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I listed two, and only because I rushed to do photos and listings last night.
The two main reasons I’ve have such low listing numbers is due to my new part-time job and the large number of sales. Both aren’t bad issues to have, so I’ll take what I can get.
I did sell one item that was part of my challenge. I was thinking to myself “what if I make this challenge and then don’t sell anything?”. Well, I had one, so I’m thankful for that.
@Amatino – Consider signing up for business policies. That will prevent you from the accidental free shipping issue in the future. It does take some time to organize in the beginning, but I think it is well worth it.Because of my low listing numbers, I’ve got death piles a plenty. I’ll be happy for that June challenge!
My big sale of last week was a vintage Zenith Trans Oceanic radio for $124. I have three left, two are working and one is not. They were part of a large radio purchase in September. I paid less than $3 an item.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184211025828One of my parents’ friends decided to completely remodel their kitchen, and, of course, they had to have new coordinating stuff. I usually divide up silverware sets, but this one didn’t seem so popular. I sold a near complete set for $80 with best offer.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/183912567531With more people cooking at home these days, I’ve been selling lots cooking stuff such as these Asian covered bowls. I sold one last week for $22, and one this week on a counter offer of $20. I paid about $2 each, and I have one left.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184233456466I sold a shaving mug recently that had a little shelf like that, but it didn’t have the holes. It also looked more like a mug than a china cup. I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure mine is a shaving mug.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184009225758In one of the eBay updates earlier this year or end of last, there was a statement about coming down harder on buyers who open multiple accounts in order to get around the system. They can detect accounts from the same computer by looking at the IP address. I am sure that they will not ding your account for canceling a purchase from this person.
I had a package that I had shipped out on April 24 and only had the acceptance scan on it. It sat there for about a week and a half when the buyer alerted me to the issue. I opened a missing package claim this past Saturday and was hoping for the best.
I read somewhere (and I think I’ve hear it before) that sometimes adding an email address for updates helps gets things started. On Tuesday, I looked up the tracking number on the USPS website and added my email address. Later that afternoon, I received an update saying that it was scanned at the sorting facility. Since then, I’ve received several emails with progress and a delivery date of this Saturday.
Did my missing package claim move it along? Did adding the email help? Was it all a coincidence? Why was the package stuck in some kind of limbo in the first place? I have no idea, but I’m very happy it wasn’t lost or something like that. I’m in NJ, so we’ve definitely one of the states hit hard by COVID. My local USPO seems to be OK. I don’t see any packages lining around, but there are definitely fewer cashiers.
It doesn’t hurt to try. You can contact customer service through email or eBay for Business on Facebook and state your case. It might depend on what the feedback said.
If you get the item back, and there is no issue with it, then refund his money.
If you never get the item back, then don’t refund his money. By not getting tracking, he has no way to prove he sent anything back. PayPal will lift the hold on your money after a certain amount of time (not sure how long, but maybe a month).
Trying to get the hold lifted early isn’t going to help. eBay is giving buyers a longer time to return items because the USPS is running slow.
Yes, I’ve seen this. It has been around for a bit, but not too long. I used it recently to find a USA seller of an item I wanted.
I’ve never heard of eBay forcing a seller to refund without a return. The only situation I can see that happening is if the item was damaged in transit and it would be hazardous to ship it back (like glass).
I suggest sending a message through the Facebook group eBay for Business or to their customer support email and asking the question.
Damn, I’ve seen that logo somewhere. I looked up the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society, but that isn’t it. Maybe a company logo? Hopefully, I’ll figure it out later.
I’m pretty sure that it isn’t a Greek thing, but more of a technology thing. Pi is used to represent a number that is used often in math and engineering.
Amatino – I was just thinking of 10 for the month. I just wanted to introduce the concept I use to get rid of old, less desirable inventory, not to start a large purge of everyone’s stores! If you want to do much more, then just mark the ones that are part of the challenge in the custom label column. I used an * to mark the ones I added since I still have the 40 or so that I haven’t been able to donate.
BTW, congratulations on your big listing binge last week! Looks like your eBay she-shed is really working out!
The two auction houses that I normally go to have moved online temporarily. I’ve considered bidding, but the prices have been way too high. I’m sure that there are many more collectors bidding compared to when the auctions are in person. I just hope that the auction companies don’t think “we are making so much more online, why go back?”.
Week of April 26 – May 2
* Total Items in Store: 1395 eBay, 33 Etsy
* Items Sold: 19 eBay, 1 Etsy
* Cost of Items Sold: $19.25 + $63.80 Commission
* Total Sales: $641.40 eBay
* Highest Price Sold: eBay $124 Zenith Trans Oceanic radio, Etsy $108 for 9 Crawford’s whiskey pitchers
* Returns: 0 (but one broken item -$21)
* Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
* Number of items listed this week: 10I had another great week. My big Etsy sale took about 3 or so weeks of back and forth messages to get sold. The buyer’s last name is Crawford, so they are either related to the original Crawford whiskey founders, or they just collect things with their last name. She bought out the four I had listed separately on Etsy plus the ones I hadn’t listed yet and one I had on eBay. She wanted them all!
My big eBay sale was another Zenith Trans Oceanic radio. I have three more left. One doesn’t work, but the other two do and one of those is in really great shape. I’ll list that one even higher!
I listed 10 items.
I’m thinking that I should reduce my challenge down to 10 a week. Even when the quarantine ends and I have the house to myself again, I did start this part time job that is probably going to add more and more hours as the weeks go by.
@Amatino, I recall when you said you got rid of a bunch of stagnant inventory during your move to the new space. I’m like, crap, I should have kept the challenge in April! Oh, well.
I did add 10 more new items to my “rotating” auction pile so I can play along. I marked them as being part of the challenge. At the beginning of June, I may put the stuff on Freecycling as I’m sick and tired of it hanging around!
According to Instacart, one of the CVS in my town has it at $6.59 a 12 can case. I have not been there recently to verify this. Amazon doesn’t have it, but says that each weighs 9.4 pounds. Let’s say I get two, then I would have to ship a 20-22 pound package. That won’t be cheap, but NJ to VA is not too long a distance.
I have an email sharynjunk at yahoo.com. Send me a quick message with a code word in it. Then, post here with that code word under your SL username, and then I know it is you. We can then email back and forth.
I’m willing to help out with a small favor like this. I’ll check out the CVS when I am on my way to do other things, so it might take a day or two.
