I thought I would chime in on this thread with the talk about the cost he and any other seller that offers titles for sale that people would think is high or unreasonable. Selling on Ebay is not easy especially dealing with cry babies who wants everything for nothing so they can either resell it to make the profit or collector's who do not have the finances to be in this hobby. First of all, the time and money it takes to purchase titles to offer to the public, the time to photograph hundreds or thousands of titles and crop each picture to be suitable for presentation, ebay charges roughly $50 or more each month to have a store there and then charges 5 cents per title to list them, then if it sells, they take additional 12-15 percent when a seller has it for sale using the Buy It Now as a purchase format (auction format they take 9 percent)plus also additional 12-15 percent if there is any shipping fees, then there is the cost of materials that are used to ship that precious title so it doesn't get damaged. Also Paypal takes 3 percent of total sale price including shipping cost or 4 percent if shipped international. Then there is the everyday usage that most people do not think of, like computer cost with wear and tear, electricity, etc... it all adds up. It is so easy being a buyer that people tend to forget what it takes to sell something and high expectations of titles being perfect even if they are described right. Sure, I've seen prices for very common titles that were higher than normal, but that just goes with the territory.

I am a small time seller, or I think I am and last year I hit 7k in ebay fees after postage (I have fee on my discs) and the ebay fees and paypal fees were added. I think paypal was right around 1000, my postage was 3000 and my ebay was 3000, ok 7k total. That was my operating fee. Oh, and may of my discs are the only ones on ebay. I do price by condition and use the mint price as a guide. Yes, I did say 7k in fees. Almost all of which my customers shouldered somewhat. I do not lower the price of some of my discs. Exactly how many copies of Return of the Living Dead 3 are for sale right now? Lol, anyway, I dont mind the fees, it is price of doing business.

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20 bucks for jurassic park is a steal Really, however, you dont have to buy it.

I guess you could say that or close to it, there is a lot more involved in that number but yeah, dont forget paypal, 1k, postage was another 2k or 3k in costs and ebay was right around 4k or so. That was grand total of costs just on ebay. But as I said, I dont know if that counts me as a small time seller or a bigger one. I dont know I just run everything out of my house.

Strange, they seemed pretty decent to me. Wonder why that is. I mean I get lowball offers all the time and always take time to respond nicely.

From what I've all bought, quite a few sellers do not realize we can be charged customs fees on top of what the item cost us. I think the USA allowed free limit is 200.00 worth. (correct me if I'm wrong) In Canada here were allowed only 20.00 worth free of customs, and it doesn't take much to get over 20 bucks on a disc, which makes things alot more expensive for us. And if we do have customs to pay, we have a 8.50 handling charge to cover the cost of them collecting the fees. (as I expect the UK has a handling charge too)

So you got to be a die-hard collector