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My first guess would be a multi-function fish knife, but that’s just a guess.
Yes, if it says Sterling, it means sterling silver. It doesn’t give any information about the purity.
I just decided to order a silver/gold testing kit. I did a search on the forum here to find one someone recommended. Here are the test kits from the recommended seller:
http://stores.ebay.com/Gold-Test-Empire/Gold-Silver-Test-Kits-/_i.html?_fsub=3374771010&_sid=170286710&_trksid=p4634.c0.m322I have a silver tone necklace that I wanted to test before I listed. The clasp was missing, so I replaced it with a metal one, but the clasp is often where metal content (such as 925) might be shown.
I don’t know much about the testing yet, but then, in your listing, you could say that the item was tested and shown to be sterling. I understand that mis-marked silver is quite prevalent on Ebay.
Certainly odd numbers are fine. If someone needs a certain number of drawer pulls, having an extra is not a bad thing.
I listed 24 items this week. All but six were from death piles.
I could tell I was a bit slower than previous weeks. I did have non-Ebay stuff to take care of.
The prices for both online and live auctions this week were high, a blessing in disguise. I did buy one item. HOWEVER, I will be going to the bins for the first time on Thursday. A colleague from my old job lives near there, so we made plans to meet up. It will be about an hour’s drive for me. Hopefully, I continue to be careful and don’t spend too much.
Right now, I’m listing jewelry, which is easy to photograph, but takes a little time for good descriptive words and occasional research.
Week of Feb 4-10
* Total Items in Store: 1127
* Items Sold: 19
* Cost of Items Sold: $29.66 + $41.80 Commission
* Total Sales: $399.20
* Highest Price Sold: $58 Vintage brass door knocker
* Average Price Sold: $21
* Returns: 1
* Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $28.75
* Number of items listed this week: 24The money I spent on new inventory was for a framed tapestry. Prices were rather high at the auction, so I just bought the one thing.
I’m a bit annoyed at Ebay for the way my return was handled. I sold a small denim purse, NWT, through GSP to the UK. The buyer messaged me showing that the brand name was applied upside-down! Duh. It was visible through the packaging, so I should have seen it. I had another one, so I just wanted to ship her a replacement. I called Ebay, and the rep insisted it would be covered under GSP, and I would be reimbursed. That didn’t sound right, so I asked her several times and had her give me a reference number.
Based on that information, I told the buyer to open a return case. When I called back, the new rep would not reimburse me saying that they only covered for damage or nondelivery. Makes sense, but I was told otherwise. The reference number did not help even though he saw I was given incorrect information. My point was that I would have shipped a replacement without having to reimburse the buyer. His point was that I wouldn’t have been covered under Ebay’s seller’s protection.
The buyer was very nice (most UK buyers are), and I hope that she repurchases the purse. At least I can minimize my losses.
In the end, the cost of the shipping was less than $7. That seems awfully low (shipping to KY was just over $4), and I wouldn’t have been able to ship the replacement purse to the UK for that little. Maybe it was better this way for me, but I’m still pissed anyway.
One comment on the podcast: I’ve recently had buyers (including the purse lady from the UK) say that they were hesitant to contact me because maybe I wouldn’t be so friendly. So, like Ryanne who had to deal with harassment from a seller, there are grumpy sellers the same as grumpy buyers. Some buyers are grumpy, at least initially, because they think that the seller will give them a hard time.
Also, that mug was very cool! I follow R&J’s store, and I definitely noticed it when it came up.
I would definitely list them in sets. I’ve listed hardware from sets of 4 through 30 depending on how many matching ones I had. People have needs from new pulls for a dresser to outfitting a kitchen.
If you have many of one design, you can sell them in smaller sets and put in that you have more than one set. For instance, if you had 30, you could sell a set of 5 and put in that you have 6 sets. Then if someone needs 10, they would buy two sets. You could also sell 3 sets of 10 or 10 sets of 3. If you wanted, you could price them individually and let the buyer buy as many of them as they wanted, but then you might get a bunch of $4 sales.
It’s a good question, and it is good that you are thinking about this ahead of time.
Perfume that has alcohol can be shipped domestically using ground transportation only, so USPS Parcel Select. FedEx will ship it ground, but has stricter limitations than USPS. I think it limits the size/volume. Perfume with alcohol cannot be shipped via air transportation (Priority) or internationally.
Here is the information on prohibited items from the USPS website:
https://www.usps.com/ship/shipping-restrictions.htmPacking is also something to think about. It should be bagged in addition to all the regular things you would do for something fragile.
Some of my more interesting sales this week:
I saw this framed print of Joan of Arc at the auction, and just thought it looked cool. Paid the minimum bid of $5, sold for best offer of $95. Photos don’t look that great because I haven’t figured out how to deal with reflections.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182791089653I had purchased a large number of new overstock books in the spring last year. I bought them for the Tarot card sets, which sold wonderfully well. But, I was stuck with all these lower priced books that were selling one at a time. I lotted up some books under various subjects and sold them with make offer. A few sold here and there. But, someone decided to buy two of the science bundle and one of the history bundle without making offers. Love it! 39 books for $73. I paid about 20 cents per book. Early this week, I packed up most of the remaining the books and donated them to an inner-city program.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182693142626
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182693148873I had read a bit here and there about selling Legos. You can sell them as a complete set or organize them by color, size, function, etc. I wanted none of that work. I took my son’s Legos that he no longer wanted along with several manuals and a few other building toys, and sold it as a unorganized mess. It sold for $44. The guy who bought it forgot to change his address, so I had to print out a new label and run out to FedEx before it was shipped out.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182902356543My husband speaks Russian, and he confirms that the year is 1980. The first line appears to read the “School by the name of Karl Marx”. So, I guess a school named after Karl Marx.
You can go to File Management Center to print out a report. I don’t know if you need a store to do that. What I did was go to Orders – All Orders. On the right, click on “Download Report”. I get a message with two buttons; continue or exit. Click on continue and it takes you to the File Management Center.
Weird, but I’m not sure how to get to the File Management Center otherwise.
Click on your username
Click on “items for sale”
Scroll down until you see “show only” on the lefthand side – these are all the filter buttons
Click the box next to “Sold Listings”Your sold listings will come up, but Ebay only shows the past three months
Amatino is the one “running” this forum subject. What she will probably do is put you with one of the two groups we have right now. When a 6th person arrives, she’ll twin you with that person.
She’s the boss, so we’ll let her make the decisions. The idea was to have a “twin” you would track against.
@VintageLacy – I don’t even know if we have similar sized stores. I pretty much sell on Ebay and currently have 1129 listings. That number has been drastically going up and down lately because I’ve removed and/or grouped some lower priced items. How many total listings do you have?
Come join us in the Elf Twin Challenge 2018! We post at the beginning of the new week what we did the previous week, but not every day.
Ebay categories are different from your own store categories. If you haven’t set up categories (or perhaps you don’t have a store where you could create them), then there isn’t any category to select.
You can chose to set up categories when you buy into one of the Ebay stores, or you can just ignore it. If you ignore, it all goes into the default category “other”.
