BURNT by myself Ebay vs. DPF Sellers

I take total responsbility for this but I am a little pissed off. I will not mention any names. I went on EBAY to purchase a pin set, anyone who is on EBAY can see the prices for the set range form $160 to $270. I tried to make a deal with two sellers and was able to get a set for $160 a great price - then today I see a seller on DPF selling the same set for Much cheaper including shipping.

I know buyers remorse, but darn selleng one item for $xxx and them reducing the same item 12 hours later on a different site for $XXXXX less made me fell like a moron.

Which if you ask my wife I truly am a moron in more ways than one!

thanks for letting me vent!

This ALWAYS happens to me.
Everyone has a different idea of a "fair" price. So you can guarantee varying prices. I'm a poor judge of how much something is worth.
Which is why I now do my best to trade for what I want rather than buy it.

I just did this recently too x_x

What set?

I'd rather not say- the seller is a good person and I would not want anyone to think any differently--This was about me screwing up-- I am trying to stay away from Ebay

One thing you have to remember about ebay is that there are a lot of fees involved. They are getting pretty bad and putting fees on everything including a fee on the shipping fees collected. That all adds up really fast.

David,

Is 100% correct. I can see DPF member selling a set for a lower cost here at the forum and selling one at a higher cost on eBay, makes perfect sense. The fees to the seller are expensive for sellers on the Bay.

docfish2u said:

One thing you have to remember about ebay is that there are a lot of fees involved. They are getting pretty bad and putting fees on everything including a fee on the shipping fees collected. That all adds up really fast.

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docfish2u said:

One thing you have to remember about ebay is that there are a lot of fees involved. They are getting pretty bad and putting fees on everything including a fee on the shipping fees collected. That all adds up really fast.

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Yes. The higher priced the item is the higher the fees get especially when something gets sold. Even just listing an item up has fees. There's an insertion fee $1-2 based on your values and, final value fee which is 9%-11% of the TOTAL value sale...etc. If you list it as buy-it-now, best offer...etc extra fees. Then when someone buys a pin there's fees. Shipping fees. Paypal fees. fees fees fees. So sometimes when a pin is sold on dpf instead it's cheaper cause they don't need to pay all this extra fees. I can understand though if it's like a HUGE price difference that the fees alone don't justify it though.

Agreed with all above posts. I sell on eBay and the fees involved are very costly. If you want an idea, plug in a few numbers on this ebay calculator (it's relatively accurate in my experience):

http://www.newlifeauctions.com/calc.html

Sell a pin for $10, you clear $8.50. Sell a pin lot for $100, you clear $87. Rather than eBay getting the fees, I think most members would much rather try and offer items for a lower price if there's a buyer here for them instead of upping the price and having over 10% of it eaten by fees

Yes I am sticking to DPF and DS for my purchases. People are nice here and I don't feel taken advantage of.

You will most likely still need ebay sometimes. A few hints:

-Always use the "sold/completed" auctions list to find out what prices have actually worked and what has failed to sell. A lot of sellers have had a pin listed at outrageous prices for months at a time. In this case you can sometimes contact them and ask them to lower the price. Also, when you see "or best offer" on this list, you sometimes need to open that auction to see what the accepted offer actually was. This is the best method for you to find out fair price of any given pin, by finding out how much it actually sold for recently.

-It's a good idea to read a seller's negative feedback before buying from them. Even if they are 99.9% positive, read how they deal with problems.

-You should also look at a seller's other listings, especially their cheap ones. If they are selling a lot of known counterfeit pins for cheap, they are likely not safe to buy from.

-You can expect dpf to be 10% lower than ebay (but sometimes they charge more anyway, don't take dpf pricing for granted), but you lose a little bit of security. The advantage of ebay is ebay sellers have more to lose if they don't deliver and you have more channels to fight them. Sometimes pins get lost in the mail and it isn't always clear to the novice seller that they are responsible for that. Before buying from someone on dpf, check that they have an adequate number of feedbacks.