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Hello there, I occasionally sell engineering bits and bobs on E Bay but now that they've put there prices up and they demand that as a seller you have to offer Pay Pal as a payment method and the costs that involves I feel it's not worth my while selling through them. Is there another auction site I could use where engineering minded people use? Cheers

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Nourish
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I just seen the latest changes this morning, and have been looking for alternatives. With the new changes, for auctions ending at £25, you'll pay £2.18 to ebay for final value fees (8.75%), and if the buyer pays with paypal, that'll cost you another £1.05 (provided you're in the 3.4% + 20p band). So basically out of your £25, ebay (who owns paypal) is getting £3.23, or just under 13% of your £25.

As for alternatives,

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is the best of what I've found so far, but it's still not that big a site. But going by the increasing level of discontent with the ebay/paypal monopoly, I'm pretty sure smaller sites like this will be seeing an increase in hits. I'll certainly be looking at ebid more often.

moray

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moray

ebid is good, we moved our company to ebid from ebay (feebay more like) as we started to loose money.

Good luck

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alastair coombs

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