Is now a good time to sell items to Europeans on Ebay?
With the American dollar trading at the rate of $1 to 1.5 Euros, it can be VERY advantageous for Americans to sell to overseas buyers (mainly Europe) on Ebay. Less of their money buys more of our stuff (common economics). The rate is so one sided, I think it would be a good time to make some of that European cash. Any thoughts on the situation? Has anybody successfully sold to European buyers lately?
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I think that a few of my auctions definately ended higher due to bidding from europeans
I've considered this as well. Although I havn't gotten arround to listing anything lately. It would probally work great on lighter items that don't cost as much to ship.
Not just Europe but a lot of other countries as well. Of the last few items i've sold on ebay, only one ended up going to someone in the US, and for that item I must have had 10 questions about shipping costs to practically every country in Europe, canada even mexico.
I've spent a hell of alot of £ on games & consoles i've bought off UK ebay. I bought a near mint complete Probotector (Contra!) for 20 something £, thats like $40-50.
I personally would love for more US sellers to offer products on ebay (well the UK version of the site i use, anyhow). Your video game scene has more depth and breadth in my opinion & is v attractive to european collectors such as myself. It has a more diverse market for selling/buying games in my opinion i.e. more physical places to sell/buy retro games.
I do not own any NTSC consoles however which is a problem for me & possibly others if you were selling only games.
Ive not made a purchase in a few months, but things like near mint SNES games & N64 games keep their face value (around $60 #) as if it was the mid 90's for most of the popular games. I bought my Mario party 3 (which is 9/10 in all departments) for £33 last year. There is a 9/10 copy on sale now for £49.99 buy it now.
Apparently Spring is a good time of year(?) for selling games. I hope i've helped a bit, but as i've said im out of touch a little bit.
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I offer worldwide shipping on most items, except when the shipping costs are completely stupid due to the weight of the item.
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Absolutely. I've been selling a lot of NBA stuff recently, and I'd say about 30% of it goes overseas. I haven't had to deal with any Paypal disputes or BS at all recently either, which is a nice bonus. I've always shipped internationally, and I've had very few problems overall.
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but how do you list on the Eropean ebay sites?* do you just sign up as normal.. I have bought many things there. I have sold many things there.*But how do actually list on their site so that all european buyers will see it.
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When I sold mobo/cpu combos on ebay, most of them sold in europe or australia. Made a good amount of money.
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I've always sold over seas, atleast the last year or so, lol. And if it weren't for some of those great UK guys, my Saturn PS2 controllers may not have sold for as high as they sold for. To all of them that bought from me I say cheers.
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Go to www.canadapost.ca and play around with their package cost calculator ... anything over 1kg starts at around 15 dollars to ship and it goes up according to: volume of container, weight of container, and distance of the US state from the seller, and fuel surcharges (and weaker US dollar).Everything I (accidentally) win from Canada ends up being crazy. I bid like $1 on a pile of common Atari games and shipping was $30. I could probably drive up to Canada from Albany and pick up my games for less
This is for the cheapest slowest service as well.
USPS is dirt cheap compared to Canada shipping costs, and it can be more costly to ship in Canada than to the USA .. go figure ..
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You don't actually list your items on ebay.uk or whatever, you list it normally, but check "Ship Worldwide" in the ebay shipping column when you list your item.
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Its NEVER a good time to sell overseas if you take paypal.
Considering paypal doesn't take any percentage of your shipping charge, thats not a very true statement.
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Seems likely he is referring to their "protection policy".
What does it entail?
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In a nutshell, sellers only have Paypal protection from chargeback attempts if they ship to the buyer's confirmed address. Since a very large majority of overseas buyers do not have confirmed addresses, you're taking a minor risk by shipping there. As someone who's sold thousands of items overseas since '98, most of them to unconfirmed addresses since Paypal came around, I have always found the risk very worthwhile financially. Others disagree however, so it's up to the seller to decide for themselves.
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Paypal requires not only a confirmed address but online tracking which is expensive. Buyers don't want to pay that extra expense so if you take paypal the seller must take all the risk. Sure you make a few extra bucks on the honest folk but one bad buyer and there goes all that extra profit.
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