If you are not selling anywhere except on eBay, you are not taking advantage of the opportunities available to online entrepreneurs!

There are quite a few online auction sites, and almost all of them offer much cheaper fees, besides being far more seller friendly and easy to use for both sellers and buyers.

Best of all many of them are free.

Here is a summary of eBay alternative sites:

eBay:

• Final value fees range from 8.75% to two dollars and 19 cents plus 3.5% of any amount over 25 dollars.
• To put an item on eBay you will need to pay 15 cents for items priced 99 cents to just under 10 dollars and four dollars for items starting at five hundred dollars or more.
• For items worth more than one thousand dollars expect to pay thirty six dollars 31 cents plus 1.50% of any amount over one thousand dollars.

Free Sites:

• AdFlyer:
• Altec Trader:
• Blujay:
• Craigslist:
• Google Base:
• Hoobly:
• Xoobie:
  Sites with cheap listing fees:
  • Amazon: Listing fees of 10 US cents on all items. Once the sale goes through expect to pay Amazon between 5% and 25 dollars 63 cents plus 1.25%.
  • Audiogon: A four US dollar listing charge. Once you have sold piece of high definition audio equipment on Audiogon expect to pay them 1% of the final sale price for the honor of selling through their service.
  • Bonanzle: There are no initial payments to be made to Bonanzle. Final value fees start at 50 cents for items priced up to 10 dollars and go up to only 10 dollars on items 1000 dollars or more.
  • CQout: This alternative to eBay will not bill you for putting your listings on its pages. Final charges range from 5.5% to 1.5% depending on the value of the product.
  • eBid: You can put items onto the pages of this eBay alternative for free. Regardless of the price of the item at the end of the sale you will be paying a flat 3% commission.
  • HiBidder: This is another site that won’t charge you to list. You don’t need to give much in the way of commission with successful sales. The damage starts at 10 cents for listings valued up to 100 dollars and ending at only one dollar, fifty cents for items over 10,000 dollars.
  • iOffer: No listing fees. Once you have successfully sold an item on iOffer you will need to pay a charge between 50 cents and go up to 40 dollars depending on the value of the sale. You will also need to factor in a charge of 1.5% on items over 1500 dollars.
  • Liquidation: No listing fees. You will need to pay a commission of 5%.
  • Oltiby: It is free to list on this site. You will need to pay a charge of 2.75%-5.25% of the final sale price.
  • Overstock: It costs 10 cents an item to start a sale with site expenses going up to three dollars 15 cents for products 500 dollars and over. Once a sale is successfully finalized you will need to pay 75 cents plus 2% of the selling price.
  • SellMyStuff: It is free to put an item on here after you pay a 15 AUD surcharge for 30 days of subscription. You also won’t have to pay a commission during that time.
  • Specialist Auctions: Free to list a product. Final costs are a flat 3%.
  • TradeMe: It is free to place an item on this site. Final commission starts at 6.9% and go up to 71 dollars 10 cents plus 1.9% on items over 1500 dollars with a maximum final charge of 149 dollars.