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

Sold 27 items this weekend so my guess of 25 wasn't far off. More stuff to go on tomorrow night but current stuff for sale here

couple of things ending tonight, few more bits added last night

Listed a book by using the number on the back. The description said "spiral version" which I didn't notice. It is just a plain stapled version. The buyer has contacted me asking for my comments. I have apologised and offered to refund the 49p the book cost so that he gets it free or for him to return the book to me at his own cost and once I receive it I will refund the amount he originally paid. Do I also have to refund him the cost of his return postage ?

you don't have to give him the return postage, but you do have to return all of his original payment, both the item cost and the postage.

Bloody hell, why do people bid when they're in another country before asking postage costs! Grrrr...

well i'm in shock at moment ,had a clear out of my jewellery box and found a few bits 3 fine tangled up gold necklaces,pair of earrings,a few plain small pendants, n 2 rings.decided to put on ebay has scrap to see what happens,stated i didn't know if they were gold or gold plated and that they were taking a chance on bidding (hence £1.00 starting bid) just had a look to see how it's going and it's at £64 and 13 watchers with still 15hours o go ......

Morning, hope someones up early to help. Something a little odd has happened. A listing finished the buyer went to pay and the postage has disappeared ! In the listing you can quite clearly see that it says postage £2.98 but when I go to send an invoice it says postage free ! She has paid the £1.20 for the item and has asked if I can amend the invoice so that she can pay the postage, I cannot see how to do it ? My settings are such that only I can amend the postage and I don't usually post out of the UK, the buyer lives in Mayo, Ireland so not sure if that is in Northern Ireland or not.

Not sure how I can create another invoice or shall I just ask her to send me a cheque or postal order for the postage ?

You refund the paypal and issue new invoice otherwise you don't have protection.

Happened to me when I didn't remove free collection from invoice and buyer paid on phone

Thanks allthefires

this week has been a bit of a week ! Sent out 20 items on Sat and had one posted through my door on Monday. I put a label on the back with "Sender" and my name and address. On the front it has "To" and the name and the address. So how come then Mr Postman delivered it to me ! huh huh !! Doh !

How annoying. I just put my surname, house number, postcode on my sender details. May prevent mr postie from doing it again.

Good idea. Even the post office staff couldn't believe it lol

Hiya, made £34 tonight from just 4 items, have more ending soon and have just listed tons more here

Morning everyone, I had a notification last night that there is a free listing weekend on Ebay this weekend. 18th & 19th June, usual T&C. The main one being that you cannot use Turbolister and only on auction style listings.
Good luck !

hi
I have had that e-mail too
free listing sat and sun again

I have got the last of my free listings ending today including a balamory set which I have not seen another one anywhere up to £18 :)

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I have sold a few things but the two designer blouses were my nieces so not my money iyswim.
Remember I am sure that you can pre do your listings and schedule them in the sell ypur item form ...then go and activate them when you want them to start ?
I amhoping to get lots on this weekend summer is creeping up fast even if it is still raining x

Hi snowball,

Good tip, so if i write the whole listing out then what do i press so it doesnt start straight away, i can do some over the following days in work then start them sat and sun to save me wasting the whole weekend writing them all out!

You have to use the sell your item form in ebay and it worked last time as long as you schedule them for a later day as far as I know :)

I hope to get some done ready for weekend too many kids too many clothes not enough time :)

tortoise can you list again yet ?

I am gutted someone left me a 1 or 2 for postage :(

you can schedule a listing to start later, but it does cost 6p I think so listing won't actually be free.

The listing will be free if you schedule it, then before the scheduled time comes up, you edit the listing to start immediately! A sneaky way to avoid the schedule fee!

SNOW I have a 21 item selling limit and i don't think i qualify for free listing . Very annoying because i have a massive rat/chinchilla cage to list and want to start it quite high. Will probably just opt for BIN now!

Good sneaky way to get it free but i dont qualify for free listings as im on listing restrictions to 50 a month

Am I correct in thinking that if you don't post to the address in the Paypal notification that you wouldn't be protected ? I had a late notification last night about a payment and very quickly wrote out the address label to the Paypal address. I have since noticed a note asking for me to despatch to a different address.

yes you should always send to the address given by paypal - if the buyer wants it to another address, refund their payment, then they will need to update paypal and pay you again.

ooops too late, I was in such a rush to get to the post office that I had addressed it to the paypal address and have only just noticed now. I have sent him an email address apologising and explaining that paypal advise sellers to post to the confirmed address to protect the seller.

Here's my listings ending tomorrow night

Need to get my finger out to get some more stuff on for free listing this weekend, have about 50 things to go on but lacking the motivation :)