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Anyone selling on onbuy?
 

Hi all, is anyone selling well on onbuy as of June 2023?

I was selling a little on there as an additional marketplace on top of ebay up until their new subscription changes. But then they changed their subscription fee to 22.8 GBP a month, (when originally they would waive this if you made less than 500GBP in sales). So I've stopped selling on there since as I was breaking even as the site gets so little traffic for my particular products.

Re: Anyone selling on onbuy?
 

Never heard of them. What is the sign up process like?

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If you Google them you'll see them. Sign up process is pretty much the same as ebay now. You have to send them proof of company/sole trader and everything

Was not like that originally when they used PayPal, but about 8 months ago roughly they started asking all sellers for documents

That and the adding their own equivalent of managed payments, as well as charging £22.8 per month ruined their platform in my opinion

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tried to sell on the platform a few years ago. got no traffic. but i see all these articles about them growing so i dunno. but signup process did require a manual review. i dont know what its like now cause they killed my account for inactivity

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What about non-business accounts. you have to pay the monthly fee too? or is it FVF or something like that.

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They list their monthly fees as £19 but do not tell you that VAT has to added, so it seems that they are solely aiming for business sellers.

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I used to do Ok on there, especially at Christmas.

I tried to register with my own details and I failed verification. haha

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onbuy is that selling app on your phone like mercari right?

I tried it once or twice and it just wasn't getting any traction, but this was I think 2 years ago.

Tons of scammers too

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i think ur thinking of offerup. i dont think onbuy focuses on mobile

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increased subscription fees are hardly seller-attractive

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Interesting answers..

I gave up selling on onbuy, too little traffic and 22.8 GBP per month is to much for nearly 0 sales.

Re: Anyone selling on onbuy?
 

If you're a dropshipper you can make money on any half decent marketplace