silversaddle1 said:
You would not believe the junk I have sold on there, and not just e-scrap.
Haha, I got bored one day and typed in "nothing" and yes, it was for sale. :lol: People actually bid on it too. Someone was selling an empty Gatorade bottle and broken Bic lighter.... people bid on that too. :roll:
The thing I don't like about it, is waiting to see "if" it'll sell. Especially if you piece it out. Lets say a Tv, it's not just a "tv for sale", it's the screen, all types of plastic, circuitboards, wires, speakers, etc. You can make a lot more selling items that way, but it might take months.
I like yardsales, if an item sells, it's gone and I'd have room for other items. If it didn't sell, it got taken apart and went to the scrapyard. I could do that with Ebay, but I'd need to rent storage space for the items "waiting" to be sold. Sometimes I'd fill the back of my truck a few times per week. I should be able to do that for smaller items like CPUs.
patnor1011 said:
I do not think paypal is requirement for ebay. Most of German people I did business with required wire transfer and would not deal with me if I wanted to pay by paypal.
Another thing is that wire transfer albeit slow will save considerable amount of money due to crazy paypal fees. I decided to ask for wire transfer when I sell anything worth 20-30euro or more.
I had so much trouble with paypal years ago, that I didn't really want to mess around with it again, but who knows.
I was thinking about money orders or wire transfer. Wire transfer would be easy, I'm pretty sure all I'd need to do is open a separate account at the bank, or maybe just a second debit card.
Actually, I do have a card for online purchase only, so I could have it deposited there.
How much slower is wire tranfer, a couple hours?
Edit - Paypal isn't required to buy things off Ebay, I just use a debit card. I think it goes through paypal somehow though.