Scavenger Life

Trash to Cash. A podcast about making a living on eBay.

Scavenger Life Episode 24: On the Road with Mikey and Wendy

Mikey and Wendy try to make and ship some Thrift Scores while traveling in the Northwest.

Being on the road while running an eBay store can be very challenging. Even with their store on full vacation mode, Mikey and Wendy are still dealing with returns and making sure customers are happy. Meanwhile, they’re trying to keep selling their travel finds using Flat Rate Padded Envelopes in the Northwest. “FRPE”s are a rarity at local Post Offices, as many don’t carry them and the USPS.com store limits customers to 90 per order per day. Why? We don’t know. But they are one of the best deals for shipping items everywhere in the US.

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Scavenger Life Episode 4: The Dark Side of eBay – Negative Feedback, Low DSRs, Returns

The Dark Side of eBay: Turn that frown upside down and keep selling!

The biggest challenge for any ebayer is keeping the buyer happy. Waking up to negative feedback is brutal. Getting a item returned with a message of ‘item not as described’ just hurts. Losing top rated seller status can cost you a fortune in fees and shipping each month. Jay and Mikey discuss how they handle these darker issues.

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Scavenger Life Episode 3: What We Will Buy, What We Won’t Buy for eBay

Blazers! Will you buy them? Do they sell on eBay? Sometimes yes, Sometimes no.

Jay and Mikey discuss what they will not buy. What does not sell, what is difficult to store, what is hard to pack? It’s impossible to discuss what we don’t like to deal with without going into what we find ideal to sell. Leave those popcorn poppers and neck massagers. Be sure and pickup any inflatable limb braces.

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