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How does Ebay compensate sellers on this? Looks like this is on everything not like previous sales where Ebay had select sellers.
Nah, its okay. I'll just wait for the next 20% off everything. It was my fault for not being thorough.Make a new account
And it sounds like it's a good move for ebay because I'm sure their sales double during these promotions. Win-win all around.Ebay pays the 20% up to $100 - sellers are not getting any less because of the coupons.
How does Ebay compensate sellers on this? Looks like this is on everything not like previous sales where Ebay had select sellers.
And it sounds like it's a good move for ebay because I'm sure their sales double during these promotions. Win-win all around.
and it's instant - not ebay bucks...How does Ebay compensate sellers on this? Looks like this is on everything not like previous sales where Ebay had select sellers.
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.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.
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. I'm sure the bottom line numbers favor the promotion.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)
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 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.
If you own an eBay store, then the fees are a lot less.
I recently purchased a brand new one from here for $265 shipped.
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.
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 can't see why they would care, they get the same amount of money whether you use a coupon or not.
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.Nah, its okay. I'll just wait for the next 20% off everything. It was my fault for not being thorough.
You know, the wife is still going to be there right, but those valves won't just magically appear.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.
Hmmm...that is a good point--especially if the seller already has an ebay account.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.
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.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.
Hmmm...that is a good point--especially if the seller already has an ebay account.
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?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.
That was killer! It's like you got the motherboard for free!Thanks OP I saved 130.07
AMD RYZEN 5 2600X 6-Core 3.6 GHz (4.2 GHz Max Boost) Socket AM4 95W YD260XBCAFBO
G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Intel Z27
MSI X470 GAMING PLUS AM4 AMD X470 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard
Subtotal C $657.97
Sales tax C $86.18
Shipping C $4.99
Total coupon amount -C $130.07
Thanks OP I saved 130.07
AMD RYZEN 5 2600X 6-Core 3.6 GHz (4.2 GHz Max Boost) Socket AM4 95W YD260XBCAFBO
G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Intel Z27
MSI X470 GAMING PLUS AM4 AMD X470 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard
Subtotal C $657.97
Sales tax C $86.18
Shipping C $4.99
Total coupon amount -C $130.07
I was thinking this too until I guessed thatwasn't the max discount $100?
NDK I am from Canada so total was 480 USD dollars...