Selling Lego on eBay

[robemcdonald]

Just a bit of a moan really.

I have a reasonably small collection of Lego kits from around 10-15 years ago mostly.
Without going into unnecessary detail I want to sell them on to make a bit of space.
So, naturally my first port of call was eBay.

I took a few pictures and put them up for auction. Cue a deluge of buyers offering buttons to “buy it now”, “take it off your hands” etc.
Do people really put stuff on there without checking to see how much what they are selling is worth?

“What’s the lowest price you’d take for it” has rapidly become my least favourite phrase in the English language.

And it’s not just one or two people either there are hundreds of these guys….

I would have thought the fact I had listed the items separately rather than as a job lot would have put off the chiselers.

I know…. Cool story bro.

[tedblog]

I dont bother with the auction style selling these days , buy it now at a price ive research and happy with.
Doesn't stop the silly offers , not as many and weeds out the silly questions.

[wolfie28]

Sadly the world is full of turds that would sell their Grandmothers fillings if they thought they could make money. There is a sales/wants thread on this very forum if that is of any interest. Good luck with the sales.

[blue_haddock]

i've sold a couple of older unopened sets last year and i simply did a 99p start on a 10 day auction.

Bot went for decent money with minimal fuss.

[Simpo Two]

wolfie28 said:

Sadly the world is full of turds that would sell their Grandmothers fillings if they thought they could make money.

Mercury and tin, both very valuable metals

[Kev_Mk3]

If selling on ebay only do it on 80% off fee weekends or they have your pants down. Something like 12% plus 35p plus part of the shipping cost etc it racks up.

Add buy it now and add 10% to the price you list it on to what you want. I always do free shipping attracts better buyers and royal mail track it only!

[Every day a journey]

Selling on ebay used to be fun (and worthwhile)

Now??? Bloody awful

[Richard-390a0]

Kev_Mk3 said:

If selling on ebay only do it on 80% off fee weekends or they have your pants down. Something like 12% plus 35p plus part of the shipping cost etc it racks up.

Add buy it now and add 10% to the price you list it on to what you want. I always do free shipping attracts better buyers and royal mail track it only!

Oh yes so much this!!! I just sold an item not Lego for £250 & incurred fee's of £32.30p!!!!!

[youngsyr]

You can list it at Buy it now and then have an option to make an offer, which you can set to automatically refuse offers below your chosen price.

Let eBay deal with the chisellers for you!

[BananaFama]

I'm an 80% off bloke as well ,listed 30 varied items on the weekend ,sold 2 already and have bids on 4 others .pleased with that so far .
Hopefully some more lots get bids before the first week elapses .

I have high hopes for one of them ,genuinely RaRe piece that has watchers and bids .
It has RS Cosworth tax added .