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I was cleaning a few pairs of shoes on my afternoon break and came across a pair of Allen Edmunds dress shoes that I bought last week. They looked funny, and I initially thought they were just dirty and possibly had shoe trees installed for a long time.
After closer inspection these are shell cordovan!! Yay!!The US Senate has tried to pass bills that would require all businesses to pay sales tax to all states for every online sale. In 2015 they tried to pass H.R. 2775 (Remote Transactions Parity Act). There was an exception in there for small businesses, but if you know how the bill making process works then you know it could get stripped out at the last minute. That bill was not taken up in the house.
I actually had a conversation with my state Senator Joe Manchin about this bill. I recommend that everyone pay a little less attention to what the President does and a whole lot more attention to what your State leadership is doing.
Here is a bit more reading on the subject:
https://www.avalara.com/blog/2016/08/31/the-online-sales-simplification-act-of-2016/If you are selling a lot of records, do yourself a favor and buy the correct boxes. There are lots of vendors of various size LP mailer boxes.
In a pinch you could just sandwich the record between two stiff pieces of cardboard and tape it all the way around.
Godaddy bookkeeping tells you when you have repeat buyers. Honestly I find it to be a worthless metric for selling random off the wall stuff. You’d have to be highly specialized for that to be a valuable metric.
I have had one repeat buyer this year. It was on an item I had in quantity – price guns. Buyer bought 3 and then 2 months later bought a few more.
Another current trendy storage method is to build a Shipping container pole barn. These can actually be done to look pretty nice. You set two shipping containers on your lot, and then build a roof over the whole thing. You then have the two enclosed container units plus the open area between them to store farm equipment, animals, etc.
There are several variations.
I would assume it was a test run. Noone is going to investigate a $7 pen, but if the card is still good after a few days then they can hit up something bigger.
Random hangups has just been a way of life for me when listing on the app on my phone. The really annoying time it takes forever is when I’m printing shipping labels. Sometimes it hangs when creating the pdf for printing.
I swear I saw something like this at the heritage museum that is local to me. It looks like a hand tool to process raw cotton or wool into yarn. I don’t know what keywords to use to verify that.
I see folks on here saying they are held on hold with ebay Customer service. I’ve never had to wait on hold. Sometimes I’ve called in, but usually I request a callback through the app. The callback wait time is always around 2 minutes. They pretty much call me as soon as I put in the request.
Maybe it is because of my geographic location?
I’ve railed on smartpost here before based on my experience. Long story short – you are hosed. USPS has ZERO liability for their end of the transaction. USPS can punt your package over Niagara Falls just for fun and you would have no recourse. The only way you can file a claim is if FedEx marks the item as damaged in their system before they hand it over to USPS. I’m pretty sure the only way that is gonna happen is if they literally flatten it or catch it on fire.
Only use Smart post if you are absolutely sure your item is 100% unbreakable or if you can afford to eat a total loss including shipping.
There’s nothing wrong with using your time wisely and grabbing the low hanging fruit. I only do a deep dive in clothes once in a blue moon if I have extra time to burn. I usually find some good stuff when I do this.
Even if I were full time, I think I’d only do an indepth look into clothes once or twice a month. The junk to treasure ratio is just too high.Total BS. You are NOT responsible for knowing if the item is compatible with their countries broadcast system. That was a CS rep talking out of their bum.
Customer didn’t do their homework and this is buyers remorse.My gosh the returns system on ebay so incredibly broken.
With Prime shipping, not only are you getting “free” shipping, but you are also opting into the A-Z return guarantee. Anyone who has been bitten by a crappy merchant fulfilled seller knows that the real benefit of Prime shipping is that guarantee – not the free or fast shipping.
I’ll pay $12 Prime shipped over the $9 merchant fulfilled item any day of the week just to know I’ll be 100% satisfied.I have a Kmart close to my house. I honestly have no idea how they have stayed in business. The place has a new manager every time I go in there. Their checkout system is a total mess. It routinely takes 15+ minutes to check out for just a few items. I’ve had to have my entire order rescanned more than once because of their crappy system.
Having said all that, they do occasionally have a good clearance sale. I’ve done plenty of RA there and buy a lot of my kids clothes off-season when they make all the clearance $1-2 per outfit.
Definitely confirm anything in offer notes via a PM. I had a case in which the buyer had said certain things in the offer notes. I plead my case to ebay and they conveniently “couldn’t access” those notes. The notes are buried in the offer message that ebay sends you if you keep those, but it is easier for ebay to access messages directly to and from that buyer.
