Mrs DukeSox decided she wanted to sell her car the other week and we agreed that Ebay was the best way in this instance. We set a fairly high reserve which was not achieved when the auction ended last night but we did have a lot of watchers. I checked my messages this morning and there were half a dozen emails from people asking if we were open to offers. Anyway, the end result is a sale at not far off the reserve but with the bonus of no sales commission to Ebay, just a small listing fee. I am of course not suggesting that anyone deliberately manipulate Ebay this way as that would be wrong wouldn't it.
Nice touch there, makes a change for someone to have a result other than Ebay with there extortionate valuation fees! "Rant over"
Got a few things similar to that method. E-Bay are their own enemy being so greedy and charging pretty exorbitant fees for hosting. They are well aware as you cannot put an email into E-Bay correspondence. There isn't much they can do though if you photograph it or screen shot it and send it off as an attachment. If you did it too often though I reckon they'd get wind of it and ban you, so far so good for me
Its the ' @ ' that is not allowed in ebay messages.They did this to stop you dealing more direct via paypal and not incurring ebays rip off fees. Just replace the above sign with ' at ' in your email address and explain they need to replace this with the correct sign for your paypal email address payment. For me the ebay fees are bad and getting worse but its the time wasting bidders that don't pay that really bring it down lately.
