Ebaybanned to stop retail sales..
 

...If I am reading this right anyway.
http://www.brotherprice.com/ebphoto/...e%20banner.jpg

Well that is a royal PITA.

yeah i was a little confused to but the message i got was that he's now dealing wholesale and not retail.

as if we're gonna be able to get all that stuff from any other 1 place.

.....FUCK!.....

well as long as we all play attention lol.

I'll be bringing in some goodies, don't worry!

What's this "hand touch feeling" and how can I get it?

i might wanna start wholesale with them

Ive already been talknig to him about picking up wholesale! Remember their minimum order it $1000 USD!

group orders?

If the person making the order has a registered business and a minimum $1000 order is made you could do it. :D

That sucks big time. Skladfin or anyone else in the business, please wholesale their stuff so that we can still buy it!

Ive already asked for the new wholesale price list and got an order together, I just need to know what the new wholesale prices will be....

To anyone thinking of doing wholesale work with Paul and EBB, please keep this part in mind

"But, my mainly consideration is, how much the final user can save? For example : SLS Tactical Holster 6004 fit 1911, my retail price is USD77.3 shipped. On the other hand, i can offer USD34 for my reseller. I believe reasonable reseller can offer the final buyer at USD65-69. End up over 10% can be saved."

Ebaybanned was successful because it was cheap, continue that trend and everyone will be happy.

The shipping was awesome, everywhere (except ehobby) else charged like $10 for some stupid little part.

Except they got worse and worse with shipping times. The last order I made they didn't ship for over 2 weeks, and I had to open a Paypal dispute to get them to ship it.

whereas my order was shipped and arrived in canada within 2 days :D (This was from August 5th - August 7th of this year)

The only reason that I haven't done business buying from EB wholesale was because I COULDNT match their prices because their wholesale prices weren't low! Now that they are turning to full wholesale and dropping their wholesale prices, I could order from them and provide those prices locally!

...hm that's also true. Back in feb, brought in stuff every week and they averaged 8 days to my house from ordering.

Downhill since then.

dude if you can sell at their prices (shipping included) locally, you have one customer here for sure, element ftw!

Excuse my ignorance here but was Ebaybanned selling aegs or just parts and accessories? I assume no aegs.
I'd never heard the name til last week.

If all you need is a registered business and $1000 to get some guns, I'm ready, how do we start?

they sell parts and accessories, mostly china-made goods, alot of dboys and element product as well as TONS of knockoff gear

You can't just bypass customs by buying wholesale...

And no they never sold guns.

They were, but the Olympics started and 8 factories or how many factories which made AEGs temporarily closed down.

Long as local resellers can keep up to par with their prices after shipping, they'll get my business. Ebaybanned has been my favorite HK retailer this past year simply because of how simple their order process is. I do team group orders ranging from $200-800 at least twice a month here, and ebaybanned may not have the catalog that WGC has, but also doesn't have the headache of ordering from RW or WGC, even more so if there's something wrong with the order.
Sad to see them go as a retailer, but hopefully this will turn into something positive.

If people don't get greedy and can continue providing ebaybanned products at the same price or cheaper (because Paul made it pretty clear what he thinks "fair" should be - people should be able to sell even CHEAPER than he could), then I'll be buying my ass off from whoever starts carrying his gear.

Being able to get my products fast (ebaybanned were always fast) and not having to worry about customs should they all of a sudden decide some non-prohibited part doesn't get into the country and seize it is a BIG bonus as well.

I think the big this is people making fair profit! buy for $50 and sell for $100. I know that in the few stores Ive managed, the golden rule was sell for 3x what you bought it for. Of course this dealt with retail stores and not online companies. With online companies it's generally 2x. So it all depends on what EB lists their wholesale prices at!

The last time I asked about wholesale from EB lets just say that those weren't wholesale prices! The sold say a scope on their site for $50, their wholesale price for that scope was $35. Not much room for profit there... but now with them dropping out of the retail hopefully their wholesale prices drop, otherwise don't expect people to sell those products here as cheap.

RIP Ebaybanned retail.

I wish he would have gave a little notice. I sure would have liked to purchase my last cart contents. Oh well.

Agreed. I would've liked to grab a couple of things as well. I'm kind of disappointed about this new direction. Hopefully things will go as smooth with Canadian retailers dealing his stuff. And hopefully soon too!

Of course, it's quite dependent on the prices they end up charging for wholesale. Once the stuff gets imported into Canada, duties paid, brokerage, etc, a seller still has to be able to make a fair profit margin to make it worth it.

And just to clarify, when I spoke of getting greedy, I wasn't necessarily speaking about anyone on this forum in particular. To see ridiculous prices on parts and accessories, one needs to look nor further than our 2 last "big" retailers. Their prices for non-restricted items were often double or more what it would cost to get the items from Redwolf or the other Asian suppliers ourselves. That's the kind of thing I hope we don't see on this stuff now that ebaybanned are going this wholesale-only route.

And I also wish I would have made my last order with ebaybanned to. I have a few items in there that I was hoping to get next week. Guess that won't be happening for a while now.

Which is probably the exact reason they did not give notice, everyone would just load up the cart heavily before then, creating a flood of orders for them to try to fill, and probably not in a quick enough manner to satisfy the customers.

Fuck... still have a bunch of items inbound, theoretically, from them. The one time I do an order too...

wait so ebaybanned is closing down??? like for good ????

read harder :D

They are closing as RETAIL and instead selling WHOLESALE! :D

ok so this is a good thing right?

Not necessarily. But it could be.

why do you think it wouldnt be good?

it sounds then that prices will be cheaper...

Only to those who have registered businesses and import numbers....

Yeah but I doubt the resellers will offer free shipping, thus the price might actually increases. Its a shame , i loved ordering whatever I wanted in as little quantity as I wanted.

o damm so a normal person like me cant order stuff from him just for my guns?

Nope! You need a business number and/or business license, usually an import number, and have to make a minimum $1000 purchase (this was told to me BY Paul himself)

wtf not cool !!!!!!!!!! wear else am i gonna get a full metal m4 body and a replacement m4 metal gearbox for o cheap !! THIS AINT COOL

you cant get a metal body outside of canada anyways, illegal to import. You only option is getting age verified and buying from the forums here.

...you can't import the body anyways...get verrified and buy off the classifieds....
and for the mechbox, try airsoftparts.ca
by the way, what brand is your AEG, the mechbox is probably fine...

not sure its not a high end gun or anything near as good as an ics but its either dboys m4a1 or uk arms but i am not sure its nothing special.... just good deal also first airsoft gun.... im a noob and new to the sport i use to be hardcore paintballer

but even though im a noob ive been welcomed to the sport of airsoft nicely thanks to all!!\


but yeah the gun is either dboys m4a1 or uk arm m4a1 so i think the mechbox with need to be replaced sooner or later

So, when approximately would someone be able to become the EB dealer in Canada?

If Skladin can do it, it would be great for us the Vancouver people. Thanks, Skladin, but please don't jack up the prices!!!

Ive already contacted Paul and just waiting an answer. He already has my business number on file....

Maybe this way, they will make more money... or not?

well every order is guaranteed to be $1000... wondering they will still have the FREE SHIPPING though.... http://www.airsoftcanada.com/images/..._confused2.gif

They probably should leave it as free shipping. Ordering 1000$ of parts is alot to ship. lol

I think it would be cool if retailers from each province would step up and deal with EBB, this way the shipping to the final user would be minimal, who's gonna be our Ontario EBB rep?

shipping a item from china is actually cheaper than shipping something within ontario.

OK GOT AN ANSWER BACK!

Wholesale prices are pretty much BS! Knock off approx 25% from the price the store lists it at and there is your wholesale price!

So what I wrote before about a $50 scope being sold wholesale for $35 is still the same! I've got the whole wholesale price list if anyone wants a copy! It's in a microsoft Excel file!

So buying something at $35 and trying to sell it for $50 in country with shipping included is pretty much a bust. I know personally I cant do business at those prices....

Numbers (rough estimates):

$1000 minimum order at 25% discount. Now selling things at the same prices means that your profit margin is only $250 for every $1000! Since this all has to be imported as retail stock for a company duty, taxes, etc must be paid upon it. That drops your profit margin even lower! Lets say that duty and taxes were 14%, on $1000 that would mean $140. So now your profit is only $110 for every $1000.

Now this is really rough figures as some items are 40% discount on wholesale such as some gear items, but most of the accessories are 25% or less.

that sux, well keep at it man, try and negotiate something, there's opportunity here, that's for sure

shipping would cost $11, so your basically making only $4 out of each scope, and thats not even counting the duty(Then maybe not even $1!). That example Paul said on the letter is pretty much a BS.

I knew it wouldn't work, as he sells to retailers already, and if retailers were able to offer his stuff at competitive prices, they wouldn't be complaining to Paul not to sell to the end user.

I added a rough example to my post but mainly SOME items are MORE than 25% but not many....

This is the email I sent and the one I received in response:

wrong thread wtfbbq

Far left field anyone?

Where did that come from?

LOL no kidding.

If any of you are seriously considering trying it out - send me an Email and I will post your store's info (or contact info) on 6mm Magazine to muster up some sales for you.

I've had nothing but great products from Paul so far, so I have no problems lending a hand where I can.

I'd also like to get a Retailer's list together if you have an online shop you want advertised.

Well, I talked with paul and this is what he told me:

So maybe he'll be still selling to retail in next weeks!!

Boycott, BOYCOTT!

CAN SOMEONE SEND ME THE WHOLESALE PRICE LIST !!

CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL !!

do you have a registered business?

LOL you obviously don't understand what wholesale is.

Hi all.

I emailed Paul, Jesse, and Cindy at Ebaybanned.com for clarification on a few points.

Here are the answers. If there is anything else you guys want to know - they have told me they will respond ASAP, you can email me or them directly.

Cheers.

I got the same e-mail

thanks for your words, we don't accept payment now, we may restart the retail 7 days later if we can not make the agreement with such a big dealer, we must notice you if any update. sorry to bring you some inconvenience We will recover the retailed purchase about ten days later

Its hard to know what they really mean by this e-mail

Man i have an open dispute with ebaybanned right now. its been 2 weeks officially since my transfer of money clear on paypal and everytime I asked them when i can expect a mail off date its "i let you know soon jesse". Moreover, they are trying to argue that they didn't receive my payment until just after the cut off date mentioned on their website. So far i'm not impressed with how things have progressed :S

It'll probably work out alright, if at all else, paypal has got your back. Also, you guys get tracking with your orders? Did I miss something?

no one can send you the list i had to provide my master buisnuss licence to get the old price list their all right prices. i orderd =form them so far so good its sitting in coustoms heres hopping tomor i dont get nailled with a huge coustoms charge. as for the new price list cinidy who deals with all this has emailed me inrguards its not been put togther because of their recent move. AS for tracking yes contact pual he will give you it and for all wholsale orders its given to you welther you like it or not. lol

...what?

Just got my 5.11 hat and revision goggles today from my Aug 2nd order. Still waiting on Ak ris handguard and grip from same order, X47 kit, & spring guide from Aug 3rd order.

I get a tracking no with anything I order online, i think its pretty standard?

By email? Or what?

I get this

Ebaybanned.com AEG Parts & Combat Gear
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Order Number: 9630
Detailed Invoice: http://ebaybanned.com/account_histor...?order_id=9630
Date Ordered: Monday 11 August, 2008

Products
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1 x CYMA Electric powered Metal Drum mag for AK (MAG00083) = $51.50USD
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Total: $51.50USD

Delivery Address
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Justin Hewitt


Billing Address
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Justin Hewitt
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I had ordered three VN mags from them as well as a trigger guard in a single order! Today the trigger guard arrived in a giant envelope with a tiny piece of paper reading that the mags are in a seperate box to make the taxes cheaper. lolwut? I $6 trigger guard in its own package is going to make things cheaper?!

qlong im starting to open a store and i did their whosale order for parts gear metal bodys (dont ask about the bodys i have my ways to get them legaly in). im commenting on the above post about the request for the order form on the process to get one its the same aplication for wgc un company and redwolf they want your mbl number and some information to confirm you infact confirm you are ligit. as far as that i was providing information on the service for their large orderds and to be hoest great 1 week shipping for a huge box can't complain.

Might be the same as Redwolf Shipping :P

hey hash email pual and ask for tracking number you knormaily put it in notes section when ordering and a gril named jess will meial you with tracking when its sent out if its allredy sent out email pual with the order number for tracking.

Good to know, I will do that if I don't get it by next Friday. Paul hasn't wronged me yet, so I'll be patient for now. Just find it odd though that I've seen multiple people write about getting tracking, I have made about 6 orders totaling around $450+, never got tracking for anything. Mind you it was a consistent 2 week turnaround from payment to delivery each time so I never had a reason to question.

Email from paul:

:D ! Sounds we'll continue to have some real good prices !!

Ah, it was hard to read at first but then I got it, GL on the body sales tho :D

Just received this email from ebaybanned. Looks like they're gonna be dealing retail again.

Look up. :D

YAY! I can buy more cheap shit from them now.

LOL seems like ebaybanned is having a severe mood swing.

on a different note, I ordered a battery from them on july 24th and still havent gotten them

can you say slow service much?

*cough*openAPayPalDispute*cough*

Or did they already ship it? I'm assuming not. I opened a Paypal dispute for my barrel and they shipped it that day. Strange how that works.

Personally never had an issue with them. Always have stuff I order in less than a week.

Looks like Paul's move to Wholesale was dealer-motivated.

I just got his from him (as I'm sure you all did):

My, what a tangled web we weave.

On-again retail sales. LOL.


And apparently there is some "special offer" for you people with outstanding orders last week.

We need to delete this thread.
or edit the title and first post.

haha I opened up paypal dispute and they finally gave me the tracking # I've been asking for!

I still haven't got anything to indicate resolution on my dispute :(

Weird... it's been 15 days since I ordered, and they still haven't given me a tracking number (which I've been asking for). So I filed a paypal dispute, and they refunded my money? :confused: Paul left a message in the resolution center saying that:

"your order may or may not be ship, please pay again once order has arrive"

What? I confirmed it and the money is back in my account. I guess I'll have to just wait and see if it shows up.

Hey people, first post here.

I ordered from ebaybanned on the day that they temporarily stopped retail.
I ordered an ACOG-style Red-dot. So the day that they go back into retail, I look at my order and it says "thanks, we will ship you ASAP". The funny thing is, I was never charged via paypal... what does this mean? Is the seller going to let it slide and send it to me anyways? Will it even be sent in the first place? It's been like 10 days since that status was updated and I've heard absolutely nothing from ebaybanned. Is there anything that I can do for an order that I have no idea what it's doing, and that I never even paid for??


Thanks in advance!

Don't worry, they won't send you anything.

Wait another week. If you receive it, then bonus. If you don't then contact them about your order.