DEAD: Ebay 20% off Everything Min. $50 Purchase, Max $100 Discount, No Vendor Limits

How does Ebay compensate sellers on this? Looks like this is on everything not like previous sales where Ebay had select sellers.

Ebay pays the 20% up to $100 - sellers are not getting any less because of the coupons.
 
Ebay pays the 20% up to $100 - sellers are not getting any less because of the coupons.
And it sounds like it's a good move for ebay because I'm sure their sales double during these promotions. (y) Win-win all around. :D
 
How does Ebay compensate sellers on this? Looks like this is on everything not like previous sales where Ebay had select sellers.

The sellers get the regular full amount, minus the normal fess, that they normally get.
 
And it sounds like it's a good move for ebay because I'm sure their sales double during these promotions. (y) Win-win all around. :D

But the 20% off is way more than they make in fees unless you buy more than $500 worth of stuff.

It is only a win for eBay IF a lot of people go over the max discount by a fair amount.
 
How does Ebay compensate sellers on this? Looks like this is on everything not like previous sales where Ebay had select sellers.
and it's instant - not ebay bucks...
 
But the 20% off is way more than they make in fees unless you buy more than $500 worth of stuff.

It is only a win for eBay IF a lot of people go over the max discount by a fair amount.
I think ebay runs these things as promotional/marketing and just figures that's part of the expense of doing business. It keeps their site in the spotlight and benefits both sellers and buyers. Sellers are benefit by eager customers snapping up goods.

It's more effective than traditional marketing. (TV/Radio ads etc)
 
I think ebay runs these things as promotional/marketing and just figures that's part of the expense of doing business. It keeps their site in the spotlight and benefits both sellers and buyers. Sellers are benefit by eager customers snapping up goods.

It's more effective than traditional marketing. (TV/Radio ads etc)
My thoughts as well. These promotions seem to come at strong buying times, so I think they're trying to pull business away from traditional stores since the overall spending by the population will be the same--it's just where they will spend it. Better to get 10% of the pie and less in fees vs 5% of the pie and full fee revenue, or something like that. :D I'm sure the bottom line numbers favor the promotion.
 
Just bought a Ryzen 2700X for $280. Cheapest I could find accounting for sales tax and whatnot. Unfortunately, the few superb deals always get snapped up quickly. I was eyeing one for $308 shipped (guy was in the town over) for almost two weeks. Would have been $248 shipped. Pretty much all the sellers charge sales tax in CA which sucks, but overall not a bad deal. Still far cheaper than Newegg/Amazon and even cheaper than B&H.

I'll see how it does within two weeks!
 
Thanks! I bought a Netgear Nighthawk XR500 gaming router. Saved me $60.
 
bought a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X for $44, $11 savings! nothing crazy but still sweet! Thanks OP
 
That is a sweet deal. Thanks for sharing!

Picked up two new CPUs for my server. 10c/20t goodness. :)
 
Just bought a Ryzen 2700X for $280. Cheapest I could find accounting for sales tax and whatnot. Unfortunately, the few superb deals always get snapped up quickly. I was eyeing one for $308 shipped (guy was in the town over) for almost two weeks. Would have been $248 shipped. Pretty much all the sellers charge sales tax in CA which sucks, but overall not a bad deal. Still far cheaper than Newegg/Amazon and even cheaper than B&H.

I'll see how it does within two weeks!

I recently purchased a brand new one from here for $265 shipped.
 
I wonder if anyone tried to juggle this deal.

Sell your own card to another account of your's or a friend. Friend pays $400. Seller gets $500.

Rinse and repeat, free GTX 1080 Ti for all.
 
I wonder if anyone tried to juggle this deal.

Sell your own card to another account of your's or a friend. Friend pays $400. Seller gets $500.

Rinse and repeat, free GTX 1080 Ti for all.

seller still pays 3% paypal fees and 10% ebay fees. So not really worth the effort lol.
 
Why Ebay, why would you do this the week of my anniversary. Present for wife or new stainless steel valves for my cobra heads hmmm.
 
Bought two extra-large NIB hopefully authentic HP toner cartridges for $304 after the coupon. The price on 42a and 42x toner cartridges has recently gone up by about 60-70% from less than $200 for the 42x (and frequently on sale for much less) to now over $300 per. I guess HP has discontinued making new cartridges for this office's general use printer.

Tons of people selling surplus on Ebay, hooray for using a coupon code to pay essentially retail... I feel like somebody trying to buy a high-end GPU.
 
Just bought 2 of the Western Digital 8TB drives from Best Buy free shipping, this deal basically covered my sales taxes. Just a tick over $300 with tax and free shipping. Wish there were still running their $149.99 from a week or 2 ago.
 
If you own an eBay store, then the fees are a lot less.

Why take a chance with shady things if you are running an official ebay store. Regardless of the fees its something good ebay is doing, I don't get why people want to abuse anything good.
 
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The last time I used a coupon on ebay the seller cancelled the order and was supposedly out of stock.

I don't know if the sellers can see a coupon is applied at their end or not.
 
The last time I used a coupon on ebay the seller cancelled the order and was supposedly out of stock.

I don't know if the sellers can see a coupon is applied at their end or not.

I can't see why they would care, they get the same amount of money whether you use a coupon or not.
 
I can't see why they would care, they get the same amount of money whether you use a coupon or not.
Yes they get paid the same, but I'm wondering if some sellers see a coupon is applied they get nervous and back out of the sale.
 
I sold off my VR rig a few months ago that had a 980 Ti in it. I got roughly $450 for the 980 Ti, subtracting out the used value of the rest of the system. I've been patiently waiting for card prices to drop but got tired of waiting and picked up a brand new PNY 1060 6GB OC for $270 - $54 = $216. I figure this will hold me off for 6-12 months, since I don't play very demanding VR games, until the next batch of cards come out and prices normalize. Then, it will take the place of the GTX 770 that's in my HTPC hooked to my 104" 1080p projector. I can't complain.
 
Nah, its okay. I'll just wait for the next 20% off everything. It was my fault for not being thorough.
Well, I tried it again on another system and because I wasn't logged in it let me use the code when I checked out as guest. :)
 
Now I wish I contacted some sellers here in our for sell section.

They can up list their hardware on ebay with slightly higher prices to cover the listing fees. I applied coupon and get a cheaper cost (could work out math to benefit seller too) and the seller gets the small shipping discount through ebay/paypal.
 
Why Ebay, why would you do this the week of my anniversary. Present for wife or new stainless steel valves for my cobra heads hmmm.
You know, the wife is still going to be there right, but those valves won't just magically appear. ;)

Besides, you can use the excuse that you were just buying your own anniversary gift so you get exactly what you want, and she's supposed to get hers so that she gets exactly what she wants. (She's supposed to get you one too, right? women's lib and all that jazz. :D)
 
Now I wish I contacted some sellers here in our for sell section.

They can up list their hardware on ebay with slightly higher prices to cover the listing fees. I applied coupon and get a cheaper cost (could work out math to benefit seller too) and the seller gets the small shipping discount through ebay/paypal.
Hmmm...that is a good point--especially if the seller already has an ebay account.
 
I sold off my VR rig a few months ago that had a 980 Ti in it. I got roughly $450 for the 980 Ti, subtracting out the used value of the rest of the system. I've been patiently waiting for card prices to drop but got tired of waiting and picked up a brand new PNY 1060 6GB OC for $270 - $54 = $216. I figure this will hold me off for 6-12 months, since I don't play very demanding VR games, until the next batch of cards come out and prices normalize. Then, it will take the place of the GTX 770 that's in my HTPC hooked to my 104" 1080p projector. I can't complain.
Be sure to list the GTX 770 here when you want to sell it. :) I've got a lot of old systems and have been on the hunt for a few of these to breathe some life into them.
 
Hmmm...that is a good point--especially if the seller already has an ebay account.

Kinda plays on my idea of juggling this promo.

I just picked up a GTX 1080 Ti off of craigslist a coupe hours ago and now don't really need the 2x MSI GTX 1080 OC Duke.

I paid $420 each for the 1080 cards. I could ask someone for $460 and the buyer can use the promo to knock it down to $368.

I get most of my money back after listing and shipping fees. Another [H] member can enjoy the card even cheaper than the folks got on slickdeals.

There is also that $20 MIR on both too.

Time is ticking... only 53 mins left of the promo. Damn I wish I acted on this sooner.

***No more PMs! Have a local trade in the works*** Sorry folks
 
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Kinda plays on my idea of juggling this promo.

I just picked up a GTX 1080 Ti off of craigslist a coupe hours ago and now don't really need the 2x MSI GTX 1080 OC Duke.

I paid $420 each for the 1080 cards. I could ask someone for $460 and the buyer can use the promo to knock it down to $368.

I get most of my money back after listing and shipping fees. Another [H] member can enjoy the card even cheaper than the folks got on slickdeals.

There is also that $20 MIR on both too.

Time is ticking... only 53 mins left of the promo. Damn I wish I acted on this sooner.
I don't recall exactly how fee structures work on items that don't sell, but I'd go ahead and list them as I'm sure people will be scrambling at the last second to use this deal when they come home from work. Worse case, the card prices go up and it's not such a great deal and they don't sell. No fees in this scenario, right?
 
Put it off but gave in to temptation, got 8gb of DDR4 for my HTPC and an Aimpoint Pro
 
NDK I am from Canada so total was 480 USD dollars and SamirD ,yes motherboard for free what a steal.
 
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