Ebay Fees Are Expensive These Days..

[CoolHands]

the 'final value fee' for my Kyosho that I just sold is £22.05. It seemed expensive (I've never really taken much notice of fees to be honest), so out of interest I looked back at when I sold a Monster Beetle for a similar amount. The final value fee then was £10.86 More than doubled in a few short years.

I know it gets the widest audience but after paypal fees too (is that basically 3%?) it makes a big dent. I'm really shocked by the expense.

[skip665]

the 'final value fee' for my Kyosho that I just sold is £22.05. It seemed expensive (I've never really taken much notice of fees to be honest), so out of interest I looked back at when I sold a Monster Beetle for a similar amount. The final value fee then was £10.86 More than doubled in a few short years.

I know it gets the widest audience but after paypal fees too (is that basically 3%?) it makes a big dent. I'm really shocked by the expense.

Agreed - I just sold an M04 Eunos for £40 including postage - eBay took 7p listing fee (I am tight with my listings!) and then £1.58 for the PayPal transaction and then they will no doubt take some more for the eBay sale when I get my monthly invoice - its very frustrating! I think I will add more things to TC first like the TEU-101BK I just sold.

[Mighty flex]

yeaah. 0.99 auctions are free to list... charge as much postage as you can get away with and you only get charged on 10% of the item final value (not postage) (still a lot) + 25p~ish and another 2.7% from paypal... hmmm

always worth putting stuff up on a forum first if people will be interested, as you get more money and they pay less!

oh well

[bugjammer]

One easy way to keep fees down is to combine photos - use something like publisher and get twice as many pics for the same money

heres a couple from some of my recent auctions - and remember the first pic is free lol!

Its also possible to insert pictures in the text using html code - Ebay doesnt like you doing it but they dont always spot it....

[skip665]

One easy way to keep fees down is to combine photos - use something like publisher and get twice as many pics for the same money

heres a couple from some of my recent auctions - and remember the first pic is free lol!

Its also possible to insert pictures in the text using html code - Ebay doesnt like you doing it but they dont always spot it....

Yup I did the photobucket thing with my M04 - just one picture for the listing and loads from the photobucket account in the text - hence my 7p listing fee!

[Gruntfuggly]

You can host your own pictures and put links to them in the auction - I'm pretty sure eBay don't have a problem with that...

[Bimdapogs]

Yup I did the photobucket thing with my M04 - just one picture for the listing and loads from the photobucket account in the text - hence my 7p listing fee!

I upload all my pictures to Auctiva, which claims that I can add 24 images in a listing and I'll only get charged as if I only uploaded 1. But when I get my monthly ebay invoice - it doesn't add up - their invoices were always way above my computations. The worst thing is that ebay only provides you a Total amount, no details!

[WillyChang]

might wanna check your "Account" tab on My EBay properly

my a/c shows itemisation for every charge for every individual item - both listing fees & final value fees. Paypal is separate.

[terry.sc]

Or you can use TC for your picture hosting.

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=49594

How to video link from the front page

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/tut_ebaytemplates.mov

[TWINSET]

Or you can use TC for your picture hosting.

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=49594

How to video link from the front page

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/tut_ebaytemplates.mov

Don't forget TCPhotos too! - No 6 picture limit there

You can also edit individual pics after the auction's finished in case anyone 'watching' missed the end of the auction

[TWINSET]

Its also possible to insert pictures in the text using html code - Ebay doesnt like you doing it but they dont always spot it....

There's no problem with externally hosted pics on ebay, they even tell you how to do it;

Self-Hosting Your Pictures

If you’ve stored a picture with your Internet Service Provider (ISP) or another picture-hosting service, you can include this picture in your listing.

How it works

In the “Picture Web address” field, enter the Web address (URL) of your picture. That picture will be displayed in your listing.

What they don't like is links to external sites that don't directly relate to the item for sale

Hosting your own pics will save you 12p a picture, so after 125 pics, you'll have clawed back a years TC membership fees

You can really go to town with pics then; http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=150340185448

At a maximum of 800 pixels wide, the TC pics are also bigger than ebay standard ones - If you want to 'supersize eBay hosted pics, that'll cost you another 60p!

I'm up to around 90 pics this year already;

http://www.tcphotos.com/section.asp?sid=169&secid=613

[WillyChang]

fleabay is ok with you inline linking external jpgs or even animated gifs from anywhere

but they're a bit more restrictive on video inline embedding, they dislike most major video sources other than youtube

[ChrisB]

As well as including images hosted elsewhere, you can include your own CSS stylesheets to pretty much customise the HTML area in the auction exactly as you want it. Its a great way to make your auctions stand out and arrange things exactly as you want them rather than rely on ebay's rather basic templates.