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Looking for a recommendation for a christmas gift for my mom. At home she drinks various medium roast coffees from trader joe’s such as
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When going to a fancy coffee shop, she notices and enjoys the better quality coffee there, and always gets whatever they are serving by default.
10/26/2020 at 1:14 pm in reply to: Buyer wants to return jersey they probably damaged when cutting open bag. #82888Was the return automatically accepted for you by ebay (mine always are)? In that case I would go to the return in the ebay UI, click on refund buyer, and then do a partial refund. I would do this before the buyer has a chance to send the item back, so that there is no return shipping to be paid by anyone.
Just got the answer to my first question in the ebay from email about my having reported the buyer:
“Your report is confidential and won’t be shared with the buyer.”
Whew!
It also says that ebay will be reviewing my report, so if they do, they’ll see our messages back and forth and know that they buyer did nothing wrong, as well as my note in the refund saying that I used the only way I could figure out to do a partial refund. So that’s good, but that got me thinking – do they really have enough staff to actually “review” each report? I really doubt it. If I were them, I would only review these reports after a buyer gets reported multiple times within some period of time, which is an unlikely scenario for this buyer.
So, all in all, reporting the buyer seems to be a semi-reasonable workaround for the “non-problematic partial refund after return is opened” use case. Still wish there was another way to do it.
Boston drivers in particular are very rude (and scary), but Northampton is very far away from Boston and isn’t a big city. Completely different vibe.
More support for the candleholder theory in terms of original purpose
I would LOVE to find one of these some time! Let us know how much it sells for.
10/23/2020 at 9:56 pm in reply to: creating variations sample pack listing is making my head hurt #82790OK – please ignore my 2 previous posts. I didn’t know what I was talking about. I didn’t realize that with 3 choices, you get 3 short drop down lists. Duh.
I like So Cal Joe’s approach.
I’m going away to hide now.
10/23/2020 at 9:47 pm in reply to: creating variations sample pack listing is making my head hurt #82786Another simpler option, is to simply create a single listing for 4 oz bags with a drop down listing each variety of coffee you offer. The price would be $5, as on the broadporch site, and then simply offer a discount based on how many the user purchases – this is at the very bottom of the listing form. This would not be exactly the same as the trio, b/c you’d be able to buy quartets, quintets, sextets, etc. But it would be much more usable than trying to show numerous combinations.
The only open question for me is whether the “discount when you buy 3 or more” functionality works when you select one type of 40z bag and put it in your cart, and then select a second type of 4 oz bag, and then a 3rd. Does ebay see that you have 3 in your cart from the same listing and apply the discount? Something to test out, perhaps.
10/23/2020 at 9:40 pm in reply to: creating variations sample pack listing is making my head hurt #82785My suggestion will likely only work if your order traffic is still pretty low right now, since you’re just starting. I am also considering that I as a buyer would scream if I had to scroll through a dropdown list of more than 10-20 items.
Building on So Cal Joe’s approach and combining with a computer science technique called “lazy evaluation” as well as the 80/20 rule, what I would do is create the 9 listings Joe suggests, but within each one, only provide a small number of combination options (say 5-10). State in the listing that if the buyer wants a combination they don’t see available, to message you, and then you can create it.
It may be that out of the 729 possible combinations, offering only 100 of them will be enough to satisfy almost all buyers, and will be a better user experience than super long drop down lists.
could also hold a small spherical candle?
Looks like you got yourself some cool mid-century modern items!
You can only see it when you click on “send offers” for some item.
From a google search, I see that it could be an egg holder and was made/designed by Walter Bosse. Look him up on ebay and you’ll see many similar items.
Try sending a message to the “ebay for business” folks on facebook.
Sorry – I’m just messing with you. 🙂 I’m more of a coffee ice cream person. In the past 10 years, I’ve had fewer than 10 cups of coffee. I just never heard of “washed” as an attribute of coffee before and thought it was funny. First there was raw denim. Then washed coffee. What could be next?
Are washed better than unwashed?
Is that a pyrex bowl you are using to hold some beans? Very on trend. 🙂
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