Pricing Items

Pricing your item is required when posting goods for sale. A good asking price will ensure a fast sale, but pricing too high may mean your item sits for longer or worse never sells.

Most experienced sellers price their items 10-15% under the average selling price for items of the same brand, make, and condition on eBay.

Items with complete packaging, manuals, and all accessories will sell for more than items missing these items.

Different brands and models can sell for more or less depending on favorability. Selling an item new 2nd hand may void a warranty, and can affect pricing as well.

Pricing an item as $1234, or $1 OBO is not allowed either. Ensure that your asking price is a realistic number.

Asking a high price for a rare, or hard-to-find item is allowed within reason. Asking $10,000 for a brand that no longer makes an item, when other brands still sell it for $100 is not allowed.

Price gouging, or scalping is not inherently against the rules. Just ensure that you are respecting other sellers and buyers when doing so. Buying in excess on HardwareSwap to resell on another platform, or even reselling on HardwareSwap is not directly against the rules, but doing so may consider you a reseller, which must follow reseller rules.

1. Know what you are selling. Make, Model, Condition, included Accessories, and any added value items (extra controllers for a console, multiple cases for a phone, extra fans to a case, etc).
2. Look up your item on HardwareSwap (Or another swap community), eBay, Amazon, Swappa, Mercari, etc.
3. Search by Completed or Sold if possible. You may find your item for sell at $5,000, but if it never sells at that price, it isn't worth it!
4. Find items with the same make/model/condition/accessories as what you have. If you have added value items, consider adding 20-80% of the value for each item to your final price.
5. Take the price you find and subtract the selling fees for that platform. EBay's fees are 9-13% and Amazon's are 10-15% and can be as much as 40% or more, depending on how large the item is. Other swap communities typically do not have added fees, so matching the price is good.
6. Consider how much it will cost to ship your item, and how much of the price you found goes towards shipping that item. Sites like Amazon may have an item priced a little higher, and that can be reflected on their return policy and free shipping.
7. Price your item!