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Originally Posted by Laurawilcox
If you want to determine value go to ebay to Advanced Search. It is a button found at the end of the search line where you enter what you are looking for. Once there fill out the item you are selling and then check the Sold item list.
You will find many interesting things. Our Lego set was worth 3 times what we paid, Star Wars no longer available, and we sold in a day, my Dragonware full set was worth $35 bucks and my antique doll the same. Gave the doll to a doll store, they couldn’t offer me anything because it wasn’t worth much and the packaging and shipping would have been expensive. Disney doll was listed for months at the price that it sold for before and no takers. Also true vintage clothes that I spent hundreds on I gave to them for $30. Sometimes finding a home is easier. You have to ask yourself the effort to make $20 bucks. The post office lost one of our pieces and I had to refund the money to the buyer.
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Re: ebay
I sold a lot of stuff on ebay before we moved to the Villages. I also did many garage sales. Both were an adventure.
Ebay has changed dramatically since I did it. The seller cannot leave negative feedback.
The buyers know it. You thus have no way to know if a buyer is a liar, a thief and a crook. Horror stories. I had a friend who WAS selling expensive watches. He had a buyer remove parts from a watch and return it. I had a guy buy a tool for ???? about $15
and claim not as listed. Problem he reported had the wrong oil on it. I eventually won that dispute. I assume the guy has a history of this. A guess it took me 4-5 letters-e-mails to ebay and paypal to win? Cost a fair value is say $5.00 a letter so 20-25 to make $15. Actually not $15 as between commission and paypal, ebay charges roughly 22% of the sale price.