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Some people are just perpetually mortally offended. This has become a pandemic greater than covid the last few years it seems.
He’s strictly used items, almost all clothes. His ASP is like $30 shipped. He is grinding HARD with a goal of like 170 sales a day. It’s all about efficiency. He tracks his listing times and drives each step to the most efficient time.
He pushes something he calls “reseller nirvana” to the subscribers of his patreon stuff. He defines reseller nirvana of having a balance of listing 10 items a day and selling 10 items a day. The paid membership is basically an accountability system with coaching – I assume it is much like this group. Totally unneccessary and he doesn’t use his youtube channel as a glorified advert for the group like other people do.
He’s strictly fast nickel versus most of us going slow dime. That’s WAY too much of a grind for my tastes in my current lifestyle. I couldn’t imagine shipping 100+ items a DAY!!!
Some of those youtube yard sale gopro style resellers really are funny to me. It’s fun to watch them shop, but they always overpay for fear of being beat up in comments for being “cheap”. Then when they share their sold stats their sales prices are LOW and include shipping. I’m like “what are you doing dude? You made $2 on that item after shipping/fees and put in all that work!”
Yeah over the last year or two amazon’s search function has taken a massive dump. I routinely try to search items by barcode and it doesn’t work. Then I’ll do manual searches with title and find what I am looking for. What is up with that?
Yes I have seen this but it is rare and unpredictable. I did 20 listings yesterday and it only happened to one.
Items in Store 1505
Items Sold 28
Total Sales $1,110.00
COGS $106.00
Total Profit $1,004.00
Average profit $35.86
Average sales price $39.64
New Listings 21
Items scavenged 14Broke $1000 AND all the items are paid for this time. I created listings for about 70 pair of shoes this weekend. My daughter did photos for 20 of them so far and will finish the rest this week.
I sold another big combined lot of star wars action figures to an overseas buyer. I’m up over $800 in sales on that bulk buy pipeline – it feels good! I still have over 30 listings left from it – I’ll clear well over $1k profit once it is all said and done.
We’re on baby watch this week. My wife should be giving birth at some point in the next few days as she is 40 weeks.
One thing I would like is the ability to add additional custom fields aside from just the custom SKU field. I’d like to have the option to simply create a “Inventory location” field and a “COGS” field.
Yeah lets go ahead and bump my sales down $650.
The book buyer wrote me back finally and basically said that “they just wanted to know how low I would go”. Wow, that really ticks me off! The other $50 item the person has never responded. This is the second time this item has sold and went without payment in 2 weeks. I checked the old order and it is the SAME person but on a different account. What in the world?
Bummer… still a pretty good week though all things considered!
Items in Store 1512
Items Sold 21
Total Sales $1,399.00
COGS $65.00
Total Profit $1,334.00
Average profit $63.52
Average sales price $66.62
New Listings 59
Items scavenged 8So there is a HUGE asterisk on my sales numbers right now. Friday evening I sold one of my Manga book listings for $600. They still haven’t paid. I sold another $50 item around the same time that hasn’t been paid as well, so I have $650 in pending sales. Booo!
This weekend I tag teamed with my daughter to do a bunch of listing. She photographed almost 60 items and also cleaned 30 pair of shoes. I gave her a $10 bonus on top of all her work for getting everything done in the same day I gave it to her. Hopefully we can keep this momentum going into this week. I have a MASSIVE backlog of shoes awaiting listing.
Oooh, yeah you need to tell him to pound sand and that he has to return for full refund. This is likely a drop shipper or a container shipper. Either way he’s likely in violation of ebay policy and cannot return the item. He also threatened you with feedback extortion.
You are good to go here. He won’t return it and if he leaves you a neg you can easily get it removed.
Something is wrong with amazon links. I’ll try it again below:
If that don’t work, just search for box resizer on amazon. It’s $16 and will save you tons of time and money. One of the best tools you can have as an ebay seller.
I’ve had a couple of these crazies. Thankfully it is a RARE occurrence. If they keep engaging I will send a final message along the lines of “You will not be purchasing this item. Please move on” and I won’t respond anymore. That usually does the trick.
I always try to put myself in the buyers shoes and react the way I would want a seller to react.
Judging by what you have said you can’t 100% know they are authentic if you didn’t purchase them new, so he kind of has you. If you didn’t specify in your listing that it is a mixed lot with “some” Harley Davidson, then he kind of has you there too.
In these situations I will acknowledge any details I may have left out or left ambiguous, and start the negotiation by asking the customer how I can make it right for them. Sometimes they say “it’s no problem I get it”. Sometimes they ask for a token refund. I always have them suggest a number first. Usually it is lower than I would have offered.
If they are unreasonable with their resolution, then just say “return for refund” and leave it up to fate on which option they choose for refund. Keep this in mind as well – you can now opt to not refund original shipping if you charge for shipping even on INAD cases. I’ve done this several times for buyers who have misused the INAD return system and noone has ever challenged it.
That’s a crappy situation for you. If I were you, I would not refund her original shipping. I would just refer her to ebay cutomer service if the numbers don’t appear to add up. Explain that the system is automated and you basically just “press a button” to close the return so there is no issue on your end.
If she wants to waste 2 hours on the phone with ebay to try and worm her way back into getting $8 back, that is on her. Make her earn it!
But searching for the right box is stressful and I have no idea how some of y’all do it every day.
Simple – you make them. I stock cube boxes in 12″, 14″, 16″ and 18″. I can turn an 18″ box into a 24x10x8 box, or a 20x16x15, or any other combination after resizing and cutting down the top. It’s pretty easy – just two folds and then 4 zips with a box cutter in the new corners.
I can turn 2 12″ cube boxes into a 30x12x12 box. You just put one box inside the other and you have an accordion style box with an adjustable length. The flaps make up the extra length. I always slap a little glue under the flaps before I tape them up.
A couple times I’ve strung together 5 priority shoe boxes to make a 72x8x5 box for skis.
Once you do it long enough, it just becomes second nature.
This page clarifies your questions:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/help/selling/selling/vat-obligations-eu?id=4650#section4
Scroll down to the “EU changes at a glance” section
There is a chart explaining the scenarios based on seller and item location. Below that is a section pertaining to GSP.
In short, you don’t have to do anything.
