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I’m not aware of any way to report them. Ebay probably could not care less. I once played along with someone I figured was a scammer, which was confirmed when I received a bogus certified check for $125,000. Neither the local police nor the FBI were at all interested, and my bank wanted to see what it looked like (very realistic with watermarks and everything) but otherwise did nothing. I wanted to keep the check as a souvenir but they wouldn’t give it back to me. They all said that it’s so common they don’t even take the first step to investigate unless a victim loses money.
05/04/2020 at 1:29 pm in reply to: Accidentally swapped labels, but can’t get a response from one buyer? #77003I’ve heard of sellers managing to arrange a direct swap in this situation by sending the buyers labels but that would require two very responsive and cooperative buyers to follow through. Not something I would try, and you don’t have that option anyway at this point.
I would just treat each sale separately, each for what it is. The one that contacted you is an INAD situation so take the blame and proceed accordingly. You can’t promise to get them their item because you many never get it back from the other buyer. Every INAD situation is different depending on how much you have in the item, shipping costs, mood of the buyer, whether they have filed the INAD case, etc.
As for the buyer who has not replied, there could be many reasons for that. You may never hear from them. If it were me, once I’ve emailed them, the ball is in their court. Or you could get their phone number off the order details and try calling them. If you do hear from them or reach them, just address it as above.
Then put it all in the rear view mirror and resolve to be more careful next time.
Prop 65 is the law that requires the warnings in certain cases for things so they can be sold in California so I guess I don’t understand how having the warning would prevent the sale. But to answer your original question, I’m not aware of any way to exclude any specific states in a listing other than Alaska and Hawaii.
But you could put in the listing description that you do not ship to California due to Prop 65. Hopefully that will deter CA buyers but if someone with a CA mailing address does purchase the item, you can select “there’s a problem with buyer’s address” as the reason for cancellation so your account doesn’t get dinged for it and the buyer can’t say they weren’t warned.
Meg, could you give us some more background on the item and why you think it can’t be sold to California due to Prop 65? To my knowledge, there is no prohibition of selling specific items there except in very limited and unlikely circumstances. Ebay resellers cannot obscure, alter or remove any existing Prop 65 warnings on any item; fail to include in the sale any Prop 65 warning materials that we do have with an item; or knowingly introduce any listed chemical into an item without providing a Prop 65 warning to the buyer. Is it one of these situations?
Also known as “dodging a bullet.” 🙂
Yeah, just wait to get it back. The carrier there may or may not make additional attempts at delivery and tracking may be delayed. I’ve had a number of packages returned for inability to deliver – including some from other countries when the buyer wouldn’t pay the customs fees to pick up the package – and never had to pay for the return shipping.
If there are no tracking updates and you don’t receive it in a couple days you or the buyer could file a missing mail claim online with the USPS. That has seemed to jar stuck packages loose for me in the past even though I continued to receive “sorry we’re still looking for it” messages from the claim for long after the package actually showed up.
I’m seeing it in both my Starter store and my Basic store.
No shipping supplies coupons with a Starter store. Upgrading to a Basic store will get you a coupon for $25 a quarter, plus some other seller tools and analyticals such as Seller Hub and Sales Reports and a free monthly Terapeak subscription (they charge $19 a month then automatically refund each month).
We have and you did post that link but it is a great article on them, though it only talks about one legend of how they started. I talked about my experience with them before here:
And here:
It’s still a very active collecting field. Personally I have zero interest in them other than the ones I earned during my initial voluntary servitude in the ‘80s but happy to help my friend sell off his large collection and they’re so easy to list and ship. It doesn’t hurt to have a military background to maximize returns with key words and descriptions and also for pricing.
Sun – Sat, April 19 – 25
Total Items in Stores: 319
Items Sold: 13
Gross Sales: $234.10
Cost of Items Sold: $88.00 (not including family castoffs)
Highest Price Sold: $50.00 (military challenge coin on consignment)
Average Price Sold: $18.00
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 57COGS relative to gross was uncharacteristically high for me due to one item I took a loss on. I had paid close to $70 for it on an eBay auction snipe in a listing with bad pictures. I thought it was good for an easy sale at $120 but it was in much worse condition than could be discerned in the fuzzy pictures. I should have just made a fuss and returned it but the listing was no returns, condition “used” with no further explanation so I really felt it was just my fault for paying too much. It sold for $40 plus shipping with full disclosure of condition.
Lots of family castoffs are getting dumped on me as the kids are cleaning out their rooms between online classes and we continue to purge for the upcoming move. Many are low dollar items – I’m going through a box of about 150 DVDs, for example. I hate to just donate that stuff so I’ll list it but it does cut into the average price sold. Although I don’t include the family items in item costs above I do take the original cost into account for tax purposes, but never for more than net selling price.
I’ve already sold 5 items today so knock on wood it will be a decent week for me.
EBay is presently involuntarily blocking certain countries which I assume means they believe mail to those countries is either stopped or unreliable due to COVID-10. Some buyers are blocked from purchasing at all, as I learned from a prospective repeat foreign buyer who recently contacted me with that complaint. I looked at one of my listings from a different browser and saw a much longer list of excluded countries than my usual short list.
Sometimes though buyers are not blocked from purchasing but then eBay won’t let me print a label, as I found out today regarding an order from Hong Kong. So I printed a label from PirateShip which fortunately cost no more than the buyer paid me on eBay for shipping.
Coincidentally, today PirateShip warned me that there is a problem with some PR addresses. Some US protectorates require customs forms but PR does not. Nevertheless it is possible that Puerto Rico has been sucked into the eBay international blockages and you may have no control over whether someone from there can buy until this blows over.
04/23/2020 at 3:55 pm in reply to: Model kit, Car door panels, Telegraph key, Vintage CD player, Radio, 8 Track #76634Seller Hub back up now in DC but it was down earlier here, too. I was able to print labels by searching for the sold item and when the listing page came up it allowed me the option of going to print the label.
Nice job cleaning up that image! How did you do that? I think it goes like this though:
It looks like something hanging by a chain. My initial thought was religious, but this looks like it might be for a steel company or foundry. I think definitely not military.I’ve been watching, hoping someone knows what it is.
04/22/2020 at 9:38 am in reply to: Has anyone else noticed Fed-Ex not showing up in shipping options? #76602I think there might be remnants of that experiment to only show one shipping method to buyers no matter how many options you offer, because that still happens for only some of my items. Possibly it’s in the listing code, so maybe it’s only listings created during the experiment. I recall calling eBay about it back then and the CSR said the buyer’s browser was causing it. Look at your listing from a different browser and account but clear cookies first or open a private window and see if it still does it.
Gotta do this now, every day.
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