The headsup sweet shit on ebay thread....

[echorec]

http://www.ebay.com

Pay for your item by 9:00 PM Pacific Time [Midnight EST] on June 29, 2018

[dugwolf]

http://www.ebay.com

Pay for your item by 9:00 PM Pacific Time [Midnight EST] on June 29, 2018

I haven’t used these eBay discounts yet. I don’t get how they can do it. If their fee is like 10% and they offer a 15% discount how do they make any money?

[omarwhite]

Today’s deal is 20%

[echorec]

I haven’t used these eBay discounts yet. I don’t get how they can do it. If their fee is like 10% and they offer a 15% discount how do they make any money?

It doesn't impact the seller's profits, because the sellers aren't discounting the items. The discount comes via eBay. It's just a tax write-off promotion to encourage traffic.

As far as selling on there, it's really more like 12% after eBay/PayPal fees. Whereas Reverb is about 6%. I no longer sell on eBay, but these sales codes definitely help with certain items/sellers. Antique places & pawn shops still use eBay, so it can be a good place for used gear like pedals, drum machines, and odds & ends.

[jirodreamsofdank]

Ebay's been hurt by other markets (Amazon FBA, Reverb, Facebook Marketplace, etc.), they're using these discounts as a loss leader to try to recoup some users.

I keep missing out on them as a seller - somehow they always pop up when I'm between listing sessions.

[repoman]

I haven’t used these eBay discounts yet. I don’t get how they can do it. If their fee is like 10% and they offer a 15% discount how do they make any money?

It doesn't impact the seller's profits, because the sellers aren't discounting the items. The discount comes via eBay. It's just a tax write-off promotion to encourage traffic.

As far as selling on there, it's really more like 12% after eBay/PayPal fees. Whereas Reverb is about 6%. I no longer sell on eBay, but these sales codes definitely help with certain items/sellers. Antique places & pawn shops still use eBay, so it can be a good place for used gear like pedals, drum machines, and odds & ends.

Ebay changed their fees for music instruments to match Reverbs fees about a year and a half ago. Dunno if they have lots of shitty hidden fees though.

[Psyre]

I haven’t used these eBay discounts yet. I don’t get how they can do it. If their fee is like 10% and they offer a 15% discount how do they make any money?

It doesn't impact the seller's profits, because the sellers aren't discounting the items. The discount comes via eBay. It's just a tax write-off promotion to encourage traffic.

As far as selling on there, it's really more like 12% after eBay/PayPal fees. Whereas Reverb is about 6%. I no longer sell on eBay, but these sales codes definitely help with certain items/sellers. Antique places & pawn shops still use eBay, so it can be a good place for used gear like pedals, drum machines, and odds & ends.

I'm still suprised at how many more sales I get via ebay than reverb, even if I increase the price on ebay. Just seems to be way more of a buyer base. The decreased music item fees are noticeable. Ebay's billing system is way less forceful. I've had reverb lock my account if I didn't pay the invoice within 2 days of receiving. Ebay on the other hand is totally lax and gives a clear due date, opposed to reverb's "DUE RaIGHT MEOW" policy.

I think a big reason why items sell quicker on ebay for me is the imposed time limit, I'd like reverb to add 5-10 day limits, even without the auction format.

[echorec]

I'm still suprised at how many more sales I get via ebay than reverb, even if I increase the price on ebay. Just seems to be way more of a buyer base. The decreased music item fees are noticeable. Ebay's billing system is way less forceful. I've had reverb lock my account if I didn't pay the invoice within 2 days of receiving. Ebay on the other hand is totally lax and gives a clear due date, opposed to reverb's "DUE RaIGHT MEOW" policy.

I think a big reason why items sell quicker on ebay for me is the imposed time limit, I'd like reverb to add 5-10 day limits, even without the auction format.

Hmm. There are certainly different cultures and expectations, despite a lot of demographical overlap. There are some items I simply won't sell on Reverb. Good luck putting up a 10-year old, $40 pedal on Reverb. It might sit for a year. The same item might sell on eBay in less than 24 hrs, even though your asking price had to be raised. ----Or try listing an expensive rarity on Reverb. You could put an item on Reverb for $700 and it will sit for 6 months, but jack it up to $800 and it might sell on eBay in a week's time.

I've never had your problem on Reverb. When my seller fees are due, I think it takes 7 or 8 days, before a red alert bar pops up on the top of the browser. I always pay it then to make that go away, so I'm not sure how much longer I'd get before an account freeze. I'm a preferred seller, though, so that may also impact this practice (dunno).

I was thrilled when Reverb came along. As someone who has used eBay for about 20 years, I was disgusted with their customer service (they didn't publish their phone number for years & when you did reach them, they seemed to focus exclusively on buyer protection. they never cared about protecting sellers against scammers). The fee hikes really pissed me off. For sellers, the eBay experience got worse & worse, yet the costs continued to rise. On the buying end, I had to get PayPal or Synchrony involved multiple times, because eBay wouldn't back me up on items that were grossly misrepresented. I fucking hate eBay, and I try to avoid them unless it's a specialty item that's more likely to sell to an overseas buyer.

Time limit? I always pay same-day/next day, so I have no idea what eBay's current stipulations are. I had no idea they weren't doing 48/72(?) hours anymore.

One thing I do not like about Reverb is that buyers can't cancel their offers. If I put in an offer and the seller just sits on it for 16 hrs, then I should be able to cancel and buy it from someone else. ----From a seller's perspective I get it, you want to wait for better offers to come along, but I also think we're living in 2018 and 16 hrs is a fucking eternity, when you're dying to get a new pedal before a promotion ends.

[jrfox92]

seller fees

Now I feel better about never selling anything on Reverb.

[echorec]

seller fees

Now I feel better about never selling anything on Reverb.

You thought it was free?

[jrfox92]

Yeah.
That's what I thought.
I thought it was totally free.

Not that seller fees were calculated and paid automatically upon receiving payment from a buyer.

I thought it was totally free.

[echorec]

Yeah.
That's what I thought.
I thought it was totally free.

Not that seller fees were calculated and paid automatically upon receiving payment from a buyer.

I thought it was totally free.

You may want to buy a sarcasm meter, before trying to use a sarcasm projector.

[whoismarykelly]

Yeah.
That's what I thought.
I thought it was totally free.

Not that seller fees were calculated and paid automatically upon receiving payment from a buyer.

I thought it was totally free.

If you have direct checkout set up for your shop that's how it works. But if you just accept paypal and don't take payments with Reverb as the processor they will invoice you for your fees at the end of the month.

[MechaGodzilla]

korg monopoly in the uk. raging synthboner for this one.

[Dandolin]

We're on this, right?

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