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Does Ebay allow this?

mealewormmealeworm Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭
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22.5% buyers premium!!!

Dave
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1957 Topps 99% 7.40 GPA
Hank Aaron Basic PSA 7-8(75%)

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  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
    You can for live auctions.
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    ouch 22.5 % of the final price, that be chunck of change right there for some hi priced stuff ,ive never bid on a live one, guess i know why now!
    randy
  • chbchb Posts: 212 ✭
    I've seen this Buyer's Premium alot but never understood exactly what the heck it is--seems like a punishment for winning image Can someone enlighten me as to the rationale behind this?

    (And why does the "confused" icon above look like someone whose Lasik surgery went terribly wrong--one eye looking up & the other down. Looks more painful than confused).
  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    just a guess on my part, but id say the $ is forked over to the auction house that is putting it up?
    randy
  • jojowestjojowest Posts: 102
    Don't know about the buyer's premium but the bottom left corner looks bad for an 8.
  • vintagetoppsguyvintagetoppsguy Posts: 871


    << <i>Don't know about the buyer's premium but the bottom left corner looks bad for an 8. >>




    That's what I was thinking. The bottom right doesn't look much better!
  • earlycalguyearlycalguy Posts: 1,247 ✭✭
    premium goes to the auction house. auction house is probably doing a live floor auction at the same time (and phone bidding, web page bidding, morse code bidding, etc) where bidders are paying 18% range so they charge extra on ebay to cover the ebay fees.

    people complain about ebay and paypal fees but I think they are a bargain compared to what else is out there.
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