I’m amazed to see eBay have scrapped all sellers fees for private sellers, including final valuation fees. A pretty big move. Not good news for discogs …
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Vinted have been wiping the floor with them for a while
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I might think about listing records on ebay now as well as Discogs, the listing process is going to be slow compared to discogs in just a couple of clicks.
Comes a bit late as I’ve sold a few thousand quids worth of non record stuff on ebay the last couple of months. Absolutely baffled how they can revert to loosing that amount of inome in final value fees?
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Just sold a 1210 on eBay a couple of weeks ago, £90 in fees! 
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If it makes it more palatable, I paid over £200 in fees on a pair of vintage Levis I sold to Japan, because I opted for higher visibility. In fairness, it’s probably what got them sold, bit it still hurt!
Be keen to see if Etsy (in some way) follow suit.
I feel your pain!
The fees have been too high over the last couple of years, and screwing over sellers for postage too made it even worse. I’m amazed they’ve completely abolished them though.
I got rinsed on some CDJs I sold on there a while back and resolved to never sell on there again. May now reconsider. Vinted is great but some items are restricted
How are they making money now, just from transaction fees?
Answering my own question, from interest on the funds they are holding
Ah…I guess they are holding a lot of funds at any one time
Now they’re fucking about with “simplifying” postage on top of the fee they’ve reintroduced for buyers which ultimately seems to be slowing down sales of cheap records. Quite close to giving up with it, I think they’re determined to drive off any smaller private sellers.
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I’m ignorant on this weeks and any other changes in the structure. I do know that I’ll be leaving the majority of records behind on digs as resale is just not happening in the current recession climate.
Has the AI thread bought up the absolute nonsense automatic ebay descriptions and error in listings?
Shocking how quickly the take up of dealers and private sellers are pointing a camera phone at a label and letting ebay do the rest. It’s like a drive to make the human race brain dead.
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