Ebay pulling listings for

[Ngtflyr]

have you considered Craigslist, it's free and in a bigger city like Seattle you would get decent exposure. It is easy to use and I've had success with a lot of off the wall stuff. Prepare to get lowballed, some people view it as a garage sale.

[agtw31]

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Prepare to get lowballed, some people view it as a garage sale.

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what is wrong with lowballing people on Craigslist,if it works?

[Mr. Chevy]

Figures someone was complaining. That is usually how this all starts. Personally E-bay could probably care less but when it is brought to their attention and does violate some little policy they have to act on it..

Rich

[RichSchmidt]

I had a listing pulled for a parts car I had for sale.It was just a bare shell.I put in the add that if the winning bidder didnt want the entire car they were welcome to come down and take what they need and I would scrap the rest.They kept saying that I was trying to sell parts off the car.O.K. I am willing to pay the $125 listing fee just to sell a few parts?I kept telling them that somebody had to actually win the auction,then I would remove what they needed and scrap the car.They still didnt understand.I removed the wording.Got a whopping 4199 for the car.I would have made more money scrapping it.Idiots.

[Verne_Frantz]

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What's a guy to do?

thats the million dollar question...I was hopeing by now a new site would have popped up by now. I have a bunch of misc stuff to sell and with listing and paypal fee's its not worth messing with especailly when they yank your add and dont credit you back anymore if they dont like your wording, you eat it and like it!!, guess a guy has to start dragging everything back to the swap meets, I sure liked buying stuff off ebay for projects even paying a little to much most of the time but hey it was on the way in the brown truck, it seams others are doing the same I just dont see the large quanities of parts like I used to, just tons of re pop dealers pimping parts.

one thing is still good today

Peace, B.

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I agree with you Bud. If ONLY someone else would start an auction site very similar to what ebay was in the beginning, I think it would take off. (just like ebay did). Rising fees were hard to accept, but when they bought Paypal and required that it be used (with another 2.9% off your sale price) that was just too much to swallow. And now I hear Paypal can hold your money for a while before you can transfer it to your bank account. I wonder just how much money is in the big Paypal bucket on a given day???
Verne

[budnate]

Craigs list only seams to work 20% of the time, if you have something wierd like mint green seatbelts probably not going to sell them local but some guy in Florida has a car for them,

I dont mind haggeling and enjoy it most of the time but I seam to run into the local weirdo tightwads then to top it off when they get here there really are not into the parts but want to snoop around, so I hardly list local anymore on Muscle parts.

[YenkoYS-199Stinger]

I run scans on Jaxed several times a day. It is an all automotive site mash for Craigslist. It searches all the Craigslists in the country. Now mind you, it is for the buying side and not the selling side. I have run across some pretty good deals and I never seem to hear anyone mention Jaxed.

http://jaxed.com/cgi-bin/sd.cgi?cat=...&submit=go

[Smokey]

Ebay has noticed I think in their falling numbers. I get emails from them offering me 5 free listings and other listings other things.

If they were on top and making huge numbers, they wouldn't be offering those things in my eyes.

[budnate]

really to bad as I think there are allott of guys with weird/rare obscure parts that would love to get them to someone that needs them. if they would lift the PayPal thing I would swing with them again.

[StriperSS]

I have a lot of items I'd like to sell, but I too have been waiting for a rival site to start up. I won't sell on ebay anymore.