1000 pens - £105.75 (There is a £30 +vat set-up fee), so 10 people would need to pay approximately £13 each to cover all the costs involved, including P&P. However, if eBid contributed the setup fee, that would reduce the cost to around £10 per person per 100 pens.
They would all be the same - slim pens with '
www.ebid.net online auctions' (or similar) printed on them and sent out 2nd Class by the 100 to keep costs down. As per a previous post, the setup fee is usually a single payment, so it is to eBid's longterm advantage to invest the £30 + vat to have that in place for future use. Perhaps if there are enough people interested, eBid themselves, will arrange it and offer the items through their auctions (buddy points and normal sales). Otherwise, it's down to the sellers who are serious about bringing in new business