Ebay consignors

luckyman

Do any of you have a consignment business that you use to sell on Ebay? If so, out of curiosity, what percentage of the net proceeds is

reasonable to charge a customer? I have a person asking me to list some coins on Ebay and I don't want to be unfair. It is going to be

very time consuming to go through the lot, evaluate, take photos, and write the listings. Also, on the other end, packaging, shipping, and

doing the final accounting of all of the associated fees between Ebay and Paypal. We are talking about at least 25 listings altogether,

common date stuff, junk silver, etc. , so no "big bucks" involved. Thanks...

jdimmick

If lower dollar value items are invloved then the percentage should be much higher as it literally doesnt take more time to list 25 coins that avg 500.00 then 25 coins that avg 25 bucks. Same work invloved : at a10% fee you get 1250.00 for the first group and 62.50 for the second. literally same amount of work invloved.

On a large collection I did last year I charged 11%, but it as over 40k. I wouldnt touch a small dollar value with similar work for less than 25% (that may seem excessive?) but lots of work listing small dollar value items , shipping hassles, etc'' I just as soon pass.

You also need to work out how your going to handle the E-bay fee structure, returns, and worst case a charge back, etc????

luckyman

Thanks for your response....I am going to quote him 30% of the net after fees, etc. ... you are so right about the time involved regardless

of the dollar amount of the item. I also will wait until all has been received by the buyers with a positive feedback before I will consider the

transactions complete. That way, any problems or chargebacks don't bite me and I have to chase after him to recoup some money paid out

prematurely. This will give me a good idea and be a good test as to whether I want to get involved in other potential consignment deals..

dthigpen

20% after fees is fair and competitive.

Tiny

20 % does sound fair to me but it can also depend on who is asking you
to do it.

Family pays more,

20 % for Joe the Plumber,

Good Friends
and Grand Children free is the best way.