I put up an ad on Ebay and have to keep renewing it at a fee if I remember right.  I am in the same boat with a ton of parts from my  67 Impala but never seem to get the initiative to post the items.

 

I have taken the photos to support the ads but no ambition to sit for a few days posting.   Can you sign up as a store and post everything in one location under your *store*

 

I have had success with Kijji with selling some household items after the sale of my daughters house.  All transactions were without haggling and customer paid the asking price. 

Cliff 

Carl is correct on the fees .

I still sell some excess parts on eBay, but it is slowing down more and more each year . I've never been scammed , and everything I ship is tracked and never lost a package .

You really can't ignore the size of the USA market , as that is where the buyers are .... (99% of my buyers are USA based , and very , very little from Canada).

Also , right now . the US $ exchange is in our favor , which translates into more CDN $ for you and even covers the fees and some of the postage too.

In my opinion , Kijiji is a real waste of time .

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Carl Stevenson wrote:

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I quit selling there a few years back. I never got burned but there's a couple of reasons why I quit.

1) The fees. Between Paypal and ebay fees, prepare to give up somewhere in the area of 13%-17% if I remember right.

2) No recourse as the seller. The worst feedback you can leave if you get scammed is a neutral. The buyer can leave you a negative, claim he never got his parcel and ebay will side with him every time. They will claw back his money from you and you are left with no item, no money, negative feedback plus you are out the cost of shipping it. I love Kijiji and forums, it's worked great for me.

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Carl I just sold something on ebay and the buyer said that he never got the package from me.  When the buyer complained Ebay sided with me because I had a used tracking and it showed the package was delivered.  Ebay also blocked him from providing any feedback. (So that is opposite to your experience)   

Before Ebay sided with me I decided to pit a claim into Canada Post (I always use the Post Office to ship parts).  Canada Post spoke to the buyer, the buyer told Canada Post that he did not receive the parcel......and for what ever reason Canada Post paid out the claim. That really shocked me, I would have bet money that claim would not have been approved.  I have the cheque at home, I need to cash it next week and then I will reimburse the buyer.

I just had to share this since it just occurred and it was totally opposite your experience.

Frank 

Tried to sell on Ebay a couple of times...stuff never sold,but I was still charged a fee from ebay? So I listed parts that never sold and still had to pay Ebay for the listing and lost money! Have never listed since. I might be doing something wrong but can't see why I'd pay a fee if something doesn't sell?

tburgGM wrote:

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Carl Stevenson wrote:

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I quit selling there a few years back. I never got burned but there's a couple of reasons why I quit.

1) The fees. Between Paypal and ebay fees, prepare to give up somewhere in the area of 13%-17% if I remember right.

2) No recourse as the seller. The worst feedback you can leave if you get scammed is a neutral. The buyer can leave you a negative, claim he never got his parcel and ebay will side with him every time. They will claw back his money from you and you are left with no item, no money, negative feedback plus you are out the cost of shipping it. I love Kijiji and forums, it's worked great for me.

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Carl I just sold something on ebay and the buyer said that he never got the package from me.  When the buyer complained Ebay sided with me because I had a used tracking and it showed the package was delivered.  Ebay also blocked him from providing any feedback. (So that is opposite to your experience)   

Before Ebay sided with me I decided to pit a claim into Canada Post (I always use the Post Office to ship parts).  Canada Post spoke to the buyer, the buyer told Canada Post that he did not receive the parcel......and for what ever reason Canada Post paid out the claim. That really shocked me, I would have bet money that claim would not have been approved.  I have the cheque at home, I need to cash it next week and then I will reimburse the buyer.

I just had to share this since it just occurred and it was totally opposite your experience.

Frank 

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 Yes, ALWAYS get tracking!

I have bought and sold loads of of items on eBay, Kijiji, Craigs list and had great success. I list on eBay an item in US funds what I want it for in Canadian it sells and the exchange cancels out the fee and three parties are happy. I have had minor problems though but they all worked out well.

One example, a fellow from Chile bought a pair of Deluxe emblems and a horn button for a 65 Beaumont he was trying to restore. He wanted to buy more items I had but could only afford the two items. I mailed them without tracking because international tracking is really expensive. The next day I figured I would pay it forward and send packaged up a Beaumont fender scrip and a pair of door panel emblems and threw in a Beaumont ad I had for free and sent them down the next day. About two weeks later I get an email from him stating I sent him the wrong package and he did not get what he paid for. I asked him to tell me what he got and it was the contents of the second package, the first one never made it. I informed him that I will refund him the monies and not to worry it will be covered. He suggested that we wait till the shipping due date arrives and go from there. The date came and still no package, I immediately issued a refund and the fellow sent back the funds with a note stating that because I was so generous with the second package that I keep the money. He was just pleased to get a few more pieces for his car.

Two and half months later I get an email from him, to both our surprise the first package finally showed up. I guess the Chile mail system is the same as ours.

I haven't done it yet but I'm thinking about doing so for the stuff I have that is likely to find a market in the US. You can't beat the current exchange rate benefit; maybe I can use it to offset the cost of some of the things I have to buy from the US now for my projects.