Comment by Marsymars
8 hours ago
Whenever I sell used good, I use ebay to set the price, but I sell locally, so there's no shipping/fees involved.
Local prices around me always seem weirdly high - I sort ebay by cheapest price+shipping, match that, and that usually puts me cheaper than 90% of local listings and gets me plenty of interest.
TBH I'm not clear on why anybody outside of rural areas is selling on ebay for non-niche things.
I can think of a few reasons:
1) Digital goods, so very little friction. 2) No liquidity locally so you go to the large market. 3) Selling large volume. 4) Some third party to verify payment when it's not cash.
There are more and more alternatives though.