Soft market

[Nuts]

A trend I've been seeing on FleaBay is the sellers charging astronomic shipping fees with a very low starting bid.
While at first blush it's a way to not pay ebay their percentage, it also rips off the buyers.
Paying .99 for an item with a huge shipping fee is not going to look like such a smart deal,
if there's anything wrong with the item and you want to return it.



Nuts

[amecks]

Nuts,  eBay charges amateur sellers like me 10% on the item and shipping cost.  There's no way around it. Paypal takes 3% and 30 cents off the total payment as well.  I don't know what "eBay store" owners pay - at $20 a month for the store - I'm not in that league.

We will be seeing the cost of eBay items rise because the Post Office has seen fit to raise Priority Mail rates by nearly 30%.  In their literature they say the raise is about 10% but it's all in Priority Mail - it only averages out to 10%.

Al

[Bill Houghton]

It's funny how markets move around.  I own more Stanley router planes than I can really justify (four).  A year or so ago, I looked at sold prices, and they were hovering around $20 with one cutter; not worth my while to put them up.  Now the same tools in good shape start at $60 and go north from there, sometimes over $100.  Time to select which one to clean up for sale.