For anyone
curious, I ended up selling a lot of five amiibo (Lucario, Ike, King
Dedede, Sonic, Mega Man) on eBay for $140 as a best offer. I had
multiple offers but the guy who ultimately won out was willing to
negotiate and pay straight up. So this is why there's no real money in
these amiibo scalpers...
$140.00 gross sale.
$14.00 eBay fee (10%) but no listing fee as I don't sell near enough to expend my free supply.
$5.76 PayPal fee (2.9% + $0.30) and an additional 1% currency
conversion fee (that I get - which is a little douchey for that dude)
due to the buyer being in Mexico although they have a US address.
$11.39 shipping (Priority was actually going to be over $40 due to dimensional weight - insane this year).
$108.85 net sale. Wow David, that's a lot of money! No, no, wait a minute...
Now factor in the cost of the amiibos, which was only as low as it was due to a total sale coupon and membership points coupon, at $53.78.
$55.07 profit. All that legwork for $50.
Without the coupons and discounts I had, it would have been $34.57 profit.
Granted, it's kind of like $50 for nothing, and I understand it's all about small margin - that's how all my eBay sales have been this year and in essence is my extra cash plan for 2015 - but it equates to $10 extra per figure - $7 per if I didn't have the savings at point of sale.
...and I get called a scalper sometimes.
Alternatively, I was able to snag an extra Lucario and Ike for a forum member. I sold them for $40, which means I made $8 on those two after fees and shipping and that's only because I had a 15% off coupon at point of sale - $4 bucks per figure. I guess you HAVE to sell hundreds upon hundreds of these on eBay to make any money.
Now factor in the cost of the amiibos, which was only as low as it was due to a total sale coupon and membership points coupon, at $53.78.
$55.07 profit. All that legwork for $50.
Without the coupons and discounts I had, it would have been $34.57 profit.
Granted, it's kind of like $50 for nothing, and I understand it's all about small margin - that's how all my eBay sales have been this year and in essence is my extra cash plan for 2015 - but it equates to $10 extra per figure - $7 per if I didn't have the savings at point of sale.
...and I get called a scalper sometimes.
Alternatively, I was able to snag an extra Lucario and Ike for a forum member. I sold them for $40, which means I made $8 on those two after fees and shipping and that's only because I had a 15% off coupon at point of sale - $4 bucks per figure. I guess you HAVE to sell hundreds upon hundreds of these on eBay to make any money.
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