09-29-2009, 05:27 PM
At the same time you are using a forum where your sale can be seen my millions of people and using their resources to make a sale. If you pawn a WWII gun you will only get a few hundred, but if you use eBay you are likely to get $2,500 or whatever. I've also noticed when I try and make sales on Craigslist and various forum classifieds I end up selling it for much less than I'd make on an eBay auction.For instance, I sold my 1987 Mongoose for $335 on eBay... I had it up on various BMX forums/classifieds and only got offers for $200 or so. So, eBay is useful and yeah the fees suck- sometimes it's worth the fee if you absolutely need to get rid of an item. More often than not, it's a sure sale- hard to say that here where I see the same things listed in the classifieds month after month.