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They’re for shipping, not for packing. The policy is in place for a reason and applies to everyone. If the question is “Will I get in trouble?”, then the answer is no, just don’t complain when these “free” materials are put behind the counter at the PO and cost $2/piece.
I think anyone would find it looks lazy. Just imagine ripping open a box and finding it full of perfectly usable padded flat rate mailers for void fill.
Go buy kraft paper at Staples. If weight matters, get tissue paper or newsprint. You’ll spend $10 at most. For “free” supplies you can dumpster dive your nearest recycling bin or talk to a store owner about getting some of their packing material that would normally be dumpster-bound.
A channel that can barely hit 150 views per video having dozens of testimonials is the biggest red flag of them all. Their Instagram account also has low engagement. Perhaps they have a larger audience on Facebook.
It’s no mystery that people willing to sell in Business & Industrial can make a lot of money, but the sourcing, storage, and shipping is 100x more difficult than any other category. I can see the value of having someone teach you a few things (pallets, freight, etc) in person, but online? Not seeing it.
Fingers crossed for details on the revised seller protections, which I believe were INAD/feedback removal based on your “reputation.” Can’t recall where I saw that – maybe out of eBay Open?
Also assuming some clarity on Managed Payments.
I’ve been developing inventory management software for eBay and this was one of the most interesting things to see come up as a result of it syncing local on-hand inventory with what was live on eBay. At times I could believe that maybe I accidentally double-listed or messed up a quantity (30 of the same VCR?) but other times it was very apparent something weird had gone on internally and caused something to show up when it shouldn’t have.
I’m especially suspicious of quantity listings as they seem the most prone to error.
Depends. If it’s an OEM disk then that license is tied to that PC via motherboard ID. This is the case for any PC purchases from Dell, etc. If it’s a retail disk (meaning it was bought from a store for full price), it can only be installed on one computer at a time, but the license can be revoked for installation on a new PC.
If you don’t know the history of it I wouldn’t sell it. You’ll be competing with a bunch of people just selling keys and (what looks to be) pirated copies.
In that forum thread people are talking about moving everything to variation listings to escape fee increases. What’s that about?
A friend asked me to sell her nail polish collection a while back and my research led me to believe that used cosmetics of any kind weren’t allowed.
https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-items/used-cosmetics-policy?id=4290#what
This page says “Not allowed: Used cosmetics”.
Rural areas have the best POs around. My hometown does a great job and it’s common to leave christmas gifts for the carrier around holidays.
Since I moved to a city it’s been nothing but problems. No rant needed.
BTW, if you want to go down the rabbit hole, there’s reddit.com/r/USPS/
It’s very interesting and good insider knowledge. A lot of the time you can find stories on there about how abusive higher-ups can be which leads to problems all around. USPS is corrupt at the core – they don’t fire people except in worst-case scenarios. Bad apples get “transferred” or put “on leave.” Explains everything IMO.
Almost everyone I see offering mentorship/courses is selling clothing or some other kind of high-volume item (wholesale, etc.) Just a wild guess, but I’m assuming that a lot of these people are just teaching marketing tricks/strategies for standing out. Cyndi seems to focus on the slanted photos + low/mid-range prices, while others teach social media marketing and such.
Craigslist Hunter’s latest video (https://youtu.be/u-qclwNP-fU?t=856 – timestamped to roughly 14:00) touches on these same issues. People have been contacting Pete about closing down their eBay stores after spending a bunch of time building up inventory. Turns out it was tougher than expected, especially given how hard it is to go full-time on just thrifting, etc. I think slow summer sales choked them out.
These are serious business people, not scavengers. They live, eat, and breathe business. Can’t get enough of it. The mentorship program says it all – capitalize on every opportunity and run with it. They sell merch. They have ads. Etc etc.
Their videos are wholly uninteresting to anyone with even the slightest bit of reselling knowledge because their target audience are those clicking a thumbnail under YouTube’s related videos sidebar that says “We made $1,000+ shopping at GOODWILL!”. Bring the people in, allude to hidden knowledge, sell the mentorship program, cash out. Seems the smartest move in reselling is just teaching people how to resell.
I have nothing against them personally. Mentorship programs will always seem sketchy to me, but that’s because I know just about everything in the world can be self-taught or learned for free. More importantly, I know I have the drive to learn it myself – others need convincing that they’re capable.
As far as I know, if you list from a mobile device there is no way to select a business policy – it just creates a new policy based on what you select. It was the reason I stopped listing on mobile, but someone else will need to confirm if this is still the case.
Moving to business policies requires janitorial work. The idea is that you create a number of policies that match your shipping methods of choice, then migrate listings attached to the eBay-generated policies to your new policies. You do this by clicking the dropdown next to the policy and selecting “Change policy for these listings”.
Shipping, returns, and payment are handled with individual policies. For example, I have 6 or so shipping policies, but only 3 for returns (free, paid, no), and 2 payment (BINs and auctions.)
Policy management is here: https://www.bizpolicy.ebay.com/businesspolicy/manage
Mac OS is different than the OS used on iPads, so the drivers won’t work there.
However, you can see as to whether or not it’s possible to hook the printer up the iMac and “share” the printer on the network. At least on Android it’s possible to print to a networked (shared) printer.
What OS are Chromebooks using nowadays?
My eBay laptop runs Ubuntu, which has Dymo drivers built in. There are some problems with it remembering default settings (page size, etc) but changing it takes a click or two and it’s good. My other desktop runs Arch Linux and I had to manually compile the drivers myself to get the Dymo printing.
