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I had one guy sending me tons of messages even though he was blocked. I called ebay and they eventually did stop it. They initially said “just ignore it”. After I framed it as a question, “does ebay permit users to persistently harass other users?” they changed their tune and escalated it. They even told me the person was going to be banned.
I have a friend who works for Walmart in the online sales area, from what he says, they are definitely trying to compete with Amazon for online sales head to head. Interestingly, he is pretty sure Walmart will ultimately lose and basically stick to brick and mortar. Supposedly the back end of things is a total mess and they are way behind Amazon in tech. I wonder if that is where eBay will come back.
Definitely regional variation. Sometimes when I hear other people’s stories of using the USPS, I can’t believe we are talking about the same agency. The only tendency seems to be better service in more rural areas. Fedex does seem to work better overall though.
If that is true, that could be a game changer. Where I live (big city), I can’t get a USPS mail carrier to pick up USPS in the last 6 months, after hundreds of ignored requests, conversations on phone and in-person with supervisors. The carriers just refuse to do it, even if they are there to deliver at our building. I have been having to pay my assistant to go deliver mail in person. We may be worse than other places but from where I am standing it doesn’t look good for the short term for USPS. If I am having to pay someone to drop off my orders I may as well just do Fedex who will actually show up.
So they are trying to phase out insurance for anything under 100 dollars is how I would translate that from a bureaucratic standpoint.
Yeah, as Amatino broke down the numbers, your option right now looks like either move back in with the folks or get another job. For me, I value my independence so I would get another job (that they are reducing your hours is really writing on the wall something is up). You may need some more time to build your online selling up to be self sufficient. Either way, wish you the best and sorry your boss is a jerk.
Since their message indicates they used the item for some time and damaged it, I’d stay silent. Like you said, you aren’t the manufacturer.
My guess is it is the cloth cover of the speakers. Have you tried Ozium spray? Works best for smoke smells but it does work for urine too. I recently bought a used air purifier online that was in good condition but absolutely reeked of smoke and nicotine. Wiping down and spraying with ozium completely fixed the problem.
I live near a mail processing center and the number of non-USPS vehicles handling mail now is staggering. I even saw some moving companies handling mail. I think its getting worse, at least around here, then people have any idea.
I’ve seen a big drop in July (40 percent or so). I had heard about it on this forum before so I spared myself the freak out 🙂
Sounds like a mess of a transaction and someone trying to abuse returns. I’d just do nothing unless the person contacts ebay. I’d also block them post-haste. Whenever people return stuff outside of the official returns process its challenging because it isn’t following the system.
That is very helpful, thanks for sharing that. I suspect I am selling to set decorators but I usually don’t know for sure. The shipping address isn’t always a giveaway. I also have noticed the 80s stuff I’ve scored recently isn’t as popular as I expected. I have some truly “radical” (obnoxious) 80s stuff that is surprisingly slow moving. I think the kids are getting over it.
I live in Norcal too. No problems storing stuff from a climate perspective but I did have rats destroy an entire storage unit full of stuff a few years ago in my building’s garage area storage (semi enclosed). Only stuff that was spared was in thick plastic rubbermaid bins with snap closed lids. Even then they peed and pooed all over those.
Went scavenging this week for the first time in months at various thrift stores– pretty much the only restriction was to wear masks. Maybe some signs to socially distance, but largely people didn’t listen. Even then quite a few people in stores copping at attitude about keeping their mask on in the store (store employees were reminding anyone who had taken their mask off). I’m all but certain we are going to be closing down again in weeks to days.
