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I’ve had 3 strikes in the last few years
1) A vintage Playboy puzzle from the 70s… It was alot tamer than some of the “fine classical art” you see for sale on Ebay. I waited awhile and listed it with photos I censored.
2) A beanie cap I described as “Coogi Style”.
3) Using the word “Velcro”.
I’m very very paranoid about listing anything that might violate policy as for each of these violations I received a 7 day ban (these happened 4-6 years ago so policy may have changed). I’ve sold some DHL uniforms since then before I knew of the policy, but luckily I wasn’t dinged.
Latest thing I sold that made me paranoid was vintage Dukes of Hazzard merchandise with the Confed. Flag car on it. I’m not sure what the current policy is on the flag, but I put it at auction so it’d go quick.
Just to play devil’s advocate, I have had free returns on since the policy change and have had no noticeable jump in returns. Out of curiosity, is most of the clothing you guys are selling female or male? I’m guessing you’d have more returns with female clothing due to the different cuts / styles / sizing.
Yup, have a store and received the Ebay email about the missing photos. I’m happy I took the time to fix it myself, I had a feeling they wouldn’t be able to. Luckily for me it was only 30-40 listings, using Google Cache it took like an hour or two to fix.
MDC brings up many good points on proper time usage. Especially for people like me that are doing this part time. it’s a much much better use of time to source and list new product then to try and do search engine optimization or spend too much time forecasting / analyzing.
I’m a Financial Analyst at my day job, but I only do the bare minimum of analysis on my Ebay store after a product is listed. I’m gated by what I can find in the wild and the time I can devote to searching.
At point of purchase I use sale price, item size/fragility, competition, and sell through rate, all of which can be determined for 99% of items by doing a few quick Ebay searches. After an item has been listed for two years, I will revisit and determine if the market has moved, prices have changed, if the listing has errors, etc. It’s worked for me so far.
Can anyone confirm that calling the reps doesn’t fix anything? I’m seeing mixed messages about that. I assume since this is a site wide bug that the issue will be fixed all at once for everyone.
I posted this on Ebay forums as well. Someone said they called in and wait time was 160+ minutes. I’m guessing they’re being flooded with calls, I haven’t seen *ANYONE* say that they HAVEN’T had this issue. As far as I’m aware it is site wide.
I think you guys aren’t acknowledging just how shady what you did was.
If I was the original buyer I would have absolutely left a negative and called Ebay to report what you had done. It wasn’t a “mistake”, the buyer had more knowledge than you and took advantage of that to scoop up a deal, which is exactly what you and I do everyday when we buy stuff at yard sales and thrifts and flip it online.
How would you feel if someone you bought an item from at auction realized what it’s worth and came knocking on your door demanding it back because its worth 20x what you paid him for it?
I get it, it’s a super valuable item. If I was in your shoes I might do the same. But it’s super shady, especially trying to blackmail the buyer into not leaving a negative by telling them you’ll block them from bidding on it.
I currently have 700-ish items in my store and revisit listings if they haven’t sold in 2 years. Sometimes they just end up being very obscure long-tail items and I don’t change a thing, sometimes it’s due to a misspelling or bad titles, and sometimes it’s because the market for those items has changed (i.e. generic clothing from most of the old “BOLO” brands you see discussed on Youtube has dropped significant in the last few years). I’ve definitely had success with this method and it feels great seeing something you’ve had for literally years finally sell, the bigger and more obnoxious the item the better 🙂 .
Just to add some clarity, I had my first refused package recently after thousands of items sold over the last few years. Per Ebay policy buyers CANNOT refuse packages and expect to get a refund.
You’re lucky that you got the item back, in my case it took around 2-3 months before it came back to our PO box, but the buyer opened up a case and wanted an immediate refund. As I wasn’t sure if and when the item would be returned to me, I refused to refund until the item was in my hands. They escalated the case, Ebay sided in my favor, they appealed the case, and again Ebay ruled in my favor.
Unfortunately, the person then went to Paypal, and it looks like Paypal has a different policy and refunded them the money instantly without giving me a chance to counter! I was steaming mad when I called Paypal. The rep said he “understood” and provided me with a “one time” credit for the amount refunded to the buyer.
Long story short, Ebay will side with you, Paypal won’t.
Thank you! I think I’ve identified the characters as being Cyrillic, the problem is there are a whole bunch of languages that use that character set!
Awesome, thanks for your help! How the heck did you find that so quickly? I’d love to know so I don’t have to ask silly questions in the future =) .
I would like to address the topic vis-Ã -vis the baby boomers, opportunities, and wealth transfer.
First, I fully agree that baby boomers and their parents currently have a whole lot of material wealth and “stuff” collected over the post war boom years in the US, most likely more than a Gen X or Millennial does at the same life stage. The answer as to why this is isn’t as straightforward as some are making it out to be. I’m going to lay out what I think the main contributing factors are:
Spending habits are a big part of this. The trend right now is to buy “experiences”, not things. Vacations, restaurants, beauty treatments, pet grooming, balloon rides, cruises, theme parks, sports / play / movie / plane tickets,activities for the kids, etc. Add in stuff like internet / cell phone bills, cell phones / tablets / TVs that become nearly worthless every few years, and there isn’t much money left over for tangible things that last.
I work an upper middle class job, and from observing my co-workers, this is where the majority of their money is going. Every dollar spent on these things is a dollar not spent on possessions that scavengers like us would find in 20 years time.
Mobility and space is definitely another issue. The younger generations are moving more and more from job to job and city to city, making it hard to accumulate items. Instead of sticking things in the basement for 20+ years and forgetting about them, when you’re moving every 3-5 years, you have to get rid of it or take it with you.
Back in the day staying put in the same town / house for your whole career, or even life, was more common, allowing for more accumulated material wealth.
Ahh, wall shrines do appear to be a thing. This doesn’t have any hardware on the back to hang it up, so I’m guessing its prob. a desktop version. The maker is Goldscheider if anyone is curious, made in Italy. It looks like some of their porcelain pieces go for good money.
Well, I guess most people would consider the video game poster I sold for $2500 pretty crazy. Here’s a link to one of the fan sites that covered the sale. The reason it sold for so high is that this was a cult game from the 90s that sold poorly and was overlooked until people became obsessed with it in the 2000s. I was a big fan of the game from the original launch and had a big collection of swag and promotional items for it that I sold to this same buyer, the total came out to like $5k. I got the poster for $20 from a mistitled Ebay auction.
http://www.sealedvideogames.net/2012/03/20/earthbound-poster/
