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Yes – mass confusion was the point I was trying to get across in my first post on this topic.
Yes, it worked for me – yay! But there are other people that it is not working for. Suzanne knows them personally from her group. And when they contacted ebay for business on FB, the folks there (who usually are way more helpful then regular CS reps) confirmed that used perfume is not allowed – and she showed a screenshot of this reply. I don’t find it hard to believe that different people are seeing different behavior from the ebay web site. But I would find it hard to believe that Suzanne is lying.
08/28/2019 at 10:06 pm in reply to: The Most Comprehensive List of Helpful Items to Remove Marker Writing #67061Amatino – you are right – petroleum jelly it is. I wouldn’t want to get a VERO!
lol.good ideas there, Sharyn. I think what I may do is set the correct weight, but then add a handling charge to cover what I think the extra shipping cost would be of splitting between two packages, perhaps even setting it according to the max cross country charge. Can always refund buyer after the fact.
08/28/2019 at 10:01 pm in reply to: Am I the only one who still takes an enormous amount of time to edit photos? #67057Thanks for the info, Amatino. I’m on a mac, so MS software won’t work for me. For me the time to do photo editing other than cropping wouldn’t be worth it until I see an example of being able to fix some annoying color issues I have from time to time (using iphone6 camera in natural light).
For example, none of these 3 photos is quite the correct shade of pink.
In this second example, one of my backgrounds did result in the right color (the one where the jacket is hanging on a wooden wall).
But it’s really annoying to keep having to try different backgrounds to get the right color. And don’t get me started on fancy camera color balance features. A few years ago I purchased an SLR and played around with taking a photo of the white sheet of paper to set the color balance, plus futzing with other adjustments. Nothing really worked. That camera is sitting in a drawer somewhere waiting for me to list it.
A number of people have done the simple test and have found it not to work for them.
I’m in the same boat with just a 3-piece glass console set, something roughly like this:
I have not listed it yet b/c I have a strong preference for a) selling it as a set, as my understanding is that these things sell better that way, and b) packing it in 2 separate boxes, b/c I have a sense that it may be cheaper than getting deep into dimensional weight pricing with one enormous box and safer to ship in separate boxes.
So since I can’t decide what to do, I’m just ignoring this item and working on listing other things. 😐
08/28/2019 at 7:20 pm in reply to: The Most Comprehensive List of Helpful Items to Remove Marker Writing #670365. Gently abrasive (fine?) sand paper to remove marker from leather shoe soles.
08/28/2019 at 7:20 pm in reply to: The Most Comprehensive List of Helpful Items to Remove Marker Writing #670354. Vaseline to remove metallic marker (and sometimes even regular Sharpie) from rubber shoe soles
Suzanne Wells just posted a video about this yesterday. Mass confusion all around. Someone from eBay for business on FB said NO, you can’t sell it. Guidelines posted on ebay website say yes you can. Some of SW’s commenters said their listings were taken down or they were prevented from listing either b/c “pre-owned” was no longer listed as an option, or others b/c when they went to click “list it”, the website wouldn’t let it go through. Others said they were able to list just fine. Others are posting in the Collectibles category. I just listed a used perfume item last night in the regular health-beauty/fragrance category as “pre-owned”, and it went through fine and hasn’t been taken down (yet).
08/28/2019 at 7:12 pm in reply to: Am I the only one who still takes an enormous amount of time to edit photos? #67032Old Dad,
All you did was crop the original photo? Your “after” photo looks so much sharper than the original.08/28/2019 at 5:32 pm in reply to: Am I the only one who still takes an enormous amount of time to edit photos? #67020Thanks Amatino and Inglewood. The “after” photos sure do look a lot more professional. I didn’t realize you could do that much with post processing, as opposed to just having a fancier camera/lighting setup. Something for me to consider.
08/27/2019 at 11:30 pm in reply to: Am I the only one who still takes an enormous amount of time to edit photos? #66921Anybody willing to post a pair of before and after photos to show what their editing accomplishes?
I, too, find it frustrating to not be able to meet people in my target market and get to know them and hear from them about what they’re looking for, not looking for, what new things they’re thinking about maybe looking for, etc. In my previous life with a “real” job, it was part of my job to do exactly that for customers of our software products. I spoke with tons of customers at conferences, then also groups of 15-20 customers at a time in special mini-conferences at our offices, plus I had 5-10 customers that I interacted with on an almost weekly basis – getting feedback on new features we were considering, sending out surveys, etc. I really miss having that source of input/feedback.
Now, do I really need feedback related to the latest pair of <5 years old Sorel boots I just sold? Not really. But boy for some of the vintage clothing that I’ve sold or hard goods, sometimes I just want to ask things like:
– Why wasn’t this super rare/unique item of vintage clothing worth more to you? It sat and sat with lots of watchers for over a year and didn’t sell until I reduced the price to $5.99. What’s the deal?
– Why did you pay $400 for this particular vintage christmas item? What makes it so special and more valuable than all these other cool vtg christmas items that don’t sell for as much?Sometimes I just want to simply ask “Why did you buy this item?”
I’ve always assumed that it’s just “not done” to ask buyers questions after the purchase, so I haven’t. But sometimes I really want to. Does anybody reading this ever do this, or even do it regularly?
If you’re wondering about an item that you think has sold more than 90 days ago, you can search your email archives for the “Item Sold!” messages – if you archived but did not delete them. Gmail is my go-to most complete database of listed and sold items.
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