deskthority

FREE on-line second-hand/auction sites !

Do you know any ?
What I mean is : In your Europe-country,
do you have a(ny) national sales-site(s) for private trading of pre-owned items ?

We do in Denmark, listing is FREE !
10 pictures HOSTED ? It's FREE !!
10% final-value fee ? IT'S FREE !!!
'Person2person' bank-transfers allowed ? Yes, and IT'S FREE !!!!

And it's owned by eBay !!

We have marktplaats.nl in the Netherlands, which is mostly free except I think for categories like cars and "professional" categories where the seller has to pay a small charge. Ebay.nl never happened (it exists but not much more) because marktplaats was already established, dominated the market and crushed them, so ebay bought it. Which was kinda funny, because marktplaats was launched by a chain of second-hand goods stores operated by hippies. Those hippies became multi millionaires. Ebay introduced paypal on markplaats but I think most people still use free bank transfers or cash in case of pickup.

Those hippies became multi millionaires.
Ebay introduced paypal on markplaats but I think most people still use free bank transfers or cash in case of pickup.

I love when hippies become multimillionaires on their dreams
Now that you mention paypal :
It is really the main-problem with selling on eBay,
the way you 'loose money' on both listing the item and receiving the payment for it .
But with the new Euro-bank transfer rules .. We don't need paypall, do we ?

In France you have leboncoin

By the way, I do not find we lose money when using eBay or PayPal. We take advantage of a useful service, and I see no reason why it should be offered for free.

kbdfr wrote:In France you have leboncoin

By the way, I do not find we lose money when using eBay or PayPal. We take advantage of a useful service, and I see no reason why it should be offered for free.

That's why I wrote 'loose money' in ' '
Obviously, eBay gives almost Global exposure,
it's like having your own window at Macy's, just better .

But it does come at a price, and if you can't offer competitive shipping-prices, that price often eats your 'profit' .
eBay/Paypal, they never really risk anything, do they ?

In Germany there is:
www.hood.de which is basically like ebay, but without the horrific fees and much less people
and www.kleinanzeigen.ebay.de but this is more fitted towards local pickup

Mein Gott. The Fujitsu Peerless.
http://www.hood.de/auction/46412160/tas ... 0-t103.htm
A bit overpriced.

Here in norway we have qxl.no and finn.no
the "giveaway-section" is free to list tings in.

Paid: www.finn.no/torget
Giveaway: http://www.finn.no/finn/torget/gisbort/resultat