eBay Flash Sale Discussion and Commentary Thread

Discussion in 'Transformers 3rd Party Discussion' started by kibble, Jan 11, 2018.

  1. RKillian

    RKillian http://www.rktoyandhobby.com

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    They're counting escalating shipping and taxes in their revenue. They've also been counting asking price, not accepted offers, in their GMV for years. In terms of actual _merchandise_ sold, they're lagging behind almost every other big marketplace. Stock buybacks and spinning off holdings (PayPal, Stubhub, Classifieds, etc) can only keep them propped up for so long.

    It's less the fault of BIN than it is the fee structure and anti-seller policies. You've been around long enough to remember when FVFs were 2% (item only), you could take checks instead of tithing PayPal, buyers couldn't extort refunds after the fact, and search wasn't openly manipulated. These all make selling more expensive and those costs have nowhere to go but onto buyers.
     
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  2. ChromeMagnus

    ChromeMagnus Well-Known Member

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    This.
    No flash sales plus Ebay charges sales tax. I haven't bought a TF off ebay in about 2 years.
     
  3. OCProwl

    OCProwl Autobot Dad

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    To be fair we had a pretty good run for a while there, with those $15 flash sale coupons, actually decent eBay bucks offers, no sales tax imposed, free shipping from China... I managed to get a fair chunk of my Iron Factory collection for well below MSRP this way.
     
  4. ChromeMagnus

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    That's what I'm saying. It was good until it ended. There were hardly any flash sales in 2018. The final flash sale was in March 2019.....2 years ago from now. Then to top it all off Ebay started imposing sales tax.
     
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  5. plastyxdistress

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    giftcards.kroger DOT cøm has $5 off $30+ gift card purchase promo code. It is a virtual gift card sent to your email. Promo expires 11:59 PST on March 11th.
    Works on GCs for all available vendors sold on the site. They have eBay GCs.

    You can buy custom entered value of $30 for the GC.
    At checkout, use $5 øff prømø cøde: SCORE2021

    Might be limit 1 per CC/email, ¥MM√ for using different combinations of CCs/email addresses to purchase additional discounted GCs.
     
  6. GunplaGamer

    GunplaGamer Swerve’s Best Customer

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    If you ever sell things on eBay and haven’t changed your payment collection method from PayPal, ebay is giving everyone who changes to the new system, a $15 coupon.

    Promo to get the coupon expires March 31st.
     
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  7. northjason

    northjason Well-Known Member

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    Where might one find this?
     
  8. TIKnTIN

    TIKnTIN … beating a dead horse with a broken record, LoL!

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    surprised to have received a 5% ebay bucks bonus active the last couple days that expired yest night. sadly i made purchases last week and had nothing i really wanted to buy now so didn't take advantage of this last hurrah from ebay.
     
  9. OCProwl

    OCProwl Autobot Dad

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    So I'm a little hesitant to necro this thread but I wasn't sure where else to put this.

    Could be targeted, but I received a coupon of $5 off a $15 minimum order (must use credit card to pay, not PayPal).

    Anyway, worth a shot?

    FIVEOFF4U. Ends June 8, 2021.
     
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  10. col

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    Yeah, it’s targeted. Just tested it out and it didn’t work for me.
     
  11. Scourgatron

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    Targeted
     
  12. OCProwl

    OCProwl Autobot Dad

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    Ah ok, sorry to get anyone's hopes up. You never know I guess!
     
  13. Scourgatron

    Scourgatron 4D Smart-ass

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    Never hurts to try.
     
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  14. WyldeBill

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  15. Max Tower

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    They keep throwing update your payment coupons at me - I just ignore them as I don't exactly trust them with that level of power of my banking.
     
  16. quickshift

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    I never really saw it change much of anything for me.
    Ebay makes everything way more complicated than it needs to be in regards to fees.
    Heres a link to their full breakdown on the top rated seller shenanigans.
    Seller levels and performance standards | eBay


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  17. WyldeBill

    WyldeBill You will ride eternal. Shiny and chrome.

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    Ebay:
    I had all my listings set correctly and still got what you are showing. I can’t solve it either. Sure ain’t worth a call to “customer service”
     
  18. Big Hache

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    I think you need to have an eBay store, not just listings active, and there are stipulations for having a store and being Power Sellers and such. If that helps.
     
  19. Ambrojh

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    Can this thread be deleted or closed, ebay sales are gone, and have be gone since 2018.
     
  20. franpincho

    franpincho NOT a FT Only collector

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    Can’t you just not post or unsubscribe?


    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
     
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