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Amatino –
Thank you!
Exactly. Letting go of things seems to get easier the more you do it. Freedom to not feel owned by one’s stuff is a goal I have for 2022.
Be happy and safe,
-MrsK.
Thank you so much for your kind and thoughtful answer. All the best to you.
I’m confused.
I received a 1099-K in the postal mail from eBay yesterday. I sold 123 things for about $5,400. I switched to Managed Payments in August.
I didn’t receive a 1099 from PayPal, where my sales were $13,800.
I thought eBay was using the same 200 item, $20,000 threshold PayPal had used in prior years. I’m also assuming PayPal is still using that threshold before generating a 1099.
Anyone have any insight?
Thanks.
Realizing I am fairly late with this comment, wanted to say something I know may upset some folks: selling things like Washington NFL branded items makes me uncomfortable and I won’t sell those things. It’s a racist slur – that’s why the owner is being pressured financially to change the name. My family is Native American, raised on a Reservation, and it’s a hurtful word. There are so many things to sell, I don’t want to make money that way. To each their own. I’m sure I’ve sold things that would offend many people – leather items, etc. Just something to think about. I appreciate everyone here, have learned so much and because you so generously shared your knowledge, made income to help the people back home.
Well, yesterday was the buyer’s (latest of three different ones I was given) deadline to ship the item back. It has not been shipped, yet I cannot close this case.
Sigh.What is really confusing is that the return details stated the deadline was June 5, but I was unable to close the return. I contacted eBay on June 8, when they said the window was 21 days and then in the same conversation said it was 35 days — June 11. They did not say business days, but the representative’s first language was not English. I’ll just try again tomorrow.
I’m good with the longer return window due to the pandemic. What is disappointing is the waste of time and confusion with the misinformation all over the place.
I wonder what the buyer thinks/was told the window is??? Maybe they will mail the item back tomorrow, since that’s (apparently?) their last day. We shall see.
Stay safe, everyone.
I just went to a FedEx store. They are down, too. Just fyi in case anyone else is experiencing frustration.
Argh! I split the shipment into two boxes. Before I packed them, last night I did a dry run shipping them via FedEx on the eBay website to gauge cost. Got as far as buying the label and backed out. Packed everything today and got an error message when I was about to purchase the first label: “Not an option”. I can do it via USPS, but that will cost twice as much. Decided I’d try to do it on Fedex.com…NOPE.
Went to the Fedex website and see this message:“System Currently Unavailable
We are currently experiencing technical difficulties. Some of our online services are temporarily unavailable. We are working quickly to resolve the issue and regret any inconvenience.”Dang.
Anyone else seeing this?Yes! Ryanne you are correct. I’m on a chat with an eBay rep now. She is saying that USPS is not available because the box is too big. On the USPS.com site, I put in the dimensions — 36 x 36 x 24 — and they are saying “According to the dimensions entered, your package is too large to be mailed”. Whoops. “Ann/Ana” on the chat suggested I use the eBay shipping calculator page and inform the buyer based on that. It also declined me via USPS but not via FedEx.
I didn’t put FedEx as a choice in my shipping when I listed the item. Because there is an offer out, I can’t update the listing to add that. I tried. I wish I had gotten an error message when I originally listed the item.
So, I am not sure what to do next. Maybe make a new identical listing just for that buyer and add a flat shipping price? I really don’t want to lose this $500 sale.
One last question: I can ship this lot in two or more boxes easily. How do I do that in the listing? Thank you!
To get to the chat page: https://www.ebay.com/help/default/default/default?id=4077&from=ContactUs
To get to the shipping calculator page: https://www.ebay.com/shp/Calculator
My whole house feels like a death pile. Just going room by room, I’ve found things. Mostly smalls but they are selling. I have 120 items in my store on average and yesterday I sold 8 items — some stuff from around my house. Glasses, a bowl, a purse, DVD, briefcase, toy, flatware, puzzle. It totaled just $143 – but I now have less junk and more $ so I’m happy about this. I have the time and it’s a nice feeling getting rid of excess. Plenty more to scrounge out and I won’t miss it.
Someone I know just sold one for $1,000 but it had a backstory: The poster was in the Grateful Dead’s manager’s office when it was firebombed. The poster had singe marks on it and was later professionally framed. Someone who owned a graphic design firm bought it. She priced very high and took that best offer.
Good luck!Unable to really source like I used to, I’m looking around my house at the gobs of unnecessary stuff and wondering whether I can part things out.
I had some old luggage sitting around. Good brand, but otherwise not special. So big and bulky – and probably would have sold for about $35 or so and been expensive to ship. Garment bags have a lot of zippers, buckles, hanger clips and so on. So I pulled all of that off and have listed them. I realize this destroyed the bag, but decided to go for it for space and mailing reasons. So far in the past week I’ve sold a handle and four screws and a plastic buckle clip for about $30. Still have more than $100 in inventory to go and it all sits in a plastic zipper bag. First class mailing is cheap, too.
I have done this before with moldy higher-end Hartmann luggage. Those leather handles, tags and straps are not cheap. But the tweed and leather bags can get fairly gross if kept in someone’s dank basement.
Saw a Dyson vacuum in a neighbor’s curbside trash the other day. Figured I’d go back to get it, leave it in the car for a few days to decontaminate, and part that out, too, but someone got there first.
Stay safe, everyone.
I’m wondering what this will mean for tax filing, which someone mentioned above. Specifically, what will eBay’s threshold be for reporting income to the IRS? Will they make it easy to back out shipping paid from shipping received? And eBay fees? (PayPal reported shipping as income and it was painful, as a novice, to figure out how to deduct what I actually paid for shipping.) Etc.
Stay safe, everyone.
