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Definitely call eBay up. Just be professional and explain what happened. Say that after the listing was taken down, you searched for a recall notice and didn’t find one. You are sorry that you unknowingly listed a recalled item, but you aren’t sure how you would have known. It seems excessive for them to punish you given what you’ve said.
I didn’t have this issue, but I did call them recently because I was being removed from TRS due to really minor issues. They did fix it for me.
From what I understand, the home office deduction has to be completely used for the business and not for personal reasons. I use my office for both, so it doesn’t help me.
However, since I use a large part of my home for inventory storage, I can deduct a portion of my utilities. Gas keeps my inventory at room temperature during the winter, electric during the summer plus running my computer, washer & dryer for clothes I sell, dishwasher for the dishes I wash, and then there’s my cable costs for internet, and so on. I calculate the square footage that my inventory takes up and divide that by the full size of my home, and I use that to proportion out my utility bills.
Some eBay myths are conspiracy theories, some are totally false, and a few are true. eBay does have an algorithm that determines the selection and order of items for a given search. It apparently uses a number of factors, but an active account is definitely one of them. There was a talk on You Tube from several years ago where an eBay manager discussed the algorithm in high level terms. Maybe someone will post it as I didn’t save the link.
We do have some whiskey here in the house, but my preference is red wine.
My husband works in packaging for a very large cosmetic company. He brings home samples, and he can go to his company store and get $80 of product every two months. He usually sends an email to the store manager that allows me to go and spend his free goods.
This was great for me until I stopped working in an office about five years ago. I stopped putting on makeup because I don’t see that many people during the day. We still use the hair products, suntan lotion, soap, and so forth.
I can’t sell the stuff on eBay because it is against their policy and ex-employees have lost their job because of it. I imagine that there is some guy or gal who checks my store every once in a while to make sure I’m not selling his stuff. I’m very careful about not buying cosmetic stuff for resale.
On Something Fantastic’s original post, I think people don’t always respond because they don’t want to clog up the forum with short comments like “thanks” “great job” and so forth. There’s been a few of my posts in the “what is this” section where no one ever responded. I think no one could answer my question and they didn’t want to say “sorry, can’t help you”.
Very cool print, and nice low number. Unless the artist is well known, signatures don’t always mean that much. You can just list it as a signed & numbered print.
It almost looks like “Michael & Nephew” or the first name could be Michal. No good way to tell. There are a few websites out there (you’ll have to google it; I didn’t save any links) where you can put in a few things about the signature and it will spit out possibilities.
If you submit something & make an edit right away, your post may disappear. You have to wait about a minute before making an edit. It’s a known glitch.
Another possibility is when your login session expires before you submit something. Your post won’t go through, and your information is lost. Not sure if it is called a “login session”, but you have to re-login every day or two.
I’ve run into both issues.
My current policy is not to sell clothes unless they are vintage or have higher value like outerwear. On the other hand, my parents’ downsizing friends like to give me the clothes they don’t want anymore. Who am I to turn away something for free? The problem is that I really don’t want to list them myself. I used to send in my more modern clothing to Swap.com, but they tightened up their inspection process, greatly reduced the percentage they give to the seller, and restricted incoming packages because they couldn’t keep up.
Seems like they have opened incoming packages again, so I am going to send one in and see how it goes. I’ll list the few items that I pulled out because I found that they are vintage. I am donating anything that has the least bit of wear or stains. I am holding onto the winter stuff to send in later depending on how this one works out. Let’s see how it goes.
My parents will be bring more stuff when they visit in May. Ugh.
Week of Feb 9 – 15
* Total Items in Store: 1454 eBay, 34 Etsy
* Items Sold: 15 eBay
* Cost of Items Sold: $44.88 + $36.87 Commission
* Total Sales: $525.39 eBay
* Highest Price Sold: $140 Hand carved wood chess set
* Average Price Sold: $35
* Returns: 1
* Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $5
* Number of items listed this week: 21Decent week for me. The chess set was in inventory for over two years, so I was glad to see it sold. Perhaps I listed it too high at first because I had bought it for close to $40. I think it wasn’t the best of buys, but I did well enough. It was one of the few items I put on promotions.
I listed 21 items this week. Finally, I met my goal for once!
Funny, though, I have no green items to list. Nothing Irish either. I did list one large item for the January challenge.
Here I am trying not to be the first person to post, but I guess there is no way out.
Steve – I’m glad you were clarified which kitty was sold 😊. Did that actually happen coincidentally?
My biggest sale last week was a collection of 9 vintage airline playing cards, new and sealed. These were free to me from one of my parents’ downsizing friends. Many of these airlines are no longer in business. Sold for $55 to someone in the UK though the GSP.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/183901434617Someone asked on the forum about selling a Maxwell House mug recently, and I mentioned that I had a set listed. If I was superstitious, I would connect it with the sale about a week or so later. Or, maybe forum readers clicked on the link giving it a boost in activity? I paid less than $1 in an online auction, and the set of 6 sold for $29.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/183698946174A seller contacted me last week who was just very nice and wanted multiple items from my store. I guess I can be sweet-talked because I ended up giving her some good deals. It helped that she wanted some items that hadn’t had much action or I didn’t pay anything for. I would say that the most interesting item was this carved duck that I sold to her for $14. I had paid about $4 for it, but had been sitting in inventory for over a year.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/183722978435But, the best deal I gave her was these two t-shirts for $7 each. These were free to me from the same guy as the playing cards mentioned above:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/183947621771
https://www.ebay.com/itm/183947626493Ha – I just noticed that your title said “Taxes” and I automatically read it as “Texas”!! And, I see you are from Georgia! So, silly me, you need to find Georgia’s reseller permit application, not the one from Texas 🤪.
Ah, my confusion. I just looked up refills for my printer, and a toner cartridge costs about $77 and a new printer is about $100 on sale. So, I see what you mean especially if you are about to need a new color printer.
Did you check if label printers are wireless these days? Perhaps that will work better for you.
I use my laser printer for the pick list and scan form. They come out too small on the label (in my opinion) plus a plain white sheet of paper is much cheaper. I use the label printer only for the label.
Why decommission a laser printer over an inkjet? I received a laser printer as a gift during the holidays and have been using it for about a month now, and I will never buy another inkjet. I have the old inkjet just in case I need to print something in color.
To directly answer your first question, you don’t absolutely need to get a reseller’s permit. However, it is beneficial and saves you money if you are planning to purchase inventory from auctions where tax would normally be charged.
A reseller permit (or sales tax certificate) allows you to buy items to resell without having to pay sales tax on them. If you are just passing along the items to the end user, then sales tax doesn’t have to be paid twice (once by you and second by whoever you sell it to). It saves you money.
eBay does now collect and pay the sales tax, so you don’t have to. However, that is independent of whether you originally paid sales tax or not.
You can google to find the government website that would have Texas’ reseller permit application. I don’t remember, but I think you don’t need to register a company name in order to have a reseller permit. That would be something to verify.
I bought a used Dymo 4XL on eBay maybe two years ago. It is wired and plugs into my Mac. I have a small shelf on my desk that holds both my new Brother printer and the Dymo.
Perhaps the newer ones come wireless, but they don’t take up much desk space if you have to plug it in.
