Ebay is usefully for some items but for the most part it is gone to hell in a hand basket.
I have used Amazon market place a few times to buy and after talking with some others students I have learned it is a great place to sell text books.
now Amazon will take a 10-15% cut but a lot less trouble and no fees for listing. I put a book on there and just forget about it until it sells.
I frequently use both sites to sell items and I have to say, Amazon is THE ABSOLUTE worst for sellers. I say that for these three reasons:
1. Shipping fees, unless you open a seller business account plan on paying out money for every item you ship. Example: I just sold my Xbox 360 last weekend and Amazon's default shipping rate is $3.99. How much did it cost me to ship it UPS? Around $21. Yeah, I lost more than $15 right there on shipping.
2. Feedback system, the system is an absolute joke. I have sold 20+ items on Amazon and have received 4 feedback. I mostly sell my textbooks after a semester and have yet to receive feedback for any. Why does this matter? See my next point.
3. Due to the piss poor (pardon my French, I am just fuming over this) feedback system my account is now getting reviewed every other month. When I log into my account I see this message, "Alert * Amazon is reviewing your Seller Account. To learn details about this action, click here: Read more." Google Amazon seller account review. What essentially happens is your account gets automatically flagged in their system because you have received very little feedback for the volume of sales. When this happens Amazon "reviews" your account and holds your account balance for 30 days. Yes, they hold your money for a month. Of course, you can appeal the review. Amazon actually states they will respond to your request within 24 hours. That is certainly a promise they don't deliver on, I appealed last week and have not heard a thing. So now that my account is getting reviewed once again (this is now the second time) because no one leaves me feedback I have to wait 30 days before I can access the money in my account. THIS IS TOTAL B.S.
Another example of how Amazon selling is a joke is when I sold a book for $0.01 just to get rid of it. Instead of throwing it away I figured I could pass it on to someone else who can use it. It sold and on top of the massive .01 price I received $2.99 for shipping. Amazon then charged me $2.51 for commission. Are you kidding me? I just paid $2.51 to sell a book for $0.01? That is ludicrous. Amazon needs to make serious revisions to their selling system. Is it a great resource to sell items? Yes, it is very easy to add items and set your own price. It is great in that aspect. However, they absolutely stick it to all of the sellers on there.