Listing/Insertion fees aren't actually that much at all...
http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html
Max is about $2 for auction style listing and a .50 fee for buy it now.
It's the "Final Value Fee" which eats into the listing price IF the item
sells:
9.0% of sale price (maximum charge $50.00)
Real Estate and other unique categories charge upwards of ~$20 per
listing...
Regards,
Eric
On 11/29/2010 5:39 PM, Galactic Stone & Ironworks wrote:
Hi Folks,
I'm not saying this to bash eBay. But eBay is not interested (or
capable) of determining what a legit meteorite is. If meteorites
become problematic for eBay, they might ban their listings entirely.
Or they might get overzealous and start hazing meteorite sellers the
way they do with sellers of pearls. (Just ask Dean Bessey about that
one)
The best thing a meteorite buyer can do (in regards to eBay) is to
educate themselves on space rocks. There is a lot of good information
available on the web for the interested newbie, if they spend some
time looking.
Some of these bogus listings we see don't make sense to me. It must
cost a good bit of cash to list a $20,000 item, less yet a $200,000
item. The listing fee alone is nothing to scoff at. It's costing
some of these people a ton of cash to list these specimens and eBay is
cashing in whether the rock sells or not.
Take the Martian Blood Vessel guy for example - he keeps listing the
same high-dollar items over and over, and nobody is buying them. So
he must be in pretty deep already on listing fees alone. I bet that
guy has spent a couple of grand on listing fees alone. He needs to
sell one of those specimens just to recoup his listing fees.
Best regards,
MikeG
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On 11/29/10, Stuart McDaniel<[email protected]> wrote:
Ought to report him to ebay.
-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Hupe
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 4:56 PM
To: Adam
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Ice Meteorites From Jesus
Yep, another one!
I wonder how Steve C.'s press conference went at the Montrose Library?
Apparently the media attention he received became addictive. I see he made
himself president of UNCO meteorites to give himself an air of importance
and
authority. He says it has nothing to do with money but is asking millions
of
dollars for his self-proclaimed planetary pieces. Now he has taken it to the
next step by claiming to have found alien lifeforms.
The common denominators seem to be the need for fame and money, mostly fame.
This guy should think about going into the entertainment industry with such
story telling abilities. It seems like a waste of his talent to simply
write
eBay descriptions and hold press conferences at libraries. The sad thing is
that
in his mind, he surely is the world's best meteorite hunter and should be
recognized as such.
Happy Hunting,
Adam
----- Original Message ----
From: JoshuaTreeMuseum<[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Mon, November 29, 2010 12:26:40 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Ice Meteorites From Jesus
Here's a new one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/North-American-Biologic-Planetary-Meteorite-/120652410277?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c1771ada5
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To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is
research.
(SW)
Phil Whitmer
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