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Grasswire2

(13,737 posts)
Tue May 30, 2023, 12:17 AM May 2023

when I was first selling on eBay, I required payment via USPS money order.

A postal money order can not only be purchased, but also CASHED at a post office.

That way, I wasn't mixing eBay money with other household finances. Clean transaction, as good as cash.

I'm thinking of jumping back in at eBay -- looking around at my stash of collectibles.

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when I was first selling on eBay, I required payment via USPS money order. (Original Post) Grasswire2 May 2023 OP
Kudos to you! Have sold there in the past, lots of stuff I could get rid of if I'd just get busy PortTack May 2023 #1
I keep putting it off, and putting it off, and putting it off... Ferrets are Cool May 2023 #3
Same PortTack Jun 2023 #10
I have a ton of NIB fishing lures, how hard is it to sell on ebay? dem4decades May 2023 #2
I haven't used it for several years. Grasswire2 May 2023 #5
As someone who just started a few months ago, it is not hard. Chainfire May 2023 #7
I started selling off "collection" stuff about three months ago. $2,200.oo so far. Chainfire May 2023 #4
cool Grasswire2 May 2023 #6
Nice! dem4decades May 2023 #8
I keep telling myself I'm going to start selling on ebay again, too. I haven't Vinca May 2023 #9
eBay changed about 2015 bucolic_frolic Jun 2023 #11
I've always had an impression that encouraging the mega-sellers ruined the site. Vinca Jun 2023 #12

PortTack

(34,830 posts)
1. Kudos to you! Have sold there in the past, lots of stuff I could get rid of if I'd just get busy
Tue May 30, 2023, 12:52 AM
May 2023

Grasswire2

(13,737 posts)
5. I haven't used it for several years.
Tue May 30, 2023, 10:14 AM
May 2023

I think it might be a little more complicated with rules involving payment.
And if you're going to do it, do it this year because next year the IRS gets involved again and wants more documentation from some sellers.

 

Chainfire

(17,757 posts)
7. As someone who just started a few months ago, it is not hard.
Tue May 30, 2023, 10:16 AM
May 2023

As long as you are willing for eBay to take a big bite of your sales and are willing to put up with 1 out of about 20 asshole buyers, it is a piece of cake. Some years ago, I sold fishing lures on the site and they did very well.

Vinca

(51,235 posts)
9. I keep telling myself I'm going to start selling on ebay again, too. I haven't
Wed May 31, 2023, 11:36 AM
May 2023

sold there for 20 years and from what I can gather it's not what it once was. But, I've got a roomful of stuff from my years of selling antiques and collectibles and it's got to go somewhere. Maybe in the fall. LOL.

bucolic_frolic

(47,584 posts)
11. eBay changed about 2015
Sun Jun 4, 2023, 11:56 AM
Jun 2023

Search engines. Online I think they call it throttling. I feel metered. Items no longer get page views. You can't find your own items even when they're the lowest price of the same item by far. More fees, fees on postage, fees on sales taxes, shipping rates about five times what they were 20 years ago. Low price items are ignored, either by eBay choice or by buyer recognition of shipping costs. Collectibles? People with smart phones don't need collectible buzz. We've become a very utilitarian world.

On the other hand, certain types of collectibles might cut it. Baseball cards. 1960s toys. I guess my take is a downer, but eBay is just a waste of time. I'm ready to can it for good. And I don't find myself looking at other competing sites. It's just as bad there.

Vinca

(51,235 posts)
12. I've always had an impression that encouraging the mega-sellers ruined the site.
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 06:44 AM
Jun 2023

I seem to buy lots of things on there still, but the difference in transactions between sellers who have hundreds of thousands of listings and a mom and pop operation with a hundred items is very apparent. With the first you feel like everything is rubber stamped and with the second you're likely to get a thank you note. The second is the ebay I like.

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