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The eBay site is working for me again. I am using Chrome. Earlier, it was failing for me with Chrome and Firefox.
Does anyone else have trouble accessing the ebay site? I keep getting a DNS error. This is at 7:15 AM CDT.
Daysi:
I don’t dispute your Wal Mart on-line experience, but when you described it, it reminded me of Amazon from around the year 2000. There were similar stories where Amazon would go overboard trying to make the customer happy. Then, at some point later, they must have burned through their cash, they had to tighten up their delivery processes, lay off some people and become a more business like entity.
I realize Wal mart has been in business for a long time, but maybe they’re going through growing pains with their on-line sales.
Wal mart is now competing with Microsoft to buy Tik-Tok assets. Should be interesting.
Daysi:
I don’t dispute your Wal Mart on-line experience, but when you described it, it reminded me of Amazon from around the year 2000. There were similar stories where Amazon would go overboard trying to make the customer happy. Then, at some point later, they must have burned through their cash, they had to tighten up their delivery processes, lay off some people and become a more business like entitiy.
I realize Wal mart has been in business for a long time, but maybe they’re going through growing pains with their on-line sales.
Wal mart is now competing with Microsoft to buy Tik-Tok assets. Should be interesting.
eBay has now slipped into the #3 spot of the largest online retailers in the U.S.
Amazon:38.7%
Wal Mart: 5.3%
eBay: 4.7%
eBay is still growing in sales, but competitors are chipping away at it’s growth. Certainly, there is Etsy and other similar sites, but Shopify’s growth over the past 10 years has been huge for small store front retailers.
Wal mart, not the retailer you normally think of when it comes to online sales is still the largest retailer in the U.S. by far will soon compete in a more head-to-head fashion with Amazon with walmart+. It should be interesting.
Info on UPS implementing higher fees on some shipments later this year:
Ebay just verified my account has been updated for managed payments. Does anyone know whether my future payments will be made to my bank account? I am a small seller who doesn’t sell something every day.
I have a questions that Ryanne and Jay are probably not familiar with since they primarily do not sell new stuff. I sometimes sell new or like new electronics. I go to the eBay seller hub and select “Listing” >> “Create listing”. I enter the UPC and fairly often eBay provides an accurate template for the item I’m listing.
I select the item and a listing is initialized with 1 stock image of the item. If I add additional images to this listing eBay will remove the initial stock image. So, I normally expand the stock image, do a screen grab of it and then upload that screen grab image file to the listing.
Is there some way to retain this initial image w/o having to do the screen grab?
Jay:
I wasn’t in your school when you were in the 5th grade so I don’t know if the religious leader, who was a supervisor of yours was a mean guy or not. I do find it interesting that you seem to think that all 5th graders who are hired to perform a job would be allowed or able to perform the janitorial duties w/o supervision.
It has been my experience that kids in grade school aren’t necessarily known for having a string work ethic or always acting responsible. I also realize that some people are going to say children in the 5th grade shouldn’t be working.
I have a very different view of what you described. I think it would be good for 5th or 6th graders to perform some work, get paid for it and learn some basic skills concerning what it means to earn money. I am rather surprised that you would deem it unusual or unacceptable for an adult to keep rather close watch on a 5th grader who is performing a job at a school. That seems very appropriate to me.
In a previous career, I worked with many high school aged people. Some of them were excellent workers. Some were horrible, most were somewhere in between.
If a supervisor of 5th graders performing a job is an evil task master, taking out his frustrations on a kid then that’s inappropriate. If a supervisor is just keeping an eye on a kid performing janitorial duties then I fail to see where the problem lies.
I am having an issue understanding a rather basic selling issue. My questions concerns how eBay, Pay Pal and Go Daddy Bookkeeping work. I have been using GDB for years now, so it probably seems odd that I can’t figure this out myself, but maybe someone an help me out.
I have GDB set up to pull in my ebay and Pay Pal transactions. When I list an item or sell an item I see insertion fees (normally $0.00 because I have a store) and Final Value fees (> $0.00) in GDB. I also see a charge in GDB for my monthly store subscription.
I had a credit card set up in Ebay to pay my monthly invoice. Today, I changed it today to have Pay Pal pay the invoice. Then, I thought, will these charges show up in GDB twice? Once on an individual fee basis and once as a monthly invoice total?
There was an tidbit of info in the Ebay Spring Seller Update 2020 concerning international shipping. The duties and taxes are handled differently between the International Standard delivery and the GSP:
https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/shipping/ebay-international-standard-delivery.html#m22_tb_a1__5eBay international standard delivery is a Delivered Duties Unpaid (DDU) shipping solution—buyers won’t pay duties and tax at checkout on eBay, but may have to pay the carrier for duties and tax on delivery. The Global Shipping Program (GSP) is a Delivery Duties Paid (DDP) shipping program—buyers pay duties and tax during checkout on eBay via GSP. eBay international standard delivery gives you full control of what you want to charge buyers for shipping (Free, Flat, Calculated) from end to end. With GSP, the buyer always sees the GSP shipping charges, and also any costs you set for the domestic shipping leg (Free, Flat, Calculated).
You can decide which works best for you in terms of the duties and taxes the different countries will charge.
I find it interesting, but not conclusive that when eBay started collecting taxes for the items we sell that J & R’s and T-Sat’s sales have appeared to have declined.
Ebay International Standard Delivery:
I received the following message from Ebay today. I wasn’t aware that I was part of a pilot for Ebay Send, but the program is being renamed now:
Thank you for your partnership and participation in the eBay Send International Standard (eBay Send) pilot. Your contributions and feedback played a pivotal role in shaping this new international shipping service.
As we roll out the new offer to all sellers in the coming weeks, we’d like to tell you about a couple of changes.
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The name of the service is changing from eBay Send to eBay international standard delivery. Going forward, you will now see eBay international standard delivery as an option in eBay Labels.
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We have updated the rate card for the service based on 2020 adjustments and the table below shows you updated pricing effective immediately. eBay international standard delivery is still the lowest cost international shipping option available on eBay.
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All other terms & conditions remain the same.Click here to see the updated eBay international standard delivery rates
http://image.seller.ebay.com/lib/fe98127477650d7d74/m/3/3381e5ce-c0be-4a0e-bf2e-3da5a1222df7.jpgAs you continue to use eBay international standard delivery, we hope you also continue to share feedback. Recognizing the impact that the rising cost of shipping has on your business, our team is excited to offer a low cost option with better tracking visibility, little change in your operations, and protections.
Thanks, and happy selling!
The eBay Shipping TeamHello all:
I assume most of you have heard of the AB5 law that went into effect on 1/1/2020 in California. I don’t think Ebay sellers have anything to worry about, but the criteria does make me wonder whether an Ebay seller should be reclassified as an Ebay employee. Certain professions are exempt from the new law, doctors, lawyers, strippers, etc.
Under the new law a worker can only be classified as an independent contractor if they meet all of the following:
(a) the worker is free from control and direction in the performance of services; and
(b) the worker is performing work outside the usual course of the business of the hiring company; and
(c) the worker is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business.
I’m not a lawyer so I don’t understand whether (a) applies to an Ebay seller or not. Ebay doesn’t tell us what to list, but does have many rules about what and how we must list. It sounds to me like an Ebay seller would pass the (a) qualification (be allowed to be a contractor).
Ebay sellers certainly appear to me to fail to meet the requirement for (b).
For (c) I heard a different explanation that states that the worker is free to have other employers, which Ebay sellers most certainly could, sell on Amazon, Etsy, etc. It sounds to me like an Ebay seller would pass the (c) qualification (be allowed to be a contractor).
This California law is possibly going to be implemented by other states, but that is not a certainty at this point.
