lower ebay listing fees

I know what you mean, I go to rummage sales and library book sales to find books to sell but I'm afraid to not do an auction because I have been shocked several times at how much I got for a book when they go bid crazy. I have to start listing more again but I haven't had much luck selling much of anything lately. Mostly I'm selling my husband's textbooks as he gets finished with them lately.

Yup... he is not allowed to put a mark on them...lol. I actually turn a profit on them. My husband is doing online college and his classes are only a month long one class at a time so they the books don't go down in price. I buy them off ebay or amazon depending on how good the price is and only look for like new no marks or new and I usually get my money back and sometimes I even get more off them than I paid for them. Mostly that is when I bought it off Amazon and then on ebay the same textbook is listed higher. Some people don't use anything but ebay so I list it the same price I paid for it and it goes up higher than that. Mostly I try to go for the children's books at the library book sale because they are a quarter each. I usually get them sold online for $5-$30. I once found one book I bought for $1 and sold it for $60. I look for 1st Edition antique books and at times antique toys and games really sell well too. I need to get back on it this year.

Yep, those costs really add up. Unfortunately, the book site fees are just as bad in the long run. However, I've found that I can get a lot more for books on Amazon and ABE than I do on eBay. It's fixed price but it's my price. I only like the fun and excitement of an auction when the surprise is a pleasant one. I don't mind giving a deal now and then but if I don't usually make a profit, I'm not a business, I'm a charity.

I think old eBay has finally started to realize that they need sellers too. Anyway, it was about what another person on this thread it would be, I got five free listings. I'm hoping he was right and we get five every month because I plan to list a few where the opening bid is high on Monday so it will go into March. Those listings have an insert fee of at least $3.00. Actually, I think they sent me something about free auction style listings in March. Oh boy, I'm hot to trot here! lol

I think it probably does have a lot to do with lack of business. Still, they are not putting any limits on us. I listed one thing with a starting bid of $75.00 adn it was free. Ebay used to try to encourage sellers to list low but they don't seem to be doing that. They probably wised up to the fact that nobody was goito take a chance. I don't expect this to last but I'm sure going to take advantage of it while it's here. Probably the prices will come back in the Spring.

Yes, I caught on to that. I'm hoping that 30 day period starts at the beggiing of eavey month since I don't intend to list more than ten things this time. (Too hard to wrap them all at approximately the same time and ship them) Still it's nice. The free pictures are also new and the timing for me couldn't be better. I have windows 7 on this computer and I cannot (at lest not easily) access my ftp space.

I've been starting things around the minimum amount I have to get for them. I never started anything lower than $9.99 and I would never chance putting anything of value up for $.99. They just let one person walk offf with the item and know they've cheapened the price so they can wait for the next one.