eBay’s long-in-development plan to offer free classified listings for items with local pickup finally kicks off today. If you’ve been thinking of a garage clean-out, now might be the time.
As we’ve pointed out before, the “free” requirements comes with a major qualification: the final value fee is assessed at 7.9%, not eBay’s normal 5.25%. In practice, that means a listing will likely cost you more if you do sell something, but you won’t have any up-front risk. If you’re just keen to get rid of old stuff and see it reused, Freecycle is another sensible option to consider.
Scott
Thursday, July 8, 2010 at 9:30 AMSounds like the final nail in the coffin of the Trading Post to me.
Willem Tay
Thursday, July 8, 2010 at 12:38 PMI dont know scott, the eBay fees can be fairly high and I wont use it to sell anymore because of it.
You are probably better off selling on Gumtree, which is actually free.
WSorich
Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 11:37 PMI would recommend and try http://www.yoink.com/ its much better thought out than freecycle.