E-Bay -v- Preloved for selling a good used saddle?

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So which would you use, and why???

Sorry, know this has been done before.

Also; can someone please clarify re. E-bay - as a friend told me that when she sold a saddle on e-bay a lot of money was taken for handling fees, I'm not sure whether this was by E-bay itself OR Pay-Pal. If either Pay Pal and/or E-bay take commission, then about how much/what percentage are we talking about??

So any thoughts/wisdom please??
 
Just to confuse things the Facebook group Saddles for sale and wanted is a very active one with some nice saddles selling pretty regularly

To answer your question I would use Preloved over Ebay as then someone can come and inspect the saddle before taking it away
 
eBay and paypal both take commission. I can't off the top of my head think how much it is. But I know I got fed up of paying so much for the privilege.
I still occasionally put odds and sods on eBay. But I have found preloved or facebook to have got me more money without fees for my items.
 
Ebay will take a proportion of the selling or "final value fee." Check on their website for how much, as it can be around 10% for some items but may vary depending on the category for example.

Only if the buyer pays by PayPal will PayPal also take a cut, again dependant on the final sale price. And with ebay owning PayPal they gain on both!
 
Preloved generally better, but don't forget notice boards in feed merchants or farm stores etc. I've got some bargains on ebay but some junk also. Trouble is you never know exactly what you will get until it arrives in the post and so the price things make on ebay reflects that.
 
EBay charged my friend £75 when she sold her saddle, a fair chunk out of £700! She sold the next on Preloved.
 
I put my second hand Albion on preloved as didnt fancy paying ebay fees! managed to sell it through facebook so cost me nothing apart from the £8 next day delivery courier :-)
 
jumbyjack said:
EBay charged my friend £75 when she sold her saddle, a fair chunk out of £700! She sold the next on Preloved.
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Gosh!!! :( Ouch! But, can I clarify, was this PayPal, or E-Bay itself which levied the charge??? Or do they split the commission? Sorry, am a numpty and need to know how things work before I make a decision.
 
I have bought a saddle on eBay and sold on preloved. With preloved you haven't the same protection so make sure you use PayPal and keep very good communication. I told the guy I was posting it on xday and sent him photos of it packed and boxed securely to cover my arse and give him reassurance. All was good.
 
After a friend had an absolute nightmare with a saddle on eBay - loosing about £400 and getting a saddle back with a broken tree - it looked like it had been bashed with a hammer, buyer rather insistently wanted to "dispose of it" for her - I would never sell a saddle on eBay.
 
Probably depends on how quickly you want it gone.
I sold on Preloved fairly recently but it took a couple of months, which I was happy with. If I wanted a quicker sale I would have tried the ebay route first.
 
E-bay charge around 10% of the sale price, and if you use PayPal there is a charge to the person receiving the money - this is separate to the eBay fee. There is also a small charge for just listing on eBay, even if you don't sell. Preloved doesn't charge anything, and having had the same saddles on both sites, I've had better response through Preloved. I've sold three saddles on there now with no problems (also two cars!).
 
PayPal take the piss these days, they hold the funds for up to 21 days if you don't meet certain rules to qualify s a regular seller, its a joke, they never ever used to do this. I will never use PayPal again!
 
Ebay if you need a quick sale - it's fairly reliable but you do pay a lot in fees. Preloved or Facebook if you have time to wait for a buyer - also Donedeal if you are willing to post to Ireland, the Irish like good second hand saddles. Be very careful on Facebook due to scammers.
 
Ebay has changed over the years and it's so time consuming trying to sell anything that I don't bother any more. I use our local equine forum (NFED) which is fab for selling things.
 
Tinsel Trouble said:
Ebay wanted a lot of money if the reserve was over £300, or if the item was worth more than £300... wasn't worth using them.
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Yeah, this is what I thought and backs up what a friend warned me about with E-Bay......... the saddle I'd be selling is deffo worth more than £300 so looks like its Preloved and/or local Facebook pages then!!!

Thanks everyone.
 
don't forget ebay take fees out of the postage as well, recently sold two saddles and it cost me a fortune, should have solt them on saddles for sale and wanted or preloved and dropped the price as the fees were very high. there is the lsiting fee, a reserve price fee, the ebay comission, the paypal fee and the fee on the postage.
 
Ebay. Sold my dressage saddle in a week for the price that I wanted (taking fees into account as well).

Two months after I sold it I had a couple of messages from preloved!

I've only really bought really cheap saddles from preloved (under £200), I've bought one and sold two via ebay, if spending more than a few hundred quid I prefer the safe guards of ebay.
 
Can you not use a local tack shop? We sold ours through this, took a few weeks, but sold for what we were looking for, and £275 for a pony saddle didn't seem too bad
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