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07/16/2019 at 11:16 pm in reply to: Ebay: Please make sold listings show the ACTUAL sale price. #65050
Yeah. The call limit varies based on API (Trading vs. Shopping, etc.) Something like Flipper Tools should just be using the Trading API, which caps out at 1.5mil/24 hours if they’ve went through the “Compatible Application Check,” otherwise it’s just 5k.
07/16/2019 at 9:50 pm in reply to: Ebay: Please make sold listings show the ACTUAL sale price. #65048eBay exposes the best offer history of items via
GetBestOffersin their Trading API. I did some testing and was able to see all the offers sent on a specific item. The sold price was found just by looking for which offer has a status of “Accepted.”I don’t know why Flipper Tools is so hit and miss, but it’s possible the API is omitting certain offers from calls performed by clients not involved in either the buying/selling of an item. However, eBay’s API docs explicitly state that all offers are public knowledge after a listing ends.
Thanks Sonia. Great SOP and will add it to the repertoire. I assume that after the missing mail case is opened you just toss them a refund? By the time that usually rolls around my buyer has just started getting ever more PO’d and just wants the money back. Can’t say I blame them.
I’ll just do this next time and hope eBay has my back. I get a bit nervous about not responding to messages since my only negative feedback was “earned” by taking the silent route, but there were more factors at play in that case.
Ah! Looks like most of listings are in the program. Seems like there should be a way to view all of them at once.
Wow, that was actually pretty good. With all the fees I pay, I want a producer credit!
I opted into Guaranteed Delivery a while back, but was removed after USPS failed to scan a bunch of packages earlier this year. Since then, my status has been “Not evaluated” despite always saying “If we evaluated you today: Meets requirements” just under that. Can’t tell if I’m 100% in it or not.
Is the $5 credit only for Fast-n-free?
That’s a key detail, yeah – free returns across the board.
I’m mostly curious as to why eBay changed their mind on it being defaulted to not refunding original shipping. Seems antithetical to their “free returns are industry standard” statement a while back.
07/05/2019 at 4:32 pm in reply to: Annual Rant About Ebay's Shipping Supplies-3rd Year in a row #64561If they take away the 10x8x6, I’ll riot.
+1 for Gimp. Been using it for years.
I’ll share my numbers also. Same format – paid/listed/(sold). I sourced all of this in June and all are listed in the same category. Most were listed under parts/repair and required repairs. Repair and diagnostics time is 30 minutes on most.
Item 1: $34 -> $140 (sold)
Item 2: $45 -> $190
Item 3: $40 -> $140
Item 4: $40 -> $100
Item 5: $40 -> $120Average age of items I sell in this category varies from 30-40 days iirc. #4 was a bad buy. I stopped sourcing these after the 5th purchase because the market slows down in the summer and I’d like to see what the average age of them will be. If these sell within 40 days I’ll probably stop IRL sourcing and go strictly online for a few weeks. If they don’t, I’ll still make my money back, but will probably stop buying them since the $35-$40 on average can be spent elsewhere with quicker payback.
Starting today, my FedEx invoices are showing up on the purchased items page. Like, appearing as items I bought from “FedEx_Shipping” (or something.) It’s bizarre. They disappeared one by one with each refresh of the page.
Combined with all these other problems, it seems like eBay is unloading a full AR mag into their own foot. Great going!
Great work! Curious as to why you like individual entries instead of just one per day/week/month?
We had a lazy mail carrier who would pull up to our apartment complex’s mailbox, mark all packages as delivered, then drive off. They would do this for a few days in a row, then decide to dump them all off at the same time. One time it took a month for a First Class package to show up.
I always tell my buyers with missing mail complaints to wait a few days, as I had about a month+ where every single package I shipped in-state would take 2x-3x as long to arrive for some unknown reason. Got to a point where a package going across the entire country would get there before it.
No wonder USPS is hemorrhaging money.
100% with Raoul here.
I just want the existing laws to be taken seriously by police. People around here have given up on reporting stolen packages because the police have displayed complete non-interest in pursuing it simply due to volume. Even footage or an eye-witness report barely gets their interest these days.
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