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Does anyone know why LFGSS has the rule about not advertising on here and ebay?
I think it’s a good rule.
Retrobike classifieds is full of cunts just posting links to their eBay sales.
Gets pretty boring.
So do the listings for like 174 items (mostly shite) with zero photos, and the posts that are an overpriced frame/bike/whatever then literally 20 odd pages of “bump” and “to the top” getting posted every day or two.
Oh and there’s the people selling stuff for £1k+ and asking for payment PayPal gift.
Yeah, classifieds here is pretty darned good.
M_V
AlexD
It's certainly making things far more difficult. Despite ebay claiming that we'll pay less fees, the opposite is true for most private sellers. I sold a Thomson post last week for £50 which netted me about 38 after fees and postage. Some guy messaged me asking if I'd sell for £40 and I had to explain that I'd rather keep something I didn't need than make £28 back! But I can see from his point of view £40 still isn't such a bad offer. I'd have happily sold on here for £40.
Don't know if it's covid related but recently I've had zero to very little interest in my ebay items and some really poor offers.
Does anyone know why LFGSS has the rule about not advertising on here and ebay? I appreciate that things don't move as quick on here but taking fees into account I would happily sell most things for 25% less on here knowing I wasn't getting constantly lowballed...