Anyone here sold broken electronics (or comics) on ebay?

[Arkitech]

I have a room full of old electronics I plan on selling. I'm looking to price it cheap to get rid of it quickly as I'm clearing out space. I have everything from servers to tablets to TVs and monitors. Some if it is only good for parts, but other items are working.

I'm just curious if someone else here is doing something similar and if they could pass on some useful information on selling items of this type. I've sold quite a bit of merchandise on eBay over the years, but electronics has never been one of them. So thanks for any useful tips or information.


Edit: I'm also getting rid of reams and reams of comics, nothing vintage but titles back from mainly the early 2000s. I'm thinking of just looking for those couple of issues that will fetch a high price and listing them individually. The rest I'll probably just sell off in whatever runs I have available. Any feed back from comic sellers (or buyers) would be appreciated.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

I sold broken electronics on Craigslist. Got plenty good money.

 

[Elixer]

Selling stuff on fleabay? Don't do it. You will regret it.
Why? The buyer can claim any number of reasons to "dispute" what you sold them, and you are then basically screwed. There has been a few topics here in this forum section about it.

Craiglist can be OK, as long as you do it in a public place, and only accept cash, and yes, people try to pass off counterfeit money as well.

 

[zinfamous]

Good question. I want to sell an old Onkyo 7.1 reciever that I've been holding onto for some time--pretty sure the power supply went out, but that's it. It's the 615 or some such that was really popular at one time...but no idea what price point to go with for a repair/parts offering on something like that.

I've still never Craigslisted in a public place, before. Sounds like so many people live in sketchy places or are just paranoid? :hmm:

 

[rudeguy]

I have.

It's such a pain now. You can list all defects but still get returns because people don't read. Then you start losing money and all kinds of time. I gave up on ebay even though I was at $20k/month in sales. It just wasn't worth it.

 

[HeXen]

I don't sell. I just buy.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

I have.

It's such a pain now. You can list all defects but still get returns because people don't read. Then you start losing money and all kinds of time. I gave up on ebay even though I was at $20k/month in sales. It just wasn't worth it.

I'm at the same point with eBay. They have so thoroughly hamstringed sellers, and buyers know this fact, that it's not worth it anymore. It seems every other buyer these days are making some sort of complaint. Most are looking to have some money knocked off the final price. I won't have it. Have an issue with the item? Return it. For the vast majority when I tell them to return the item I never hear from them again.

Maybe when they have no more people willing to sell on their site eBay will get a clue and understand that kissing the buyer's ass and constantly shitting on sellers wasn't the best business model. C'mon eBay. Wake TF up. You don't make money off of your buyers, you make your money from sellers. Stop being so moronically stupid.

 

[zinfamous]

I have.

It's such a pain now. You can list all defects but still get returns because people don't read. Then you start losing money and all kinds of time. I gave up on ebay even though I was at $20k/month in sales. It just wasn't worth it.

you gave up on $20k/month?

:hmm:

 

[waggy]

I have sold comics on ebay. I won't do it again.

I been collecting comics for 30 odd years. My good friend owned a comic shop so i would get a bunch every week (damn near every Marvel). I still have boxes full in my closet. Yet i won't try ebay again

its not worth it. they never get high enough to make it worth it.

on a side note i have baught a bunch of comics off ebay...

 

[velillen]

I sold a few electronics there. Had one guy try the "buyer is right" crap and gave up on it after that. It was for a motherboard. I had literally just gutted my old pc so knew it was all working. Guy got it and complained it wasnt working. Sent me a ebay message about it on a saturday. I was camping for the weekend. He sent me like 10 messages each one calling me a scammer and this and that. Well sunday night i got home and read them and simply responded with a i was out of town and would gladly help him since it was working when i mailed it. Like 10 minutes later he filed a claim.

i had no refund or returns in my ad as well as sold as is. Ebay didnt give a crap. Luckily they made the guy ship it back to me. But still i was out 15 bucks on the shipping me to him. Once i got it back i put the cpu and gpu back in and viola it fired right up. Took a picture with the guys messages so he knew it was real. He never responded and ebay never did either.


I do buy stuff on there all the time though. Can get lots of cheap stuff

 

[angminas]

If you're selling broken stuff, I'd tape a note to each item saying "BROKEN, NON-FUNCTIONAL, AS IS". Should reduce the odds of getting stalked and shanked.

 

[bbhaag]

you gave up on $20k/month?

:hmm:

He gave up on 20k/month in sales. Depending on his margin it might not be as much as it sounds. Optimistically he might be taking home 10% of that which is what 2k? That's ok money but not great.

 

[chin311]

If you're selling broken stuff, I'd tape a note to each item saying "BROKEN, NON-FUNCTIONAL, AS IS". Should reduce the odds of getting stalked and shanked.

Pretty much, I've sold probably 50+ 'broken' or partially working laptops on eBay with only one PayPal dispute (which I won because of how I listed).

I always list as "parts or not working" and say "nothing has been tested or guaranteed to work, sold as is no returns"

Usually the stuff I list i could never sell locally and got no cost to me, nothing to lose!