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    Best Non-Ebay Auction Sites?

    As Ebay is becoming more and more of a pain to deal with and sell on, I'm looking for other options.

    This actually is horse related. I had an entire year of Blood Horse to list, and their stupid form won't let you charge more than $4 for anything media related. $4 to ship an entire year of Blood Horse is insane. It did allege itself to have options for special shipping, but although I could calculate it out fine on their calculator, it would never "import" those figures to the auction. When I fought through help and browse menus to FINALLY get to the "contact a person" option, which you almost needed Sherpa teams and supplies to finally arrive at, and I asked about the problems with their shipping calculator, gave exact description of my process, and asked if I was missing something somewhere to get it to upload those shipping figures into the listing (even though I was following the instructions on the calculator to the letter and tried following them multiple times), it took nearly 2 weeks for Ebay to respond, and then the responder obviously had not really read my question, as he simply said that the way to get past $4 limit on shipping was to use the shipping calculator. Um, I figured that out long since. They did at least send me a feedback survey 2 days later asking me to rate their performance on answering my question. I certainly did.

    Anyway, that was the last straw. I'm getting tired of all their new regulations that are mandatory, such as you can't accept checks, you can't go over $4 shipping on books, etc., and their sales form gets more and more unfriendly. I want to determine what is appropriate shipping, and if the bidder disagrees, he/she can either abstain from bidding or contact me for further details. I also would like to have the various payment options I offer bidders be my own choice, not predetermined by a dictatorship. I've always offered Paypal, but some people don't like it either (I believe they are owned by Ebay, what a coincidence), and if a buyer wants to pay by check and wait for it to clear, that should be that buyer's choice.

    So for present and future horsey items and other items, also, who is Ebay's best competition?
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    It's not huge but it couldn't hurt to try Bits and Barter - all ads are free, no "auction" nonsense to deal with. You set the terms and handle it.
    <>< Sorrow Looks Back. Worry Looks Around. Faith Looks Up! -- Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

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    • #3
      Not an auction site, but... tacktrader.com. You could also try Craigs List.

      Despite all of eBays rules, etc. it offers the best visability of any of the sites out there.

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        Per USPS regs, if Bloodhorse magazine contains advertisements, you can't ship them media mail. They'd have to go 1st class (13 oz and under), Parcel Post or Priority.

        USPS does offer several sizes of flat-rate Priority boxes that might work and be cheaper than regular Priority:
        Priority Mail Medium Flat Rate Box (FRB1) - $10.35 (11" x 8-1/2" x 5-1/2")
        Priority Mail Large Flat Rate Box - $13.95 - (12" x 12" x 5-1/2")

        USPS Priority boxes are free. You can pick them up at your post office (depending upon what sizes they stock) or order them directly from the USPS website: www.usps.com

        Or just do what others have suggested and go with a horse-related classified site or Craigslist rather than hassle with eBay.
        Equus Keepus Brokus

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          Craigslist has it's ups and downs. I've noticed that by and large, the people who use it tend to really want to lowball you on everything. If you are asking $4 for something, they want it for .50 cents.
          The upside is it's free.
          I think Amazon.com had a book selling section, but the fee structure is probably like fleabay's. In New England, there is equinesite.com, I've had some good luck over there too.
          Let us know if you find any other good horse stuff sites.

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          • #6
            You can try a Yahoo Group:

            http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/UsedHorseStuff/

            Free and horse-related.

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              Originally posted by dressagetraks View Post
              I want to determine what is appropriate shipping, and if the bidder disagrees, he/she can either abstain from bidding or contact me for further details.
              I think Ebay took more control of this because, overwhelmingly, the main complaint of buyers is that they were getting hosed on the shipping costs.

              If I were you, I'd take my stack of magazines, go to FedEx and check how much it would cost to ship it via FedEx Ground to: LA, Denver, and NYC. Then go ahead and list it on Ebay, but publish those three ballpark numbers in your description, with a statement that the shipping calculator may not be accurate and you would be happy to supply exact shipping charge numbers (in advance) to anyone who emails you with their zip code.

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