Selling gear post-Reverb

[jirodreamsofdank]

Hahahahahaha! It's totally ambiguous and undefined. What is excessive? That statement reads as unenforceable, hollow virtue signaling. If the actual cost is $10, but the seller charges $25 for packaging materials/gas/handling? Reverb draws a line in the sand over high shipping, but they won't do jack shit about their rampant culture of price-gouging. ---Why? Because Reverb is the driving force behind it. They encourage builders to do small-batch runs and then they make bank. They collect a cut off a $400 item at the beginning of the month, and then they take a cut when it shows up a week later for $800. I'm not here to debate/discuss capitalistic greed. That, however, is straight up price-gouging and Reverb doesn't just benefit from it, they encourage it. ---Yet they want to draw the line at excessive shipping costs? So hypothetically, Reverb isn't cool with someone being overcharged $20 on shipping, but they'll give you a nod and a wink when you artificially inflate the value of an item 200-to-800% in 48-hours.

Reverb is a company overrun with shameless hypocrites. Fuck those clowns.

That's not the kind of overcharging they're talking about. It was a common scam on EBay to list items for a penny with $100 shipping to avoid fees back in the day.

[jirodreamsofdank]

Also IMO there's no such thing as overcharging for luxuries like pedals. If you're dumb enough to chase limited-run collectible distortion pedals, you get what you deserve. Good for the builder who's rooking you.

[mcatano]

From reverb’s perspective if you can raise your prices by 43% without losing 43% of your business then it was probably a smart move. For all the overwrought rending of garments at TGP I seriously doubt this is going to put much of a dent in Reverb’s volume.

Until something better, cheaper, with similar reach, and with similar inventory comes along it’s going to be the price guide that everyone uses.

[echorec]

That's not the kind of overcharging they're talking about. It was a common scam on EBay to list items for a penny with $100 shipping to avoid fees back in the day.

Perhaps that's what they're referencing, but since Reverb deliberately hides behind opaque legalese, it opens the door to a lot of guesswork concerning their site terms.

FTR, I do remember those listings from eBay, but I haven't seen one of those in several years.

[cosmicevan]

From reverb’s perspective if you can raise your prices by 43% without losing 43% of your business then it was probably a smart move. For all the overwrought rending of garments at TGP I seriously doubt this is going to put much of a dent in Reverb’s volume.

Until something better, cheaper, with similar reach, and with similar inventory comes along it’s going to be the price guide that everyone uses.

totally, the amount of business that will leave as a result of the fee hike won't outweigh the additional revenues from the raise...and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the users who leave eventually come back. It's just a bummer...yet another bizarre cost of living increase in one of the worst economic times ever. Up is down...

[manymanyhaha]

One of my 2020 goals was to get rid of everything that either A)I'm not using or B)Has no sentimental value. So I've been doing some Reverb selling, first time in a couple years, and was surprised at this Seller Protection scheme. It is so much more expensive than insurance through the USPS. Also, that they now force you to give them your bank account number.

I'm looking for an alternative too.

[frigid midget]

So in short...ebay will get a make over and lower their fees, and welcome all the reverb refugees?

I've been a reluctant reverb user, not more than a handful of buys/sells a year. I don't like losing money on my flips or only finding overpiced stuff when I'm shopping. So yeah, fuck 5%, and fuck their "we're gonna take a bigger cut but we'll make up for it by giving you more exposure" bullshit.

Would've been a perfect crime, from Reverb's percepective...if there were no competition to worry about at all. It's not like we can't get our shit from b/s/t threads all over the internet, craigslist, straight from theowner/builder/company/store,...