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https://tamebay.com/2017/05/ebay-com-slash-fees-for-guitars-amps-and-accessories.html
Rift Amplification
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www.riftamps.co.uk
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Secondly, make it a fair marketplace for sellers and buyers. Fix all the loopholes that buyers exploit etc.
Thats the only way they are going to grow again, otherwise people will just leave in favour of social media and other free marketplaces.
Reverb.com is still a much better website for selling gear, even if ebay are matching their fees now.
Rift Amplification
Brackley, Northamptonshire
www.riftamps.co.uk
Dont forget theres an extra 3.5% for paypal too (about £35.70 depending on your postage cost). So altogether you would really be paying around £128.05 in fees. So you are only getting £872 for the £1000 guitar.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youThings like FB groups and online fora can easily undercut them though.
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The only real benefit of eBay is that you have access to the biggest buyer market and chances are it'll sell.
Also fwiw I dont believe Ebay traffic is anywhere near as good as it was say ten years ago.
Dont get me wrong I do still use ebay, but only for low value stuff thesedays like books and CD's. Anything gear related or valuable I will try and shift it elsewhere first.
Its a buyer's market.
You can wait months or try other avenues but in real terms you will probably save that 13.5% by selling in a week and getting the best price.
Of course there are other caveats but when it comes to pure ease of selling and best price I doubt you can beat ebay.
Fees have never been my issue with the system, more the erosion of 'seller's rights' to try and seem more attractive to buyers.
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I also think that @Bygone_Tones is right that there isn't as much traffic on Feebay as there used to be - me for one. I use to be on it all the time, but now I hardly ever go on there. I don't think I'm the only one.
And as a private seller, the potential for things to go massively wrong after the sale - up to months afterwards, with the current rules - causing you at best a huge amount of hassle, and at worst losing your money and your goods. If Ebay protected you against this, the fees would actually be worth it.
For high-volume business sellers the occasional rogue buyer is just part of the cost of doing business - and they are relatively rare. For a private seller, if you're unlucky and your sale is in the few percent that go wrong then you could be seriously out of pocket.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein