I have several of the same things -- soap molds, Kodak slide carousels -- that I need to sell on Ebay, but --?

Question

apparently Ebay thinks I should be a STORE if I want to sell more than one of the same thing. Is there a way around this? I tried to put lots of 3, 5, 8 and 15 and put in the description that they are for sale individually and the buyer can choose how many they want...Not sure if that's the right way to go.

Answer 1

There are a couple of ways to do this. First you can list the buy it now price for 1 lot. In your item description be very clear on what they are bidding on. If you have 10 lots put 10 total and in your description tell them what comes with a lot. The other way you can do it sell individually. I would not recommend this as if you are selling something for 1.00 ebay automatically charges no less that .35-.50 cents to list... then you have a end of auction fee... if you do them in lots and you sell them lets say for $5-$10 then you are only hit the one fee for each lot and not for each piece. So you still have the .35-.50 to list and your end of auction fee probably .30 . This is opposoed to selling them piece by piece and only making a few cents or sometimes you can even lose money!!!!

Answer 2

Try Dutch auctions. These are auctions where the seller is selling more than one identical item. Check out the link here:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/buyer-multiple.html

If the items are of low value, you may find that there are few bidders for the items due to the shipping. You may actually get more interest if you put a bunch of items in a single auction and just get rid of them.

Answer 3

why not become a store? It's cheaper to list items if you sell on there frequently.
I sell rubber chickens and red noses.

Answer 4

You would probably make more money selling them individually-don't sell in lots because they will take more comission, won't they? If you are a store, isn't there additional charges?