Originally Posted by
robatsu
there used to be several guys
And thats my point.....several guys dont set the market in a market this big. At the moment there are 8,000 vintage parts listings and ~18,000 non-new listing for parts
Originally Posted by
cyclotoine
I am not even sure what the purpose of the post was as it adds nothing to the discussion (not that I can discern anyway).
This post doesn't ad anything either but I can say I have not been selling anything on ebay as they take too much money and it's a lot of work for not very much payoff. It almost feels like charity sometimes when I am cleaning up a part and I think about how little I will actually "make" on it. It's literally peanuts. But I'm not in business, just trying to make bigger purchases more affordable by selling off what I don't need. So I just post in the forsale section, editing my post every once in a while and it slowly but surely trickles away and the new stuff trickles in.
You make some good points. A vast majority of us dont do this to make ends meet or to make a living. For those who do it doesnt matter if they make a few bucks off each item. At the end of the day if they're averaging $8/hr thats more than what they'd make at McDonalds or a low rent job they'd have to pay income taxes on.
I find the fees to be extremly reasonable considering what Ebay and Paypal offer and I know I can easily make more than enough extra $$$$ on Ebay to make up for the fees. Sometimes I simply dont have the time. With editing, uploading of pictures etc I can write 4-6 ads an hour. If I have 20 items to sell that means I need 4-5 hours just to write ads.
I'll give my parts away before I make 'peanuts' on them....