Today I went to post some stuff I cleaned out of closets to sell on eBay. I have previously sold stuff on eBay before. It has been a while since I last sold anything. When I went to post an item, eBay asked for my credit card. What happened to the old way of selling on eBay? You list an item and they take your final value fees out of your eBay account. Now instead of selling one item, eBay wants you to sign up for a monthly subscription to sell your stuff. That’s just greedy, greedy, greedy, trying anything to make a buck. I don’t want a monthly subscription, I just want to sell a couple of items and that’s it. I don’t use eBay very often so it doesn’t make sense for me to sign up for a monthly subscription to sell. As it is I am appalled at eBay’s final value fees. On some items I was looking at selling, they would make more profit than I would. That’s almost giving away my product and walking away with a measly 3% and eBay would end up getting 13.75% not including listing fees. I’m sorry but I think this is just wrong.

I have tried using craigs list, and it’s a great site. I found when dealing with most of the buyers, they are just flaky. I am going to hold off on selling anything until I find a better way.