how to avoid huge ebay fee's when selling a car
 

I don't really use ebay to sell stuff so not really clued up on it.

I know they take 10% of final value which is staggering to say the least so how can I avoid it?

I have put my car up for £3350 buy it now with the best offer option.

I have not put paypal as the payment method, I have asked for cash on collection or bank transfer.

if they click buy it now is that me done for regarding fees?

I have had a few offers but not high enough so I have messaged them back asking to deal outside of ebay and gave them my lowest price but not heard anything back yet.

thanks

Put it on classified,I believe it's a one off listing payment with no added fee.

Pistonheads is totally free, is it not. You have a filtered-down, ready-made, car-enthusiast audience.

Should've whacked it on there (unless it's an absolute shed).

seems I got it wrong, its 1% final fee no matter which way you sell it

https://sellercentre.ebay.co.uk/priv...isting-and-fvf

ive always thought of piston heads of a performance car site, its my mrs mazda 2 that I have for sale that's listed on this site.......not sure it would get much interest on pistonheads

Yeah, for sure it attracts performance car enthusiasts. That's obviously a given.

But you never know what kind of 'bites' you may have got. After all, when you read the forums, you realise that not all members/contributors are performance car owners. Plus, being free (if indeed it still is?), then nowt to lose...other than, perhaps, having to wait a bit longer for any interest to arise.

I will have a gander tomorrow on pistonheads.

thanks

I'm pretty certain my mate has sold ALL of his cars on there. He was 'religious' about it and always sang its praises. And they went quickly, too. And some of them were defo just cooking models.

Just ensure you put up a concise, detailed ad. Said mate always did...I used to read them and was impressed. Which, presumably, was a major factor in him flogging his cars quickly.

yeah I don't just put car for sale, its got wheels, its a car etc lol like some numpties.

cheers

It's quite incredible how lazy some people can be. Leaving out even the most basic, salient info. And expect to sell. Cranks.

lol tell me about it...............idiots :cuckoo:

eBay classifieds is £15 to list with no final value fee at all. They stopped it a while back for classified with cars

Listed my Clio 182 on Pistonheads about a fortnight ago (car ultimately sold through autotrader). Pistonheads was £12 to advertise IIRC. Plenty of space for a write up and about a dozen pics, used Pistonheads to buy and sell a lot over the years. Sam

They monitor your messages too .. I've had a few warnings for asking to deal outside of ebay.. they do take a silly % of your sale price and then paypal it too ..

I think it depends on what you're trying to sell too.. Not every car is a car that will appeal to someone browsing pistonheads.

For example, I recently had my ford focus advertised on ebay, and got quite a few messages and requests for bookings through there. I like eBay for both listing and browsing cars tbh... It's a huge market place, and you can see roughly what similar sell for (by looking at the sold prices).

Ultimately, I decided I was too lazy, however, and took it to we buy any car, because they offered 6 (SIX) times what a dealer offered me in trade in, and the whole excercise took 20 minutes, rather than spending hours dealing with people who don't turn up when they say the will, responding to lots of emails asking "wots ur best CASH prize, m8??"... "For you sir, a million pounds".

We buy any car is owned by British Car Auctions, so they know exactly how much common models will sell for, and can offer you a realistic price (might not always be what an owner wants to hear), for the cars, and they have a data driven system to knock off the dents and scrapes etc etc.
My focus was mechanically excellent with service history etc, but had quite a few body issues, and from the initial 2500 'offer' price, they only knocked off 670 including the 50 quid admin fee. Given that they have to make a profit somewhere, I was quite astonished that they offered that much to be honest. For a private sale, I'd have expected to get in the region of 2000-2100, and for the hassle factor, it was totally worth it for me, at least.

However, I think WBAC only works well for high volume cars - I had an evo 7 a while back that I did a quote for, and they offered me 5500 (that is, before knocking off 50 quid here and there for stone chips etc etc), for a car that I sold for 9500, but I think that's got to do with the risk on their side. If there's no data to price accurately, the risk on their side goes up massively.

As soon as you try to put a mobile number is a ebay message you get a warning

not if it's a "classified" car listing (i guess because there's no final value fee for ebay to lose on them).