My First and Last Experience Selling on eBay
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I recently sold my Panasonic Q on eBay and felt very good about what it sold for. The final set of bids was a series of rapid fire snipes that put the final sale at $315.98.
Not to shabby for something I bought for $400 three years ago. I was feeling pretty good until eBay gave me the double-sucker punch of their despicable double-dippering. It cost me $10.04 to have the privilege of simply listing my auction on their site (they jacked up the price $3.00 when it went over $300). Let's not forget the insane PayPal fees, where just to hold onto my money for four days (most of that is me waiting for them to take the 15 seconds to transfer it to my bank account) costs me $14.75.
So then I got cheated by the Postal Service and eBay who both estimated the cost of shipping the system to the UK with insurance to be around $47. Well, neither site informed me that shipping takes literally two months to get to England. Who the HELL wants to ship something and have it take two months via boat? In this day in age why do we even offer such a service?! Naturally, Kelsey who was shipping the system opted for spending a paltry $15 more to upgrade it to airmail. Again raising, why anyone would rather save $15 and wait 16.6 percent of a YEAR waiting for a package?! That drove my final costs up to nearly $40. Sure, I'm still coming out ahead, but this is pretty insane and in my opinion, overly costly.
Screw you Evil eBay Empire. Never again will I sell through you, and I will redouble my efforts in praying for a Google alternative that will sink your chicanery once and for all!