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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 870366, member: 13650&quot;]I love buying on ebay.&nbsp; Hate selling.&nbsp;&nbsp; I haven&#039;t tried selling any coins on ebay but I suspect it would be much easier to do right now than many other things.&nbsp; I recently listed some electronics items.&nbsp;&nbsp; Two with a reserve and one with no reserve.&nbsp; The no reserve one sold very, very cheap.&nbsp;&nbsp; Was hardly worth bothering with but, it also had been collecting dust in a room for years.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; The other two items didn&#039;t even meet 50% of my set reserve which was unbelievable to me.&nbsp;&nbsp; I did not relist.&nbsp; Even though I don&#039;t need the items, I would rather let them sit around my house and rot than waste time and hassle on shipping something that has at minimum double the value people bid it up to.&nbsp;&nbsp; FWIW, one of the listed items I was selling was my PS2 slim with many games, 2 memory cards and other accessories.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; After a 7 day auction, it was bid up to around $60.&nbsp;&nbsp; Which is a joke.&nbsp; Granted, I know they can be had pretty cheap now, but there was no way in hell I was going to let it all go for less than $120 plus shipping.&nbsp; Even at that, that would be giving it away to me.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; So that was a severe disappointment.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; At the end of the month, I find out that I accidentally listed a couple of the items in MULTIPLE CATEGORIES!&nbsp; &nbsp; Which amounts to leaving a box checked that was filled in for you.&nbsp; &nbsp; Well, then I find out that the reserve price fee was $2.00 per item, per category.&nbsp; &nbsp; In the end, after the listing fees, paypal fees, final sale price and shipping, I actually lost money selling 1 out of my 3 items.&nbsp; &nbsp; It was the worst disaster I&#039;ve had on ebay since signing up in 2000.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Normally, you can judge pretty close what you can get, but I screwed up big time this last time.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; So much for the &quot;No more listing fees&quot; they advertised.&nbsp;&nbsp; That&#039;s impossible to do.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; The fees amount to roughly 10 to 12% off the top and if you stray away from the higher dollar hobby areas, the buyers get VERY CHEAP and expect you to be their slave until the transaction is complete.&nbsp;&nbsp; Oh yeah, and if they screw you, you don&#039;t get to leave negative feedback as a seller.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Other than that, have fun!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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