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That’s hilarious! And I’m planning to make some this weekend; getting out my sewing machine that I haven’t used for about five years. Wish me luck and no bandages!
I think that the USPO would know the difference between a packing slip and a hand written letter. Although, a hand written note is media in a way, right?
I did some research about media mail a few years ago, and I read that newspaper used as packing material could be an issue. I think it was fake news, because, again, I think the USPO knows the difference between packing material and something being shipped. However, as long as I have other types of packing material on hand, I won’t use newspaper with media mail.
That’s a little different, then. If someone buys everything in one transaction, then it is all lumped together. I’m used to buyers not being that sophisticated, so they buy one thing at a time. eBay allows you to combine them as long as the address and username are the same, but then you have separate transactions in PayPal.
BTW, refunding for excess shipping is not an unusual thing to do and shouldn’t look like an out-of-stock situation. I do this all the time.
You would refund them through PayPal. Find their sales in PayPal and divide the excess shipping among them. Press “refund”, but make sure to change the amount because it puts in the full purchase price by default.
I used to just refund the excess on just one of the items, but I thought what would happen if they decided to return one item that I had not refunded shipping. At that point, when you refunded the one item they shipped back, you would lose on the shipping.
By the way, eBay doesn’t have a good method of setting up combined shipping.
I do live in the North East, and I’ve been thinking about it. I’ve seen a few local pickup items show up on my “make offer” list. I include a note that I am willing to still go ahead with it, but that I would consider social distancing in the pickup.
Normally, I do a pickup in a parking lot somewhere in town. Because of the corona virus, I would probably arrange for them come to my house and pick it up on my porch or on the driveway. Since it would be an eBay sale, I wouldn’t have to worry about exchanging money.
I haven’t had anyone accept an offer, so I haven’t put it into practice yet.
@Dirt Poor Picker – The best way to find Steve’s store is to search eBay solds on one of the items in his video.
I had some good sales last week:
This manual drill/screw driver is over 100 years old and still works. When my son was in cub scouts, one of the parents was a carpenter and had one of these that he still uses. This one was purchased in an online auction for about $2 and sold for $38.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184207973907About two years ago I bought an auction lot of kitchen stuff and green glass. I grouped up several kitchen utensils in one listing, but never had any interest on it. A few weeks ago, someone asked to buy one of the items, an ice cream scoop. I decided to sell just that one item to him, and then listed all the other things separately. I sold a chopper and a scoop one right after each other for $14 and $5 respectively. Not much money, but my point is that sometimes things just don’t sell in lots. Actually, my point is not to buy these things in the first place because nowadays I like to sell at a higher price point.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184206558977
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184206568956Most of my higher sales were on commission for a family friend. I take 50% of the proceeds after eBay and PayPal fees. The highest priced one was a gold ring for $250.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184204515933
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184248396091
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184227198154I did have one big sale of my own. I paid $2.30 for an older ruby color iMac in an online auction. The auction listed it as being sold “as-is”, but it actually did work to some extent. I listed the details of what I found did and did not work. The buyer, who likes to fix computers and has extra time because of COVID, purchased it at the full price of $99 and had it shipped to Texas for about $44.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184171096295As far as eBay goes, sales have been great. I had one week as the quarantine started where I thought we were going to be in the doldrums for a while, but that was the only week that sucked. I think people have more time to shop, and Amazon is pushing buyers to eBay because of shipping delays and prioritizing essentials.
On the personal level, my daughter is back at home, and we have more meals together as a family. Our expenses have dropped by at least $1000 a month, and we will be getting a refund for her unused dormitory and meal plan costs. I’m still selling on eBay, and I’ve started a new job. This period of time (so far) has been very good for us financially.
When I do need to drive somewhere, traffic is very light. I’m seeing more of neighbors in the past month than I’ve seen since we moved here in 2005.
As a family, we’ve had some very nice hikes and a few walks. A couple of days ago, the sky was clear, the stars were out, and we were able to find a few constellations.
I usually plan a lunch once a month with former colleagues. Since we aren’t able to do that now, we are going to set up a WebEx lunch meeting. That will be different!
I do want to go back to normal life, but I appreciate the things that are good including the environmental stories of how this “pause” has been good for the Earth.
I hear you, but I think that gardening, especially anything to do with growing vegetables, should be considered essential.
I happened to see an article this morning providing more details, but, like Almasty said, anything that would provide for food should be considered essential. Or, for providing people reasons to be outside and getting their vitamin D.
https://news.yahoo.com/angry-shoppers-slam-rules-preventing-153710207.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=2_04
I don’t get it. How is growing your own food going to affect the spread of the virus? That makes no sense whatsoever.
This is one area where you should easily get feedback removed (I’m assuming it was negative?). eBay is pretty lenient at removing a complaint about the price that the buyer knew ahead of time.
I’ve heard that phone service is back up, but you can also contact eBay for Business on Facebook or use the customer service email address (sorry, don’t know it off the top of my head). Make sure to give them the item number and your username.
You can search for auction houses in your area on auctionzip.com. They might be able to sell them for you, but you might not get market value. The only way to do that is to list them on an online marketplace such as eBay. Possibly you could search for collector sites and see if they allow you to advertise your slides.
I coincidentally happened to have purchased lots of coffee right before the lockdown. But, Scavenger Life is such a big part of my week, I went and purchased the Southern Split. We also enjoy a dark roast. I forgot to write a note about Scavenger Life, but I’m sure they’ll be seeing all these purchases from all over the country and wonder what the hell is going on.
The two big auction houses that I normally go to have started to do online auctions temporarily. I hope that they don’t enjoy it too much because I don’t need more online auction companies. The first one had mostly the more expensive stuff and I didn’t bother bidding. The second company just put their stuff online, and I think that their starting prices are too high in some cases. I saw a few things here and there I might bid on, but I’m going to be careful. IRL, they would start combining lots if it didn’t sell right away. They can’t do that online, so I wonder how they are going to handle it if some items don’t get any bids.
Week of April 5 – 11
* Total Items in Store: 1442 eBay, 37 Etsy
* Items Sold: 28 eBay
* Cost of Items Sold: $25.05 + $197.09 Commission
* Total Sales: $894.13 eBay
* Highest Price Sold: $250 for 14K ring with a gemstone and small diamonds (on commission), 2nd place $126 for Azerbaijan glassware pitcher (also on commission), 3rd place $99 for ruby color iMac from 2000
* Average Price Sold: $31.93
* Returns: 0 (but 1 immediate cancel)
* Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
* Number of items listed this week: 8My week was tremendous, but mostly due several items on commission, so my COGS are quite high. I did have a $99 sale of my own, and I had many sales overall, so just a good week.
The $99 sale was an older iMac in partially working condition. I messaged him to make sure he knew it didn’t work as I don’t want a return from Texas (although the listing is no returns). He said that he has free time because of the current situation, and he likes to fix computers and get them in working condition. So, this lockdown has not been bad for my sales at all.
I listed eight items last week. Between everyone being at home and starting a new job, I’m glad to get anything listed.
Three of my newly listed items meet the challenge. One was actual 14K gold (and sold within hours) and two had gold colored accents. My total is now six.
@littleBlueHouse – Yes, Amatino’s challenge allows for gold colored accents, even something brass or similar in color. So count it!It’s from eBay using their bulk label tool. You have to be buying more than one label at the same time for the bulk label tool to come up. Once you pay, you are given choices to print the labels, picklist, scan sheet, and I think one other. It is the picklist that I am talking about.
