Free ebay listings have driven prices up

My theory:

Since ebay went to its current policy of free listing fees, it has been nothing but bad for classic game prices. Before, if you listed an item at some stupid price, you were charged a percentage of your listing fee. Many did not want to risk paying a listing fee for something that might not sell at a stupid price, so it kept list prices down to some degree. Now, take a look at gaming prices, especially BIN auctions. Most are priced too high, and some ridiculously so. No listing fee means that anybody can risk listing at a high price because they are not out anything if it doesn't sell, and most sellers appear to be doing just that. The other detrimental side of this is that GW and SA charity thrifts in my area have gone to the ill-advised practice of looking to ebay for "going rates" for a given game. Unfortunately, they look at BIN auctions that are falsely inflated by these idiotic sellers because they are not paying listing fees.

Maybe it would be for the better if ebay brought back its tiered listing fee policy?

I thought BIN is what did that.

But I think even BIN listing prices have gone up substantially since the free listing fee policy was implemented.

What is idiotic about trying to sell at a high price?

Maybe your not looking hard enough.

On a side note, anyone know the date of the next free listing eBay day?

Thanks.

ebay prices are always high on most item , people are paying $40+ for silver coins

Problem solved. It is not free to list. I freaking wish. However it is free to relist and sellers are not charged the final value fee on unsold items. If it were free to list you would see a larger varity of games and more competition between sellers on ebay. To hell with ebay fees.

http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html

I was actually watching a few items on ebay today and was surprised at some of the final bids that made for various games.

An auction for a CIB copy of Earthbound: http://www.ebay.com/itm/230742177217...84.m1438.l2649

The game was sold for $689.00 :daze:

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Another auction for a CIB copy of "Wacky Worlds Creativity Studio" bundled with a mouse: http://www.ebay.com/itm/200709997837...84.m1438.l2649

The game and mouse bundle sold for $68.32 and that is not including shipping which was listed for around $28.00. Now what was this person thinking paying $96.00 for a children's game? :daze:

That is one pricey children's video game!

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The next auction was for a CIB copy of "Truxton": http://www.ebay.com/itm/190636729132...84.m1438.l2649

The game sold for $41.29 plus shipping listed for $12.95.

$50.00+ for Truxton? Are you out of your mind? Sure, the game is great but this game still frequently pops up in the wild and usually for a third of the price!

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Another auction I was watching was for a CIB copy of "Splatterhouse 3" for the SEGA Genesis: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Splatterhous...item2c62ca3748

I could not believe my eyes when I saw the bidding price go from $50.89 to triple that, with the final bidding price ending at $152.50 plus shipping listed at 12.95. Egad!

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Either someone really has deep pockets or the person forgot to take their meds! :p

Yea I was going to say I'm new at the whole eBay selling thing but I've never had a "free" listing, even on free listing days. And I also thought that BIN listings were more expensive to list than an auction. I don't blame anything about ebay fees contributing to driving up prices, I see it through the equation Lazy people + convenience = A willingness to pay more. Even if you're not lazy, scouring thrift stores and retro shops for who knows how long to *maybe* find what your looking for at a price that is *maybe* a good deal isn't worth the hassle to many.

Yea sigh, rather a item sells or not, sellers should have to pay a fee, but ever since they changed it to only if the item sells, you need to pay a fee, sellers have been abusing it to inflate the maket value.

BIN only options just makes it alot easier for them to get away with it(infact the total fees on a BIN only, is cheaper then auction styled listings, and last upto 30 days. WTF is ebay doing sigh).

Dear god guys the sellers always pay a fee to list. Where are you getting this crap from!?

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Originally Posted by Iron Lizard

Dear god guys the sellers always pay a fee to list. Where are you getting this crap from!?

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Get a ebay account, because you must not have one to not know, it feels like ebay sends me free listing offers every other day.

Plus listings in general can be free depending on how you list the item(for example 1 pic or stock pic use is free, doesn't cost anything for example, and there's other options for the other aspects of the listing as well, which will basically make the entire listing free)

It's a pain to get prices on cheaper games, if you want to pick up the sub 20/10 stuff you have to go for the lots and scrap what you don't want. Most sellers just put up lower priced games at an inflated price maybe double what a cheaper game normally sells for. I blame Ebay though, not necessarily the sellers, fees are just too high anymore between getting hit with Ebay and then paypal. Higher priced stuff you can still score deals, it's just the lower end stuff that they've eliminated.

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Originally Posted by JRedmond3

It's a pain to get prices on cheaper games, if you want to pick up the sub 20/10 stuff you have to go for the lots and scrap what you don't want. Most sellers just put up lower priced games at an inflated price maybe double what a cheaper game normally sells for. I blame Ebay though, not necessarily the sellers, fees are just too high anymore between getting hit with Ebay and then paypal. Higher priced stuff you can still score deals, it's just the lower end stuff that they've eliminated.

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OMG don't even bring that BS up, It's too painful, wtf is wrong with people and these huge lots(usually way overpriced, with a bunch of dime adozen sports games mixed in) full with most crap, pricing it as if every game in the lot was a highly valuable, desireable game.

This BS Isn't just with the actual games either, It's anything to do with gaming(, store display lots, loose manual lots exc, wtf if someone wants a store display or a manual, they are only gonna want specific ones, why in the hell are sellers doing this BS, are they retarted or something).