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AdventureE
First of all—thank you for taking the time to explain it all without personal feelings or childish attack like answers.
I see the difference here now and that is because everything I would be selling are things I paid full price for in my two businesses for more that 35 yrs. and not items I would look for in good will or the usual places that re-sellers look for items to sell, and belive me I think it is great idea to develop that skill and make it work but I don’t have to do that.
The world of selling on ebay would not do for me, their high percentage take may be ok for re-sellers but my stuff is what I paid full price over the yrs when I needed them and I am not willing to give them away.
Ever since my active duty time was up from the army reserves and I started my working life I discovered that It was not in my nature to take orders from some boss telling what to do or having to sacrifice a part of what I was earning to some character sitting in an office figuring out ways to live off my energy.
To get a feel for what sellers are going through and maybe learn more I actually went to a good will, looked around and bought a few items. One was a pair of nike sneakers, I researched the sneakers and discovered the fakes out there and the consequences of trying to sell them.
I promptly threw them in the garbage and learned a lesson.Al
This morning I read this in an ebay forum.
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frequentc
Re: Horrible first selling experiance. (So many fees, scams, and bad customer service)
in reply to retrose1 Dec 25, 2017 3:32:20 PM
frequentc
Can we make this the home page of eBay … it’s one of the most honest things I’ve read on the site yet. Thank You.We are not paid by ebay to be here. We are unpaid volunteers and most of us are sickened by ebay’s money grubbing attitude and how the site is so buyercentric.
What happened to you probably happens to thousands of people every day. Not so much the fees, but the dispute system is shockingly geared to favor the buyer and not the seller. To be honest, an ebay employee came here earlier this year and informed us that ebay has hidden policies that can and will negate ANY written policy and ebay will never tell us what they are.
And to be honest, ebay lures newbie sellers with their banners about how easy it is to make money selling your extra high dollar items on ebay. And not telling the newbies that ebay will hold their funds, that electronics, cameras and high dollar designer items are the most highly scammed items here. Or putting a limit on what a newbie can list. They don’t because it appears that ebay wants the newbies to list their items without knowing the risks.
Which is why I advise that newbies should only list $35 items until they get enough recent selling feedback as the dollar value of the item they want to list. Had you done that OP, you would have seen what the fees were, gotten used to the shipping costs and possibly gotten a scammer to deal with and have much smaller numbers to deal with rather than the over $500 you have to deal with now.
And to be honest, I am worried about that $3000 camcorder bundle you sold. If you have a problem, come here first. But don’t spend the money just yet, you might have to give it back.
This is interesting,
As President and Chief Executive Officer at EBAY INC, Devin N. Wenig made $15,941,192 in total compensation. Of this total $1,000,000 was received as a salary, $2,430,000 was received as a bonus, $0 was received in stock options, $12,500,033 was awarded as stock and $11,159 came from other types of compensation.
Could you picture him walking around a good will store buying shirts for a dollar and reselling them on ebay.
Maybe with the tax break he will spread some around for the sellers.
Joemezz’
The above is correct except for one more issue-stock holders-they need to be satisfied or else they will flee.
So ebay is obligated to produce profits every yr or else. How are these profits generated?
could it be more fees, maybe more hidden fees. After all it is the stock holders who make or break a co. esp. institutional investors, they really don’t if profits are realized by moral or immoral means as long as it is colord “green”.
Read some of the horror stories on the ebay forum under fees, it was an eye opener.There is a lot of opposition to the tax break for big co’s that maybe the tax break will be split up among stock holders instead directly helping the avg. person who made the co as big as it has become.
This tax break is huge it will be interesting to see what ebay will do for its sellers or keep it for themselves.
What would you suggest ebay should do with the 20% tax cut they will be entitled to under the new tax laws.
So Cal Joe,
In point #5 you say “The last thing I do, before printing the shipping label is weigh the package.”
This were I am confused, how does the buyer calculate shipping if he dosn’t know the size of the package or the wt of it or does he just accept whatever is charged for shipping even he dosn’t know what it is before he commits to pay.
thanks for the help here
AlLet me clarify a bit further,
I actually photographed, boxed and weighed a bunch of items already and started listing after asking questions on the forum.All of these items are tools from my welding business of 35 yrs. Some are as little as a ball point pen and as large as 1000 lbs. plus a few trucks.
Only after seeing both Jay and Ryanne on youtube was I convinced to sell my stuff on ebay I postponed my intended winter stay in AZ and remain here at home to continue doing this.
It is time consuming and I thought that some of the pro’s may have some ideas to make this easier such as the system Joemezz had indicated in his reply here, this may work with some of the smaller items.
Storage is not a problem, I have a few acres and some buildings to use.
Thanks to everyone who took the time to offer answers here, they are all appreciated.
Al
Packing clothing in the mailer is not exactly square so how would I compensate for the irregular shape.
thanks
