Macadamia

Tips from this week as a small mac shop. (Some tips are not exactly Mac related:

1). Listing high ticket items on ebay: Above $10,000. A client asked this question and after doing all this research, I wanted to

First, If you plan to be paid via paypal, remember that you will be charged: 1.9% to 2.9% + $0.30 USD

So paypal can add $1000 dollars to a $35000 sale:

Summary for a $35,000 item:

insertion fee $4.00
Final Value fee $600.00
Reserve fee (opt) $350.00
Buy it now fees 0.25
Featured 1st fees $25.00-75.00

So a little under $1000 Total in eBay fees!!
paypal (optional): $1015 more.

total is around $2000.00

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Other Fees Depending on Style of Listing:

Insertion fees: Auction-style listings
$500.00 or more starting bid:
$4.00

Final value fees: Auction-style listings
Greater than $1000:
8.75% of the initial $25.00 ($2.19), plus 3.50% of the initial $25.01 – $1,000.00 ($34.12), plus 1.50% of the remaining closing value balance($1000.01 – closing value)

so that means it will be be around $37+(1.5% of $35000= 350+175)=$525 so somewhere in the order of 1.5% plus $40 insertion fee= under $600.

But….
Reserve price fees

Reserve price
Fee
$0.01 – $199.99
$2.00
$200.00 and up
1% of reserve price (up to $50)

So a reserve adds 1% or around $350. And the total comes to $1000 if you chose the safety of a reserve price.

Buy It Now fees are very low
$50.00 or more = $0.25

But you can market more using some cheap methods or go with the big one:
Featured First***
$24.95 or $74.95
depending on auction style of less than 10 days or good till cancelled/30 days /classifieds.

(So after all that, try Craigslist, that’s where my client sold his high end item after all this research)