Rain Man VHS - 33 listed - 2 sold (eBay)

Rain Man VHS listed on eBay Dec 17 thru Dec 31
33 listed - 2 sold

$11.00+ listing fees to eBay

1 sold for $1.99 + $4.50
1 sold for $0.01 + $4.99

The sellers will net $2+ max on their S&H.
1 in 16 of this item sold. On average a seller will have to list this
item 16 times
for one sale. This will cost $5.00+ in listing fees to net $2 or $3
when the tape is sold.

This is an extreme example, but a good of example of eBay sellers who
should
take a look at the numbers before listing ANYTHING for $9.99 or less on
eBay.

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YAHOO AUCTIONS
http://auctions.yahoo.com/

no22nd wrote:
Rain Man VHS listed on eBay Dec 17 thru Dec 31
33 listed - 2 sold

$11.00+ listing fees to eBay

1 sold for $1.99 + $4.50
1 sold for $0.01 + $4.99

The sellers will net $2+ max on their S&H.
1 in 16 of this item sold. On average a seller will have to list this
item 16 times
for one sale. This will cost $5.00+ in listing fees to net $2 or $3
when the tape is sold.

This is an extreme example, but a good of example of eBay sellers who
should
take a look at the numbers before listing ANYTHING for $9.99 or less on
eBay.

Actually, AFAICT, you'll get the same results for just about any VHS
video unless the contents are hard to find on DVD. VHS isn't a very good
eBay item anymore.

bp wrote:
no22nd wrote:

Actually, AFAICT, you'll get the same results for just about any VHS
video unless the contents are hard to find on DVD. VHS isn't a very good
eBay item anymore.

Most VHS videos aren't even worth the space they take up on the
decorator's table at a car boot sale, or the extra space they occupy
travelling home again in the car. As for eBay, well - if you want to
give eBay money for listing fees and end up with nothing in return VHS
videos are ideal.

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Crazy Dog
wfh at crazy hyphen dog dot fsnet dot co dot uk

On 31 Dec 2005 16:49:42 -0800, "no22nd" wrote:

Rain Man VHS listed on eBay Dec 17 thru Dec 31
33 listed - 2 sold

$11.00+ listing fees to eBay

1 sold for $1.99 + $4.50
1 sold for $0.01 + $4.99

This is an extreme example, but a good of example of eBay sellers who
should take a look at the numbers before listing ANYTHING for $9.99 or less on
eBay.

YAHOO AUCTIONS
http://auctions.yahoo.com/

I gather there's a movement afoot to encourage eBay sellers to list
their $9.99 or less items on Yahoo!Auctions.

That approach does have some merit, but wouldn't it be better if
corporate Yahoo! did a little promotion of their auctions segment? Do
they even know they have an auctions segment?

According to Alexa, Yahoo! is the number one website. They also report
that just 1% or 2% of that traffic is going to "shopping" so its clear
that the auctions link at the bottom of the homepage isn't doing much
of anything.

dimview.

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alt.marketing.online.other

dimview wrote:
On 31 Dec 2005 16:49:42 -0800, "no22nd" wrote:

Rain Man VHS listed on eBay Dec 17 thru Dec 31
33 listed - 2 sold

$11.00+ listing fees to eBay

1 sold for $1.99 + $4.50
1 sold for $0.01 + $4.99

This is an extreme example, but a good of example of eBay sellers who
should take a look at the numbers before listing ANYTHING for $9.99 or less on
eBay.

YAHOO AUCTIONS
http://auctions.yahoo.com/

I gather there's a movement afoot to encourage eBay sellers to list
their $9.99 or less items on Yahoo!Auctions.

That approach does have some merit, but wouldn't it be better if
corporate Yahoo! did a little promotion of their auctions segment? Do
they even know they have an auctions segment?

According to Alexa, Yahoo! is the number one website. They also report
that just 1% or 2% of that traffic is going to "shopping" so its clear
that the auctions link at the bottom of the homepage isn't doing much
of anything.

dimview.


Moving these "low end" items to Yahoo should be common sense. But as
you can
see from the "Rain Man" example, there are some very clueless sellers
on eBay.

Yahoo auctions has been integrated with Yahoo Shopping and the Shopping
search.
The search is bringing in new buyers, the listings continue to grow,
and everything
seems to be moving in the right direction.

If Yahoo wants to run some ads/banners, fine with me. Yahoo already
exceeded my
expectations when they integrated auctions with Yahoo Shopping.

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YAHOO AUCTIONS
http://auctions.yahoo.com/

I would like to see a comparison between items sold on eBay ($9.99 and
less including S&H) compared to items sold on Yahoo (No Fees).

In most cases you can subtract $2.00 to $2.50 for postage leaving the
seller with $7.50 to $8.00 for his sale. Subtract 50 cents more for
eBay fees (this assumes a sellthru rate of 50% to 70+%) Subtract PayPal

fees in most cases 30 cents + 30 cents.


This leaves the eBay seller with $6.50 to $7.00 from a $9.99 eBay sale.

If the seller is
paying any more than $4.00 per item its pointless to list on eBay.
This is the very best scenario for $9.99 items.


Look at books, videos, DVDs, toys, cards, etc. selling for $5.00
including S&H
(.99 + $4.00 S&H or $2.00 + $3.00 S&H are common scenarios). Subtract
$2.00 postage, 50 cents eBay fees, 45 cent PayPal fees. This leaves the

seller with $2.00
from his $5.00 eBay sale (And assumes best case scenario with a 50% to
100% sellthru).


Move down from a 50% sellthru rate and a 200% mark up and you don't
have to
do any calculations. The only reason you would have to crunch numbers
in this
scenario is to make sure you don't belong to the "Rain Man" club.

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YAHOO AUCTIONS
http://auctions.yahoo.com/

In article om, "no22nd"
wrote:

I would like to see a comparison between items sold on eBay ($9.99 and
less including S&H) compared to items sold on Yahoo (No Fees).

In most cases you can subtract $2.00 to $2.50 for postage leaving the
seller with $7.50 to $8.00 for his sale. Subtract 50 cents more for
eBay fees (this assumes a sellthru rate of 50% to 70+%) Subtract PayPal
fees in most cases 30 cents + 30 cents.

This leaves the eBay seller with $6.50 to $7.00 from a $9.99 eBay sale.

If the seller is
paying any more than $4.00 per item its pointless to list on eBay.
This is the very best scenario for $9.99 items.

Presuming the same terms on Yahoo, the only difference is the
eBay fees of fiddycentz versus Yahoo fees of zero, which leaves
the Yahoo seller with $7.00 to $7.50 from a $9.99 Yahoo sale.
Given a 50% - 70% sellthru rate on eBay versus a 1% - 2% sellthru
rate on Yahoo, I think I'd be quite happy to eat that fiddycentz
and make up for it via the 25x - 30x increase in volume ...

Look at books, videos, DVDs, toys, cards, etc. selling for $5.00
including S&H
(.99 + $4.00 S&H or $2.00 + $3.00 S&H are common scenarios). Subtract
$2.00 postage, 50 cents eBay fees, 45 cent PayPal fees. This leaves the
seller with $2.00
from his $5.00 eBay sale (And assumes best case scenario with a 50% to
100% sellthru).

Using the same terms, the Yahoo seller is left with a whopping $2.50
(instead of the miniscule $2.00 via eBay) on the same $5.00 sale, and
with much less volume to show for all his/her work.

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P. O. Box 32541 website: http://www.kenbarr.com
San Jose, CA 95152 (souvenir cards, MPC, Hickey Bros tokens)
408-272-3247 Next show: San Jose CC show 01/13-15/2006 (no table)

Ken Barr wrote:
In article om, "no22nd"
wrote:

I would like to see a comparison between items sold on eBay ($9.99 and
less including S&H) compared to items sold on Yahoo (No Fees).

In most cases you can subtract $2.00 to $2.50 for postage leaving the
seller with $7.50 to $8.00 for his sale. Subtract 50 cents more for
eBay fees (this assumes a sellthru rate of 50% to 70+%) Subtract PayPal
fees in most cases 30 cents + 30 cents.

This leaves the eBay seller with $6.50 to $7.00 from a $9.99 eBay sale.

If the seller is
paying any more than $4.00 per item its pointless to list on eBay.
This is the very best scenario for $9.99 items.

Presuming the same terms on Yahoo, the only difference is the
eBay fees of fiddycentz versus Yahoo fees of zero, which leaves
the Yahoo seller with $7.00 to $7.50 from a $9.99 Yahoo sale.
Given a 50% - 70% sellthru rate on eBay versus a 1% - 2% sellthru
rate on Yahoo, I think I'd be quite happy to eat that fiddycentz
and make up for it via the 25x - 30x increase in volume ...

Look at books, videos, DVDs, toys, cards, etc. selling for $5.00
including S&H
(.99 + $4.00 S&H or $2.00 + $3.00 S&H are common scenarios). Subtract
$2.00 postage, 50 cents eBay fees, 45 cent PayPal fees. This leaves the
seller with $2.00
from his $5.00 eBay sale (And assumes best case scenario with a 50% to
100% sellthru).

Using the same terms, the Yahoo seller is left with a whopping $2.50
(instead of the miniscule $2.00 via eBay) on the same $5.00 sale, and
with much less volume to show for all his/her work.

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Thats best case scenarios or 50% or better sellthru rates. Drop below
40% sellthru
rate and it starts falling apart on eBay. At 25% sellthru rates,
sellers start losing money.

I've sold videos for $10 on Yahoo. The same titles went unsold on eBay
at $5 to $6.
The obvious difference is that you can keep listing on Yahoo until you
have a buyer.

I'm not a coin dealer. If I was selling coins at a 70% sellthru rate on
eBay and was
only doing 2 or 3 sales per week on Yahoo I wouldn't bother.

My best sales are on Yahoo. I get better prices.