Lack of Land Rover stuff on ebay

[kie4]

Why?
ebay UK 6060 items under Land Rover.
ebay australia 314
within 2000ks of perth 3 listings

[Slunnie]

"Landrover" is different to "Land Rover"

That'll give you a heap more hits.

[RobHay]

May have something to do with the rumour I heard, that Land Rover /Landrover is made in the UK.

[scrambler]

Why?
ebay UK 6060 items under Land Rover.
ebay australia 314
within 2000ks of perth 3 listings
Kie4,

The number of Land Rovers within 2000km of Perth is what? I have the opposite problem - all the parts I'm interested in are in Perth (and who can afford to ship a bullbar across the country?)

On a related issue, why are there two separate listings for Land Rovers for sale? Parts don't seem to be split like that.

Another reason, besides the lack of Land Rovers in general, is that as Land Rovers are a specialist item ebay isn't always the best place to sell - you can't guarantee enough interested buyers to justify an auction. I've seen pristine Series 1's passed in for less than I paid for a Series III, I've seen a Stage 1 passed in in the last few weeks for $1800 without a bid. Advertised in print media I'd expect these to command higher prices and to sell.

Steve

[Michael2]

I've found I've been getting really good prices for Land Rover stuff I've sold on ebay. I've sent stuff to the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Austria and all over Australia. I've found that ebay provides a great platform for selling parts. Really, who could afford to advertise a light or a grille in the Trading Post. Local Print Media is probably better for cars, as people want to see what they buy and don't want to travel far. Having said this, a couple of mates have bought Defenders from interstate and even though I got mine locally, I was looking Aust. wide.

The benefit with ebay is that you can pitch your product to people with stronger currencies. I'm amazed at some of the prices I get for stuff.

A lot of the stuff in o/seas adds is generic junk - mugs, t-shirts, generic ECU plug ins etc

[scrambler]

Agree re parts sales on ebay Michael2.

[kie4]

"Landrover" is different to "Land Rover"

That'll give you a heap more hits.l
Landrover 0 hits
Land rover 3 hits
Rang rover 0 hits
Land Rover Discovery 1 hit
Defender 0 hits
within 2000ks of Perth

[kie4]

May have something to do with the rumour I heard, that Land Rover /Landrover is made in the UK.



Land Rover US 5500 hits;)

[scrambler]

No-one's doubting you, Kie4. You'd get the same results though with 100km, I'm guessing. Why limit to WA though? What are you looking for? The big problem is that you're in an isolated part of the continent relative to the population base. BigJon in Alice Springs would have even fewer hits, unless he's listed something on ebay himself.

I find the search facility less useful than looking in the categories, but that's not turning up anything more than your search.

Steve

[Ace]

I have noticed the same thing. However that number isnt all that good either. Out of those 300 odd listings alot are the same seller listing things at buy it now prices. He has a shop, alot it pretty expensive but quite alot is new stuff and thats what you would pay. Matt

[dungarover]

E-bay has been good to me a s far as selling gear. I have had several Rangies bits from 2 doors I wrecked years earlier that are taking up space, put it on e-bay for low prices and have been surprised what I got for it. I'm almost cleaned out now but I have hung onto stuff that is relevant to my current Rangie though.

But yes, it goees in runs.

Trav

[DirtyDawg]

70million people within 1000kms of each other (UK) vs 20 million people within 3500km of each other,,,I'd say it was a percentage thing Rich

[p38arover]

Land Rover is almost an orphan marque in Australia.

I've gotta get all the stuff in my garage onto eBay. I've got RR and Disco front and rear seats, Disco folding seats, a Defender rear compartment seat , County rear compartment sideways seats, a Disco steel wheel and new tyre, genuine LR (Hayman Reese) LR tow bar for a P38A, workshop manuals SII, SIII, Defender, early RR classic, late RR classic, Jaguar , Sunbeam Talbot, Sunbeam Alpine, Hillman Minx - both Mark and Series, Super Minx, Hunter, Singer, Mazda 1300, Ford Probe (hmm, does that give an indication of what I've owned?), Hunter extractors (rare as!). Gotta get rid of all my unused electronic test equipment (sig gens, level meters, plotters, etc.,) too.

Anyone want a free roofrack for a Toyota FJ45 Land Cruiser before I finally get around to cutting it up to dump?

Ron

[LandyAndy]

Hi Richard
You need to go Aussie wide with your search,quite often freight is reasonable.
Andrew