New Ebay challenge. £300 by summer holidays. All welcome!

[Tortoise]

New thread.
Have been busy listing tonight and now have 27 items.
Here are my latest listings

baabi - definitely don't post until the echeque has cleared, they can bounce and be reversed. You'll get an email from PayPal to tell you once it's cleared and that's the earliest you should post it. I'd also message the buyer to confirm that you won't be posting the item until it's cleared.

Tortoise - we also suffered with lower DSR's when we said we'd post within 4 days - as soon as we changed to 2/3 days they improved dramatically.

Vix - go to your ebay summary page, bottom right under Listing Offers will tell you how many free auction listings you've used and have left for the current month.

Listed a few more things this week - collection of random items is here

Vix we can not see your listings, your link only takes us the the log in page which in turns takes to my own pages!

Oh I'll definitely join in, I've got another run of things to sell.

Just some peppa pig items at the moment, but I'm selling some tents in a couple of weeks, so that should boost things a bit :)

Hi, all
I have sold 41 items so far over the past two weeks and have 7 items finishing tonight that have bids on just not looking forward to all the wrapping up

Does anyone else have an educated guess at the number of items they will sell each week, based on number of watchers and bidders? I'm getting pretty good at it now.

So my prediction for sales ending this weekend is 25 items. I know by now that if I don't have at least 1 watcher in the last 12 hours it's unlikely (though not impossible) to sell.

Hi, i think this link may be better then - ebay stuff!

Thanks dinosaurs - still cant see it but will have a proper look round on it later

Oh i really cant remember what i copied last time i did it so here is another one too! feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=songbirdoriginals&ftab=AllFeedback

hi,
here are my items

i too have been cursed by the DSR's and am trying the 2/3 days tip

well I am still trying
averaging about 20 -30 £ a week but tried to take advantage of the free listing and still have not edited all my listings

got some stuff ending its here

good luck everyone

love the peppa pig stuff btw :)

hi everyone well it was the Post office for me this morning. £46 postage later for the 20 items that have sold over the last week :(

I thought that someone mentioned a way to check out how many free listings you have left for the rest of the month. Tried it, looked for Listing offers but unless I am being rather slow at this time of night I couldn't see it.

Moomoo - you need to go to the front page which is My ebay > Summary Page - bottom right-hand side - Listing Offers

Oh would someone bid the lowest on the PP stuff for me? I know it's bad form but I've got 16 watchers and no bids.. they need a boot

Well the buggy has finally arrived. I do like it but it's massive. May be sold on again!

Got a ton of auctions ending tonight. Had some really daft questions like will you accept a bin of £50 on this item. Starting price was £49.99 on a auction so not worth the faff of relishing and fees. Plus it has 6 watchers.

Does anyone know if I can change my username? It's too similar to my email address and easily identifies me.

Dinosaur, thats what I did and couldn't find it. Mind you it was late so I shall try again once I get home as I cannot access Ebay at work.

I am gobsmacked that I sold 21 more items yesterday ! so I shall be spending a good couple of hours wrapping them tonight then back to the post office tomorrow.
Does anyone have an idea when the next free listing weekend will be. I know that last two were 21/22nd May and 4/5th June. someone on another forum thought it may not be until 4th July ?

Also something I have noticed on a few of my listings : If I list an item at 99p, and it has two bids on but is still at 99p how can that be. Surely if it has two bids on it, it would be more than 99p

moomoo well done on your sales. The 2 bids at 99p will be the same buyer upping their bid.

I still haven't managed to get around to listing anything.

Tortoise, the current price though is for 99p so if it started off at 99p but there have been two bids surely the price would be more than 99p which is the start bid ? Or am I being totally thick lol
And thanks like I said I am amazed, and I still have 6 more huge huge bags to list. Just think of the money if you get it all listed

If someone places a bid at 99p to start off with, and then puts in a second bid with their maximum it will still show 99p until someone else puts in a bid, then it'll go up. Good sign though :)

Thanks lol I thought I was going mad

As jareth said!
Can also be off putting to bidders! Means someone else is keen on the item. Keen enough to up their bid.