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Cool item! I like the 59 cents marked down to 49 on the card. I don’t particularly know anything about this but I see quite a few Zebra II’s have sold recently and some were NIP so I’d use those prices as a guide and double them, to start. Looking at the sales the ammo seems to help – a NIP Zebra II sold with two extra packs of ammo in April for $175. Otherwise the highest price for a NIP Zebra II was $125 in July. I would be careful about eBay’s orange plug requirement for toy guns and there is a rabbit hole of restrictions regarding pellet guns so I would not use that term at all. Sellers are obviously getting away with it sometimes but that is not an indication that you will. I would think that all you really need is Ray Line Zebra in the title (and some also include “Rayline” one word) in a vintage toy category and knowledgeable collectors will find you.
The best advice is Kentucky Picker’s. If you don’t take that, I would start with what it is you generally sell and your comfort zone. If it were me (assuming I know nothing about the woman other than what you’ve described, that I’m running out of storage, and that the mother really has no idea), I’d tell her that I’d I would only take any decorative items and jewelry she doesn’t want to keep. You might also ask her to call you if there appears to be anything unusual; collections of things or hobbies, or items that appear to be old but it may be best not to encourage the start of dialogue while she’s going through this. There really could be anything in a storage unit. Most of the time there is very little of value individually.
10/08/2020 at 7:22 pm in reply to: What does Ebay do with Global Shipping items they will not ship or return? #82273Yup, it is nuts. I prefer not to deal with GSP, though I understand why sellers use it.
9/27/20 – 10/3/20
Total Items Listed (2 different IDs): 303
Items Sold: 7
Gross Sales (not incl shipping): $175.05
Highest Price Sold: $30 – ‘80s Cross 10KT Gold Filled Pen & Pencil Set
Returns: 0
New Items Listed: 16
$ Spent on New Inventory: $0Posting my numbers among all you overachievers so I can eat my humble pie.
What is it about live auctions that I as an introvert love? I think that it’s a party I can watch and be in the middle of to enjoy but I don’t have to talk to anyone if I don’t want to, other than to raise my paddle when necessary and check out.
10/07/2020 at 6:37 am in reply to: What does Ebay do with Global Shipping items they will not ship or return? #82241Aw! And I thought I had sniffed out a fellow enthusiast of such engineering marvels. I bow to your detective skills.
10/06/2020 at 9:22 pm in reply to: What does Ebay do with Global Shipping items they will not ship or return? #82233Oh I can guarantee the photos are lifted from the original listings. It happened to a friend of a friend. 🙂 The GSP confiscated items are definitely going to 8ten1944, the only question is how they get to him/her. Sold? Consigned? Auctioned? Is he/she an employee or subsidiary or subcontractor of PB or eBay? And there may be other sellers out there turning these items. I’m only aware of this one.
It appears to me that 8ten1944’s former GSP items are all for sale with US shipping only. (It’s probably part of his deal with eBay/Pitney Bowes, whatever that deal might be, which makes sense since these were items that someone thought were prohibited to ship foreign.) So Antique Frog being on eBay Old Blimey won’t see all those items. As Sharyn says above, that seller appears to have some non-GSP-confiscated items. I’ll bet all the golf stuff is his/hers, so he can sell it with international shipping enabled, which allows it to post on eBay.UK.
Speaking of the UK, did anyone notice that the user name may be a reference to the British Sten submachine gun, developed and used in WWII, and 1944 was near the end of the war when the tide turned to the Allies (more or less)?
Yeah, I don’t see any use for it unless you have a smart home or are a super tech geek.
10/06/2020 at 11:24 am in reply to: What does Ebay do with Global Shipping items they will not ship or return? #82205I’m a bit surprised that eBay allows the seller to resell the items on the platform and use the original seller’s photos. I would think they’d want the disposal process to be a bit more obscure. Sellers do give up the rights to their photos so there’s nothing they can do about that but if I was a buyer that didn’t get my item I’d be mad. It appears to me that Pitney Bowes confiscates some items that are not actually restricted, using an over-broad interpretation of what’s restricted at times. But I guess no one cares since both buyer and seller are refunded when they confiscates the item out of GSP.
The seller apparently uses the Ryanne & Jay method – set a high price; list it and forget it. Maybe the seller is a lurker here? 🙂
10/06/2020 at 9:49 am in reply to: What does Ebay do with Global Shipping items they will not ship or return? #82194I have no idea what his deal is, but this guy gets it:
He even gets to use your pictures.
It might depend on whether you’re otherwise on thin ice for multiple removals. Though I have had the occasional removal once or twice a year I’ve always just let them go. My most recent one was just this week, and like yours, my item did not match the prohibition. (It was a CPAP expendable non-prescription resupply item removed as a “prescription device.”) The notification email specifically that no policy violation was recorded on my account as a result, though. Very frustrating but I have no doubt that fighting it will only be more so.
If you decide to take it further, please let us know how it went.
The last time I received a shipped confirmation email from the USPS Postal Store was in April. Since then I’ve only gotten the order confirmations, then the stuff shows up at some point. Some things arrive quickly (I think sometimes the orders are filled by the local servicing PO) but some items have taken a while to arrive.
<span class=”label”>Sold for</span> <span class=”result price”>$54.99</span>
<span class=”label”>Sold Date</span> <span class=”result”> Dec 03, 2016</span>
Price has a bit of age on it but these still sell for healthy prices though it might sit for a while. If it’s this one you have, the Christmas angle should help.
Thanks! Good to know that multiple accounts can function on Chrome.
Yeah; my wishy washy choice of words notwithstanding, I would never take a random assortment of stuff or individual items on consignment. That being said, I’ve been happy with my large challenge coin lot consignment but there’s an unusual confluence of factors that make it worthwhile.
Thanks for the explanation, and welcome from a fellow Floridian! I have three accounts partially for some of the same reasons (but not as sophisticated a set up as yours) but I found that using more than one account on a single browser was a bit of a nightmare, due to the cookies (I think). (I always list on a desktop). So I use Firefox, Chrome, and Microsoft Edge for each different account. Which is cumbersome in of itself, but not as bad as trying to switch back and forth on one browser.
So I’d be interested to hear how you handle seven accounts, as far as browsers go? Thanks!
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