My experience with eBay has been very positive as well. I agree with all that Bob and Ed have expounded on here. Now as to buying, I have had limited success. I'm too cheap to pay what stuff is often bid up to. I can't believe the prices people will pay for junk! It must be the thrill of the hunt. Of course, when they buy my junk, it's always a fair price.
I resisted PayPal too at first, but a friend of Jami's who sells lots of items talked me into it. Now I think it's great. Funds go into my account and the stuff is out the door and off my hands the next day. Like Ed, if I think someone paid too much, I throw them a freebee. Sure beats lugging it to swap meets (or Jamie's auctions <g>) and taking a beating there! Roger Nulton Tacoma WA ----- Original Message ----- From: Ed Kozlowsky To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 1:53 PM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} New eBay rules, count me out. I've sold many (in the thousands) items on eBay. All my railroad items that weren't S scale eventually wound up on eBay. I think the fees are reasonable including Pay-pal, and I have never been stiffed. Pay-pal charges less than a credit card company charges for the same transaction, and the payment is in my hands, so to speak, almost instantaneously. Whenever a person sends me an email stating that their check is in the mail, I ship the item. The most expensive item I've sold is around $500, but most sales are under $100. I've had less than 5 complaints on items shipped out. I either tell them to keep the item and I give them a refund, or I pay for them to ship it back. If you're going to nit pick over a few small losses, you probably should find another way to sell your stuff, but it's been worth it to me to have such a broad world-wide audience to sell to. I've sold to Australia, Asia, South America, Europe and all without a hitch. By the way, I "always" start bids on my items at ridiculously low prices. I've gotten a little less than I wanted on a few items, but on the whole, it boggles my mind what some people will pay for things once they start bidding. I've sold items for almost twice what the going price is even when I included an add in the auction information. I love eBay. If you've got a lot of expensive brass to sell, or you're doing it for a living, I can't give you any advice. Everything to do with trains I do for the fun of it. I've even thrown in extra items when I thought a person paid too much for something. Ed Kozlowsky Sanford, Maine --- On Thu, 8/21/08, Bob Werre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Bob Werre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} New eBay rules, count me out. To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, August 21, 2008, 1:46 PM I have both sold and bought on ebay for a couple of years. We used to favor personal checks but sometimes it took weeks to get them in house. Then if we didn't know the individual we had to wait for clearance, thus stuff sat here for weeks. I sold some photo equipment for a friend to a fellow in Canada. The equipment was fairly heavy (way beyond normal mail weight) and required two boxes. We used Fed Ex ground. There is a fair amount of paperwork to fill out and one box made it just fine. The larger, heavier bounced back here twice before we got 'mad'. In the end Fed Ex wanted an extra $60 something dollars. I wonder how and if Pay Pal would have delt with that situation. We have since accepted the PayPal thing as a very good move as sometimes the money is in the bank and the order is in the mail in a day or two. Not a bad thing for the most part, but it does cut into the gross amount. My personal peeve is sellers who mark the shipping up way above what it costs. It's almost like a government deal! Bob Werre > > > Rusty (J. Rustermier) wrote: > > > I just received an email from eBay > > informing me that beginning in > > October I will no longer be able > > to accept checks or money orders for > > items. I am suppose to start using, > > Paypal, credit cards, etc. I think > > there may be a way around this little > > dilemia , I'll have to give it a try. > > I don't doubt that this move is being made in order to increase eBay's > income, since they own PayPal. On the other hand, I'm guessing that > it's eBay's only way to ensure that they get paid after the sale goes > down. > > JR Hill > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
