6/16/2023 0 Comments Reverb lp recordsThe website will offer record stores, collectors, and music fans an easier and more cost-efficient option for buying and selling records and other physical music formats online. Not bad if your up for the recently announced that its new record marketplace Reverb LP is now in open beta. Oh well, we’ve got discogs and the classifieds here as alternates. I’d hate to have to live on less than minimum wage like many eBay sellers do. This is fine but I’d never depend on it to pay the bills.ĮBay is now just a way to meet buyers whom you can harvest to your other venues for additional sales outside of eBay. It’s fine - I’ll list at the price I want and hold out until I get my price. I’ve just gone back to eBay selling after a 8 or 9 year layoff. ![]() So those 50 free listings per month are the way to go for sure. Or start the item higher and pay a higher fee just to list. It got really bad where you had to pay to list and risk your item selling at a big loss. I saw a few still sealed LPs I had go for peanuts on eBay. Then the sellers who remain on eBay don’t see the traffic that they once did and it’s a domino effect. ![]() The buyers no longer seeing the nice deals and so they’ve moved on to some degree. And raised their fees to the point of sellers having to raise their prices to cover the higher fees. ![]() Now dead.Ĭlick to expand.Yes but eBay has lost so many sellers to other venues. They HAD to allow regular airmail shipping like discogs does. They cleverly reduced their site to a totally US-centric model at precisely the time they should've been pouncing on the potential worldwide market share opened up by discogs unveiling their July 1st plan to roger everyone silly with their dumbo US state tax collection scam. Guessed they liked having nice cheap Japanese pressings as window dressing to lure in the punters. Pleaded with the staff to please remove my shop from their listings but they refused. Reverb did eventually "clear the funds" I was owed but it couldve been down purely to the luck of selling to honest buyers. And elite-priced $22 shipping for 1 record seems a near-certain sayonara to 90% of potential sales.Īfter that ONE DAY selling I put the whole store on permanent vacation mode. Yeah, but Reverb doesnt provide the customer with any other shipping option besides that incredibly pricey default one. "Uh, just add trackable shipping" says helpful Reverb sales guy. Bummer, I'll have to email reverb seller and tell him the records didnt arrive." Although wow man, things are kind of tight here moneywise this month. " Yay, my records arrived today, better pay the seller. Which, for us non-US sellers, instantly reduces the whole marketplace to some sort of customer honesty system. Newsflash Reverb Japan Post airmail, $10 worldwide and highly goddamn reliable, does not have tracking numbers. "You need to provide tracking number to trigger payment funds release" or something. and was not paid a single dime by any customer. Quickly made a couple of sales, $200 in first day, wow, this place is gonna be great, screw discogs, Reverb is where it's at! Shipped the records off same day. Signed up last June in the week of the discogs US tax kerfuffle doom and gloom, imported entire discogs 2,000+ inventory, which commendably was wildly simple. That mental site did my head in for the ONE STUPID DAY I was selling on there.
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