How much will ebay fleece me for? selling an amp.

Jimbo · 10 May 2010 at 23:26

Im gonna sell my wonderful Marshall DSL 401 combo amp on ebay for about £350+ £20pp... I was wondering how much of that i will lose to ebay? Cos i ned as much as i can from it to buy a new amp.

Gamer_T · 10 May 2010 at 23:27

Jimbo said:
Im gonna sell my wonderful Marshall DSL 401 combo amp on ebay for about £350+ £20pp... I was wondering how much of that i will lose to ebay? Cos i ned as much as i can from it to buy a new amp.

I'm fairly sure it's close to 13% with Ebay and PayPal fees.

Jimbo · 10 May 2010 at 23:29

Whats that £45!! they can kiss my ****!

Andelusion · 10 May 2010 at 23:32

Yup! Bend over

Get advertising it on some UK guitar forums first, but be prepared for not much interest if you sign up purely for that purpose.

asim18 · 10 May 2010 at 23:33

I sold a phone for £150 on ebay and they took about £21.

So yeah, £45 sounds about right.

Greenlizard0 · 10 May 2010 at 23:33

Lol welcome to eBay.

I calculate it as :

£12.78 Paypal fees. eBay fees would be variable. Input your listing here :

http://www.ebaycalculator.co.uk/

Greebo · 10 May 2010 at 23:33

Yeah it works out about 15% nowadays. Ebay is redicolous expensive to sell high value goods now.

lcg · 10 May 2010 at 23:34

http://ecal.altervista.org/en/fee_calculator/ebay.co.uk/

If the starting price is 99p, and the amp sells for £350 + £20pp, eBay and Paypal will take £47.78

Jimbo · 10 May 2010 at 23:38

Screw that, i'll try my local cash converters/guitar shops and i have it in a mylespaul forums of which im a member. Crazy ebay eh?

Greenlizard0 · 10 May 2010 at 23:39

There's craigslist and gumtree forums too.

PGdude · 10 May 2010 at 23:40

Sell private, I'm sure there would be interest somewhere.

Jimbo · 10 May 2010 at 23:41

Yeah i was just gonna ask about those 2 (gumtree n craigs list).. any good and do they charge as much to list?

Jimbo · 10 May 2010 at 23:50

Im listing now on Gumtree, see what happens. :-)

Andelusion · 10 May 2010 at 23:51

/predicts several OcUKers offering you asking price in 5 mins

Only joking.

Jimbo · 11 May 2010 at 00:07

Haha i put it up on Gumtree, it was quick and painless. here's hoping, its a lovely bit of kit but i want a Blackstar amp so it needs to go. happy days.. thanks for the help guys.

Greenlizard0 · 11 May 2010 at 00:13

Jimbo said:
Haha i put it up on Gumtree, it was quick and painless. here's hoping, its a lovely bit of kit but i want a Blackstar amp so it needs to go. happy days.. thanks for the help guys.

How much will you pay in fees by the way? Presuming it is sold for £350 + £20?

Jimbo · 11 May 2010 at 00:19

It says its free!! whooopee lol.

Greenlizard0 · 11 May 2010 at 01:00

Aye, so it does. For 45 days and as many photos of the item you want. Have I got that right?

Maccy · 11 May 2010 at 01:25

I think you're limited on photos on Gumtree, but you can always host them and link to them.
Put it up for sale on the Ultimate Guitar forums, there's plenty of UK members on there who may be interested.

WrathOfAchilles · 11 May 2010 at 02:19

Smart way to create a for sale thread