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Hey i try to sell BTC at Ebay and when i try to post a selling they write me that:

You can not submit your listing due to the following problemsIt appears you are listing virtual currency such as Bitcoin, Litecoin or another type of cryptocurrency. Under our Currency Policy, these items, whether digitally or physically delivered, must be listed in the Coins & Paper Money>Virtual Currency> Currency Category in the Classified Ad format only. Listings for these items outside that category are not permitted and will be removed.Thanks for your attention to this matter.

when i change the category to virtual i see that i need to pay to ebay 9.5$ at least, Something here does not make sense because if it really costs like an ad so why people would sell a small amount of coins in one ad?
someone try to sell there coins?

ebay has always been a ripoff. What do you expect?

because your classified ad for 9.5 or whatever usd last for 30 days. You could sell .0001 btc or .100 or .40 and sell it many times. Ie: I make one listing for .50 btc and I sell many coins say 30 orders for that. I only paid 9.5 usd minus ebay fees on sold trade minus exchange fee. Ebay makes more money than regular ad considering if you just sold 1, or 0, and really doesn't know if you have sold 50 or 1 or whatever. They make more each listing than regular ad cost. Also its a deterrent to sell cryptos on there which they are not really favorable to do (no buyer protection even if you have proof, they act like they can't read as far as blockchain info or whatever).

Your likely to get chargebacks and the sort if you list on ebay

Beware selling bitcoins in ebay. You will get ripoff in no time from chargebacks. Their listing fee is very high because the product is high risk.

This is not a good idea as manny people have tried this with the result that people got scammed.

try kijiji

It's because scammers use eBay to buy Bitcoins using hacked accounts

Thank you for all suggestion

Ebay comes out ahead in these deals.

They charge you a pumped up fee and they know you will eventually lose all of your money to PayPal anyway.

And they own PayPal.

Lol nice racket aint it?

Be careful: paypal chargeback!

Not a good a idea to sell bitcoins on ebay or anything that deals with paypal. After they received your bitcoins they simply chargeback and say they were hacked. And paypal will reversed the funds and you can not dispute it.

Ebay is a scam for sellers. 10% sale fee plus paypal fees it,s a rip off. Then you can get charged back to boot.

ebay is too expensive

Can we sell btc in ebay now?

Ebay is the last place on earth you should sell BTC  ;D

How to sell on ebay?

Dont!

I would be carefull with ebay. it may seem like you can sell off your coins for 1.5x the value but in reality its going to be a lot of hassle with a chance of getting scammed or funds locked up on paypal and such.

dont take the risk with ebay and selling bitcoins there.

yeah, it is the same with paysafecards. They sell for 2x the facevalue, but 99.9% of the buyers try to scam u with stolen ebay/pp accounts.

you want to use an exchange such as bitstamp or ours LakeBTC.com

I tried selling dogecoin on ebay. The listing was up for about a week. I never made any sales, and ebay eventually deleted my listing, saying it was miscategorized (I gues I didn't put it in the "virtual" category). I saw other dogecoin sellers claim that they were selling a "penny" and that the dogecoins came along with the penny. These sellers were actually shipping a real penny to the buyers. I guess it worked for them, but seems silly.

yeah.. not a good idea :S

That penny trick is just so that you can prove that you send something. In the end you are at paypal/ebays final decision, and in the past they are not very crypto friendly. Also 8-10% fees is just ridiculous for digital currency, but that is another story...

Well sell them a starter set comes with a CD guide and all the things you need to know about the currency
Then you can probably set a 2000-3000% premium on it

not a good idea because at last you are dealing with paypal and it can be charged back ..

I am sure there are ways that work with a higher probability than just sending coins, but I don't get why anyone would wanna do that. Just use an exchange or localbtc

Well it targets the people who don't really understand crytocurrency and need the help setting up more than anything else
The ones with more knowledge will usually start off on an exchange or localbtc as you pointed out

I suggest selling low amounts and maybe u will buyers who you can befriend after you get there email address and tell them you will give disocunt if they buy from you in the future without ebay,  It will be good if you start up a website.  tell them they can bitcoins even safer with moneypak

I tried it, got a chargeback, took ebay many months to side with the buyer (stolen credit card apparently). Buyer even left me positive feedback!! I had snapshots of all the mails she sent, the account number she gave, and the movement through the blockchain. To cut to the chase, I ended up with paypal in debit and ebay fees which I refused to pay.

So they closed my account.

Never try that again.

agreed. the best way to selling/buying BTC is localbitcoins.com - advise you to use it.

second that never had any problems with localbitcoins

I made many transaction successfully in localbitcoins, you can use local bitcoins, they are good and very fast

and what did you expact? Ebay os against selling Bitcoin, Litecoin or another type of cryptocurrency

try use an exchange like ours, LakeBTC.com

Bitcoins will be sold only to "Verified" PayPal accounts through verify the buyer's emails on Paypal and eBay and they have to be the same.

Use ebay.ch or ebay.de, never had a problem wirh any of them!

I am a 10 year plus ebay seller.  with more then 1400 positive feedbacks no negative.


http://www.ebay.com/usr/philipma1957


http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=philipma1957&ftab=AllFeedback&myworld=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2050430.m2531.l4585



I tried to sell .5 btc last year.   I said no new buyer I will cancel the sale.  A zero feedback buyer with a 2 day account purchased the coin.

 I canceled the sale and refunded his money in less then 35-40 minutes flat.


 He gave me a negative feedback and said " it was a waste of time and money."    It took me  more then 2 weeks to have the only negative feedback I ever got  removed.

 Even though I have more then 500, 000 usd in sales lifetime   which means lots of fees for them.    

They said I have to sell to a first time buyer if he pays which he did.  I said all feedback that is a lie must be removed. (Their rules not mine).

 My defense was how did he waste time and money.  He lost control of his money for under 1 hour hardly a waste of time.  

 And he got a full refund  which truly meant he should not be allowed to say his money was wasted.  

   

    I never sell anything digital anymore.  They did take the negative away but I kind of lost my taste for ebay  rules favor buyers more and more.  

 Although chargebacks  don't cost if you do all the rules on physical goods.  If the goods are digital you mostly will always lose a chargeback.

 :) thanx that is good idea but bitcoin is a bit more complicate than a normal transaction

Ebay is a terrible place to attempt to sell crypto.
I was scammed out of a bunch on Litecoins on there last year. Paypal is no help. Ebay and Paypal are enemies of the crypto world.

eBay .. I'd stay far away.

The fees are ridiculous and paypal backend will burn you.

Chargebacks are rampant and won't protect you at all.
Not worth the headache.