Alternative to Ebay for Processors

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edo101

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I have had a very unpleasant experience selling at ebay and how much they take out of seller fees. What are alternative places to sell on ebay
 
You have to wait for specials on seller fees if you want to unload high priced items. They have deals like a 50% off final value fees or a cap at $20 or something like that. Otherwise it's a 10-15% hit between ebay and Paypal fees.

They can get away with it because of the sheer number of views. You will definitely fetch a higher price on ebay, but you'll pay the highest fees.
 
kirbyrj said:
You have to wait for specials on seller fees if you want to unload high priced items. They have deals like a 50% off final value fees or a cap at $20 or something like that. Otherwise it's a 10-15% hit between ebay and Paypal fees.

They can get away with it because of the sheer number of views. You will definitely fetch a higher price on ebay, but you'll pay the highest fees.
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Issue is its a i9 9980XE so the value gonna come down once the 10x series come off. Their fees ae ridiculous. Paypal and ebay both get a cut. And I had an issue with a bogus return request. At this point, I'm just trying to sell it and hopefully not to some ahole like the first dude
 
Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace. Any other online selling site is going to have the same problems as Ebay one way or another.
 
Selling on this forum is probably the best thing out there.

Most members have heatware, and you can see post count / join date, which gives some sense of legitimacy.

Ebay is the worst now. Too many scammers, and even if you get a sale the fees make it almost not worth it.
 
I've only had 1-3 sales on here go well out of 10 attempts.

If it were me, I'd just sell it to family or maybe FB.
 
/dev/null said:
I've only had 1-3 sales on here go well out of 10 attempts.

If it were me, I'd just sell it to family or maybe FB.
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I’ve been here over a decade with at least 75 transactions here and have never had a single problem. I’m very selective about who I sell to and buy from, but haven’t had any issues. Just a different experience I suppose.
 
jmilcher said:
I’ve been here over a decade with at least 75 transactions here and have never had a single problem. I’m very selective about who I sell to and buy from, but haven’t had any issues. Just a different experience I suppose.
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Most of the issues I've had have been people who were interested, asked a bunch of questions, wanted picts of the component (so I had to rip my machine apart) and then 2 weeks later offered less than the initial agreement or backed out entirely.
2 transactions ago I did a trade & the other person didn't ship everything & stopped answering email or logging into the forums....
 
jmilcher said:
I’ve been here over a decade with at least 75 transactions here and have never had a single problem. I’m very selective about who I sell to and buy from, but haven’t had any issues. Just a different experience I suppose.
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Same, both buying and selling

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Most of the issues I've had have been people who were interested, asked a bunch of questions, wanted picts of the component (so I had to rip my machine apart) and then 2 weeks later offered less than the initial agreement or backed out entirely.
2 transactions ago I did a trade & the other person didn't ship everything & stopped answering email or logging into the forums....
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Plenty of tire kickers around, i've done it on occasion when I have an interest in something but have not yet fully made up my mind on if I want it, it's usually when I recognize it's an impulse buy, like if someone is selling a GPU or something for a very good price. I don't drag it on for 2 weeks, maybe a few messages at best and then I either buy or don't buy and I don't expect any seller to hold a product for me just because i'm asking questions. As a seller, I certainly wouldn't. I'll answer whatever questions they want within reason but if someone else comes in with a no haggle "i'll take it" then i'm selling and my next message to the other party would be "thanks for your interest but the product is sold"

A lot also depends on what you're asking. I don't have much time to waste, or want to waste trying to sell hardware so I try to price it to move fast.
 
Ive sold a few dozen things on these forums and not one issue so far.

I usually get higher prices on eBay though — even counting the 10-15% lost in fees.
 
kirbyrj said:
You have to wait for specials on seller fees if you want to unload high priced items. They have deals like a 50% off final value fees or a cap at $20 or something like that. Otherwise it's a 10-15% hit between ebay and Paypal fees.

They can get away with it because of the sheer number of views. You will definitely fetch a higher price on ebay, but you'll pay the highest fees.
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Ebay fees for many electronics are 4%. Probably because there is a highly competitive market for electronics. Collectible type items have 10% and ebay is unmatched for those items. Typically, even accounting for the 4% fee on ebay, I've been getting better prices than here as of late. Last few times I tried to sell hardware here I got a lot of low ball offers. I feel safer on [H] personally so I still prefer to sell here, and you can still get a fair deal. In general I'd think sellers/buyers are more truthful here. Had a great experience with a buyer a few years ago here which is why I always list here first. If I don't get traction or offers a lot lower than I am wanting I go to ebay.
 
RamonGTP said:
Same, both buying and selling



Plenty of tire kickers around, i've done it on occasion when I have an interest in something but have not yet fully made up my mind on if I want it, it's usually when I recognize it's an impulse buy, like if someone is selling a GPU or something for a very good price. I don't drag it on for 2 weeks, maybe a few messages at best and then I either buy or don't buy and I don't expect any seller to hold a product for me just because i'm asking questions. As a seller, I certainly wouldn't. I'll answer whatever questions they want within reason but if someone else comes in with a no haggle "i'll take it" then i'm selling and my next message to the other party would be "thanks for your interest but the product is sold"

A lot also depends on what you're asking. I don't have much time to waste, or want to waste trying to sell hardware so I try to price it to move fast.
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My last successful deal was selling a GTX 1070 in person for cash. Went great! I followed up & the buyer said card worked great as well. He asked for picts, so I gave them & he wanted something shipped & I said I could do it for $10 less in person/cash so he did that. We both went away happy. wish more deals went like that.
 
Flogger23m said:
Ebay fees for many electronics are 4%. Probably because there is a highly competitive market for electronics. Collectible type items have 10% and ebay is unmatched for those items. Typically, even accounting for the 4% fee on ebay, I've been getting better prices than here as of late. Last few times I tried to sell hardware here I got a lot of low ball offers. I feel safer on [H] personally so I still prefer to sell here, and you can still get a fair deal. In general I'd think sellers/buyers are more truthful here. Had a great experience with a buyer a few years ago here which is why I always list here first. If I don't get traction or offers a lot lower than I am wanting I go to ebay.
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I'll have to look closer. They've been whacking me 10% for damn near everything I sell on ebay including electronics. I sold a video card a few months ago for $275 and I think my final value fees were $27.50.
 
I've never sold anything on eBay and not got hit for the 10%, and I only sell electronics.

There is a great fs forum here. Doesn't get the eyes that eBay does but if you have recent hardware and you price it fair it will sell.

I have had good experiences in Reddit you just need to be selective. But your probably safer here.
 
You may try creating an account and posting a thread on hwbot.org forums, especially when you have good clocking CPU. Unfortunately there are no good alernatives for eBay. xtremesystems forums was a good a place, but it seems to be dead from couple of years.
 
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