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I’d be worried about getting overwhelmed by people in my own home. Unless you have friends stationed in each room, whats the stop strangers from going through drawers or grab items you want to keep.
One option is to just so a series of sales where you drag stuff out to you garage and sell off in chunks. Furniture sale, then clothing sale, then electronics sale, etc. Keep it manageable.
03/07/2020 at 12:56 pm in reply to: Travelling to Japan – any suggestions of what to buy for resale in the US #74854Those flea markets look fun. We’ve been to ones in Europe where people dont speak much english. We usually paid the asking price just being it was fun to scavenge. Or I’d just hold up the currency I was willing to pay.
I agree that in this inter-connected global world, the days of being an “importer/exporter” is much more difficult. Its all online.
03/07/2020 at 12:53 pm in reply to: How to list an item when you can’t find any info about it’s very existence? #74853Might have been just the right price 🙂
As others said, we put almost nothing in the description. Several years ago, eBay began stripping out the description on phones, thus making them almost useless.
eBay has also been very clear that they now require all relevant info to be in the Item Specifics. This is where eBay will back you up. Any info in the description is nice but just really fluff.
I guess it also depends on what you sell. Some collectibles may need them to explain the item? When you buy items on eBay, do you read the description?
03/07/2020 at 12:05 pm in reply to: Lost a bunch of CDs I was in process of listing. Crrrraaaaapp! #74849I recently read an article about their amazing Lost and Found system:
https://www.citylab.com/life/2020/02/japan-lost-and-found-phone-wallet-purse-tokyo-property-law/604645/I disagree a bit with Jay. I always keep the patches on and find they sell for more money even if the hats are in very good condition. Collectors a lot of times will take the patch off but are willing to pay more money for the hat.
To be clear, we just remove patches from hats that are basically trash. Where the foam has disintegrated or the hat is unwearable.
Often devil’s dust means the hat can’t be worn because its not “structurally” stiff anymore and wont fit on the head nicely. There are some very rare hats that are in this condition that we sell as-is. Very few.
When you sell hats that cant be worn anymore, what do you think the buyer does with it? How do you list it so the buyer knows he cant wear it?
Understood. There’s just a difference between “a random Customer service rep read this to me” versus “here’s a link where eBay has codified their official policy”.
“Sufficient time” needs to be spelled out.
Understood. This is quite common with those old snapback hats. The foam just falls apart.
If the hat has a cool patch on it, we just remove the patch.
If you really think the hats are valuable as wall art, you could list and be transparent about the dust. Just know that’s a big downer for buyers…but necessary so they know it cant be worn.
We just buy bottles of rubbing alcohol and put in spray bottles. We keep one on our vehicles. I like it better than sticky hand sanitizer.
We just shake them out the best we can. Sometimes we use a vacuum. Issue is that some partt of then hat is deteriorating which is going to be an issue for buyers.
Are these baseball hats or snapbacks?
03/06/2020 at 4:45 pm in reply to: Lost a bunch of CDs I was in process of listing. Crrrraaaaapp! #74820Her spirit has officially left this corporeal world.
Appreciate you posting this. I wish eBay would officially put this in writing.
03/06/2020 at 6:56 am in reply to: Lost a bunch of CDs I was in process of listing. Crrrraaaaapp! #74803I definitely commiserate with you. We recently found a very cool WW2 jacket that was probably worth a couple hundred dollars. We decided to do a light wash on it to clean it up some (contrary to our usual advice to sell as is). Unfortunately it ruined the fabric and has likely rendered it valueless. All lessons are expensive.
Where is your photo spot? Do you take pictures in a public place?
Agreed. Ryanne is not asking that the seller pay for shipping. Just asking if the buyer will take the return and is willing to pay for shipping, if there’s a way to track the package through eBay.
Currently it seems that if the buyer has “no returns” but will make an exception, eBay has no procedure to mail it back.
Hey Grace. Appreciate the message. Sounds like scavenging is in your blood if you’ve been doing this for four years or more! Thats awesome you pay yourself and, like you said, have much more flexible and enjoyable work hours.
It always amazes us to hear your story about listening to our podcast since we have the least flashy recording and have chosen to put put ourselves on camera to perform. Nice that we still come through to the right people.
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