Selling on eBay

So I was thinking of selling some stuff on eBay since I am not having luck at Craigslist and it's too cold to have a yard sale. I was wondering if anyone here does that (selling things on eBay) and had any luck?

It was hit and miss when I ventured to do it a few years ago. Of course it depends on what you have for sale, but I had little luck...then there was the bother of having to package and ship, it was hardly worth my time. It seems like small sellers these days inflate shipping so much so that they profit off of that, then don't care if the item itself goes for less than it is worth. My advice would be to look up items similar to what you want to sell to see what the starting bids and shipping are compared to how many bids they have.

RedBedroom wrote:It was hit and miss when I ventured to do it a few years ago. Of course it depends on what you have for sale, but I had little luck...then there was the bother of having to package and ship, it was hardly worth my time. It seems like small sellers these days inflate shipping so much so that they profit off of that, then don't care if the item itself goes for less than it is worth. My advice would be to look up items similar to what you want to sell to see what the starting bids and shipping are compared to how many bids they have.

Thanks Red, unfortunately you're telling me what I kind of expected. I've never been impressed by eBay. Ah well.

Yeah, and Craigs List sucks too! The logistics of getting people to commit to a time drives me mad...even when I give shit away. Right now, I have several items I would like to sell on CL, but just can't bring myself to post, as I know it will mostly be a huge waste of time. I buy and sell new Cricut Cartridges (a scrapbooking thing) and resell on CL, and even that is getting to be too much, so once what I have is gone, that's it.