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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.
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.
I was also going to link Pete’s video. His advice has been helping quite a bit on my small store and would probably be great for even bigger ones.
Why would eBay not show listings older than 90 days? Surely you could just search for your own items to prove this is/isn’t true?
When the notification goes off, I immediately go to the computer and send a message similar to “Hi, mind telling me exactly what’s wrong with this? You might not need to ship it back.” and have generally had good luck with people responding. Once I confirm they aren’t going to ship the return, I refund in full.
But yes, the system sucks and I hate it. I assume some sellers were just being annoying and letting days go by before approving the return.
Cleaned out an entire basement full of vintage stereo equipment complete with boxes and manuals. Did it pretty fast and didn’t notice until I got home that everything was covered in a layer of cigar smoke. Smell was so bad I had to throw it all out, sans one receiver sitting in my storage unit that will hopefully air out before the heat death of the universe.
Buyers only get one return, so if a case is closed, they can’t open one again.
I would call eBay and reference the email you got, but I doubt they’ll do anything since the message was sent outside of their system and there’s no way for you to prove it was the buyer who wrote the message.
Like Sonia, all my inventory purchases go into GoDaddy as a non-business expense under “Inventory.” This is entered on a per-store/source basis – not by item – and is automatic since my PayPal card is synced to GD. Each item (and its cost) then gets entered into my own inventory system that syncs with eBay, so that when something sells it’s automatically flagged as sold and added into the total COGS for the week. That value then gets plugged into GD.
I don’t think there’s any all-in-one solutions. Your best bet is looking for an inventory system that syncs with eBay and manages COGS, then just use GoDaddy for everything else.
