Interesting auction.....

chacaocop1 · Post by **chacaocop1** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:48 pm

Interesting auction.....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/nothing- ... 35a477b75e

ccalingaert · Post by **ccalingaert** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:12 pm

It's not as strange as it sounds - I've thought about creating the same sort of listing. A few months ago, ebay changed its policies so the first five listings a month have no insertion fee. Naturally, whenever a company changes it's terms and conditions you'd better grab hold of your wallet, and what ebay did was raise the final value fee to 8.75% on the first $229 (max fee of $20), as opposed to 8.75% of the first $25, plus 3.5% of the next $975, plus 1.5% of the amount over $1000. The auction you found is probably one of five that seller creates each month so ebay doesn't get as big a cut of his sales.

chacaocop1 · Post by **chacaocop1** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 4:48 pm

Kind of got lost there....

I don't sell much on ebay. I buy, but not sell.

Can you explain further?

I am not an Erudite at all reagrding this....

Thanks.

ccalingaert · Post by **ccalingaert** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:16 pm

Sorry, I realize my previous post wasn't the most self explanatory. Ebay changed their policies so the first five items you list a month will cost most people more in final value fees (ebay's piece of the action). To get around it, list five items a month that won't sell, like the auction you spotted. They don't have to sell, and ebay doesn't charge anything to list them. Then everything else you sell that month will have the old fee structure, where the percentage that ebay gets drops as the sales price increases. Eventually ebay will figure out a way around this, but for now it can lead to some goofy auctions.

chacaocop1 · Post by **chacaocop1** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 6:00 pm

LOL, awesome. Love the creative minds. Thanks for taking the time to explain.