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06/22/2020 at 12:56 am in reply to: Hull divided dish, Zenith recorder, Panapoint pencil sharpener, Drum machine #78643
Love those black & red glasses – very cool.
Maybe you can do this with a 3rd party solution like InkFrog?
Lol – I had the same indecisiveness about listing the magazines I had. Took me a long time before I finally listed them. Didn’t make tons of money from them. Probably could have made more listing something else in my backlog. But now the magazines are gone from my house and I can say that I’ve experimented with magazines, and realized they’re really not my thing.
Someone once gave me really good advice: If you’re having so much trouble making a decision between 2 different things, then it probably means that it doesn’t make much of a difference which way you go, so just pick one. B/c if one of the choices was truly much better than the other, you would have realized this.
06/20/2020 at 7:30 pm in reply to: ebay execs accused of cyberstalking the Steiners (ecommercebytes owners) #78612Ebay needs to stop trying to be Amazon and start trying to be Ebay.
I think they’re actually slowly figuring this out these days, under the new leadership. I really like their new radio ads – something along the lines of “ebay: where small businesses live” – I forget the exact phrasing.
Yeah – it was a surprise to me, too.
Here’s the official info:https://about.usps.com/notices/not121/not121_tech.htm
Media Mail packages may not contain advertising.The trouble I had with selling magazines was that I couldn’t send them media mail b/c they have ads in them, and lots can get heavy. So I figured how many I could fit into a medium flat rate box and that was my lot.
06/18/2020 at 9:33 pm in reply to: ebay managed payments & GoDaddy Bookkeeping – good news I hope #78563Thank you so much! This is what I was looking for. Definitely going to check it out.
Send them a fb message. They usually reply within a day.
Oh, I see, so the return never auto-closed when they didn’t send. Or maybe they did send earlier and it took a while to reach you due to postal delays?
Either way, if you provide photos of what you received back, ebay should side with you. I just checked “contact us” and see what you mean how now there’s only an automated assistant (when did that happen?!?!). If you have any trouble with that thing resolving your problem, I would take this to the ebay for business folks on facebook.
Good luck!
What do you mean by “returned it”?
Do you mean it arrived at your door?
Or that they opened a return case that ebay automatically approved?
Both?06/17/2020 at 11:00 pm in reply to: Hull divided dish, Zenith recorder, Panapoint pencil sharpener, Drum machine #78540Some successes and failures when “paying up” – meaning, paying more than just a few dollars for an item in the hopes of a high return.
I paid $15 each for 3 different vintage Hungarian embroidered pillow covers b/c I saw them selling for $60-70 on Etsy. That was a mistake. In the end I wasn’t willing to wait 5 years or more to maybe get that much. Took 2 years to be rid of them for $20, $50, and $30 dollars.
Paid $20 for a new Kate Spade tablecloth. I was hoping for an easy $75-100 sale. Uh, no. Took a year and a half to sell for $44.
First (and so far only) trip to the flea market. Thought this deco kettle was super cool. Paid $10. Turns out this is a pretty common item. Sold for $33.
Paid $48 for this handpainted needlepoint canvas b/c I knew these types of things can go for over $100. I didn’t know the name of the designer and asked for help with that in the listing, and eventually someone responded with the right name. A few months later, it sold for $125 – success!
Paid $30 for a Banana Republic like new wool coat in March of last year. Sold in the fall for $87. I was hoping for a bit more, but this was ok.
Paid $20 and drove 45 minutes each way to purchase these new in package Ikea cat curtains. Was hoping for $100 if I waited it out. In the end I settled for $75 after 7 months. Looks like some sold recently for $80 and $90, but most for less. Maybe should have been more patient.
Paid $30 for a Pottery Barn duvet + shams. Sold for $98 in 1 month. Very happy with that sale.
Paid $30 for Oofos boots (never heard of the brand before). Sold within a few weeks for $105. Yay!
I continue to have mixed results with paying up, but I almost never lose money and sometimes the wins are even bigger than those I’ve shared here (stay tuned for more at some point). Plus in my area I don’t have the luxury of buying a lot of medium-to-high dollar things super cheap. The only place for that around my area is rummage sales (and sometimes yard sales), and there aren’t that many of them. Of course none at all this year.
I have a similar situation going on. Buyer in the UK refused the package (I think the message said something like “don’t need it anymore” – maybe b/c it took so long to ship?) and it’s been on its way back to me for almost a month now. Not sure what will happen when I get it. It’s a pretty expensive item ($225), so the refund will hurt. Just hope I at least don’t have to refund shipping. It was purchased by someone who, from what I’ve read about them online, seems to be a Georgian oligarch, or one level below. I’m rooting for the possibility that they don’t really care about the refund, b/c $225 for them is the equivalent of 25 cents for me. Or maybe the package never reaches me. We shall see…
“So when you get a message like that, pretend it was in a mysterious foreign language and mentally put it through your own mental google translate algorithm.
“What is your minimum?” magically becomes “Hello, I really like your widget, and I am considering making an offer. What is your best price? Hope you have a great morning :)””
I think this is fantastic advice for almost every interaction with a customer/human.
06/14/2020 at 2:33 pm in reply to: Is it Possible to Have Listing End When One Variation Sells? #78407You could also put something like “DE-LIST OTHER VARIATION!” in the custom SKU field to remind yourself to end manually.
06/14/2020 at 4:24 am in reply to: Trippensee planetarium, Atomic floor lamp, Polaris gun boot, hats, Linemans belt #78399That’s great that it worked out for the buyer anyway!
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