Kiff
Wonderboy
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Post by Kiff on Mar 5, 2007 8:34:10 GMT
This is my little moan about EBay and there ridiculous fees.
I recently sold a copy of Zelda:Twilight Princess on EBay for the sum of £48.02.
My original listing fee was £0.32p. Final Auction Fee was £2.16. Paypal fee was £1.88.
Total - £4.36.
I cannot believe how much there fees have increased over the last year or so. It is making things worth lesser value not worth selling at all.
I am trying my best not to use Ebay hense starting the shop with playgen but time at the moment is running thin with house move and work so I had no choice.
I have an idea which might work. If we make another sub-section in the forum titled 'Members Sale/Trade' (Or something like that, keeping it seperate from the wanted section) where each member can make a list of all items they have for sale/ trade and there topic is stickied. This way it gives a constant up-to-date list of everything each person has.
This is just an idea to save people making a new post each time they are thinking about listing something on Ebay and it also gives members first refusal at everything.
Feedback would be great!!
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Post by rupert on Mar 5, 2007 8:58:27 GMT
This is my little moan about EBay and there ridiculous fees. I recently sold a copy of Zelda:Twilight Princess on EBay for the sum of £48.02. My original listing fee was £0.32p. Final Auction Fee was £2.16. Paypal fee was £1.88. Total - £4.36. I cannot believe how much there fees have increased over the last year or so. It is making things worth lesser value not worth selling at all. I am trying my best not to use Ebay hense starting the shop with playgen but time at the moment is running thin with house move and work so I had no choice. I have an idea which might work. If we make another sub-section in the forum titled 'Members Sale/Trade' (Or something like that, keeping it seperate from the wanted section) where each member can make a list of all items they have for sale/ trade and there topic is stickied. This way it gives a constant up-to-date list of everything each person has. This is just an idea to save people making a new post each time they are thinking about listing something on Ebay and it also gives members first refusal at everything. Feedback would be great!! yeah i could see that alsmost working, lack of people seeing it might be an issue. Do we treat it as 'buy it now' and put prices we would like on the thread? |
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Post by SaDistic on Mar 5, 2007 9:09:17 GMT
I never sell on ebay in the first place. I usually put my games on here for a trade or to sell them. Otherwise I'd use www.marktplaats.nl which has no fees for cheap products. |
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Kiff
Wonderboy
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Post by Kiff on Mar 5, 2007 9:16:26 GMT
This is my little moan about EBay and there ridiculous fees. I recently sold a copy of Zelda:Twilight Princess on EBay for the sum of £48.02. My original listing fee was £0.32p. Final Auction Fee was £2.16. Paypal fee was £1.88. Total - £4.36. I cannot believe how much there fees have increased over the last year or so. It is making things worth lesser value not worth selling at all. I am trying my best not to use Ebay hense starting the shop with playgen but time at the moment is running thin with house move and work so I had no choice. I have an idea which might work. If we make another sub-section in the forum titled 'Members Sale/Trade' (Or something like that, keeping it seperate from the wanted section) where each member can make a list of all items they have for sale/ trade and there topic is stickied. This way it gives a constant up-to-date list of everything each person has. This is just an idea to save people making a new post each time they are thinking about listing something on Ebay and it also gives members first refusal at everything. Feedback would be great!! yeah i could see that alsmost working, lack of people seeing it might be an issue. Do we treat it as 'buy it now' and put prices we would like on the thread? We could do it that way or you could accept offers or both really. Would be good to have another outlet to look for games and to sell/trade them. Lack of people would be an issue but I know that we can trust everyone on here and say if you are selling something I know someone else wants I would contact you and let you know. This would take like 10 minutes to set up aswell so no hassle for the admin. |
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Post by rupert on Mar 5, 2007 9:32:10 GMT
yeah cool, we could each have out own thread with the name of your 'shop'. Then you could have each game with picture, then add or delete when needed, people can post there feedback on your actual thread. buying or trading could all be done via PM. this will only work well if we get our own section for it. I'd put all me spares on a thread if it happends.
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Kiff
Wonderboy
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Post by Kiff on Mar 5, 2007 9:51:03 GMT
Exactly mate. It would work with out doubt and it would all be free. It also gives all the members here a first look which is an advantage. If you dont want to host pic you could leave an email address where people can contact you for a picture and more info.
We could always test it for a while and if noone likes it its easy enough to scrap.
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Post by Stan on Mar 6, 2007 21:04:57 GMT
Good idea, but we'll need some way to search through it. No one who is looking for a game is going to weed through all the threads when they can go on an auction site and search all over the world, that's the main problem with this. This is kind of what the wants/trade section of the forum is for, and it's constantly in use so I don't see a need for this really. I've got a number of games from people on these boards so it seems to be a matter of simply getting contacts. Plus, to take part in this you'd have to store crap in your house that you don't want in the first place. I'd hate to have twenty copies of Alien Syndrome sitting around just so someone would eventually say they wanted it. Convince me and maybe.
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Post by rupert on Mar 6, 2007 21:23:46 GMT
Good idea, but we'll need some way to search through it. No one who is looking for a game is going to weed through all the threads when they can go on an auction site and search all over the world, that's the main problem with this. This is kind of what the wants/trade section of the forum is for, and it's constantly in use so I don't see a need for this really. I've got a number of games from people on these boards so it seems to be a matter of simply getting contacts. Plus, to take part in this you'd have to store crap in your house that you don't want in the first place. I'd hate to have twenty copies of Alien Syndrome sitting around just so someone would eventually say they wanted it. Convince me and maybe. thers a search option for each topic in the forum  |
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Post by rupert on Mar 6, 2007 21:26:59 GMT
plus ive got over 100 spare games of which some are only worth £1 or £2 each so ebay is not an option, putting them on here takes away all fee's. i think kiffs proposal is a simple solution, the only work involved would be how well the seller wants to make there own thread look. a simple list or pics and descripitions etc.
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krooper13
Sonic the Hedgehog
Had it all and sold it, stupid economics.
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Post by krooper13 on Mar 6, 2007 23:44:09 GMT
This is a great idea, we could run a few games on ebay saying look at our site as well.
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Post by Stan on Mar 7, 2007 1:12:26 GMT
Ha, shows how much I pay attention. Points made. Perhaps this could actually be made part of the site and not just on the forum. It would be cool if we started a respectable site for not only the history of the SMS but also a great place for people to nab games they may need.
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Kiff
Wonderboy
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Post by Kiff on Mar 7, 2007 7:45:30 GMT
Also Stan, why trawl Ebay for a badly described item that will no doubt be in poor condition when it arrives and that is if the seller decides not to rip you off.
You could simply come onto the forum with people you have traded with on numerous occassions and grab a bargain. We can all reduce prices when we dont have to add the cut Ebay take.
Intergrating it into the site could be good too but it would be alot more work for yourself. If you leave it in the forum each member can update there own stock as and when they sell something.
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Post by SaDistic on Mar 7, 2007 8:19:22 GMT
Okay here's my idea:
The sega8bit store.
On the site you can see a section with 'Sega8bit store' or something like that. In the section you can see the 5 or 10 most recently posted items linking to the topics in the forums. This could easily be done via php.
Everyone posts their items piece by piece in the 'Sega8bit store' subforum so you can use the search from the forums to search for the items you need. In the topic name you could name the title and the price. In order to buy the item you can simply PM the seller or post in the topic.
All the admins have to do is make a new subforum for the store and find a php script which allows you to show the top 10 newest items on the site via the subforum.
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Kiff
Wonderboy
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Post by Kiff on Mar 7, 2007 8:21:59 GMT
This would mean we had thousands of posts for each individual item?
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Post by SaDistic on Mar 7, 2007 8:26:56 GMT
Yup.
Like I said, this way you can use the search to find items.
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