Retro Games rising in price. How much is too much?

[Tubsiwub]

Ebay with Paypal would chunk a good $400 off of the $2000 leaving her with less, so if you truly want it for the price you gave her, it's in her best interest to sell it directly to you.

Good luck with the quest.

[Lord of Pirates]

One Small UPDATE on my quest. The girl countered with an offer of $2100. Honestly I told her $1750 is the highest Im willing to go. Interested to see what she says. I tried to tell her that if she goes on Ebay or use Paypal and sells it for $2000 she probably makes out with around that same amount anyway so might as well go for cash in person.

I just don't know what to peg the value at. Its just bizarre that 2 are on Ebay now with a 3rd privately in play. The other thing is the 2 on Ebay have been up for quite a bit now at 2999 and 2500 so collectors haven't been desperate enough to jump right away at their prices. This game honestly is probably topping out at $2000 in value at this point. Will it go up? Not sure. $1750 is a lot but I feel like at that price even its value slides a bit I won't feel like I overpaid too much. Im assuming unless a crate full of these is discovered some day the price will always stay fairly high.

Give or take, plus she'd be screwed if it wasn't as described and some collectard got upset.

[banditwolf]

Give or take, plus she'd be screwed if it wasn't as described and some collectard got upset.

Well Derek could call the date off

[Gypsy]

Ebay with Paypal would chunk a good $400 off of the $2000 leaving her with less, so if you truly want it for the price you gave her, it's in her best interest to sell it directly to you.

Good luck with the quest.

This is just not correct.

[Tubsiwub]

This is just not correct.

Ebay takes 10% from my sales~

Edit: Did some research - it's clearly more complicated than flat rates, etc. I don't have much to sell, so I never noticed.

[ragnar14]

Ebay takes 10% from my sales~

Edit: Did some research - it's clearly more complicated than flat rates, etc. I don't have much to sell, so I never noticed.

10% is a reasonable estimate though. Maybe that rate drops for high dollar items, I wouldn't sell stuff that fetches 4 digits on eBay so I don't know... Depending on the payment method Paypal can carve out another ~5% (could be less, but don't plan on that). So it's best to expect 15% to go to fees.

I miss eBay from way back, when they randomly had free listing days, and Final Value Fees were like 2% or something...

[Tubsiwub]

Eh, apparently it's more reasonable than a 10% estimate, especially on a $2,000 item. It's roughly $75 for a $2,000 sale.

It's slightly worse than I thought for the small things I've sold seeing as Video Games are in the 15% category. Lame.

Also, PayPal has a cap on it, so that was something I was confused about as well.

Although I did check some recent sales of mine. Ebay's charged me $0.50 on a $5.00 sale, and $0.40 on a $4.00 sale, so that's 10%... but these were in the VG category, so I dunno.

[DinoDerek]

Eh, apparently it's more reasonable than a 10% estimate, especially on a $2,000 item. It's roughly $75 for a $2,000 sale.

It's slightly worse than I thought for the small things I've sold seeing as Video Games are in the 15% category. Lame.

Also, PayPal has a cap on it, so that was something I was confused about as well.

Although I did check some recent sales of mine. Ebay's charged me $0.50 on a $5.00 sale, and $0.40 on a $4.00 sale, so that's 10%... but these were in the VG category, so I dunno.

Yeah I never really understood their tiered fees. But if Video games are 15% that is more than I thought. So she would lose at least 300 before any Paypal fees were taken.

[Gypsy]

I miss eBay from way back, when they randomly had free listing days, and Final Value Fees were like 2% or something...

Yeah money ruins everything.

Eh, apparently it's more reasonable than a 10% estimate, especially on a $2,000 item. It's roughly $75 for a $2,000 sale.

It's slightly worse than I thought for the small things I've sold seeing as Video Games are in the 15% category. Lame.

Also, PayPal has a cap on it, so that was something I was confused about as well.

Although I did check some recent sales of mine. Ebay's charged me $0.50 on a $5.00 sale, and $0.40 on a $4.00 sale, so that's 10%... but these were in the VG category, so I dunno.

It's 10% for almost all categories. Also fees don't cap until much higher if I understand correctly. So it should be $200 in eBay fees for a video game sold for $2000 shipping included. Then paypal takes their cut. It's always the total sale amount including shipping that fees come out of.

I've only ever sold a few items for $400+ so I've never been that close to the fee cap.

[Missile!]

When all is said and done, ebay/pp generally takes 12.9% + a 30 cent fee, so fees should be roughly $258.30