Advice Please: Ebay experiences vs Craigslist, etc...

[mcroft]

So, we've never sold anything on ebay, but we have stuff we want to get rid of. I know that a number of you are frequent ebay sellers, so I want to know how well it works...

The stuff is electronics gear: a DVD burner we don't use, an older iPod, a portable DVD/iPod doc and (eventually) my desktop computer (a G5 tower).

Questions wrt ebay:
1: how much do the nickel-and-dime add-ons (pictures, etc) actually help?
2: Is paypal as big a deal as they want to tell me it is?
3: Have you had bad experiences with buyers?
4: Is it better to price the item low to assure it sells or re-list it if it doesn't?
5: How well does it work for big-ticket vs. cheap stuff?
6: Do you ship to Canada?

Questions wrt craigslist:
1: Is it better than ebay?
2: why?

Comments

[kodi]

Yeah, I think that's my biggest problem with craigslist - there's no way to know if the person you're selling to has read and understood what you actually wrote until it becomes apparent that they haven't, and on craigslist that just means you've got an unhappy confused dude to deal with. On ebay, people tend to read more carefully because it's more important to the transaction.