My Ebay account is roughly 3 months older than your FR account.
I’ve got around 140 feedbacks despite around 1000 auctions.
Ebay sucks balls.
It eats 10% of your sales and paypal eats another 3 to 4% depending on domestic or international credit cards. Yes, you will pay paypal fees for international cards even though you only ship to the US. Eat it loser as that’s you’re only option.
So Ebay is valuable to dispose of shit that really has no value, otherwise you’d never sell it there.
I have around $30k in sales on Feebay over the past 18 years, every bit of it is for items that I wouldn’t lose any sleep over if someone ripped me off. Believe me, I’ve had any number of scams run on me on Ebay. Most of them involve charges that are marked fraudulent after you’ve shipped. Be prepared to pay to get your item re-directed or just realize you’ve lost it.
That said, out of around 1000 auctions, I’ve had issues with maybe 30. Of those, I’ve paid extra around 10 times to get the item not delivered. Yes, I’m willing to eat the cost so a scammer doesn’t get my item. I hate thieves.
on Ebay I used to buy guitar effects pedal lots and sell them piecemeal. Did around 75 transactions. Never made any money because I’d buy a lot just to keep one pedal from it.
Built a nice effects board that way. After I unloaded all the excess pedals and broke even I gave it up. The hassle of shipping wasn’t worth it.