The Wholesale Forums

[BeemerMad]

It's called a lifetime seller fee because it takes you a lifetime to sell anything.

[paulstanden]

i have my own site but then there's the advertising costs and places like adwords only take plastic not paypal ahh well buisness is booming this weekend sold ten yesterday. also i have 2 more to sell before hitting 20 sold today

[willhof]

I've never heard of anyone selling anything on eBid!

[paulstanden]

well i think ill do a week trial of it and see how it goes. reached 20 btw if anyone was curious hey if i have made a total of £1,400 sales in 31 days (my first 31 on this new ebay account) will i make power seller status? got 86 @ 100% feedback and 50 5 star dsr's. would be good get some power seller discounts going are they much btw?

[rayloveday]

Originally Posted by paulstanden

so i sell xbox live codes which i buy from a few traders off here and i am getting a bit tired of the fact that for each membership i sell ebay takes £2.77 and paypal take £1.15! on avergae i pay £22.00 per membership so for selling 5 i make about £6 this isn't bad as i have been selling around ten a day so thats £12 a day but if i paid £49.99 as a one off charge i would effectively eliminate the £2.77 charge through ebay. so if i sold more than 18 i would effectively be making an extra £27.70 for each lot of 10 i sold!

£1.20 pofit on a £22 sale is not very good. Are you selling these for a bit of cash on the side or building a business?

I realise that these are popular competitive items but if you have one sale go wrong and you can't recover your money, you'd have to sell 19 more just to get you back to where you were or £418 to make £22.

If you want to sell these you'd be better off to get a free cart and set-up your own site. Use your eBay shop to direct traffic to that site (use the about me page to your advantage etc.) and elimanate the eBay fees to give you a better margin.

As for ebid, we sold on there as a trial for a month and had 8 sales. The trouble was that buyitnow listings are not included in the Google product feed - only auctions are. We're adjusting our bulk upload to Auction format to take advantage of this but it's not a priority.

[superlicious]

I guess the only real benefit is the google feeds for listings on ebid but that's free anyway so if you've got the site set up already, try putting a feed on google yourself and also instead maybe experimenting with google ads for key terms such as xbox live

[paulstanden]

I know the risks of a bad sale taking my profit away from 19 but sold 52 so far now and had no problems. ebid i think i might avoid for now and as for google ads that i cant yet afford as they don't accept paypal!

[paulstanden]

Originally Posted by willhof

I've never heard of anyone selling anything on eBid!

Just a quick update as i could only buy lifetime membership with eBid using my paypal i decided to take the plunge and now have a £50 tshirt on its way! lol

made 1 sale of a 12 month xbox live (in 3 days) meaning profit of £4.84! just 9 more codes to sell and i will be in profit from the seller fee

plenty of page views but no one buying? strange??

[paulstanden]

Originally Posted by rayloveday

£1.20 pofit on a £22 sale is not very good. Are you selling these for a bit of cash on the side or building a business?

I realise that these are popular competitive items but if you have one sale go wrong and you can't recover your money, you'd have to sell 19 more just to get you back to where you were or £418 to make £22.

If you want to sell these you'd be better off to get a free cart and set-up your own site. Use your eBay shop to direct traffic to that site (use the about me page to your advantage etc.) and elimanate the eBay fees to give you a better margin.

As for ebid, we sold on there as a trial for a month and had 8 sales. The trouble was that buyitnow listings are not included in the Google product feed - only auctions are. We're adjusting our bulk upload to Auction format to take advantage of this but it's not a priority.

thanks for the suggestion i implemented my own site and have turned £100 to £500 in just 10 days

Please note mods this is not an ad as this is not a link to a wholesale site but my retail site with stock bought off here....

www.xblcodes.weebly.com

going to get king-tees and saajan to help me in getting a good site going on its own domain see what happens there

[HeadBangingMerc]

I had 30,000+ DVDs listed on eBid once, they were they for about 3 months, and I think I sold 5. Did the same on eBay, and I sold at least 5 an hour.

If your aim is to sell 10 a day on eBid, I would change that to 10 in 10 years, as that is more realistic.