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Message:: [QUOTE="BDA, post: 832273, member: 23590"]No offense to anyone.. I was a seller for years, going back to 1997... seen it all, and paid the fees! However... if you dont like the game.. dont play. You want to sell online, yet dont like the fees? Build a website, promote it, and sell on your own. Its not as hard as it sounds if you do your homework, build a good site, give good service, ect... However, you'll find that there is little if any savings in costs... paypal is still going to hit you, and having your own credit card machine can cost upwards of about $300 a month in rental & selling fees (not counting the dedicated phone line for it). Website building will run you about $1200 for a decent site build, and another $20+ for monthly hosting, and another fee for domain hosting. I own a well trafficed website store... it is worth it. But it did cost a good chunk to build it, and maintain it. But understand... if you dont want to write your own meta tags, constantly promote yourself, spend the fees to go it alone, ect.. ebay is not such a "bad" deal. Sure, its expensive to sell... thats why a savy seller will use this tool for only the "frenzy" items sure to make a decent profit. The key to ebay success is doing your research... Your item can be worth a ton, but if you dont research HOW to sell it on ebay, you'll not get what its worth. I think a lot of the problems some sellers have is based on this. They spend on extra ebay selling services, yet dont follow thru with the basics (like REALLY good macro photography) There is a reason two seperate sellers, selling the same exact item.. say... a Engelhard 10 oz Loaf bar, will get such different results. Just this last week.. I saw one fell get $254 for his... while another fella only got $192. If you figure out why this happens, you can make good money honestly on ebay.[/QUOTE]

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