does it cost money to put stuff on ebay?
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Yes, it depends on how you sell it.  If you go to this website, it will tell you all you need to know.
835882
Sell some of your stuff on ebay
204146
Are you that cheap? why dont you sell urself on ebay?
183991
You are correct, Clothing is a BIG business on eBay but you can still make a tiddy profit off it. Try shopping a discounter like TJ Maxx, Ross for Less, Marshalls or whatever it is called in your area for women’s clothes from designers like Ralph Lauren, BCBG or Tommy Hilfiger. Often times you can find, for example, a woman’s shirt that sells in the mall for $50 on sale for $10. Odds are if you put it on eBay for $25, you'd sell it. The customer thinks they saved $25 and you made $15. :) Now multiply it by 100 sales and you're in business. I do about $2K a month in sales and I profit about $500 and that’s from just working part time. It's not "easy money", you do have to work at it, but if you're willing to invest the time and effort, you can do it.
586395
Selling on eBay is the best option with limited cost.  If you have items to sell, it is good.  If not, ask your friends to let you sell their stuff on eBay.
506392
Buying from garage sales and selling on eBay is fun, and good getting a few dollars here and there from ebay. Sometimes, you luck out on an item and hit big, but many times it will just be so-so (assuming you can even get the price you paid for it). In terms of fun factor, it is great. But from a business stand-point, it is not. Not sustainable.\n\nIf you want to earn serious money from eBay, you need to have a well-thought out business model. Selling on ebay is getting tougher -- just look at the number of auctions that closes without a bid. Go to the boards on ebay and you will hear even oldtimers complaining about how stiffer competition plus higher fees make it so much harder to sell on ebay.\n\nThe key success factor is: Sell products that people actually want. \n\nSelling on eBay is not as easy as some portray. In fact, go to eBay and check out the number of auctions that end without a single bid. Competition is getting tough, as more sellers go to eBay; even the big boys are joining in the eBay marketplace. Add to that the increasing listing and final value fees.\n\neBay has several ways for you to determine exactly what the hot items to sell on their marketplace: \n\nItems In Demand = the most popular items currently within that particular category. To see the In Demand page, go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/sellbycategory.html  \n\nHot Items by Category Report = a monthly report that lists the fastest growing categories on eBay for the previous month. Go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/whatshot.html and select "Hot Items by Category" from the menu on the left. \n\neBay Pulse = "a daily snapshot of current trends, hot picks, and cool stuff on eBay". Go to http://pulse.ebay.com/ to see eBay Pulse in action. \n\nMerchandising Calendar = eBay promotes specific categories on its home page each month. Savvy eBayers know that this home page exposure results in more interest in such categories. Go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/calendar.html  to view the current Merchandising Calendar.\n\nAs for items to sell, you can:\n\n1. Buy bulk liquidation items such as those at Liquidation.com. The capitalization may be big, but the idea is to sell the items individually and profit from it.\n\n2. Find manufacturers of items you want to sell and buy discounted items from them\n\n3. Make deals with retailers in your area, and offer to buy their unwanted items for deep discounts. jayandmarie - the most successful ebay sellers - made deals with music stores where they will buy the entire inventory in the discounted bins, and then sold the items on ebay for 1-cent starting bid.\n\n4. Look for possible partners on the Web, preferably outside of the US. Import items from them and sell them on ebay. There's huge profits to gain from this approach.\n\nI suggest you read the articles on Success with Auctions http://www.powerhomebiz.com/internet/auctions.htm
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Clothing is a BIG business on eBay. Try shopping a discounter like TJ Maxx, Ross for Less, Marshalls or whatever it is called in your area for women’s clothes from designers like Ralph Lauren, BCBG or Tommy Hilfiger. Often times you can find, for example, a woman’s shirt that sells in the mall for $50 on sale for $10. Odds are if you put it on eBay for $25, you'd sell it. The customer thinks they saved $25 and you made $15. :) Now multiply it by 100 sales and you're in business. I do about $2K a month in sales and I profit about $500 and that’s from just working part time. It's not "easy money", you do have to work at it, but if you're willing to invest the time and effort, you can do it.
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It shouldn't cost you anything to sell them... unless you use ebay
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The only time you pay fees to Ebay is after you list an item for sale and/or sell something.  Ebay gets a small fee for the listing and a small percentage of the sales price.  If the buyer uses Paypal, Paypal also gets a small piece.  Altogether, the seller ends up losing 6-10% of the sale to Ebay/Paypal.  \n\nIf you purchase an item on EBay, you should never have to pay a fee.  \n\nThere are a lot of email "phishing" scams sent out by people pretending to be from EBay requesting your credit card number and personal information.  If you are paying these "fees" in response to such an e-mail I would cancel your credit card and check with Ebay to verify whether or not the fees are legit.
189591
advertising clutter??? you trying to sell it? put and ad in the paper or use ebay
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Yes, you get charged a listing fee. It's like putting a car ad in the paper and not selling your car. You paid for the exposure and audience base.
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Maybe try a classified ad in the local newspaper.  \n\nYou could also list it regionally on ebay, with a reserve price.  By listing regionally, the buyer has an opportunity to eliminate the shipping costs.  That way ALL the funds come to you.\n\nThe only draw back about a reserve price is, if it isn't met, your item is still not sold, you make no money and you are still responsible to pay the fees associated with listing it.\n\nJust check to see what they have been selling for. Make sure you have a realistic idea of its market value.
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yes, not sure about the specifics but you have to pay an insertion fee, if you do a "buy it now" you pay a fee if someone uses it...etc.  ebay has specials once in a while for sellers, sign up with them and they'll email you when they have it.
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A fee every which way you turn with ebay.\nFinal value fees was always there. Its just such\na detailed and confused listing of your billings\nhard to sort it all out in the begining when sales are active.\nEven fees in paypal in case you did not notice.\nRounds up to about 10-15% of sales. - Outrageous costs\nin a low profit setting. Bolds, highlights, a million and one ways to pay fees.
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a lot of ebay sellers will overcharge on shipping to keep the price of thier item lower. also, ebay doesn't charge fees on shipping like they do on the selling price of the item, and this way the seller loses less money.
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I sold some stuff, the listing fee was .55 cents and the pay pal ee was based on what item sold for. also ebay charges depending on starting bid etc. The fees are not that much
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No unless you already have some things you can sell on EBay.\nThere are a lot of people like you around and they often get taken advantage of by hustlers.\nA legitimate online business has start up costs unless you become an affiliate. But you do need to know how to do search engine optimization and make web pages for that. I actually made a great deal of money as an affiliate but put a lot of time and effort into making web pages.