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We all have an email address attached to our account. I think buyers can contact us by clicking on Contact Seller on the right of the listing instead of Make Offer. It sounds like he really wanted the item, got frustrated with the percentage concept and then just decided to vent and dump. I am glad you shared this. I think these stories help remind us that selling online can be challenging and it is not just made up of finding an item, taking a picture, making a sale, and sending the item with both the seller and buyer singing a happy song.
01/10/2018 at 2:07 pm in reply to: Pick my Poison! (Poll for choosing what dreaded death pile items to work) #30251I would offer that because you are working on death piles, you don’t work on just one but instead a mix. Because you already have some disinterest and lack of motivation, working on a death pile consisting of one kind of item may just add to your disinterest and lack of motivation causing you to become bored, easily distracted, and less productive than possible.
I would offer:
1. Set a low goal for how many you will get listed over the weekend – 10.
If you keep the expectation real and within your ability to actual do, this may help with motivation and increase work productivity.
2. With the total number of items in mind, go “shopping” in your death piles about 1/2 before you are going to begin listing. Take only the number of total items to meet your goal and do not include anything that is going to require extra time, attention, and work because it has some kind of known defect. Make sure to go “shopping” no sooner than a 1/2 hour before starting your listing process in order to avoid creating another death pile. Do not overthink the items you grab. Focus only on the ones that grab your eye, you are interested in, or you know you can actually flip for a profit.
3. Take those items you have “shopped” for and work on them with your new found interest. You will probably find that they go pretty fast.
4. Give yourself breaks – maybe after 5 items you take a 10 or 15 minute stretch break.
5. Once you complete the full amount you pulled (they will probably go faster than you think) go take a good hour long break and make sure to refuel yourself with food and drink.
6. Set another realistic low goal for how many other items you think you will be able to list and then repeat steps 2 through 5.
7. After you have done this at least twice, find one item that may require more time, energy, and effort. Work on that item to determine if it is worthy of being listed. If so, list it. If not, throw or give it away. If you are going to give it away, put it some place else away from your death piles and other items so it is physically gone but available for donating.Most likely, you will find that by the end of the weekend, you have listed more items than you expected, reduced your death piles, gotten rid of or donated items, are in better spirits than expected, and found a new interest in listing the items from the death piles.
Happy listing!
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I agree with you Mark S and we will never really know that saturation has occured because ebay would never reveal that. They would just spin it in such a way as to make it desirable to pay a higher or another fee to have them do what they are supposed to be doing in the first place and what store owners already pay for by paying their monthly store fees and final value fees – promote our items.
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Albee,
Buyers have to make the choice when buying an item as to whether they will pay the shipping charges. They do not know the weight and dimensions unless revealed in the listing which I have only seen a few sellers do. If they do not wish to pay the shipping charges on top of the price of the item, they move onto the next item which is why free shipping is being so strongly promoted. The idea is that if buyers see free shipping, they will be more inclined to buy even if the price for the item is high. This is not always the case though. You can have free shipping and still not make sales. If you use free shipping, you need to add that into the price of the item in order to cover it. As has been noted in a previous forum, there is no real free shipping. Someone has to pay for it and it sure is not ebay or the shipping service you choose to use.Pythonesk,
eBAY has not built automatic mobile friendly programming into the listing page that is why we need to click on the mobile friendly link. When I first started using the mobile friendly checker, I wasn’t scrolling down in the window to click save which caused the mobile friendly changes to be lost. I wonder if you might be experiencing the same difficulty.
Oh, Okay, Thanks. I was thinking maybe somebody else clicked submit at the same moment I did when I was trying to submit the edit and one over rode the other.
Thank you Jay.
Jay,
I just posted a reply but it seems to have disappeared. Just wondering if you might be able to see from your end what happened to it.
Thank you.I would offer that you call ebay so as to save you time and allow you to move forward. It may be an internal message that ebay has triggered on your account and pops up on your listings because of other listings that have had or have active content.
I wquld offer that this kind of thing can happen. We all make mistakes. I would offer that in the future, although it is going to add on cost, have the buyer just send the item back to you. With sending the label, you have no way of knowing what the buyer is actually sending the other buyer and most likely sending them the label falls outside of the seller protection policy which could bring extra costs if the package does not arrive to the new buyer, has the wrong item in it, or gets damaged in the shipping process.
I would be interested to see the Active Content message. Would it be possible to provide a picture? I have been working on listings today and have not had a problem. When do you get the warning and where is it located? If it is at top, it might be warning you about other active listings (because you are signed in) and not the one you are working on. The message may go away when you click out of the listing. Another idea – try all three browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome)and see if you get the same message.
Yes, Killingit. I believe you are right about the credit being given on the final value fees. Yes, I too recall the caller noting that she saves them up and then calls in and goes through them one by one. If I recall correctly, I think she said she got back $13 or $23.
01/07/2018 at 8:26 pm in reply to: Proper Way To Refund When Buyer Misuses Returns to Avoid Paying for Shipping #29981If previous sellers provided you as a buyer with a shipping label and you were not charged, they paid for it. Basically, when you do free shipping, because the buyer did not officially pay for the shipping, you eat the cost. So, then you are left with the absolute amout they paid for the item which is the amount you give them when you do the return. If you provide a return shipping label, you pay for it. If they get one and you are not responsible for the cost of it, then they pay for it at no cost to you.
I was thinking that for an artist person with a strength or passion for selling shoes, this could be a huge money maker as long as they disclose that the shoes have been restored after being found with much wear and tear. It would take some time though as has been identified. Can you imagine finding an old pair of really beat up shoes for 1, 2, or 3 dollars that some might consider trash and could not sell for anything more than 10 to 20 dollars, restoring them and then selling them for 100, or 200 dollars or more? My only concern would be the quality of the materials used to restore the shoes.
I would offer that I have learned that the shipping label for a listing can only be used once on either a box or an envelope. It can not be printed and used again on a second box or envelope.
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