Ebay challenge. £300 target by Christmas. Come and join in.

[Tortoise]

OK, here is our next Ebay challenge thread.
Aiming for £300 by Christmas!
Come join in and show us your listings!
I will be listing tonight/this weekend.

my listings

Deadly - I'm glad too! I'd have had to sell everything in the house to buy another one (slight exaggeration!!). I am watching your Wii game!! I must stop looking at other people's listings because I want to buy half of them!

My PP is up to £190 but I have to keep reminding myself that ebay haven't had their cut out of it yet and I've also paid for P&P from other money so that has to come off before I have my final total. Oh well, I'd better keep listing!!

mogs- glad to hear camera is okay!

Got my other listings sorted this evening... going to see how long I can keep this up- you lot are very good discipline!

Hello, all can I join in please?

(no way am I going to make £300.00 quid by xmas, all of my stuff is going for 1.04 - is this the magic number?)

New to ebay selling - I have a LITERAL shedfull of stuff to sell; from books to clothes to retro stuff to kids toys and am just starting out.

um, is this how I do my stuff?

Anyway, would LOVE some advice on how to get the best sales...a couple of bits of mine have gone for silly pennies, when I KNOW they were worth more.

(I'm up to a whole £20.00 sales, excluding fees, not including P&P - will someone talk me through P&P please?)

Hi Shirley,

If you have two bidders for an item starting at 99p, one of them is bound to try the minimum bid only to see what happens. Which is they bid 99p and bidder 2 who might be willing to pay loads wins with one more increment, ie £1.04.

So if you think you'll get a bidder for something, start at what you want to see it sell for and accept that Ebay will take a start fee (£3.99 minus 10p fees is better than £1.04!)

Also most people don't search descriptions, so get as many key words into your title as you can - eg your orange butterfly brooch could be 'Orange butterfly copper enamel 1 inch brooch'

As for P+P - Ebay have rules on how much you can charge in lots of categories. I tend to charge what everyone else does minus a penny, or for heavy items weigh them including a juffybag and bubblewrap. Especially if you post overseas - extra sellotape can cost more! I only give overseas prices if asked or bid on, though.

Thanks for your advice!

I've just had someone ask me if I'll do a BIN for one of my items (the wide leg jeans)

1. I don't know how much to do it for

2. don't know if I should do it.

I think I'm pretty crap at this!

well I am still here I have a few ending tonight but ten auctions needed editing so are not updated but did not cost anything to list.
here

they all have the same picture but when i tried to edit them it would not let me edit the postage bit and revise them one for experience.

Not doing bad another £80 on Sunday got so much stuff to ebay :)

Hi to tortoise and everyone else good luck :)

ShirleyGarrote What is the inside leg measurement of the Ladies chickster jeans? (Always good to put details like measurements in listings. )

I am going to have to start listing more often if i can find things to list! Will do Barbie/sindy/etc dolls this weekend. Not sure if will be less bidders about with it being school hols next week.

Thanks tortoise, I will measure and sort that listing out tonight!

FREE listing again this weekend . Hopefully will have more time to get some listing done this time.

Snowballz, not quite sure what you meant in your post but if you were saying you were trying to change the listings of things ending within 12 hours, you can't do it. I tried to change one of mine to allow someone overseas to bid and I simply couldn't get the listing to change. I finally found out it was because the listing ended within 12 hours. I am not sure if this applied to you, but it might be useful to someone else anyway!

Well - I have broke my duck and have sold my first 6 items I am still awaiting payment on 2, but 3 have been posted this morning and one has been collected. So far, I have made around £100 ...

Some bigger items ending today and tomorrow.

yes dumbledoresgirl it was but I am more prepared this wekend for free listing day
beware tho dont list things for 99p or it comes off your allowance for the month still :)

happy ebaying everyone good luck :)

hello :) I've been collecting things in my eBay pile for months. Keep meaning to list them but never quite getting that far. Free listing this weekend has pushed me over the edge though! I'm off to download turbolister :)

bumpybecky - you can't get the free listing any more if you use turbolister!

well I can't get the bloody thing to work an anyway!

thanks purplefrog :)

Hey, all. Hope it's going well. I made another few small sales tonight and am up to about £165 or so, when I deduct eBay fees and money spent on packing stuff.

Shirley, I had someone ask for a BIN price the other day. I didn't know how to do it either, but she agreed to a decent amount and I had no bids, so I thought I would try. I cack-handedly ended the auction early, then emailed her to ask for her email address, then used it to send her a Paypal invoice unlinked to eBay, and she paid me and I posted; but of course we cannot actually exchange feedback now, and it seems a bit risky because she could have turned out to be dodgy (or, I suppose, I could have) and there would have been no official eBay, er, punishment or whatever ...

Fortunately she was very nice, but still. There must be a better way. Anyone know?

Tillyscoutsmum, how nice to have made £100 with six items! I must look out some better quality stuff.

Re snowsuits, what do people reckon a Catimini baby snowsuit in a sort of khaki green would fetch? I think it was some crazy price to start with, like £60 (it was a gift to DS and he hardly wore it). I was saving it for DD to use this winter but tbh I don't think she really will, as she is always snuggled in her buggy footmuff with a little warm hat and that seems like enough. Hmmmmmmm

DirtyMartini. I too am new to BIN. I was asked to do this last week and didn't know what to ask for and could anyway see I had loads of watchers so took the gamble that I would get a good price anyway (I did) and ignored the request for a BIN.

But, I did look into how to do it and I think what you do is click on revise your listing and add a BIN price. That way, you are still selling via ebay.

But, as I have said, I am a novice to it, so I may be wrong about how to do it.

Thanks Dumbledoresgirl. It should have been obvious

While we are on the subject, does anyone have a general guide as to how you pick a BIN price when you are asked for one?

I know you are supposed to ask for whatever you want to sell the item for, but I generally list all my items at the lowest possible price I would want for them and so I know what figure that is, but find it hard to know what figure to ask in a BIN. Double? Triple? the start price?

yes for a BIN you revise the item adding BIN price or you can ask them to bid, you choose to end the item to the highest bidder ie them, then add the extra as postage on the invoice! This also means less Ebay fees!

I sometimes ask the if they would like to make a sensible offer for me to consider. This gives me an idea of how much they are thinking of! Or look in completed listing to get a rough idea on how much similar items have sold for.

Thanks Tortoise. My buyer wouldn't suggest a price and I felt like I was being tested so I just left it.

So what is the strategy for another free listing weekend? List everything with a BIN price, start with a higher price but offer free p&p? What works best?

No BIN for free listing.
I am just going to start at a price i would be happy with. Actually, starting slightly higher and putting free p&p may be a good idea but them final fees will be more i think, they don't take fees out of postage costs which is why some sellers put high postage.