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WBird, to be covered by Seller Protection in this case, did you have to offer free return shipping to qualify? I’m becoming concerned that these types of returns will increase in frequency once unscrupulous buyers find out how simple it is. I want to make sure I qualify for whatever the seller protection is.
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Hey Y’all – I didn’t post last week as I was visiting family for the first time since Christmas! I took precautions to try to visit as safely as possible.
Today I’m officially starting ebay/poshmark on a full time basis! Up and at em!
My post office clerk told me once that this happens every day with both Fed Ex and UPS (and vice versa). Every day when the Fed Ex / UPS driver is there, they just exchange the packages with each other.
Speaking of listing variations – Over the last 6 months or longer eBay has really screwed up the variations listings in the clothing category. I’ve had to change every single one of them because eBay now says they are missing item specifics and that specific is size. So for listings that had multiple size variations, I’ve had to end all of them and make a separate listing for every size. Super annoying.
I’ll believe it when I see it. At the start of the pandemic or maybe it was when the post office took the huge hit to their sorting equipment, ebay relaxed its shipping standards. But a week or so ago they said that they were going back to monitoring & dinging accounts for late shipments again and stressed that sellers are responsible for items that arrive late even if the item was shipped on time. The policy has never made any sense and it tells me that eBay isn’t willing to pivot towards helping sellers as much as we’d like to hope.
I got a different eBay survey two days ago. The questions were more generic and didn’t ask anything about what I sell.
3 more weeks at my job before I go FT reselling – I think the last 3 weeks are going to feel like forever.
I had 2 GREAT thrifting days this weekend. Saturday was at one of those Amazon Return stores where everything is priced $5 the first day no matter what it is. I found some high dollar stuff, including some sort of gun calibrator I’ve listed for $189 and a box of fancy supplements I’ve listed for $140.
Sunday I went to my first garage sale in years. It was a charity that works with women rescued from sex slavery type situations. Many of the women aren’t ready to work out in public so they run an ebay and Poshmark store! They are remodeling their space so they sold all of their ebay inventory for dirt cheap. I got tons of NWT clothing items for $1.28/ea. 10 Ryan Michael shirts with $170 price tags per shirt. Tons of dresses and other things with $200+ price tags. It was insane! I’m kicking myself that I didn’t go on Saturday – who knows what I missed out on. I thought about offering to buy all of the leftover stock but I really didn’t want to drag that much stuff home.
33 listings this week.
3 were paper.
Hoping to list my heart out through 4th quarter.
Have a great week, y’all.
11 listings this week.
I missed last week! Work is absolutely insane. But I’ve resigned and after Nov 6th, I will own my time!
Yesterday I had planned to list all day but then I rescued a puppy from a busy street and we had to care for it until this afternoon when the rescue shelter opens. Anyone with experience with puppies knows that you aren’t getting much work done when you have a young, untrained puppy in the house. 🙂
I’m Scavenger Life famous this week, hehe. Thanks for the shout out. Quitting a steady paycheck during a pandemic and potential country-wide economic collapse not typically a smart move but mentally I have to do it. Living in a constant state of anxiety is no longer tolerable. I’m counting down the days.
I still have moments of “crap! what am I going to do for money?!” But I can do it, I just have to be treat my business like a profession and not a hobby. Thanks everyone for the support!
Thanks Mike! I’ve been living in this area for 8 years and have hardly scratched the surface of all there is to explore. For the last 3 years I couldn’t even go to the nearby lake due to lack of cellular reception since I had to be reachable at all times for work. I won’t have that to hold me back any longer. 🙂
