Selling on fleabay do you

Its now winter and the buyers will be hiding under their duvets, for the benefit of those unfortunate enough to live outside the M25, its posh bedding.
However at £15.00 a month its pennies and no broker is going to do any better during the long dark damp season.
Keep the ad going over Xmas lots of folks with naff all to do but skulk online to avoid wife/kids/ relatives and/or long healthy walks outside etc.
You then could give it short break for it to fall off the Ebay horizon and then revamp the ad with different pix and some new blurb in the early spring .
All the details are held in your unsold boa so no hard work getting it up and running again.
 
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oldgit said:
Its now winter and the buyers will be hiding under their duvets, for the benefit of those unfortunate enough to live outside the M25, its posh bedding.
However at £15.00 a month its pennies and no broker is going to do any better during the long dark damp season.
Keep the ad going over Xmas lots of folks with naff all to do but skulk online to avoid wife/kids/ relatives and/or long healthy walks outside etc.
You then could give it short break for it to fall off the Ebay horizon and then revamp the ad with different pix and some new blurb in the early spring .
All the details are held in your unsold boa so no hard work getting it up and running again.
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I still think Gum tree is a better platform
 
Bigplumbs said:
I still think Gum tree is a better platform
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Have sold stuff on Gumtree but at least with ebay you have good idea of any interested parties background from nil transaction newbies to serious ebayers with 100% feedback over thousands of transactions.
Recently advertised something on Gumtree and the "interested" party threatened to come back and damage the item overnight, after his generous offer was refused. :).
Always useful to know who you are dealing with and their previous history
 
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well if you are serious about a boat peeps will be looking on both platforms I imagine ,thanks for replies
 
Dont get impatient, in my limited experience selling a boat on fleabay nothing happened for months and I genuinely believed it a lost cause and then suddenly all the punters arrived at once. She is a lovely boat and very seaworthy. So you are not going to scare off an interested party.
 
BruceK said:
Dont get impatient, in my limited experience selling a boat on fleabay nothing happened for months and I genuinely believed it a lost cause and then suddenly all the punters arrived at once. She is a lovely boat and very seaworthy. So you are not going to scare off an interested party.
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well someone wants to buy my boat ,well he wants to pay no deposit pay monthly payments for 3 years but is willing to pay for maintenance and mooring fees , who are these peeps
 
wants to pay no deposit pay monthly payments for 3 years but is willing to pay for maintenance and mooring fees , who are these peeps
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got to be somebody in pensions,wealth management or perhaps worst of all a populist politiction who likes warm beer ? :)
 
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Personally, I wouldn't try to sell a boat on e-bay. In my experience, there are just too many people registered with e-bay who think the seller was born yesterday! (ie "I'll offer you £10k over the asking price on delivery but no deposit and you need to pay me up front to send a lorry"!!!)

Having said that, I did put a classified ad on e-bay for a boat that I already had for sale on Apollo Duck. I stated in the e-bay advert that I would not consider selling to anyone who had not first visited in person and I made it clear that I would only use the RYA Bill of Sale in the ad.

After about 3 months, I had 3 people seriously interested, The front runner (who bought for the asking price) came through Apollo Duck; 1 serious enquiry via e-bay (who never got the chance to view in the end) and 1 very serious enquiry via the owners' association For Sale forum who couldn't visit in a reasonable time due to illness.

I would go via Apollo Duck again as their fees are very reasonable and they seem to attract sensible potential buyers. I was also impressed with the Boatshed broker in my area but I think their fees are excessive.

I too would use Gumtree rather than E-bay but it would have to be cash on collection in person and I wouldn't consider anything with a value over about £10k. I have sold an old rigid tender on Gumtree (to a man in a van) and it was a very straight-forward face-to-face transaction.
 
well had someone who wants it but in a months time, so we have decided to put it up for auction with a reserve for ten days ,and bidding has started lets see, new boat is waiting for us
 
so on ebay I have been asked if I can show bidders on my sale ,but I have tried but it wont let me does anyone know how to do it.cheers roy
 
Why would you want to? Did someone accuse you of shill bidding you old rogue? There is a chat feature in the help and support section if your question isn't already in the FAQs
 
BruceK said:
Why would you want to? Did someone accuse you of shill bidding you old rogue? There is a chat feature in the help and support section if your question isn't already in the FAQs
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I take that as an insult whats the use in doing that as it has to reach the reserve so there is no point
 
Why would someone want to see your bidders then. That has always been private to prospective bidders and AFAIC should remain so.
Oh btw when I first was looking for a boat I was a victim of shill bidding. As soon as the auction stopped, literally within a minute I was offered second chance option to buy. I obviously didn't out of principle but I have seen a lot of it. Another instance was when I was buying a TIG welder. This DIY unit was selling on Buy It Now adds from the distributor for around 800. A lot were on no reserve. A few I bid on at around 500 always jumped to the Buy it Now Price and more in the last hours of the auction. Always the same shill bidder. t**t 001 whatever.
 
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