Sportlots - Selling high priced item

[JWBlue]

Is there any reason not to sell a $300 wax box on Sportlots?

[phosgene]

how would you sell it?
the auctions are just a nightmare for sellers, imho
the fixed price has brutal fees unless you do some volume
a one shot deal
look at ebay or sell here

[Westlake]

Don't think you can sell a box as fixed price. Can only sell at auction. Actually a lot of auction stuff on there ends up much higher then I thought it would.

[rttrffg2012]

how would you sell it?
the auctions are just a nightmare for sellers, imho
the fixed price has brutal fees unless you do some volume
a one shot deal
look at ebay or sell here

Don't think you can sell a box as fixed price. Can only sell at auction. Actually a lot of auction stuff on there ends up much higher then I thought it would.

I agree with both of you. I see some really nice prices, but I'm hearing nothing ever gets paid. Too bad

How are sportlots fees? Bad, fair, awesome?

[Westlake]

How are sportlots fees? Bad, fair, awesome?

Once you get to a certain point they aren't bad. No insertion fees which is what I like. You pay on what you sell.

[phosgene]

the auction format is interesting but it is just a nightmare
theoretically, an auction can go forever, but it is not uncommon for it to go a week or more until people stop bidding
then it is like 10 days until your item is freed up to relist if someone doesn't pay
and non-pays happened a LOT. you can't believe many of the auction prices you see because you don't know if it was ever consummated.
you can filter out the most egregious offenders, but it still didn't help much
not bad for buyers though.
racked up many a steal on sportlots auctions and every one got delivered
a few of them truly amazed me
but the time it takes plus the wheat/chaff ratio is just not worth it for me

[Triplelutz42]

If you are willing to pay about $2.50 you could do a site featured auction with a starting bid of $300 or whatever.

It may not sell and you'd be out the listing fee, but if it does sell, there are no commissions on the final sale price(you will however pay paypal fees).

As far as the auctions continuing to run....this only happens if you continue to get bids, I'm not going to complain about making more money.

I've sold about 2,500 individual cards and a dozen or so auctions and only had 1 "non-payer".

[tdxxx2007]

the auction format is interesting but it is just a nightmare
theoretically, an auction can go forever, but it is not uncommon for it to go a week or more until people stop bidding
then it is like 10 days until your item is freed up to relist if someone doesn't pay
and non-pays happened a LOT. you can't believe many of the auction prices you see because you don't know if it was ever consummated.
you can filter out the most egregious offenders, but it still didn't help much
not bad for buyers though.
racked up many a steal on sportlots auctions and every one got delivered
a few of them truly amazed me
but the time it takes plus the wheat/chaff ratio is just not worth it for me

And then there's the circle of 8 to 10 long-time sportlots auction sellers who shill up each others items and have for years, making an already lengthy process even longer, and the ones who don't belong to the clique are asking $1.50 or more to ship each additional card to counter the possibility of losing some cards for a quarter each....it's a horrible system.

And the fixed price fees are insane....last I looked, their lowest fee percentage charged was higher than ebays highest.