Glenguy
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Would it be fair to say that Ebay's pricing is a bit high, for the most part? I'm looking for a pair of script emblems for my '66 Cuda. I'm willing to pay at least $100 for two of them. Is that within reason?
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Moparmonster
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Ebay doesn't set the prices; it varies from seller to seller. Unfortunately, though, too many people think that just because something's old, it must be worth a fortune.
I usually get about $40 for a pair in good shape with all pins intact, here on the site.
Maybe I should turn to Ebay.
Maybe I should turn to Ebay.
Glenguy
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I realize that it's the sellers who set the prices. Maybe I should have worded it differently. I just want to get a fair deal is all. I can't help but think that the sellers are maybe a bit capitalistic with their prices.....I mean, who in their right mind would pay over $700 for one emblem FFS?!
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Glenguy
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I would say that your $40 price tag is fair, considering the condition. They do need a bit of touching up.
E bay sellers often jack their prices up hoping some unsuspecting rich guy pulls the trigger on their goods. You will have to decide if the asking price is in range with your budget.
Glenguy
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I do have my budget, and it's no more than $100 or just a little over. There's always the option of seeing how long the item is sitting and negotiate based on that. I have done it. There other things to consider such as tail light lenses, and I don't imagine that they go for real cheap.
My method in eBay is
1. Save the item to watchlist
2. Wait about a week and see if i get a discount offer (usually businesses do that as opposed to individuals)
3. After about 2 weeks, I use the "make and offer" function and get a bite about 50% of the time.
4. Save the search and get alerts
4spdragtop
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So why not start a want ad here? I agree ebay has prices all over the place.
In the amount of time you posted your question here, a want ad here may have been filled.
And like @RAT ROD AL mentioned, Al's pricing is WELL below market rates.
In the amount of time you posted your question here, a want ad here may have been filled.
And like @RAT ROD AL mentioned, Al's pricing is WELL below market rates.
4spdragtop
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Lol...I agree.
Sshhhhh.....
I heard that !Sshhhhh.....
Ain't called maybe!?d FeeBay or IdiotBay for no good reason. Luke Facebook....Stupid Book.
OK so I am old and cantankerous!
OK so I am old and cantankerous!
Not many options out there since the online world killed the newspaper classified sections.
EBay (EvilBay?)
I remember a bud from Il. that said, way back in the early 90s, "why haul these parts to a big swap, pay for a space, sleep in the pickup, eat Vienna Sausages for 4 days, deal with a million tire kickers and wanna be's, when he can place an ad in FeeBay, sit home in the recliner and sell them right there!" (Back before FeeBay had 99% idiot prices.) I said,I guess it sounds reasonable (and lazy!).
Are there still newspapers!????
I'm so old....I remember before Al Gore invented it all.(ha) ... finding old Mopar projects was the K.C. Star, MCG, networking with friends and friends of friends, maybe a boneyard, (before they needed a title), and just riding the back roads with binoculars to checkout cow pastures.
Back about 1990 or so, I picked up a Sun. Kansas City Star paper, and scanned the ads. Like every week. Nothing in antiques, but under Plymouth was listed a 1970 Cuda. Says $1000. So I called, his wife answered. I ask is it a Cuda or Barracuda? A pissed out lady says it a damned Plymouth and husband in out back behind the shed trying to get it to run, hasn't in 10 or so years. I tell her I am about 1 1/2 hours away, but headed there.
I get there and sure 'nough, he has the plugs out and etc. and it fired as I walked up. Says a guy came by that morning and gave him a $100 deposit and 30 minutes later came back and asked for his deposit back. Something about a pissed off wife. Which seller returned. It was a 70 383 4 speed hemi orange Cuda. All there, yea looked like they all did, 20 years old and been road hard and put up wet..... a lot. I gave him $400 deposit I had on me, (before those drive up bank cash boxes) came back on Mon. with the trailer and $ and drove it up there ( no need for brakes) and no winch anyway. I haul it home, clean it out and wash it good, put in some fresh gas. Guy comes by the shop 2 days later and begs me to sell iot to hiom for $3500. THere was always another one next month or so. Who needed FeeBay anyway????
We were talkin about that very thing when Al and Theresa came by today.
Glenguy
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Yep!
Glenguy
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I agree....good ideas there.
Glenguy
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Makes us wish we had a time machine!EBay (EvilBay?)
I remember a bud from Il. that said, way back in the early 90s, "why haul these parts to a big swap, pay for a space, sleep in the pickup, eat Vienna Sausages for 4 days, deal with a million tire kickers and wanna be's, when he can place an ad in FeeBay, sit home in the recliner and sell them right there!" (Back before FeeBay had 99% idiot prices.) I said,I guess it sounds reasonable (and lazy!).
Are there still newspapers!????
I'm so old....I remember before Al Gore invented it all.(ha) ... finding old Mopar projects was the K.C. Star, MCG, networking with friends and friends of friends, maybe a boneyard, (before they needed a title), and just riding the back roads with binoculars to checkout cow pastures.
Back about 1990 or so, I picked up a Sun. Kansas City Star paper, and scanned the ads. Like every week. Nothing in antiques, but under Plymouth was listed a 1970 Cuda. Says $1000. So I called, his wife answered. I ask is it a Cuda or Barracuda? A pissed out lady says it a damned Plymouth and husband in out back behind the shed trying to get it to run, hasn't in 10 or so years. I tell her I am about 1 1/2 hours away, but headed there.
I get there and sure 'nough, he has the plugs out and etc. and it fired as I walked up. Says a guy came by that morning and gave him a $100 deposit and 30 minutes later came back and asked for his deposit back. Something about a pissed off wife. Which seller returned. It was a 70 383 4 speed hemi orange Cuda. All there, yea looked like they all did, 20 years old and been road hard and put up wet..... a lot. I gave him $400 deposit I had on me, (before those drive up bank cash boxes) came back on Mon. with the trailer and $ and drove it up there ( no need for brakes) and no winch anyway. I haul it home, clean it out and wash it good, put in some fresh gas. Guy comes by the shop 2 days later and begs me to sell iot to hiom for $3500. THere was always another one next month or so. Who needed FeeBay anyway????
I agree that some eBay sellers over price their items, but consider this for a moment.
eBay sellers have to pay a 10% final value fee, and eBay charges that on the shipping cost as well.
Then the seller has to pay 3.5% for the payment fee.
The next item is where the real money cost the seller. Since the law was changed a few years ago any money that a seller collects over $600 a year eBay is required by law
to issue a 1099-K and that amount is reported to the IRS. Now the seller in addition to the fees eBay collects is also responsible for State and Federal income taxes.
These reasons and eBay screwing up the search algorithms is why eBay has gone down the toilet.
So that $100 part will end up netting the seller about $60 in the end.
Tom
eBay sellers have to pay a 10% final value fee, and eBay charges that on the shipping cost as well.
Then the seller has to pay 3.5% for the payment fee.
The next item is where the real money cost the seller. Since the law was changed a few years ago any money that a seller collects over $600 a year eBay is required by law
to issue a 1099-K and that amount is reported to the IRS. Now the seller in addition to the fees eBay collects is also responsible for State and Federal income taxes.
These reasons and eBay screwing up the search algorithms is why eBay has gone down the toilet.
So that $100 part will end up netting the seller about $60 in the end.
Tom
For me, screwing up the search algorithms is the worst part of ebay now. Used to be able to limit your search to specific terms. Now you get a bunch of unrelated stuff to wade through (multiple Chevy parts under a Mopar search, crap like O2 sensors for a 63 Valiant, etc.), plus multiple repeat listings of the same part from a large vendor. Plus large vendors get more prominent search results. A search that once might have turned up a couple hundred results now gets you 15-20,000 results. And crazily enough, if you do a search under a broad category like ebay motors, you get so many results, but if you try to limit that by searching a subset of ebay motors, like "exterior parts," you get even more results.
So as a buyer I can't find anything, or at least have to wade through hundreds or thousands of things I'm not looking for, and as a seller my stuff hardly gets any views.
I used to be able to put something on ebay auction for a week and get a ton of views, and you could let the highest bidder set the price. Now if I do use ebay (very seldom these days), I don't bother with an auction, since I may only get a couple of views and no bids. I use buy it now or best offer, 30 day listing. And it may take two or three 30 day listings to actually sell the item.
Just mostly not worth the trouble.
It's for those reasons I don't sell there anymore. I spent about 10 years in the resale market and turned a decent profit, but with all the fees and now the 1099, the juice ain't worth the squeeze.
Now that Marketplace is flooded with other resellers, and so many of the buyers are tire kickers and lowballers, I'm out of the game. Maybe I'll take a welding class and get certified...
I admit the old car hobby was a lot more fun back then!!
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