When do you know that’s it’s about time to say ‘Bye bye Ebay Ebay bye bye?’* Well, in recent weeks I’ve had my own epiphanic moment, at least.
I’ve had a business shop over on Ebay for, oh, a good long time now. I can’t say I’ve never sat down and done the math on whether it was worthwhile or not. Tax return time pretty much forces you to do exactly that, and last time was a real eye-opener for me on just that subject.
But of course, up until the last shop subscription hike, the bite taken out of profits by Ebay wasn’t quite so, um… is greedy the word I’m looking for? Or perhaps gargantuan? Outrageous?
So, I had my light bulb moment about whether selling on Ebay was working for me. I was already aware that if I factored in the time I spent on every aspect of selling on Ebay, I was probably pulling in less than minimum wage for my efforts. But when I got my accounts up to date and was able to work out just how much less… that was my melt-down moment.
So if I’ve shut up shop on Ebay, then just what am I going to do instead? Well, I still have my personal account and did plan to roll over all my personal items into it – at least until free postage and packing gets rolled out to all categories on October 22nd. (Yes, I had a ton of personal items listed on my business account. No, it’s not big or clever and yes, it gives you a migraine when you’re trying to get your accounts up to date). However, Ebay have had other ideas, and cordially invited me to sign up as a business again or **** off.
When we poor sellers start having to pay ‘customers’ to receive our items on the 22nd, (media postage and packing alert!) then I was going to move every blessed single item I have over into my Ebid.net shops instead anyway. This has just got me moving a little earlier than expected. God bless Ebid.
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* To the tune of the mighty Bay City Rollers’ ‘Bye Bye Baby’, of course…