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With this discussion of shipping stickers, patches, and similar small items, I was thinking about a post over a year ago, maybe two. I’m thinking it might have been around the time that the guy from Popeye’s Postcards was interviewed, but I might be incorrect. Either he or someone else mentioned a type of tracking for letter sized envelopes with a regular stamp. I think that the service was extra – not through the post office – but through some website where you could pay by the item or have some type of subscription.
It wasn’t the full tracking that one would get with a label, but it did provide something.
Anyway, I could possibly find it through the forum search function, but maybe someone knows what I’m talking about?
Consider watching Steve Shultz’s What Sold video that is posted at Scavenger Life each Wed/Thurs. He goes over what he has sold over the past week. He tells you about what he paid and what he sold it for. He specializes in upscale or vintage electronics, but he also has normal housewares and decor. You can go back a few years and see the videos from when Ryanne used to do them.
Then, you can just search on You Tube or Google for What Sold videos and check them out. Don’t bother with the Haul videos because they just show you what they bought. Who knows whether it gets sold and at what price.
This is kind of how I learned.
I do not set a minimum partly because my minimum changes over time.
You might be able to make an offer through messages if the buyer sent you one.
If they were making $1 bid increments, they probably want to pay less than your minimum and won’t be interested in your new lower price, but that is my guess.
12/09/2019 at 2:59 pm in reply to: Should I or Shouldn’t I – Less IS Data with a Little More in Description #71489Get back to me on how the large bubblewrap works for you. I will probably be buying some in the future.
Glad to have been of help!
Yes, definitely the holiday season:
Week of Dec 1 – 7
* Total Items in Store: 1535 eBay, 35 Etsy
* Items Sold: 29 eBay
* Cost of Items Sold: $36.65 + $62.33 Commission
* Total Sales: $728.36 eBay
* Highest Price Sold: $200 for Nonworking 1930s Freed-Eisemann WOR AM Tube Radio Wood Case
* Average Price Sold: $25.12
* Returns: 1 cancel (my mistake) + 1 denied at GSP for custom regulations
* Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
* Number of items listed this week: 29I sold a 1950s Crosley Clock AM tube radio to someone in Canada, and it didn’t make it through the GSP. The tubes have hazardous material in them, and they can’t be shipped to Canada. I’ve already sold one to England. I’m not sure whether it squeaked through or if their import rules are different.
In any case, I changed all my tube radios to domestic only, and eBay let me keep my sale and the customer was refunded. All is good. Now I’m watching 8ten1944 to see if he/she lists it. I’m wondering if they will use my photos or not.
I listed 29 items last week. Interestingly, after counting up my new listings, I had to go to my orders page and count the number that had been both listed and sold last week. Came to five! That doesn’t happen very often (I think less so than in past years).
This week should be about the same. The nice thing is that I haven’t been sourcing, so I’m catching up with my piles (death or otherwise)!
When you request a label to be voided, the post office doesn’t refund you right away. I think maybe 2 weeks or so? I’ve done it before.
12/06/2019 at 9:47 am in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Reel tapes, Rummikub game, Cigarette dispenser, fanny pack #71421My biggest sale of last week was a 1980s Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Instrument Cluster, sold as untested, for $100. This purchase was from an auction in October where my husband wanted some automobile tools, and I purchased some inventory as well. This was only about $2 in a lot with a few other items.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/184020218544We reorganized some book shelves a month ago, and my husband decided he could part with this aircraft mechanics book from 1918. He got it for free years ago when his (also my) college was cleaning out a building for renovations. Sold for $17.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/183996805372My neighbor held an online auction at the end of September. I had recommended that she use a company call MaxSold. I bought a bunch of lamps that no one seemed to want. These screamed “shabby chic” to me, and I was able to get $45 for the pair. I paid about $1.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/184014881447My whiskey pitchers continue to sell! I bought a large number of them in an auction where each came to about $0.25. This Cutty Sark one has an outline of a lady figurehead on the front similar to a ship. Sold for $32.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/183982413537This Cromarty whiskey pitcher sold for $78 to someone in the UK. I have US free shipping, but, since they were international, they paid for shipping and I got to keep the whole amount.
https://www.etsy.com/transaction/1744528574You can Google the restrictions for perfume, but I believe that FedEx has a lower allowance than the USPS. In other words, you can ship more liquid in a single package with the USPS than with FedEx.
Here is an article I found that discusses how to mark the package:
A USPS employee once told me that I didn’t have to mark the package below a certain amount. You should verify that, though, with a Google search.
Geez, sorry to hear that you had an issue.
What did eBay give as the reason? Did you call eBay and explain? What is happening with the signs now?
Very cool, Dan. What a great video!
Whatever happened with the street sign sale? I read up on it when you posted, but I didn’t follow up.
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Sharyn.
I’m not a SixBit user, but I thought that the sales tax does get added to your revenue, but then is taken out as an expense. Rather than eBay just sending the tax to the states without the seller’s involvement, they wanted the seller to have to pay the PayPal fee on that amount. So they made it a revenue that gets paid right away. You should be negative in total when it is all done.
That’s how I understand it.
I’ve heard that, in eBay’s managed payments, the seller won’t see any tax revenue or expenses, but I don’t know if that is true or not.
If you go to change the category, then leave the choice “hanging” in a non-ending selection, then I bet it is listed in the original sub-category from before you tried to change it. I’ll be surprised if it is any different.
12/04/2019 at 8:53 am in reply to: Should I or Shouldn’t I – Less IS Data with a Little More in Description #71346Actually, I recently pulled some large bubblewrap from in front of a house near me on garbage day. I wrapped a framed print with it, and it was SO much easier to use. I never want to store more and more stuff, but now I will buy some once I’ve run out.
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