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I order online but it’s small bubble but they also have medium and large bubbles. Small bubbles are 350′ for $20.44, medium bubbles are 200′ for $21.49. Their large bubbles are 125′ for $16.99. All are 12″ wide and perforated with free shipping. Their ebay store is threeb and they sell lots of shipping supplies. Check them out.
Is it possible that the spelling is wrong because it is another language? Latin or old English sometimes is used for crests. Worth checking out.
As long as you have each bowl packed with enough packing material between each bowl so that they don’t shift during shipping you will be fine. The secret is to have them each secure so they don’t move at all. Double boxing is a must. Sounds like you did just fine. It helps if you cross your fingers until they get delivered 🙂
I have most of my first class packages listed with flat cost to buyer, not calculated. I use $3.25 for items up to 6 ounces and $4.25 for items up to 1 lb. Very few items are over these prices and if they are it is only by pennies. Yes it gives some of my shipping discount to the buyer but it is much easier for me and I end up making a little in the long run. If you lose your top rated seller status and use calculated shipping you don’t get a discount. If you use flat cost and lose your top rated seller status you still get a discount, just a much smaller discount (or I did when I lost TRS a couple years ago). Bulk edit when USPS cost goes up, no problem.
I just had a case opened on a pair of well used tactical pants. I listed them with pictures of the frayed areas and stated the inseam length. I even had in the title pants, shorts because the inseam was so short.
The buyer claimed not as described. They wanted a refund because they were frayed and were too short. Also they didn’t want to return them because they didn’t want them to be resold. Really?
The ebay rep said it was buyers remorse. Thank goodness I got a rep with a sense of humor and common sense to boot. Can’t wait to block this dude as soon as time is up and I can close the case because my guess is that he won’t return them.Oh Amatino, I do my own taxes and have for 40 years. I have been audited once and that was a question of income tax that I didn’t pay in Florida. I live in NC and was working outside my home in NC at the time and have never worked in Florida. I wrote to the IRS and explained that I could not work in Florida and NC on the same days in question and they closed the audit without me having to do anything else. My theory was that a SS# was entered incorrectly. Must have made sense because I never heard anything else. But I was sweating when I got the letter in the mail!!!
Amatino, I don’t use the entire garage. It’s a 1 1/2 story, 2 car garage with a lot of storage upstairs. I only claim 27% of it as ebay space. That would only be a small portion of the upstairs but I do have totes stored on one side against the wall of finished hand painted craft items waiting to be listed. I have done craft shows in the past and plan on listing the contents at some point. I measured the sq footage of my house and the upstairs of the garage and estimated that I use 27% of the total space. (Not where cars are parked or where I have personal items stored.) I took my largest work area in my home and used that as the basis for my home usage and added the garage space.I use the same $$ amounts until my property gets reassessed and then I have to adjust the figures, still using the 27% as the total amount of used space. The % won’t change from year to year, just the value of the property.
My point is to not overestimate your % of space that you use for ebay. J&R can use their entire new storage building as a deduction since it is a dedicated space for ebay.All of us who use our home as our business probably use more than we claim. Just be reasonable. If I tried to claim more than I do I feel like a tax audit would be in my future every year. Not something I want to happen.Amatino, I have always used my home, garage for my business(sole proprietorship) and I always have been able to deduct usage, utilities and repairs for my business/home. Once you fill out the form for using your home for a business it is relatively easy to just deduct a % of everything for business. For me its “technically” 27% of my home. That’s what I deduct but in realty its way more, but it would raise a huge red flag if I tried to deduct more than that. I say that while I sit at my computer with a pile of listed, ready for storage to my left and a huge pile of needs to be photographed and measured on my right plus all of the stuff in storage in my “ebay room” upstairs and the totes full in the photo room. I know, I’m really lucky I have a good size house with just the two of us. It seems that my whole house is an ebay store, but I am slowly working on that, really. Just a little bit too slow at the time. But when someone is sick there are more important things than ebay.
I try to list the brand name first since there are lots of customers searching for specific brands. If the brand is not important I list what it is since that is the next most important term. I also try to make sense of the title and list in an order that is easy to read. I really don’t like a title that only tells you what it is and then all the cute l@@k HOT COOL or some other non-descriptive word. Just make your words reflect the item and leave out the trendy stuff.
I wish I had the problem with the $1000+ denim jacket!!!
But the people who have commented and said you were wrong are welcome to their opinion. And it’s just that their opinion, everyone has one. No one knows what they would do until they are faced with a similar situation.
I personally applaud you for the fact that you shared your story with everyone. You could have just let the sale pass and never comment. But you put it out there for all to see. When everything is said and done it is your decision and yours alone.
At this point in my ebay store I would have done the same thing. That sale alone is more than I have made in each of the last three months. When you have to work ebay alone and work around taking care of your sick husband, something will suffer. And it won’t be my husband. My house, my lawn, my ebay store but not my SweetiePie!! I’m fine with ebay the way it is for me now. I just need to be able to source higher profit items again.You nailed it girl!
I knew it looked like velvet or uncut corduroy but moleskin it is.
Thank you oh great scavenger queen!!Well life got in the way but I finally got the picture
https://imgur.com/a/vfLW3After looking at these again and looking at a pair of Liederhosen I’m thinking some kind of specialty pants. But what?
I use white vinegar and alcohol mixed with water for cleaning dirt on items. It also works on stains on upholstery, coats, shoes and lots of stuff. I keep a bottle of peroxide with a spray top on it on my washer all the time. I use it for lots of stains. Sometimes I need to add a drop of dawn to the spot before tossing it in the washer. A word of caution, the peroxide works on whites and light colors. Always test for darker colors. Never use on a really dark color or it will bleach where you spray. And rubbing alcohol and a magic eraser work wonders on marks and scuffs on hard surfaces.
I recently had an item that was nwot and the buyer said it had significant wear when she received the jacket. She used those same words, what can we do about this. Sometimes you get a buyer that can not be satisfied. She wanted some money back and I never offered a partial refund, just a full refund with a return.Stick to your gut feeling and don’t communicate with her. If she truly wants a refund she will return the coat. As long as you didn’t tell her to get the coat cleaned and you would cover the cost (and you didn’t) you are safe. Buyers remorse comes in all sizes and unfortunately this seems to be a common way to force a partial refund. Ask for a copy of the receipt and that will prove that she altered the coat. Then you have your ammunition for fighting the return. If you don’t get the copy then you probably won’t hear from her again.
