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Post by captbob on Dec 19, 2019 10:32:45 GMT -5
sell items for 99¢ ?? I'm not talking about a 99¢ opening bid where the final price may be much higher, but items that will probably not get any bids or go any higher if someone does bite. I have seen this for years, and not with sellers that sell a lot of items to make money by volume selling. And it seldom seems to be a feedback rating boost ploy. Regardless, whether selling a lot of items for 99¢ or just a few, how can it be worth the time to photograph, list, pack and ship something like that? Just looking through some rock listings and had the time to ask... (and maybe procrastinating as I plan to go Christmas shopping today)
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victor1941
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Post by victor1941 on Dec 19, 2019 11:00:46 GMT -5
Captbob, are you going shopping in the 99¢ section?
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Post by RocksInNJ on Dec 19, 2019 11:05:02 GMT -5
I’ve often wondered this myself.
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Post by captbob on Dec 19, 2019 11:57:41 GMT -5
Captbob, are you going shopping in the 99¢ section? LOL NEVER! Just looking through specific rock searches by "Newly Listed" option. Personally, I'd throw a rock out in the yard before listing one for 99¢ Just not worth the effort. I can't even imaging posting a listing for anything under 50 bucks. During Christmas shipping season that would probably have to be raised to $500!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2019 15:21:00 GMT -5
For some, it's a holdover from the beginning days of obay when you'd list for 0.99 and people would bid it up to where it came close to wholesale. Some of those sellers still have enough regular bidders that they still get decent final outcomes. Seems fewer and fewer each month, however. Then there are the mostly Chinese and Indian sellers (and Chinese and Indian sellers disguising themselves as from somewhere else by disguised zip codes or using US drop-shippers) who use heavily subsidized postage, near-or-actual slave labor, and take advantage of lowered obay fees to rid themselves of excess inventory, fraudulently described materials, seconds, or whatever they have on hand. It's become an ever more complicated and abstruse venue over the years - not what it was a couple of decades ago.
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EricD
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Post by EricD on Dec 19, 2019 18:17:25 GMT -5
For some, it's a holdover from the beginning days of obay when you'd list for 0.99 and people would bid it up to where it came close to wholesale. Some of those sellers still have enough regular bidders that they still get decent final outcomes. Seems fewer and fewer each month, however. Then there are the mostly Chinese and Indian sellers (and Chinese and Indian sellers disguising themselves as from somewhere else by disguised zip codes or using US drop-shippers) who use heavily subsidized postage, near-or-actual slave labor, and take advantage of lowered obay fees to rid themselves of excess inventory, fraudulently described materials, seconds, or whatever they have on hand. It's become an ever more complicated and abstruse venue over the years - not what it was a couple of decades ago. I totally agree. It has changed so much even in the last 10 years I almost don't recognize it anymore. When I buy there I look for real US sellers and hopefully things made in the US, or at least Japan.
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Post by greig on Dec 19, 2019 21:07:30 GMT -5
In the old days, if you listed for .99, you got a bunch of watchers who would bid up at the last minute. The ebay fee was lower if you started lower like that. Sometimes, someone got a good deal. Only thing is, look at shipping cost as well as purchase price. I used to love ebay but hardly ever sign on anymore.
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