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Cool shipping calculator. I haven’t seen that one before. I called Fedex a while back trying to get a Smartpost estimate and it was impossible.
In the Promotions portion of Ebay they have all kinds of options regarding promotions and reduced cost based on multiple purchases. You can create promotions based on your stores categories. If you haven’t seen it, you should check it out.
I see, it actually doubled the weight on the 2nd item. Since there’s no way to check SmartPost rates without creating a listing, I gave a combined shipping rate based on USPS. I wonder what it did with the dimensions. It’s shipping close by, so an oversize package may not even cost more.
The mystery of the 2nd item is solved.. Oh Boy.
That’s funny about the $2 bills. A couple of years ago I called my bank regarding $2 bills. I got about 25 of them. They couldn’t wait to get rid of them and told me to call back when I wanted more.
That week I took them with me to the garage sales. I ran into a lot of people who had no idea what they were and actually were very suspicious. In the end I decided it wasn’t worth the effort.
I absolutely agree with not disparaging the seller’s items. In fact I generally will complement them. Most times the sellers are so happy that you also appreciate them, that they’re willing to negotiate. Many times they’re glad you know what they are. Even if you don’t make the deal, it’s still interesting.
When I was growing up, we didn’t have a whole lot of money.
I don’t remember how it actually started. Maybe I found one or someone gave one away, but I started collecting damaged bicycles and building better ones. I found some cool broken or wrecked bikes in the trash and stripped them for parts.
In the northeast, we had those long cold winters and I’d go down in the basement and go to work.
I actually inherited a Schwinn Stingray and eventually turned it into a chopper with extended forks and a small front wheel. I wish I had that bike today.
I found a 10 speed with a trashed rear wheel and put on a single speed with a coaster brake. In the early 80’s it was pretty unique.
At one point, I think I had seven running bicycles.
I didn’t make any money at it, but I did have some cool bikes…
No, a seller cannot ask for a negative to be removed in exchange for a refund. The seller can refund the buyer and then request they remove the negative, but one cannot be a condition of the other.
I’ve never dumpster dived for food.. However, I do love the Manager’s Special (almost expired) food at the grocery store. Last night I got lucky and bought 3 loaves of bread, 12 glazed donuts (bakery), a pint of ice cream and a pound of ham for the sum of $5.65..
Life is good.
I feel your pain. Some months back 3 packages were stolen off my porch. I ended up with a late shipment out of the deal and one of the buyers tried to extort $10 from me to keep from giving a negative feedback.
If you haven’t done so, it’s worth a shot to see if the buyer is willing to reverse the negative feedback.
Congrats on the Donuts. 4 dozen Crispy Cremes… way too much temptation.. I’m getting hungry just thinking about it.
I once sold a tie and noticed a tiny blemish when packing it. Since the shipping was so cheap, I sent it anyways and then refunded the buyer. It cost me a couple of dollars, but was worth it for the “Goodwill” factor.
I told the buyer “It distresses me to send a less than perfect item. so I’m refunding your cost”.
If you go to account settings then Business policies, you’ll get the page with all your business policies (most of which will be shipping.) On the right side of the page, each policy will have a number, which is the number of listings with that policy.
This page should give you an overview of all the policies for all your listings.
Once you create policies, I believe all your listings are assigned one.
If I remember right, it’s a bit of a mess in the beginning, as you’ll need to consolidate your listings into the right number of policies. As long as the service (first class), the places you ship too, the handling time and the handling charges are the same, they can all be in the same policy.
You can use edit button on the left to merge policies. I remember having a bunch of duplicate policies, when I first set it up.
Once set up, you can just edit each policy as needed, for handling time.
I hope I’m not stating the obvious, but since no one else has replied, I thought I would.
You can exclude any country you want to from the GSP. If you have business/shipping policies set up, you do it there, otherwise it should be in your settings. You can exclude entire regions, or one country at a time.
Nice find, I think those are the days we all live for, it’s kind of like finding buried treasure at the bottom of box lots.. Cool
Hi Paul,
I did the working capital thing a couple of months ago. I borrowed $1000 at the 30% payback and paid it off in 45 days. The total cost was $21. I couldn’t be happier with the process and results. Good Luck..
Now that you’ve accepted the return, the clock starts. If the buyer doesn’t ship the item within 5 days, you can get Ebay to close the case in your favor, without any fear of retribution.
