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The message from George is a masterpiece. He touches on several major sob-story points, plus insinuates he’s doing you a huuuuuge favor by purchasing your crap. I love it!
Every time I’ve had a “Senior Grandma on a Fixed Income Who Just Wants to Buy XYZ for Her Grandkids!” ask me for a discount? They’ve been a pain-in-the-socks type of customer. Every.single.time.
We negotiate a discount, then they have very specific, nitpicky shipping instructions, then they get the item and find one eensy little thing that isn’t perfect and demand further discounts because NOW your item is causing them a financial hardship and they are old. And on a fixed income. And won’t someone think of the (grand)children?
I’m at a point where anyone that starts out the negotiation with a tale of woe, sickness, and financial ruin gets a hot block.
I would be interested in just-pay-tax for shipping suplies, if it is still available. My email is squeaky.mccheese@gmail.com. Send me an email to discuss! -Liz
So I called eBay and they blamed PayPal, saying it was some sort of data transmission error with Paypal. The gist was that PayPal failed to send info reflecting that Payment was successful. eBay’s suggestion was that I refund and tell the buyer to repurchase on eBay so I don’t lose seller protection benefits.
I found that answer a little lacking. The CSR says it’s a known issue and I don’t get the impression eBay intends to do anything about it.
I am going to take my chances and send the item. It is $25 in books that I have maybe $1 into. If the buyer later on files a charge back then I will just refund and move on.
I just had a similar thing happen. I saw the Paypal email saying I had received money from a buyer. No record of the sale on ebay, and my item is still listed as available for sale on ebay right now. I checked Bonanza and Truegether and it’s not a sale from either of those sites. The money is in paypal right now and shows it’s a sale from ebay.
It’s too late to call ebay now, so I guess I’ll call in the morning to ask what the heck I’m supposed to do.
They are probably crazy. If they are truly elderly and 97, they may have dementia, which causes some …interesting…and irrational thought processes.
I had a lady make an offer on a pair of shoes. She lived in Florida and I thought the whole thing was odd because she was surfing eBay while her part of Florida was getting blasted by a hurricane. Priorities? Eh, whatevs! Let’s buy some shoes!
I accepted her offer, she pays a few hours later, and then the next morning sends a snotty message saying she never bought these shoes and implied I’d somehow hacked her account and was scamming her. So I’m guessing she got drunk at a hurricane party and bought some Ferragamo’s that she later regretted, lol.
Hopefully, a little drunken shopping spree is the only regret she had from the night before. 😉
My local FedEx asks me zero questions other than “Do you need a receipt?” Which is interesting, considering the FedEx bombing from last year happened not that far from where I live. You’d think they would try to engage their customers more to make sure no one is being sketchy, but no.
I started by sorting which lead to purging.
The stuff that is obviously very cool and/or expensive gets pulled out and listed first.
Once I look at the items, there is usually an obvious “Yes” pile and an obvious “No” pile. There ends up being a “Maybe” pile, and I don’t deal with the “Maybe” pile until after the first “No” pile is disposed of (Goodwill, used book store, trash, etc). Get the obvious “No” stuff out of your house asap, because those “No” items can creep into the “maybe” category and then you’re back where you started.
Anything that I pull out and think “Omg, WHY did I buy this?” is a total no. If your reaction is not “Oh wow, I forgot I bought this! This is so cool!” and is instead “Ugh, I hate listing this sort of thing”, then it needs to go.
If I realize I’m spending too much time debating the merits of an item, then it’s probably a problem item and needs to go. The “Maybe” pile gets a fast, gut-level price check. Will it reliably sell, yes or no? If the answer is “Welllllll…” and I feel myself dithering with decision paralysis, then it becomes a “No”, and away it goes.
This is usually enough to get the ball rolling and force me to be realistic and not view items through rose colored glasses. Once I get the “No” pile out of my house, I feel like “Look! Progress! This is amazing! I’m going to be so organized!” and my motivation to power through a box or 4 of
nonsensefine merchandise is high.Retro, it has been that way for a while for me too. I don’t remember when the change happened, but it used to be that Regional Rate A was a tiny bit cheaper than 2 lb priority mail. It changed on one of the previous usps price hikes.
Hi, I’m here for the Death Pile Anonymous meeting…
My name is Liz and I have about eleventy-billion books piled up in my laundry room and kitchen, (oh and office and bedroom). I bought um…about 1000 books at an auction in early December for $120. Turfed about 200 of them to the used book store. I have listed about 500 of them, (not all individually; I listed many of them in lots of 5-10 books).
I had drastically underestimated what I bought. I thought I’d only bought about 400 books, but now that I add up what I’ve listed, what I’ve sold, what I dumped at Half Price Books, what is still in my laundry room waiting to be listed…HAHAHAHAHA. I’m pretty sure I’ll be listing books until I die. I’m also pretty sure I’ll die trapped under a pile of books.
On the plus side, I’ve sold about $1300 in books in December and January. So, that’s a thing?
Definity not a coffin handle. That would not hold the weight of a casket + body (I was on my base USAF Honor Guard).
It’s a soap dish, but it’s missing the insert to hold the bar of soap.
I’d list that book for no less than $150 Buy it Now with Best Offer enabled, and see what happens.
HAHA! I almost posted about my own fake boobs-in-a-box story, but I felt a little embarrassed.
My husband, (motorcycle boot wearing, guitar-playing, metal-head dude), sometimes picks after work. He came home with a box of falsies, and I just kinda looked at him, like “Where are you going with this?”
I’m…um, well endowed, so I am unfamiliar with this type of product, lol. And the breast forms were used and did not have sizes marked on them, so I spent a few hours trying to figure out how to size them correctly. Also, there were *three* (3) of them in the box. Not two, not four, but three?
In the end, we sold them to a crossdresser in Thailand.
