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Personally, I don’t see any reason to wait for the 21-day waiting period to end because no matter what happens you are still going to have the item and want to sell it. If you create a new listing now you just need to watch for it to be automatically relisting and cancel that listing if it happens to prevent a duplicate listing.
Used to be PayPal batch printing would pull orders from eBay, then pass the tracking back to them. No idea if that still works, but maybe worth checking.
MDC, I wonder how many here beside you and I know what kiss-cut means, takes me back.
Here’s a Rollo wireless thermal label printer from Amazon for $170. I don’t know anything about it other than a brief scan of the listing.
I like the fanfold labels too, also a Zebra printer. I have them under the table the printer is on, feeding up between the wall and table. In addition to the convenience and lower cost, I don’t get that annoying label curl near the end of the roll. I also get the free UPS fanfold labels. I don’t switch them back and forth during each day’s shipping but one them one week out of 4 or more depending based on the current UPS usage.
There was a caller on the podcast today asking about buying shipping from UPS. Years ago I set up a UPS account, with a discount for being an eBay seller. They have a webpage where you can set having all your eBay orders imported, then just pick and choose the ones you need to ship UPS, then print the label, the tracking number is automatically uploaded to eBay. Your shipping cost is going to be better than going to the UPS store, for sure. The web interface isn’t all that pretty, but then again that’s not UPS’s target market for shipping customers. You may have to search for information on the eBay discount or contact UPS help.
It’s called UPS Marketplace shipping, I can’t recall enough details to guide somebody through the process, it’s just been too long, but anybody smart enough to run an eBay store should be able to figure it out. I don’t use this anymore because I can print labels on ShippingEasy with USPS, UPS, FedEx and other providers, but I just took a look and my account is still active. My Amazon orders are there from the weekend but I need to renew my eBay tokens for 2 accounts.
So, there it is, you can ship eBay orders using UPS easily with a little time spent setting it up.
“The speakers are small, shelf sized but weigh a ton.” FYI: Heavy-weight in speakers is a good indicator of better sound quality, think about including the weight in the description.
Well, that must be a load off your mind. It’s really a shame we have to wasste our time sue to eBay glitches.
Was this an eMail message? There are a lot of phishing scams, some of which can look very genuine. Don’t click on any links and if you did and then signed in you need to change your password immediately. Any legit notifications from eBay will also be in your eBay messages.
I think most of the older smaller tractors are owned by people who have a few acres mini-farms. They may also want to maintain the tractors themself so the manuals should be handy. Most of the older ones just aren’t powerful enough for the demands of modern farming.
At one time in my life I farmed and worked a full-time job, my oldest son has a cattle feedlot and grows all the corn for feed and bales tons of hay with a big round bale baler. I help him occasionally and driving one of his tractors is a world of difference from the old John Deere model 2510 I used. It’s really amazing to see some of the electronics the new equipment has. For example, they measure ground speed and tire slip for best efficiency, have quite heated and air-conditioned cabs, and advanced functions like GPS to drive the tractor when planting and keep it at exact spacing with the last pass. The combine can record what the yield was for each area of the fields he farms and he can apply more or less fertilizer next year based on that. It’s all amazing stuff.
I just created a new campaign. Fairly painless and minimal time. I just don’t like mysteries except for movies and books.
Well, the campaign isn’t even available to add items to it. It shows in the Promoted listing dashboard with impressions through yesterday but none today. Its too late tonight to mess with this.
All I can say is doing that with car brands works with auto parts. I have had take-downs in the past and this is what eBay advised to do in order to prevent that, I haven’t had a problem since. Example: Brake Hose for 1988-1992 Corvette – Rear Right. I don’t know if this actually helps sales results as long as the information is the item specifics.
It is probably a situation like auto parts that I sell, you need to say “for John Deere” not just “John Deere”.
I understand the boring part, I just finished listing a lot of 369 brake hose part numbers. They go fairly fast because there isn’t much modification between listings and I do them in batches of 50 or so, but my eyes glaze over if I work too long in one session.
Are these 55 different manuals, or 55 of the same manual?
Multi-quantity listings are great because you only have to spend the listing time once and then get continued sales, perhaps for years. If they are all different but similar you still should gain some efficiency when listing them all in batches with just minor changes to the same description and item specifics.
Either way, I look at how long it will take me to recover the initial investment, with the profit coming after that.
You have to consider storage space too. What are you not going to be able to buy because you ran out of space to store things?
