disappeared up his own arse.

It's always a danger when you are that good.

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Welcome to the forums - all the best

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Well, we were trolled, congrats to everyone.

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It is easy to troll a newbie but I will be honest eBay has taken a hit over the past 10 plus years. It is not nearly as lucrative as it once was. I started in 05 when eBay FVF fees were like 3% if they went up to 5% you thought it was crazy. You could sell across the globe sure you would get a few scammers but the number of sales outweighed everything.

Today as a US seller atleast eBay is a shell of what it use to be. Once upon a time it was a great marketplace full of independent sellers. Now largely because of listing fees that is gone.

Overall I can not dispute what he is saying. eBay has lost its luster and we all know how Amazon works. I get f'd even worse for fees on Amazon then the metrics which are insane.

Sometimes when things get slow I do feel like eBay is going the way of the cassette tape or the typewriter.

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I heard he was selling rampant rabbits

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so what do you think is replacing it then?

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Amazon.com

Has been for years.

Far more sales and far higher prices (at least on my inventory)

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We long time sellers are dealing with DRASTIC margin crunches. Especially on high dollar manufacturer direct items. Many factors contribute to this but 12% goes to ebay and paypal off of the gross including domestic shipping. Five years ago it was 9% of the first $100 and then a tier system as the value gone up.

Second is a weak world economy especially for the upper middle-class. Expendable income is wiped out for many of those people.

Most recently is shipping cost for items over 1lb. It is insane. What was $12.00 last December sometimes cost me $50 now. Shipping has outpaced margins in many areas. I looked into opening a warehouse in Memphis for strategic shipping. I actually moved there this past March and April and very well may revisit that idea after the first of the year.

Then for many of us we have to compete with China sellers and China government subsidized next to free international shipping.

Those are just a few issues us long time ebayers see now that we did not see a decade ago.

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hmmm was under impression amazon always had cheapest prices...

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you moved to Memphis... whew hope your packen partner:heh:

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Lakeland and GermanTown are not bad at all :) and I sell outdoor sporting-goods for a living soooo....:)

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NICE... u have an actual store?

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I have no interest in retail these days. Closed my last retail store in 2012

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left retail around that time as well... so glad:brushteeth:

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People shop on Amazon when they want QUALITY. They shop on eBay when they want LOW PRICE.

Everyone knows that the standard on ALL Amazon.com orders is VERY high, for both Amazon and sellers, and people are willing to pay a premium for that.

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I heard he had the monopoly on ebay selling the worlds smallest guitars.... sob sob

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If eBay prices keep going up, which they will, even the most basic sellers will need to rethink the whole thing. I guess for your average Joe Blow it doesn't make much difference because they just sell **** that they find around the house, its all extra money anyway but for small business or people who are starting out, it gets very difficult.

If they keep operating the same way and keep going in the same direction then I can only see it becoming a fancy version of Gumtree or Craigslist and they'll most likely sell out to the East and it'll just be an online shopfront for Asian factories that currently need to tap into the market via resellers.

Amazon is for your top end stuff, quality purchases and eBay will slowly keep getting cheaper and cheaper with just Joe Blow being able to make money.

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How's your new job at Walmart?

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I enjoy selling on ebay, but why is paypal such a bitch?

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They are responsible for moving moneys, are controlled by AML and similar laws. EB is not responsible for anything, so has much lower responsibility, thus lower requirements.

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ebay fees don't bother me, just annoys me how biased they are in favour of buyers and their banning for no reason.
All companies are the same: Google,yahoo,facebook,paypal all started off free/cheap then after spending loads of cash and getting popular they put their fees up.
Ebay is much cheaper than facebook or google, I'd love to see anyone get the same sales with adwords or fb ads for less than the 15% you pay ebay+paypal or amazon.

Can definitely see ebay going byebyes in the next few years though, think thats why they split up, paypal has so much more potential to make them big cash.
I don't use them to buy with much anymore but they basically charge 7-8% on foreign transactions once you take into account their exchange rate, then 4-5% on your sales once you take into account the 20p per transaction, thats around 10% of your sales going to paypal depending on your profit margins just for them processing payments

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Hey guys, sorry it took me so long to respond. I'm a busy guy..

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Ummmm....You didn't respond.

We are all busy guys and galls, for the most part anyways.

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Where are the gold nuggets of wisdom you promised us?

:deadhorse:

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im such a busy guy that I made a post to tell you about what a busy guy I am.

OK.