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I’ve just had a PayPal claim for an item sold and delivered, where the buyer is also saying the purchase is not authorized. I’ve sent all the information, now waiting for a resolution.
Is this the new scam method?
Will you post updates on this? I’m interested to know if eBay follows through with any action. Another poster on this forum had no luck with a fraud case, on a phone if I remember correctly, so it would be nice to have a positive outcome through to completion.
Here it is, the Completely Pro for eBay on iTunes. Says it’s $3.99. Wish they had something like this for Android. Thanks Squirrel!
Does anyone know if I can run iTunes apps on my MS PC?
05/10/2017 at 8:20 pm in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Tapes, Empty reels, LP Record Boxes, Antique photo album, Vtg Bike helmet, Ancient speaker #17769Hey Steve, I have those exact same metal LP holders, only mine don’t seem to be in quite the same good condition as yours. Mine are full of those sleeveless Columbia Records. I’ve been thinking of whether to sell them as just the holders, or full of old records. I believe there’s absolutely no value in LPs that are not in the original covers. These only have those “inner sleeve” type covers. I’ll probably have to sell them for crafting purposes. Glad I have a ballpark for the holders, though!
Thanks to you, I sold this Discwasher set for $39.99. It was only 3/4 full. It was a consignment for a widow.
This really neat cordless drill set sold in a matter of days. I got an offer of $45, which I would have accepted, but the guy paid full price before I got to him. He also left a rude message about wanting a refund if it didn’t work. I channelled J&R and sent him a polite email that he was welcome to return it for a full refund if he had any problems.
Here’s a BOLO. The Aris Allen dance shoes are high ticket items. This women’s pair of Oxford’s would have gone for more if they’d been in better condition. I saw them sold for $50+. I accepted an offer of $15.
I didn’t even have the option to not have business policies! eBay told me I had to use them and changed my listing tool to only that option. I wish I’d known it was an “optional” feature, because I hated it! Still do!
My payment and returns policies are fixed and detailed. The shipping policies give me the most headaches! I constantly have to create new ones to deal with new issues or rates. And it’s not intuitive, like the old system. I liked that the old system gave me quotes on shipping so that I could select the best option. This one just shows shipping policies you’ve already created, or allows you to edit or create policies as you require. However, it doesn’t show what the policies are until you click into them. Waste of time that I begrudge most passionately!
I’m with T-Satt. I work out the minimum I will take and not feel upset about, and the maximum I would feel I’d gotten a good deal with, and create those autos. Then if an offer comes in between the two, I get to think about it. Sometimes I’m hungry for a sale and accept quickly, other times I tend to wait a bit. Seems to be a cross between how much I want a sale and how much I think the item is worth. If I think it’s a lowball, even though it’s above my minimum, I’ll counter.
I started with auto-decline when I got some really rude offers. $3 on a $12.95 item and $5 on a $50 item. Rather than getting pissed, I just worked out what I would consider a reasonable minimum, and put an auto on it. That way, I don’t even know about the rude offers and only have to weigh in on the middle ground. I’ve had quite a few auto-accepts go through and they’ve all resulted in almost-immediate payment, so that’s very encouraging.
Using your example, eC411, I often set about 85-90% as my auto-accept, so I’d have put $600 up for auto accept. You’d still have been working the middle ground to get your $400s, but I’m sure you wouldn’t have minded someone pipping those $400s with a $600 auto sale! 😉
You’ve had a lot of positive encouragement, and I love that. But… When considering buying another house, we look at a lot of “bad things happen” scenarios to ensure we can cover ourselves. Running the same devil’s advocate for your situation, you have this:
(Please remember, these are all ‘God Forbid they would happen, but if…’)
1. To quote Dave Ramsey “100% of foreclosures are on houses with mortgages” and you already have one. If you lose your job, will you lose your house? Do you have an emergency fund? If you miss a payment on the owner financed house, will they take it back? Will you get any money back out of it?
2. If your mom passes away, can you find the money to cover the repayments on that house? You won’t be able to put a tenant in there if you’re renovating the place.
3. What happens if the hot water heater/central air/foundation/roof goes out and needs to be repaired or replaced urgently?
4. You discover, upon lifting the carpet that the entire underfloor is rotted through. Your mom has to move out so that the rotten wood can be removed and the mold cut out and eradicated. Where does your mom live and who’s going to pay for rent for her/cover the costs of the house for you? Inspections don’t catch everything. We’ve just had to totally redo a bathroom that was tiled, so it looked great, but the undershower pan had been incorrectly installed and all the water was pooling in the walls. It cost us over $5,000 to repair, as we had to totally remove the entire shower, remove all the walls in the bathroom and in the other two rooms it butts into, and then rebuild.
5. Your mom may be okay with the idea of you doing renovations now, but after a while, it gets very wearying. (We just renovated half our house while living in it. You can’t believe how much you want it over!) What happens if she says she can’t take it any more?
I don’t know your situation or your set up, but if I were to consider a possibility like this and it were feasible, I would move into the house that needs to be renovated, let my mom live in my house and pay THAT mortgage, and then work on the house I live in. But that’s IMHO and may be totally impractical for you.
Good luck!
Thanks T-Satt.
T-Satt, thanks. Sorry I wasn’t clear. I meant how do you get all your listings into the inventory tab? Do you manually input them all yourself, or can you get EAT to pull them from your eBay listings?
T-SATT, how do you track inventory in EAT? I’ve pulled my sales, but can’t figure how to pull in my listed, not sold.
Mark S – sorry about the delayed reply. I was the headless chicken impersonator yesterday.
There are two types of dive suits: a wet suit (what everyone thinks about when they think about scuba diving) and a dry suit, which you have. A wet suit gets wet. You wear a swimsuit underneath it, get thoroughly wet through during your dive, and the water forms an insulating layer between your body and the suit. This layer is warmed by your body heat and keeps you (moderately) warm as you dive.
A dry suit keeps you completely dry. Think James Bond. It is used mainly for commercial divers who work for long periods or very deep underwater, where the insulation of a wet suit is dissipated too quickly and the diver would develop hypothermia. The dry suit is therefore fitted with all sorts of seals, to keep water out, and as many integrated parts as possible. Integrated is the key word here! If it is integrated, i.e. built into the suit, then there is less chance of developing a leak in the suit. Most suits come with integrated gloves and boots, but you do get some with those separate (unusual.) Some suits come with integrated hoods too, while others have non-integrated hoods, about 50-50 either way. That “hat” you’re referring to is called a hood. Some hoods just cover the head, others come down the neck, like a balaclava, and some have a sort of flange that covers the shoulders and top of the torso.
The dry suit keeps you dry, but it doesn’t keep you warm. Most divers wear undergarments to keep them warm, usually called thermal undersuits. These range from fleece, or wool, to thinsulate. The better the product, the more value. Think mountain climbing. Better gear, more expensive.
Now, about those valves. There is a minimum of two: an inflation valve, where air or gas is pumped into the suit during descent; and an exhaust valve where air or gas is expelled during ascent. Valves may be at the wrist or the shoulder, and may be manual or automatic.
Suits may also have clamps around the neck for the helmet.
My best advice, unless you KNOW, is to list it as “requires service” or “service history unknown.” The person who buys it will therefore be responsible for getting or doing a service, checking o-rings and valve operation and such. What you can test is anything that opens and closes, look at seams for loose or unraveling sections, and any areas of wear on the suit, like knees, ass, or elbows. Those are issues that a diver will be concerned with. The diver needs to know that s/he can get into it (zipper working?), and seams or worn areas may affect whether or not the suit is waterproof. Don’t mess with the valves or anything like that. The diver must take that responsibility. It’s his life on the line.
Think of it this way: I’ve dived to 47m/154′, which is about the equivalent of 10 stories. Go to the 10th floor of a building and look down. See the ground? That’s where I’d be if you were in the boat on the surface. A commercial diver operates at depths 2-3 times that much. They will be VERY careful about their gear. Check as much as you can, admit to your ignorance of the rest, and add in to your listing warnings about service.
Hope that helps. Let me know if you need anything else.
Mark S – congrats on that awesome make up buy! I stumbled onto skin care products by accident and am amazed at how quickly they sell! Also, if you need help with identifying any of the dive gear, I’m a diver. I’ll give you the correct terminology if you’re stuck.
My week April 24-30
Items in store: 214
Items sold: 6
COGS: $20
Sales: $263
Highest price sold: $72 Cordless drill set
Average sale: $43
Returns: 1 (The Tory Burch pumps came back. Issued a refund. The next day, eBay told me I had an eligible unpaid item case. I cancelled it, but… weird!)
Inventory: $30
Listed: 0 Bugrit.A lady had items left over from a garage sale. Her friend was one of my dance students and referred her to me. As it was a friend doing the referral, I couldn’t really refuse due to Death Pile status, so I went to pick it up. Filled the SUV to the max! 15 pairs of shoes in one box alone, so I’m not unhappy! Also, a watch in the box with a $108 price tag. It doesn’t work, so I assume it needs a new battery, but my hubs does that for me, so all good.
Listing fell off a cliff this past week. My classes and the rentals took up all my attention and I didn’t get to do anything. Also, one full day to unpack the SUV and inventory the haul. I want to get back on the listing wagon this week, but yesterday was a bust and I’m going to be out of town (again) Wednesday and Thursday. Can’t wait to get this make ready done, rent the damn house, and get back to work!
I opened my store a month ago and discovered how difficult it is to create a subcategory. I got around it by creating a category called “Temporary”. I move all my stuff from the category I want to work in to the Temp category, then wait 24 hours as eBay takes that long to process the move. I create my subcategories, ready to go, and wait 24 hours. Then I move everything back into their new categories. It’s a bit of a PITA, but you can bulk move items, so it’s just a waiting game. No lost items, and I have all the subcats I want. Win!
I request signature for anything over $200, but I’m a newbie chicken! LOL. I know that the delivery confirmation is supposed to be enough, but folks could claim it was dropped off on their porch and they didn’t get it or similar. The last time I used sig required, I watched the tracking info and, as soon as it was available for pick up, I messaged my buyer that it was waiting for them. They collected, no issues. I also sent an email before shipping to tell them I was sending it sig required for THEIR protection, to ensure it got to THEM safely.
Best wishes to her for a fast recovery and no lasting issues. I hope the cops get the other driver!
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