Thursday, February 5, 2009

save money buying on eBay

FOR ANYONE WHO EVER BUYS ON EBAY -- listen up!!!

the only thing I regret is that I didn't start doing this sooner...I've saved about $30 total in the last 3 days.

Whatever the buy it now price is (or the minimum bid price), simply send the seller a message and offer to buy the item from them for $5 to $10 less (or more than $10 depending on how expensive the item is). Offer to buy it from them OFF EBAY. In other words, you send them the money directly through paypal, and they remove the item from eBay.

It's win-win. You get a lower price, and they save a hefty eBay final value fee.

Just keep in mind that this is technically forbidden by eBay, but more and more people are doing this now...

Also, only do this with sellers with lots of positive feedbacks. This is 100% trust, because if they decide to not send you your item you technically can't do anything. With reputable sellers this is almost never an issue though.

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