For Sale Mounted figures, busts and figures for sale

[stan]

I have put the remaining figure kits I am offering for sale up on ebay at low starting prices....Deals don't get any better than this.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/271579564430?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

http://www.ebay.com/itm/271579576996?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

Since they are now listed on ebay , the kits are only shipping to the US.

 

[Tommi]

Why not ship to the UK? as long as the buyer accepts the shipping price there should be no issues !

Tommi

 

[Gary D]

Doesn't ship to Canada either.

 

[stan]

Most of my items for sale set stagnate on the forum for some time so now they are on ebay as a last resort.....I am a new seller on ebay so they withhold the payments from me for some time. ( At least 21 days ) and in the case of over seas and even canada the shipping takes some time, so consequently getting my funds takes even more time.

Shipping from the US has become very costly with the elimination of surface mail a couple years back and there is no way to track packages successfully and affordably through the US post office. There is only the use of registered mail which is very slow and very expensive. ( When is say expensive I am talking in the $30-$50 range.

The other options include UPS and Fedex which offer no affordable overseas rates. No one will want to pay $50 or even more to ship a resin kit through UPS or Fedex , it would be ridiculous.

The absence of true tracking leads to lengthy delays in receiving my funds. Ebay has put in place a "global priority mail " help system , but priority mail has no true tracking overseas ( only to Canada) and is also 2 or 3 times the cost. So it is not a helpful system.

There was not a worry from trustworthy folks on the forum when relying on them to confirm package arrivals when I sent them snail mail after they purchased them here from my for sale posts..... In fact I shipped about 50 different kits overseas within the last 2 months, selling them on this forum and shipping them at reasonable rates via standard snail mail. If ebay operated on the same trust system that we can most of the time implement on a forum like this, then this would be a non issue.

On ebay with no true tracking information I can expect to wait a 45-60 days before I get paid for any of the sales overseas and I am not willing to do that.....hope this clarifies the issue.

 

[Bailey]

Wow, you aren't kidding about those starting prices. Somehow I don't think they will stay that low. I'd love to get my hands on either of the Andrea kits, especially the Dark Guardian (I don't think I saw you post those here). But I get the feeling there will be plenty of other people interested as well.

 

[stan]

Yes, someone will want these as they are such nice kits.

 

[Babelfish]

I am a new seller on ebay so they withhold the payments from me for some time. This is a policy of theirs ...

Policy? Really?? You sure?? Since when?? And on what grounds can they "withhold payments" that are rightfiully due to you? Besides which, PayPal is pretty much instantaneous.

In any case, member since May 2013 (well over a year) with a 100% positive feedback count of 114 is hardly "new".

- Steve

 

[stan]

I have only sold about a dozen items on there recently so in Ebays eyes that is a new seller.

Buying items on ebay and receiving feedback from my purchases has nothing to do with selling. You could be a member and buy items on ebay for 10 years but the moment you decide to sell items, them then you are subject to their rules. Until you establish a selling record with them, then they withhold payments. In the case of US sales the waiting period is less then 2 weeks. Thus the US shipping listings.

I am not on here to argue. Just selling some toys. Thats all.

 

[Babelfish]

This must be a new (or recent) policy that eBay have implemented. In any event it was never an issue when I started selling on there some years back.

It sounds to me like yet more eBay ********, and on top of their increasingly extortionate fees and not being able to leave anything but positive feedback for deadbeat buyers, seems to be another reason NOT to sell on eBay, except as a last resort.

- Steve

 

[stan]

Steve, I agree completely . I have used it as of late on my more stagnate items. I suppose Ebay is useful for that , but at a cost.
They state the payment withholding period as "at least 21 days" and thus far in US sales that seems about right for me. It relys some on tracking numbers and buyers being reciprocal in communication, etc. The absence of affordable tracking and positive proof of shipment complicates the overseas sale on ebay for me right now, simply because they are hoarding my funds due...but after I jump the new seller hurdle then it would be easier . I have good feedback and now even 5 stars on their rating system so I would hope that time comes soon

 

[Babelfish]

For its first few years, eBay used to be a great (and fun) place to buy and sell, basically it was like one great big online car boot sale. Bargains were plentiful for buyers, rarities and even "grail" kits could usually be found, and fees for sellers were reasonable. You weren't even forced to use PayPal because eBay hadn't yet swallowed it up (many times I sent cash Dollar bills to the U.S. and Canada by registered mail and I always got my goods).

But that all changed once the suits and the moneymen took it over and turned it into a billion-dollar corporation with CEOs, stock market floatations and all that nonsense. It mutated into a cash-hungry, greed-driven monster that now bears little resemblance to the eBay of yore.

It seems to me that for some time they have been actively trying to get rid of the stash-thinners and attic-clearers (i.e. people like us), and are now interested only in the so-called 'power sellers' and online retail businesses because that's where the real money is. We are an inconvenience - a tickle in their corporate throat. Of course they always try to dress up their latest "initiatives" (aimed at driving us away) as something that will "improve the eBay experience" but people are not stupid. I still buy on eBay from time to time, but it's been a long time since I sold anything on there. It's just not worth it. I've increasingly found that once 'feeBay' have taken their cut, I'm almost giving stuff away, and that's not something I'm prepared to do any more.

- Steve

 

[Redcap]

Steve,

A very succinct and perceptive appraisal of the eBay 'business model' . Like yourself, it's a cardboard box with a price list left on a table top at local club meets and national shows for me these days when offloading my suplus grey army figs.

No fees, no taxes, no risk of unpredictable ludicrously low final bids and of course, the fun of a bit of haggling at a show for multiple buy punters - what's not to like!

Gary