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Sounds to me like one of those situations where eBay might say it’s the buyer’s opinion. I’ve had one negative feedback so far, and I was not able to get eBay to remove it. I spoke to two different agents.
Anyways, it sucks, and it isn’t so visible after 30 days.
You can always try calling eBay again or make that phone call, but, yeh, I wouldn’t want to call either.
Can you give details on what was purchased and what was said in the feedback? That could make a difference.
I do the same. I am in NJ. I use my reseller’s certificate for the online and live auctions that I go to, and I don’t pay NJ sales tax. When I sell to someone outside of NJ, no tax is paid. When I sell to someone in NJ, I collect sales tax from the buyer. Once every quarter, I submit the taxes electronically to the state. I just started this for the 4th quarter last year, so I’ve only paid once. Go Daddy Bookkeeping spit out the collected taxes for the quarter pretty easily.
Week of Mar 5 – 11
* Total Items in Store: 719
* Items Sold: 16
* Cost of Items Sold: $75.36 + $0 Commission
* Total Sales: $527.81
* Highest Price Sold: $179 Claire Murray wool runner rug
* Average Price Sold: $34.24
* Returns: 0
* Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $10
* Number of items listed this week: 56Whatever randomness of good sales hit Jay and Ryanne this past week also hit me! Of course, it could just be my listing higher value items lately since I’m following the advice to spend more to make more. Prior to the $179 sale, my highest sold item was $125! So, that is a biggie for me. I also had two other over $50 sales that really boosted my average this week.
After spending quite a bit on inventory for the past month or so, this week I skipped the online auctions. There were two that I thought about bidding on, but prices got too high on one, and I decided to skip the other. Instead, I went to a school rummage sale and bought a box full of stuff for $10. The majority of items should be priced very nicely, but I did buy one or two duds. No big deal, part of learning. Some of the items are winter stuff that I put in storage for end of summer listing.
This week, I plan to go to a live auction on Thursday and an online auction that is ending on Thursday evening. Whether I bid on the online auction will depend on how much I spend during the day in the live auction.
Tomorrow, we are supposed to be hit with a big snow storm, so the kids will probably be home from school, and I’m not sure I will be able to get much done.
Oh, wow! Alrighty then. You guys have way more experience than me; I’m still learning. I will be taking photos early this coming week, and I’ll get it listed later in the week.
Do I have these listed too low:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=182484252494&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT
Apart from being a very nice heavy glass bottles made in France, they don’t have anything too special about them. I found other vintage bottles on eBay, but not exactly the same thing. I have three listings each with two bottles. Maybe I should only be listing one at a time?
BTW, these are from the same auction lot as the Bell Lab jar.
We finally got it off, yay! My husband first applied something called Liquid Wrench overnight, but the lid didn’t come off right away. He had to run hot water over it for a while. I’ll have to take new pictures now!
Yes, and Bell Labs was located in the area. I’m in central NJ, the pickup was in Hazlet, and a large Bell Lab facility used to be in Hamilton. Most likely this guy worked for them. This auction had other lots with various vintage test equipment. So, I think we’ve really narrowed this down.
I don’t see anything like it on eBay, but I don’t think I can ask too much for it. I’m thinking $25 including shipping.
This makes some sense, and I will do some research with that in mind. I’ve tried once soaking it in warm water, but nothing is budging. I’ll try again.
Thanks for all the helpful suggestions! I’m glad that I asked rather than just throwing it up for $5. I don’t know yet what I’ll ask for – I still have more research to do.
I also have some other vintage bottles with rather thick walls and “Made in France” on the bottom. Not sure what they were from either, so I’ve got additional research there as well. They came in the same lot.
I had a pretty boring week, so I’m not going to bother discussing my individual sales (not that anyone was waiting with baited breath :). This current week, though, has been quite awesome! I’m sure I’ll “talk” your ears off next week …
Thanks! I will try that. If it is an apothecary jar, do you know what the bell symbol on it means? I was thinking it was an AT&T/Bell telephone symbol, but maybe that threw me off?
I studied this thing for awhile, and I do think that I’ve found where the lid comes out; however, I can’t get it to move for anything. The lid has a smaller diameter than the jar so that it fits in down from the top. I can feel the crease inside the top ledge. I don’t want to push it too hard that it breaks. I might try running it under hot or cold water to see if that helps.
Either way, I’m still pretty sure it is an insulator, but not one that would have been used at the top of a telephone pole. Maybe it was used in ground equipment.
Anyway, I posted all my photos to Imgur. I really hope that all these photos don’t get posted in the Scavenger Life firehose tomorrow. I apologize ahead of time if it does.
Image #7 is the best one that shows the crease I’m talking about. Unfortunately, it is a bit blurry.
No, there is no top; it is a solid piece of glass. However, there appears to be dirt inside, so I have no idea how it got there – maybe during manufacturing.
For toys including stuffed animals and clothes, you may want to consider the online thrift site “swap.com”. I’ve used them in the past, and I usually get a small payout from them every other week. Their fees are a good bit higher than eBay (30% + $1.50 per item), but they do some of the work including storing the items for you. If someone buys something, but decides to return it, you don’t have to return any money. You don’t even know that it has happened.
Here are some other things you should consider:
Their acceptance criteria are pretty strict. On eBay, you can disclose any defects, but swap doesn’t even want to deal with it no matter the label name or how desirable the item is. Make sure to look at every piece of clothing inside and out in very good lighting. Check their policy on their website. You can have any rejected items returned to you for a $5 fee or swap will donate them.
You have to wash any used clothing before shipping to them. It’s a good idea to line any used boxes with plastic bags. Check any NWT items for smells, and air them out if you have to.
They only deal with current styles – vintage is not their thing.
Get as big of a box as you can without going over their size limit (I think 20″x20″x17″). You have to get a label through them, and you will be charged around $12 for each box. You don’t have to pay right away for the label; they take the money from your first few sales.
Because of the cost of the label and their high fees, it probably isn’t worth sending in items that are worth less than $8 or so dollars.
Remove batteries from toys and make sure all the pieces are there. They also accept kids, maternity, and baby care books, baby & kids decor, sports stuff, kid’s, men’s, and women’s clothing, etc. Check the categories on their website.
