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@Antique Frog I get that, I wonder if others do.
11/26/2019 at 1:26 pm in reply to: Listing on Amazon, UPC not found for items from Sears, Can’t Seem to add. #71089Not all UPCs for all products exist in the Amazon catalog, either active or inactive, so if you are trying to list new products solely based on UPC that sometimes doesn’t work and you will need to create a new ASIN by completing all the required information and uploading photos.
Do you have the basic Amazon seller account or the Professional? There are restrictions on what a seller can do on the basic plan, I don’t know all of them.
Some categories are restricted and require approval to list. Many brand names are restricted as well.
Pay attention to what Amazon defines as new, by their criteria arbitrage items are not new even though the have never been worn and still have tags. Many sellers fly under the radar with this, at least for a while, before getting the smackdown.
You might want to check the Amazon seller general forum at https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums. Some members there can be snarky with newbies asking questions that can be answered from search, but there is a wealth of knowledge available from browsing. If you are intending to continue selling on Amazon then monitoring the forum can increase your general knowledge of selling on Amazon and avoiding the pitfalls. Amazon also has fairly good seller help pages if you can navigate your way through that maze.
@Jess, You’re welcome. Keep the faith, things will work out. I find small-town folks, while usually friendly, are slow to include new people but they will in a short time with enough contact. I was just thinking of another outlet, my wife really enjoyed her volunteer work at the local hospital and that helped her make a lot of new friends after we moved here. Her situation wasn’t very much different than yours.
11/25/2019 at 9:07 pm in reply to: smudge-free shipping labels for laser printer – recommendations pls #71068Before I went to thermal labels I used to get my labels from buyrightlabels, https://www.ebay.com/usr/buyrightlabels. They’re not a big seller but have been around for a long time and I never had any issues with them.
I don’t recall now which specific label I bought from them and it’s been more than 3 years so nothing in my purchase history to clue me in. I wouldn’t hesitate to message them if I were needing sheet labels again.
@IndySales, I’m at the opposite end of the age spectrum, age 70. The same thing though, my peers aren’t interested in the same things.
Hi Jess,
I hear what you’re saying, I live by myself and feel undersocialized at times (if that’s a word). Even loners get lonely sometimes. I live in a small town of about 1100, which makes it both easier and harder. Easier because I know a lot of people I see around town and rural folks like to stop and chat (blocking the grocery store aisle, etc.). It’s harder because there aren’t always as many groups with common interests.
You can check with the various civic organizations, they seem to always need volunteers and its a good way to feel productive by giving back. For instance the Optimists club here does a lot of beneficial projects in our town. I used to meet with a group of guys for coffee in the morning until the local cafe closed down. That was always fun and keep me up to date on the local “news” (old men gossip as much or more than women do, lol).
What kind of interests do you have? Maybe you can build on those.
Bill
I think that we can still create multiple standard feedback messages without a store, and send multiple feedbacks manually using a random selection of those. Without a store, it just can’t be done automatically.
It doesn’t matter to eBay if you follow up on their feedback reminders, but I think you should do it even if it is just a Thank you for your business. I would not spend any time crafting custom feedback remarks for each order, buyers don’t expect that and probably few even pay attention to their feedback as a buyer. You can set up multiple generic feedback comments and leave all your feedback at once by selecting the option to apply those comments at random. If you have a store you can set this up to be left automatically at the time of purchase if you want. I do that for my primary eBay account, but I have an old smaller selling account which is now too small to justify a store and I submit feedback there about once a week or whenever I think about it, using the bulk feedback option.
I set up a set of standard feedback comments that are selected at random to give buyers feedback automatically at the time of purchase. For me, I think its a waste of my time to do anything else.
Maybe the sellers who wait until the buyer leaves feedback are a throwback to when sellers could leave negative feedback for buyers, or they intend to craft a negative sounding positive feedback if the buyer leaves a negative (which is a good way to get slapped down by eBay if reported). They fail to realize that feedback as a buyer is really meaningless. Perhaps they think they are somehow punishing the buyer for a bad experience by withholding feedback.
My philosophy, avoid non-productive tasks and negative energy.
You can request the buyer remove the feedback, https://feedback.ebay.com/ws/BayISAPI.dll?ReviseFeedbackInitiate. Be careful, you can’t offer any incentive for removing the feedback. Keep it short and professional while still mildly begging.
Can I ask you for a personal favor? If you can see your way clear to remove the negative feedback you left for this sale I will greatly appreciate your aid.
I tripped over a scam seller on eBay a few weeks ago. I thought the lead time for shipping was a little long but went ahead with the purchase. When I went back to check on the order after a week, there was no tracking but their feedback had stated filled up with red donuts for not shipping products. The really irritating thing is I then had to wait until the end of the delivery window to open a case, and now wait another 7 days to give the seller time to respond. Hello? It’s obvious they aren’t going to ship this, by the time the case is closed I will have been out the money for almost a month.
I don’t buy a lot on eBay; this reminds me of the Wild West eBay. There needs to be a better process to rein in these scam sellers and immediately refund the buyers who are affected when a seller goes rouge. Yes, I know, this is a very isolated instance, but to the buyers that it happens to it isn’t trivial, for sure.
Getting back to the thread topic, I checked before buying and this was supposedly a U.S. seller, now I see he is actually from Vietnam, an eBay member since Jan 2019. I peeked at feedback before buying, didn’t notice Vietnam, at that time is feedback was OK, but now a steady stream of negs since then (including mine).
Interesting to see this order is now missing from my purchase history. Maybe that’s normal.
11/22/2019 at 4:50 pm in reply to: Article re Ebay Item Specific Fixes & Free Optiseller Tool to ID Problems #70937I would have to do some checking on that but I don’t think that is the situation or I would have a lot more problems probably As a guess I have created the fitment on at least 500 of my current listings, probably more.
11/22/2019 at 12:29 pm in reply to: Article re Ebay Item Specific Fixes & Free Optiseller Tool to ID Problems #70932@Timo, I recognize this site as one I have used in the past, but its been several years. Very geeky, which is not a problem for me.
I ran an export of all my listings in eBay Motors (2633) and found I have 69 with no Brand name and another 24 with no Manufacturer’s Part Number (although not the same listings). These had to have had both those attributes when listed.
I have seen this occasionally when editing old listings, and they sometimes trip an error if I do a bulk edit. Frustrating,
11/22/2019 at 9:25 am in reply to: Article re Ebay Item Specific Fixes & Free Optiseller Tool to ID Problems #70920Were you able to check that site?
I apparently had an account there at some time, I believe they had some tools in the past that were useful, maybe the active content change. I don’t know the password and now I’m stuck on waiting for them to send me an email to confirm my email address in order to reset my password so I can sign in. It’s been over 15 minutes, not received or caught in the SPAM filter. It lowers my faith in a tech company that can’t do simple things right.
I’ve only done this a few times with some things around the house, so I’m not expert by any means. I’ve also bought several things for my personal use. My business inventory doesn’t really work for this type of environment.
I don’t think you can limit the distance, but I think you will find that the buyer’s distance filters will pretty much do that. I personally wouldn’t drive to them anyhow unless maybe it was a large purchase. They can come to you if there is some reason to meet, or ship it to them. If you do need to meet them face-to-face I would do that at McDonald’s or a convenience store, etc.
It’s really a pretty easy format to set up a listing, really, I’m sure you will not have any problems if you have figured out listing on eBay.
I have heard Steve Shultz, who does the Wednesday ‘What Sold’ videos, show & tell some things that he sold on Marketplace, maybe he or someone else with more experience can add more here.
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