ABCs of XBOX on eBay

[Caspar]

I thought I'd share my recent expereince with you guys...

I have now sold my Ghost Recon and Unreal Championship XBOX games, on ebay!

What I did:
I started GR at £8.99 (this was the price that GameStation offered me. So I thought that if someone at least matched thay I would be happy.)

I started UC at £7.99, based purely that I prefer GR!

I set each as no reserve, making sure I put that in the title text

I set the delivery (buyer pays) at £1.90. Most people charge £2.00, so a slight undercut might win you a bid ...and what's 10p!!!!

Duration was set as 7 day sale.


What I got:are you reading this Boom!

GR closed at: £20.90

UC closed at: £18.90

both with about 10 bids, most of them came in the closing hours.

Actual delivery was £1.39 each (£2.78 total)


Totals
Sold for £39.80
Minus delivery £2.78
Minus Paypal and ebay charges £2.00

Profit is £35.02

more than enough for a new game...for the price of two old games...that I play:no-more. Also GR I played for a good 6 months, solid...and to get back 50% is amazing


Caspar
your for-profit-friendly ghost!

[Boom]

You lucky git! Nice 1. Got payment for my other GR, so I no longer have GR as of today.

[Caspar]

p.s. I'm actually really gutted by the fact that I sold a load of games to GameStation a month ago!..I could of 'potentially' got double online!!!!

food for thought...go on clear them old games out!

[Boom]

Note: GR will seriously drop in value when GR : IT comes out.

[Caspar]

Originally posted by Boom
You lucky git! Nice 1. Got payment for my other GR, so I no longer have GR as of today.

Payments for both of mine we pratically instant.... both emailed me asking when it could be delivered...so to secure some decent feedback I emailed them a posh email

...I've been looking around my games now seeing what else I can sell!!!!

[Caspar]

Originally posted by Boom
Note: GR will seriously drop in value when GR : IT comes out.

true.....I'm just hoping we don't need the orignal disc to play IT!!!!

[Boom]

I'm certain we won't.

Originally posted by Caspar
true.....I'm just hoping we don't need the orignal disc to play IT!!!!

[scotsbraveheart]

with play.com selling island thunder at £14.99 imagine the profit that could be made selling them on ebay

could be on my way to my 1st million

[Caspar]

Originally posted by scotsbraveheart
with play.com selling island thunder at £14.99 imagine the profit that could be made selling them on ebay

could be on my way to my 1st million

1st million !!!

...bloody hell catch up pal!

[nh3com]

went into gamestation last month and got £20 for unreal 2k3. the only problem was that i hadn't put the ut2k3 cd into the case and had put the xbox live starter cd in by mistake. oops

[Boom]

They didn't look?

Where's this gamestation? I think I have a few "games" too unload!

Originally posted by nh3com
went into gamestation last month and got £20 for unreal 2k3. the only problem was that i hadn't put the ut2k3 cd into the case and had put the xbox live starter cd in by mistake. oops

[Mantrid]

How does the payment process work on Ebay?

Did you send the games in the post after receiving payment or what?

Does it all work on trust?

[Boom]

It's all based on trust. Generally you can't go wrong buying or selling to someone who has some good feedback. Generally the trust has to go to the seller, since he/she won't send the item until payment has been processed either by cheque, postal order, banker's draft, paypal, credit card over the phone, etc. (payment is specified in the listed item).

So I received a cheque for one item I sold and waited the requisite 5 working days until it cleared and then sent the item. I've yet to encounter a problem, though 1 item I bought I had to wait an extra few days beyond payment being processed.

Originally posted by Mantrid
How does the payment process work on Ebay?

Did you send the games in the post after receiving payment or what?

Does it all work on trust?

[TigaSefi]

I successfully sold games on Ebay for near the full price I paid for them lol. It is wicked.

[Boom]

One word of caution though. Don't buy any high value item on Ebay unless you use an escrow or you have complete confidence in the sale. I remember reading this one Yanks account of tracking down a Mac or a Mac laptop he bought on Ebay, paid for, and never received the item. He went through all sorts of sh*t to track the seller down, got the police involved, and eventaully caught the guy. Though I don't think he ever got his Mac or his money back. Shows you what buying a Mac can do to you!

Mind you I bought a new Plasma on Ebay! Not really though, I phoned up the buyer and agreed to meet them at their offices in North London to pay for the item and pick it up. Not risking +£4K on the word of person over the internet.