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Great sales, Julie B. Ryanne has mentioned Dragonball Z on the podcast a few times over the years as some sort of 1990s thing. I was alive in the 1990s and never heard of it, so I guess I’m too old or wasn’t hip enough. 🙂
it wasn’t like a regular china pattern at all. It was a large painted flower that took up 1/3 of the plate or maybe it was a shallow bowl. The flower was semi-abstract, not neat and symmetrical like one typically sees on china. So maybe handpainted. I haven’t found anything like it online, but there in the cell-phone dead zone (one of the cons of living in a rural area), I didn’t even know that Pillyvuyt was something special – never heard of it before. So glad to know about it now!
A bunch of fun sales from a few months ago. Buyer paid shipping.
From time to time I stop at a mostly junky thrift store that overprices everything, so their inventory turn-over is very slow – really annoying. They think a well-worn LL Bean mock neck shirt is worth $7! But it’s on my way, and sometimes I find a gem. I don’t usually do men’s shirts, but this one seemed good quality, by a brand I was not familiar with (Isaia), and apparently neither were they. Paid $3. Sold in 3 months for $64.
Learned about buying used/opened perfume here on SL and also from youtuber The Paper Castle. Found this full or almost full bottle at a Greek festival rummage sale booth, did some stealthy ebay lookups back over by the food booth, and then came back to purchase it for $3. Sold in one month for $75.
First heard the term “melmac” on SL. Picked up a large 30pc lot of Texas Ware melmac at an otherwise crappy yard sale for $2. Wasn’t too sure I would make much (who buys plastic tea cups and saucers these days?), but figured it would at least be a learning experience. Well I had beginners luck. In 2 months, the 3 lots I split it into were all purchased by the same person at the same time, for a total of $106 at full price. So yay. I really like the design of the sugar and creamer. It took a bit of research to figure out that the yellow pieces and the multi-color leaf pieces are part of the same set – IMO, they don’t really go well together.
And finally, last but not least, something that immediately said to me “this looks like something J&R would buy” as soon as I saw it. It’s a small pillow cover made from a pakistani rug. Still with tag :). Paid $1.50, and thought I could get $40-50. Sold in 10 months for $30.
I’m excited about my scavenge of the week:
A vintage Aquascutum wool coat! I’ve found this brand only once or twice before, and both times there were flaws that I was very happy to notice while in the store, so I didn’t buy. This one is in excellent condition. Paid $40 at Goodwill.
For the folks on here based in Washington state, what’s the current process for remitting sales tax for in-state transactions (ie, both buyer and seller are in Washington state)? Do you still have to collect that tax and remit on your own? Or has ebay’s implementation of collecting sales tax for sellers outside of Washington selling to Washington-based buyers also collect tax for your in-state transactions?
I’m a bad citizen and have not yet gotten around to collecting and remitting sales tax for sales within my state. But since my state is on the list of states now requiring sales tax for out-of-state transactions, it would be great if once ebay implemented collection for my state, it took care of my in-state transactions too.
It would be great if they could deal with sales tax for sales within the seller’s state (for states where that applies), but I haven’t heard of any plans for them to do that. 🙁
Thanks for explaining. Glad you got a good outcome like this. I agree that a full refund to the buyer (even with ebay’s money, which is actually the money we pay them in fees) is not ideal, but hopefully they are keeping track of buyers who do this repeatedly.
TooMuchCoffee,
When you say that ebay issued a refund to the buyer, do you mean they issued a refund on your behalf (ie with your money)? If so, how much did they refund the buyer? Did you get the return shipping cost credited back to you? In other words, are you out any money on this transaction? Just wondering in case something like this happens to me in the future.
Here’s the youtube Video Susan posted recently entitled “I’m Hiring eBay Sellers for my Virtual Assistant Team! Are YOU a Good Fit?”
What you are saying does not sound ridiculous at all. It’s just going to take some time and trial and error to figure out what works given your particular issues. If a regular job doesn’t work, how about “gig economy” jobs – like what you can find on taskrabbit? Or if you want to stay in the reselling area and transportation is an issue, I think I read somewhere recently that Susan A Wells is currently hiring virtual assistants to help list stuff for other resellers. Or google “best stay at home jobs”.
Based on a lot of similar experiences, I can tell you that there is no point trying to get ebay to change the return reason, or try to get them to not charge you for the shipping label. There is simply no way for them to do this, and fighting it is a recipe for insanity. The only solution that I have found to work is to wait until you have received the item back AND then go into your most recent invoice transactions to find out how much they charged you for the label. Then go into paypal and do a partial refund of the original transaction, not including original shipping and subtracting out the cost of the return label. Then email the buyer explaining to them how and why you calculated the refund amount. Then, if the buyer doesn’t fight it, wait a few weeks and the return auto-closes. Then call ebay to get your FVF refunded. Sounds complicated, but it’s actually MUCH easier than calling ebay trying to fight a return reason.
Also, if there were a way to not accept the return, I wouldn’t advise doing that anyway. ebay does not like it if buyers don’t accept returns. period.
