Originally Posted by
Rustymini
Quite simply, other sites have got far too greedy.
I occasionally list parts of my CD collection. I must admit I have little spells when I list lots (usually around the same time that my wife has a dig about the size of my collection compared to the size of our house) and longer spells where I don't list anything. I guess what I'm trying to say is that my lack of sales on ebid is more down to me than any other reason.
Recently I've listed a few CD's on another site (not an auction site, it may have the name of a river in it), I had an email yesterday to say I had sold a CD to a buyer in Belgium. It sold for £2.09 which I thought was a fair price. The site added £1.82 for P&P and charged the customer a total of £3.91. Everything fine so far, until i realised they had then charged me a whacking £1.38 commission on a £2.09 sale. This leaves me with £2.53 with which I also have to pay for postage. Airmail costs £2.93 to Belgium. The absolute cheapest way of sending it (surface mail) is £2.54
I'm sure that business users probably get a better deal on other sites than private sellers, however they seem to have forgotten that it was the private sellers that got these sites to the prominence they enjoy now. For this reason in future I'll not waste my time listing elsewhere.
It's just ebid for me now.