fasteddie16
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posted on March 15, 2001 08:46:26 PM
I am trying to sell a set of Chevy heads on Ebay motors.Relisted today for the third time.Get a nonpaying bidder every time.Most bidders have a zero feedback or worse.I have never had much trouble on Ebay
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dixiebee
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posted on March 16, 2001 03:02:37 AM
Yeah, but what I sold was a Chilton's manual. It brought more than I expected and my buyer paid promptly with PayPal.
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carat01
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posted on March 16, 2001 03:27:06 AM
Sold a caddy on consignment.Buyer flew in from WI to NY and drove it home. Was great experience but took three times due to reserve. Hang in there it will get better! My brother-in-law also bought a car from eBay, high bidder backed out when he found out cost to ship from MA to CA. Good luck.
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geminspector
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posted on March 16, 2001 04:42:57 AM
fasteddie,
We have had excellent results selling harley davidson and big block chevy parts (I think these was a set of heads). Must be something in the air these days.
I will say that "gear-heads" keep email responsed very short and minimal.
--Brought to you by MHO Productions--
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gravid
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posted on March 16, 2001 05:04:29 AM
Plain vanilla cars sell very poorly but a Porsche 928 sold very well with over 2000
hits.
I have never sold PARTS. Some categories I have tried to sell are unusable. I tried selling bicycle accesories and had a 50% deadbeat rate!
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alldings
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posted on March 16, 2001 07:54:49 AM
I sold a antique car that has a very limited following on eBay motors. I ran local ads for about two months and got nothing. I only got one bid on eBay, but it was my asking price. the bidder mailed me a cashiers check and a couple weeks later came and got the car. I watch eBay motors a lot. Regular cars sell hard, but antique or collector cars nearly always get bids. Good luck!
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psyllie
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posted on March 16, 2001 06:42:16 PM
I thought I'd sold my old Honda Civic on ebay motors, but the high bidder hasn't responded to my emails (even though he'd emailed me several times before the auction ended telling me how much he wanted this car!) I was concerned that NONE of my bidders had more than 6 feedbacks, and most of them had 0. 0 without shades, usually. I'm going to try to call this guy.
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janusaries
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posted on March 17, 2001 06:23:19 AM
Sold a 1970's era hearse. Buyer paid three times the selling price to get it trucked across country on a rollback.
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rustybore
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posted on March 17, 2001 10:34:11 AM
I have tried several times to sell a nice selection of BRAND NEW tires in popular sizes. I had a nice photo of the tire. A reasonable estimate of shipping cost in my description. So that the bidder would have all the information he needed to make a good decision, I even stated the reserve price in my description!
My reserves (even including shipping) were WELL below any retail price. Each and every time the tires got several HUNDRED page views. Each and every time I got several emails asking me questions that were clearly answered in the desciption. And each and every time these tires got a handfull of bids - bids that usually didn't even make it to half of my stated reserve.
After beating my head against the wall for a few months, and paying enough ebay fees for Meg to make a boat payment --- I gave up.
Funny thing is that these exact same tires, with the same descriptions and prices, tended to sell well on Yahoo (way back in the good old "pre fee" days) for free...
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newguy
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posted on March 17, 2001 12:34:17 PM
A 64 Cad El Dorado Convertible that did not sell after a few runs in various local and regional publications, but it did sell for more than my original asking price after listing it at a starting price of $1. $2,000 more.
But a lot of the emails were A PITA during the auction. The one who placed the bid at $200 wanted to know where and when they could pick it up. When it was at $500, one email wanted to know the lowest price I would take and it took 5 emails to make them understand it was an auction. It took them 20 bids to become the high bidder then they thought they had won even though there was 5 days left on the auction.
The best part. The high bidder lived 15 miles from me. Could have had it $2,000- $3,000 less if he would have seen it in the ads.
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toolhound
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posted on March 17, 2001 12:59:57 PM
I have only been using eBay Motors for about a month and so far the results are very good.
I have been selling some speciality tools for foreign cars.
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whinneey
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posted on March 17, 2001 02:49:19 PM
I sold my SUbaru SVX with 160,000 miles on eBAy. The dealerdhip would not give me 1000.00 n a trade-in! I got 5000.00 for the car BUT I did find that if someone comes to see it, and makes a bonafide offer, you are better off taking a little less. The first time we let it go for almost 7,000. and the
buyer" came in form Boston and started with "well, this is not what I thought and this...yadda yadda. " it is big money and the buyer knows what a pain it is to relist. Our first buyer had no intention of paying his bid price! He thought it was a starting point for negotiation! So when we relisted the car and made it available to be seen we set a price and ended the auction with a buyer who had seen it and guaranteed payment. We still did well.
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