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Yes, I did actually, but I hadn’t connected that issue to this service. So, I guess this might be helpful if you can get the tracking back after it disappears. If you have to pay for it ahead of time, though, how would you know which buyer is going to give you a problem?
I might pay $10 a year if they would keep ALL my tracking numbers active for that long. Some credit cards allow a year for a customer to contest a charge.
I’ve never seen this, and I don’t get it. Why would you want to buy extended tracking on one package for 10 years?
I’ve found shipping tubes to be pretty expensive to purchase. The only time I’d use them is if they came with something I purchased. I like the long triangular boxes that the post office provides for free.
I had the same problem with a book in a collectables category. I wasn’t allowed to print a media mail label, but my buyer was allowed to pay for one. I called eBay, and the customer rep didn’t have a good answer except that certain categories don’t allow media mail labels.
I purchased my media mail label from Pirate Ship.
Look at your competition on eBay. Are they selling in each series, or a full collection? Compare the competition then to the sold listings. I’d guess that a complete collection would be a faster seller, but you should verify.
Oh, good. I thought maybe I just hadn’t noticed. Please get back to me if they fix the issue and if I need to call/email it in or not.
Selling individual books is not all that profitable unless it is something rare. Dune is a well known series, and there are no shortages of those books. I think having a full collection will definitely make it more interesting to a buyer.
Media mail, which is a discounted rate for books, is quite affordable. I just checked, and 20 pounds will cost only $13.
I’d put the shipping as an additional cost, but if you wanted, you could include it in the price of the listing (“free shipping”). Then either have a fixed price or make sure to take the shipping into consideration if you add best offer.
Week of Feb 23 – 29
* Total Items in Store: 1466 eBay, 35 Etsy
* Items Sold: 21 eBay
* Cost of Items Sold: $34.50 + $17.87 Commission
* Total Sales: $430.11 eBay
* Highest Price Sold: $65 for 1924 Book “Laws of Ma Chiang” (Mahjong)
* Average Price Sold: $20.48
* Returns: 0
* Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
* Number of items listed this week: 33I noticed in GoDaddy that sometimes the sale price included shipping and sometimes not. I’ll keep a better eye on that because I might have been over-reporting my numbers. I did have a decent week. The value of that book was a surprise.
I listed 33 items last week.
I wish they would just move to DST and not bother going back. If the change in hours helps with energy savings, sales, whatever, just stick with it. I hate the change in time.
As far as the February challenge, I really didn’t have anything green. The only thing I can say is I grouped a bunch of fabric remnants into one lot, and a few were green.
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I feel good about the January challenge because it did inspire me to get moving on some big and/or heavy items. However, I didn’t do anything with that food grinder. I did decide not to list it. I plan to give it away, but I have to take a photo and post it to a Facebook group or two.
I tested a large electronic dart board that I bought in March last year, but it didn’t work. Out it went to the garbage, and I can at least say that I met the challenge.
I did test and list two older iMacs and an electronic Smith Corona typewriter. One iMac I just listed today. None of these items have sold yet, but at least they are now available for purchase!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/184171096295
http://www.ebay.com/itm/184191819463
http://www.ebay.com/itm/184183505662I did get that email, but didn’t look too closely. Thanks for sharing the article.
I have 35 items listed on Etsy and haven’t sold anything since the holiday season. Having additional exposure is OK for now, so I’ll watch to see what happens. I suppose having something sell with the fee is better than it just sitting there until the next holiday season.
Etsy is OK, but it has its limitations. I went to list two things yesterday and ended up moving one item to eBay because the item was too big to get a reasonable USPS rate. Etsy doesn’t provide FedEx as an option.
Most of what I have listed there are whiskey pitchers. I had so many because of a large lot I purchased, and I didn’t want to list all of them on only one platform. Etsy is serving a purpose for me, but eBay remains my main focus.
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02/27/2020 at 8:56 pm in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Sonneman Saturn lamp, Vintage Hammer, Lineman safety belt #74524Sonia – Yes, I was the Dansk ivy seller. My mom lives in an active adult community, and, when one of her neighbors needed to move into a nursing home, his son left a partial set on the curb. I have five listings left.
I went to an auction in the first week of this month and bought a bunch of vintage tube AM radios. I listed them through the following week, and three of them sold last week. I paid $11.50 for six of them.
A GE radio, untested because the cord was brittle and falling apart, for $28.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184173242048A nonworking Sentinel (never heard of the brand) for $32. I had removed all my tube radios from GSP because of hazardous materials restrictions in some countries, but a guy from Mexico wanted to buy it. However, even when I put it back into GSP, he couldn’t buy. eBay gave him the name of a forwarding service.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184173258392And a Sears Silvertone radio, untested because its cord had been cut off, for $22.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184173274335From a previous radio purchase, I sold a nonworking Zenith Trans Oceanic 3000-1 for $44. I’m thinking of buying an adapter to see if any of my other remaining radios actually work even if it doesn’t work with batteries.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184173627271From my non-electric departments, I sold a few things I thought were so cool that I put them up really high, but didn’t sell until I grossly reduced them. I bought both at least two years ago. The first is this Pik Nik peanut butter container that sold on offer for $15. I paid less than $1.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/183985268505And then there is this 1959 package of garbage bags UNOPENED that sold only for $13.50 on sale. I think I ponied up $5 for it, but I was a new-ish seller then. I’d still buy them now, but for much less. I just think it is cool that someone bought it new, and it sat in their kitchen for 70 years.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184022584347I should also throw in this set of 8 fruit spoons from the First Love pattern for $32. My mom purchased the set for me at a flea market in Florida. Funny, she is mentioned twice this week. I’m sure I get my sense of a good buy from her.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/18412845929902/26/2020 at 8:16 pm in reply to: Lifeblood of Amazon merchants threatened as coronavirus infects Chinese workers #74469My husband works for a cosmetic company. Their business relies on getting new and different products out before anyone else. A project he is working on is delayed because of their vendor’s factory shutdown. It keeps getting pushed back, and they aren’t sure when it will start up again.
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