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Yes but for every Mike white there has been ALOT of Jets, Bears, and Browns QB’s making their first start.
He’s definitely more an exception than the rule, but if you can make some cash in the short term on a flash in the pan more power to you!
the people that really fascinate me are the people shelling out the big bucks in this highly speculative single performance.
Is this just a form of really unhealthy gambling?
Are they just stupid rich people who just want to say they have that guys card and pretend they saw it coming with their Saturday night drinking buddies?
It’s all good…as long as eBay communicates clearly with the buyers.
if you’ve ever made an offer on Mercari then you know how this should work.
I STILL have buyers claim that they aren’t being told by eBay that I accepted their offers. Something is broken in the current system so I have little faith in a new system.
currently have 4 unpaid items.
I had a chargeback recently because the buyer said item didn’t work. Correct, it did not work…because I put it in the title, the condition, and the description that it did not work and was meant as decoration only or for repair.
It was very irritating that ebay did not allow me to write a response and only let me upload a photo. I ended up screen capping my description and uploading that. Much to my surprise, I actually won the dispute! I assume ebay just ended up eating the cost, but there is now hope that we can win cc disputes now.
So what I would do if I were you is go to the transaction details page for the order, screen cap, and upload as your evidence. The amount paid is between ebay and the customer once the order is made. This ain’t on you.
It’s best to just shut your brain off and “do the work” on things like this. I had to do similar with a large lot of Christmas Boyd’s statue things. Turns out the ones I have just weren’t worth listing individually so I listed 18 of them as a lot. Don’t think – just organize and photograph. I don’t even type out all the model numbers and names in the description. The less you pay attention to the details the better.
Regarding the shipping anxiety, do you have the proper shipping materials on hand? If not, order a roll of proper bubble wrap, proper size boxes, and list/pack.
I would order 8x8x8 boxes and big bubble bubble wrap. Wrap each bulb until it fills the box and ship it. They’ll be fine.
PMI also stands for Positive Material Identification. It is a non-destructive test method to determine the elemental makeup of materials. If they are really heavy and have that copper color it may be a tungsten copper alloy.
Maybe someone made these as a test standard for PMI testing?
I do have access to an XRF PMI gun and could check what these are made of for you, but I won’t be back to work until the end of the month.
Items in Store 1594
Items Sold 26
Total Sales $1,309.00
COGS $134.00
Total Profit $1,175.00
Average profit $45.19
Average sales price $50.35
New Listings 69
Items scavenged 8Jay inspired me to list some high dollar death pile items and two of them sold yesterday within 24 hours. Getting lots of listing done. I’d like to hit 100 new listings this week.
Yesterday I went to a Goodwill for the first time since before I got sick. Since goodwill don’t have electric wheelchairs I had to walk REALLY slow with lots of breaks. I only went because my wife and daughter wanted to clothes shop. I really don’t need any new inventory since I’m so overloaded with death piles, so I only was going to buy high dollar ($100+) items. Well… they had a few. A pair of high end racing skis that sell for $450. A new billiard light I’ll sell locally for $200. An audio mixer board that will sell for $250. I’ll get them listed today so they aren’t sitting around.
Regarding the player rolls – doesn’t it bug you that a $250 item just sat in your death pile for a year? I HATE that I have high dollar things like that just sitting around. I know I have plenty. Occasionally I go on a tear, search them out and get 5-10 $100+ items listed.
Ugh, some people are simply unpleasant. I had one of them last week – I had a typo in my title and messaged the buyer to see if they still wanted the item or if they wanted to cancel. Didn’t hear back so I held the package until the absolute last minute to ship before I got a defect.
a day after I shipped – 48 hours after my message – they messaged and said they wanted to cancel. I told them I already shipped, so all they had to do was mark the package “return to sender” and it would come back to me for a full refund. Oh my gosh, you’d think I shot their dog the way they behaved!! They wanted a full refund without having to do anything – IE, keep the $100 shoes.dummy opened an INAD case with a note demanding an immediate full refund. Nope! Still gotta ship it back.
I didn’t even give them a label – i clicked “already provided label” and I put in the original tracking number. I added a message that they just had to refuse the package like I already told them.
I stayed professional in my correspondence but man I really wanted to let them have it.
Items in Store 1551
Items Sold 21
Total Sales $727.00
COGS $65.00
Total Profit $662.00
Average profit $31.52
Average sales price $34.62
New Listings 19
Items scavenged 0Another steady week. I’ve been creating listings for clothes while I sit on the couch all week. When I have the energy I go out to my ebay room to do measurements and photos. It is slow going. I do have 50 listings ready for photographs this week I hope I can get to. My daughter has never done measurements or clothing photographs, so I have some training to do with her.
I just had a GSP order to Australia yesterday. I guess they are open again.
Items in Store 1553
Items Sold 18
Total Sales $1,001.00
COGS $57.00
Total Profit $944.00
Average profit $52.44
Average sales price $55.61
New Listings 1
Items scavenged 0Sold some high dollar items this week that really brought up my numbers. A $200 pair of tiger woods golf shoes that I spent the extra time to thoroughly clean so they looked like new. Paid $2 at a yard sale.
$150 for a huge thomas the train set that I got for free when I was at Goodwill to donate some junk. A lady pulled up beside me with her car completely full of thomas the train stuff. I commented to her on it and she asked if I wanted it. I said ABSOLUTELY and loaded it all in my van. 4 huge boxes of complete thomas sets. I actually have another one of these specific sets I just sold that I picked up at a goodwill to list once this one sold. I’ll get that one listed this week.
Recovery update. I am able to go off of my oxygen for several hours a day now! I’m just working on building up my stamina when walking around and doing things. I still have to use oxygen at night and in the morning or when I get tired/do too much.
I think several of us post numbers on Monday. My week runs Monday-Sunday.
Honesty I had no good reason for pricing at $400. It just felt right and I would have taken any reasonable offer. I did have one person who sent me a lowball offer with a “you’re delusional and it’s only worth x dollars” kind of message. I should find that one and rub it in their face.
I got that record at an awesome yard sale for $1 along with a bunch of other excellent classic rock vinyl. I’ve only listed a portion of what I got at that sale, and I’ve had a great time listening to it all.
I learned the hard way to include searches for the mis-spelled versions of what I want years ago.
I used to be big into pinball machines and arcade games. I had Craigslist searches set up and back then there weren’t that many collectors unlike now hunting for pinballs. One of my fellow local collector friends scored a pinball called “The Champion Pub” for $400 because the seller misspelled pinball. It never hit on my searches but did on his because he looked for the mis spellings.that pinball was low production and at the time was worth $6000!
Items in Store 1570
Items Sold 14
Total Sales $782.00
COGS $60.00
Total Profit $722.00
Average profit $51.57
Average sales price $55.86
New Listings 25
Items scavenged 0Not bad considering I didn’t open my store back up until Friday afternoon! The highlight sale was $400 for an autographed Terry Reid Record album. Man I hope that sale doesn’t come back to me.
I had 25 pair of shoes that just needed photos that my daughter knocked out real quick this weekend to give me a listing boost. Thank goodness the drafts were still there.
