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I usually just give them my best offer, maybe higher than I realistically would take because the question is silly.
A business I owned was audited. It was not just a letter, but the agent came in, looked at the records (QB files), books, etc. In our pre- audit review, we found a couple areas where we owed money– maybe 1000 dollars inaccurately categorized. They worked for 3 at our office days (why they had to be physically on site to look at a QB file? no idea) and found nothing else other than what we found. Colossal waste of tax payer dollars. It probably cost them more money to do the audit than they got back. Really shook the nerve of our new company and left us scratching our heads–Considering all of the very blatant tax fraud I have seen, I couldn’t figure out why we were targeted. I don’t know that I have any advice other than if you keep track of expenses honestly, and with the aide of a CPA filing your taxes reasonably, there isn’t much they can do. My guess is that a ebay type store of the sort we are running is probably small potatoes to them (compared to the biz I had that was audited, totally different type). But who knows. The whole experience left me changed, feeling that the government is not your friend as a business owner.
I haven’t been posting stuff as often because things don’t seem to be moving that much. I put about 10-15 new things up a week. It is confusing to me too. I do some promoted listings but not too many. I don’t do coupons but send offers almost daily. I have been selling things, but the volume is way down the past 2 weeks, and the past year as i said is down 50 percent almost. It could be that the pandemic cleared me out of a lot of stuff or something. I sell “old weird stuff”, not commodities. Maybe I will try promoting.
I’m glad some people have had some sales. Mine have been in the toilet. I sold about 50 dollars of small stuff the last week. My sales are down 50% compared to 2020. I have 2500 items.
I definitely would not offer free returns for my store. If you sell a lot of commodity like items such as amazon, maybe it is worth it, but for “old weird stuff” like I sell, no way. Most returns I get are based on people not reading the description at all. I’m convinced most people don’t read beyond one sentence of the description.
That’d be great. The last week I had 3 sales get cancelled for non-payment, total $100. This would really button up the loophole that shouldn’t be there anyway.
Your response in handling the situation was nothing if not generous. Some people just have an axe to grind, and it has nothing to do with you.
The pandemic has sadly pushed many people past their psychological breaking point. Many who didn’t have too much of a problem before just can’t handle the stress and are unable to think rationally anymore. So there’s that too.
Never underestimate the drain that a few difficult clients can have on your business. If you have the patience of a saint, bless you. Since I don’t, I block people without a second thought. I’ve run businesses for 20 years and one of the huge benefits of ebay is the ability to block doing business with someone in the future–easily.
Something sounds amiss. Why would people need to call her? That is odd. Sounds like she got scammed or something. Nobody should need to talk to you on the phone to buy your stuff.
I’m also in the mega-slow sales rut too. Sorry to hear you guys are also having the USPS pick up problem as well. In my area, I haven’t been able to get a pick up done in the last 3 years. I’ve tried everything I can but have accepted it will not change. We have more pressing issues here in Oakland including routine mail theft. We’ve had our mail stolen 12-15 times in the last year. Its hard to explain to people that our situation is so bad here.
I don’t think there is a way to get it, unfortunately. Could you cut and paste the response from Canada post in a direct message to the customer?
I have noticed stuff going to Canada is also slow, so it seems there is back up both ways. Sorry to hear of your trouble.
Lawn darts! I remember those. One of the more questionable toys ever invented. But lots of fun until someone lost an eye or whatever it was they did.
They look homemade. Evil soul trapped inside probably a discretionary choice on the part of the maker.
If you kept them outside the house, they’d just show up inside the house while you are asleep.
I think it would get taken down. It is basically a medical device. Either ebay will take it down or the company will complain eventually. The only thing i have luck with selling without incident is adapters for CPAP machines. Some of the biotech companies will also complain if you try to sell components like batteries they usually sell direct to patients (at a incredibly elevated price of course).
I speak some German, mostly useless because almost all Germans now speak English. “Funktioniert Nicht” would be “doesn’t work”.
Although, if you are shipping through the global shipping program, its really on the buyer to be able to understand English or be able to translate for themselves and be familiar with common ebay terms and descriptions. Returns on the GSP are very not affordable as we all know.
