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I’m sure it had nothing to do with his business acumen.
I just noticed that the listing (which was up to $150,000 at one time) was ended and re-listed. I think that it still had a day or two left on the auction. They must have realized that the bidder wasn’t about to pay on the bid, so they ended and re-listed.
I had immediate payment at one time. I took it off because I have a category of books where I wanted customers to consider buying more than one. I haven’t had too many non-paying buyers, but, yes, I have to deal with them. It is part of doing business.
I think I have more non-paying buyers for make offer. I think that they change their mind about the purchase or decide that they paid too much.
Again, though, I don’t have too many. Maybe once a month.
11/06/2017 at 11:21 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 333: The Illusion of Keeping Up With Everything #25110Some random thoughts:
I sold a pair of vintage Ferragamo shoes this past week. They were in not so good shape, so I took a pretty low offer on them. Jay & Ryanne sold a pair they had listed for a long time. I noticed that Steve just sold a pair. I realize that this doesn’t prove anything, but maybe there was an article posted somewhere about the brand. Just a hypothesis, I know.
I wanted to list a Gruen watch I bought at auction for a few dollars. I’m pretty sure it was authentic, but I got a “Seller Alert” message before I could officially list it. The message basically said that this type of watch was often faked, and I had to ensure it was authentic before I listed it. I took a second look at the watch and decided to keep it for myself. I guess one way to sell it would be to take a photo of the watch with the back off. That would help with authentication.
I listed a piece of petrified wood under the petrified wood category. I noticed that the ebay email “Your listing is confirmed” took longer than normal to arrive. I know that removing a piece of petrified wood from a National park is illegal, so I wonder if ebay had to review the listing first. This piece came with a piece of paper showing an explanation of petrified wood and the name of the store. I didn’t think anything of it until the ebay message took so long to arrive.
11/06/2017 at 10:03 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 333: The Illusion of Keeping Up With Everything #25098I noticed a change to ebay search that I am finding really annoying. When I search for something, the results are unsold items even if I had clicked sold previously. I have to click sold each time. When I’m trying to price something, I usually don’t want to see items for sale (sometimes I do, but rarely). Has anyone else noticed this?
11/06/2017 at 9:57 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 333: The Illusion of Keeping Up With Everything #25096Week of Oct 29 – Nov 4
* Total Items in Store: 1133
* Items Sold: 21
* Cost of Items Sold: $44.60 + $0 Commission
* Total Sales: $539.29
* Highest Price Sold: $70 Set of 6 Ralph Lauren Crystal Glasses
* Average Price Sold: $25.68
* Returns: 0 (1 messaged, but not started)
* Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
* Number of items listed this week: 50Good week for me, although it felt slow because of two days where I didn’t sell anything and one day where I sold 1.
Someone bought an item from me who lives in FL. They want to return the item, but couldn’t figure it out. They got a message that they purchased the item through an non-US site. Every once in a while, I am researching an item through Google, and I’ll click to a non-US ebay site. I will see US sellers listed. I’m guessing that is what happened to him.
I called ebay and was told that the buyer should login to the non-US website to do the return. I sent a message to him and haven’t heard back. Maybe he will decide it’s too much work. That would be good for keeping the sale, but I’m concerned about feedback. I guess I’ll wait and see.
Wow, what a pain! ebay doesn’t seem to have nice step by step procedures for something that is outside the normal route. I think that sometimes they lose money because their site is so clunky. They did in your case.
I have a buyer right now that wants to return something, but apparently can’t do a return request because they purchased outside of the US website. I’m not sure how that happened because we are both in the US. The ebay rep said that he needs to login to the international site to do the return (I don’t know which one he used). If not, he needs to call ebay and figure out how to do it.
The point is that I was researching the issue using help menu (that AdventureE listed) and didn’t get steps on how to do anything other than the normal return. In some cases, I’ve been able to get better information on a general Google search rather than using ebay’s help.
If ebay better educates their customer service, I think that they will be more efficient and save money. According to another post, ebay is working to upgrade their support.
You should be able to calculate Smartpost rates using the following shipping calculator through ebay (thanks Mike from Atlanta!):
http://www.ebay.com/shp/CalculatorI don’t know about the dimensions. Someone recently complained that ebay calculated shipping too low when combining several items because the package became oversized. So, that is definitely an issue.
In addition, I should mention that ebay does not provide an easy method for promoting combined purchases, at least not for only a certain category of products. So, let’s say that you want to offer 10% off if someone buys 3 or more items in your store. Even if the customer allows you to invoice them, ebay will only allow you to change the shipping cost, not reduce the purchase price. A promotion for combined purchases has to come through PayPal, which means the customer has to pay first.
I tried to come up with a way to promote multiple purchases within a certain store category of books, but the only way I can do it is through PayPal refunds.
I agree that ebay does not have a reasonable method for combining shipping. I think it worked out maybe once or twice where I gave instructions for invoicing, and it actually worked the way it is supposed to. The best method I’ve found is to refund any overage through PayPal.
I don’t know why the shipping on your second sale came out screwy. Any time someone has bought two of something, the shipping came out higher than needed. I assumed that ebay combined the weight of the two items and made the calculation off of that. The weight was based on each item plus packaging, so the total was more than required.
11/02/2017 at 7:48 am in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Carhartt coveralls, Utah speakers, Ecco Boots, Marlboro Bag, vintage vacuum, Apple IIe computer. #24810Steve – those dogs have the life!
This week, my biggest sale was my highest sale ever! I paid $122 for this Karastan wool rug, and it sold for $550. As I mentioned in my numbers, I was unprepared for the size of this thing when I bought it, and I don’t want to buy another one unless I have some kind of warehouse and workers to help me!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182471478557Here is the size of rug I want to sell, if I can only get the same price! Paid $2.75, sold for $31:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182710025354I read lots of news articles about how younger people don’t want silver plate these days. I personally don’t care for it much myself; however, it does sell. I recently bought an online auction lot with some very old pieces. This one is about 100 years old, and it is kind of rare. It is a bride’s basket. I’ve only ever been to one wedding where the bride walked around with a basket, and people put money in it. Paid about $2.75, sold for $79.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182839448301This came from a garage sale that wasn’t well advertised, and the lady was trying hard to get rid of stuff before she closed up shop. It’s a Silver plate Dom Perignon cork holder dated Dec 31, 1999. It sold through GSP to someone in Switzerland. Paid $0.25, sold for $26.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182776161231Happens every year: my teenage son grows out of his suit, and I have to run out and buy him one last minute. At least I can make up some of the money. This set cost me about $100 at JC Penney last year, and I was able to sell it within a week or two for $35. I did the same thing last year.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182796905214Sorry for talking your ears off, but I had a good week! Here’s the last one. This is a Stephen L. Stetson hat, the great nephew of John B. Stetson. Stephen decided to start his own hat company, but, because of a trademark lawsuit, the inside of the hat reads “NEVER CONNECTED IN ANY WAY with John B. Stetson …”. This hat was in what appeared to be unused condition. Bought for $9, sold for best offer of $130.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182498060501If you sent it priority mail, then you have insurance. First class does not, but you could argue that a mistake was made and they should cover it.
Wow, that’s a big mistake!
First, I would contact your buyer saying that the package appears to have been mis-delivered, and you are going to contact the shipping service to see what they can do.
Assuming that you used the post office, you can either call them directly or submit the issue online. To contact them directly, you can call 1-800-275-8777 or call the local office if you know it. Or, to submit online, go to USPS.com and select “Find Missing Mail” under the Help menu. From there, you can select “Start Your Missing Mail Search” and fill out the information.
I haven’t had this issue before, so I can’t tell you what to expect. However, if they cannot get the package back, you will need to make a claim and get your money refunded. And then refund the seller.
If you used a different service than the post office, check out their website and find a similar procedure.
You can try & google their company name. Twice I’ve sold to a company that offers items for sale inflight to Japanese customers. I remember one item was a vintage McDonalds mug.
Other times, it was just a transfer company. Sometimes foreign people don’t want to interface with the seller directly; either they didn’t want to deal with potential shipping issues or they didn’t want to deal with the language barrier.
Either way, it appears to be a relatively big business on ebay.
10/31/2017 at 10:00 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 332: Share Your Extreme Scavenging Confession #246405000 square feet is pretty large for a 1904 home! What makes it a World’s Fair house?
10/31/2017 at 9:57 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 332: Share Your Extreme Scavenging Confession #24638My town has an upcycling event once a year where you can take your unwanted stuff to a large township owned parking lot. Volunteers take stuff from your car and arrange it in categories. I bring the unwanted stuff I get from auction lots.
They specifically say that you can’t take stuff for resale, but last year I took two boxes of vintage Autocad (software) manuals that I knew no one wanted. I sold both to the same person in Canada for $30-$40 each.
This year, I had a family event on the day (actually earlier this month), and I wasn’t able to make it. 🙁
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