Raise £350 for Christmas - the new eBay challenge

[DinosaursHateUnderpants]

Post your listings and questions here. The purpose is to raise money for Christmas and I'll start by showing my (so far) meagre listings here

Carrots - Yay, am pleased you got them on at last - no idea why, but sometimes your auction options are limited when you sell similar (limited to what you did before I mean) - I think it just sets it up as a template in the same format. Post your link Mrs!

Would be good to know when they sell (nosey emoticon) :)

Does anyone else have positive experience of selling with BIN only for popular items?

I can't post my link or it will out me as I live in a tiny village and my village name seems to appear on my listings.

I will let you know how I get on with it though. I am viewing it as an experiment as I have been fairly greedy optimistic with my prices.

I have listed a few more items today, using your trick Dino so will have to remember to edit them to start tonight.

I am still trying to do little and often although post a few more things at a time now.

How is everyone getting on?

My items all have 1 or 2 watchers, but as some of it is Emma Bridgewater stuff I think people do what I do and watch to see what it goes for as they have the same. Sold a pair of child's trainers last night for £5 on a local Facebook group (Buy and Sell Childrens Bits [name of my town], where local mums put photos of stuff they want to sell), and sold a couple of storage things on there last week. Have just priced up a load for the local NCT sale in a couple of weeks too.

total so far, eBay £105, Facebook £20 (in danger of looking like a ticker from another website there... ;) )

Wahoo! I think the endless saga of the wii is finally over, with a little compensation in the way in the post from the couriers too so feeling very pleased. Also planning on listing it again to end the first week in November... when I do should I explain that it's been listed before or will no one care?

La Weasel: I wouldn't both explaining. It will be quite a while since it was listed before, no-one will remember

May I join. This is all I have got round tonat the moment. Does the maternity dress pictures look really rubbish
www.ebay.co.uk/sch/annapop2010/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562

Carrots What sort of Wii games have you got? (or would you be happy to pm me your ebay name? I doubt I know u unless u live in a small town in Somerset!)

Hi pud1 - I'm by no means an expert on eBay but they look fine to me, pretty much like the pictures I take. welcome to the challenge!

Thanks. Need to have a good look to see what I have got

Thanks dinosaur - that's what I was doing!
Finally this afternoon I tried yet again, used standard not basic uploader, and right-clicked to highlight the pics... and slowly on the 2nd attempt each they worked!

17 futon watchers now - probably mostly you lot! :)

Now, how to describe a fish tank that leaks about 6 drops worth per 24 hours when the pump is switched on...

Tortoise I have pmed you.

I am back with yet another question.

Do you remember that ages ago I opened a case about someone who had won an auction on one of my items and then not paid up?

Well, they still haven't paid up.

The ebay section about it says I can close the case now.

What does that mean? Does it mean I can relist the item and try to sell it again?

Does it mean that ebay will no longer charge me fees for that item?

Does it mean that the buyer will get negative feedback for failing to pay?

I am confused yet again.

yes close it now and you will get your fees back then you can relist.

the buyer will get a strike and will be unable to leave you any feedback.

Thanks fergoose

I seem to be incapable of finding the answer to anything on ebay.

My 99p rash continues to spread. Should I be listing things at higher prices?

On a plus note some of the stuff I listed tonight has watchers already and one of my wii games has a watcher, despite there being cheaper offers on the same game out there

I would list higher than 99p yes, otherwise is not worth your while after all the fees.

Can you change the start price on items already listed? And can you do it if you already have watchers? Questions, questions, questions...

I hope you can - I just did, just incase by some miracle I got a bid. I am fed up feeling ripped off so I will see what happens now. Of course I lose 15p per item if they don't sell so there is a gamble involved now too. Fingers crossed.

It seems that unless it is Boden, Gap, Monsoon or a sports label it doesn't seem to sell well.

Hope that works for you Carrots! I've got a few watchers and now a bid on the highchair from the person who asked whether I would courier it. Parcelforce is working put at around £17 so I'm going to tell her £19 as I will have to dismantle it and get hold of a strong enough box to send it in. Hope to goodness that the pram goes - bills are flying in here!

Oh, I do have one question! Should I revise my highchair listing to say I will send by ParcelForce - it would open up the bidding but would it seem a bit 'off' to do that at this stage?

Thanks Millie. I am afraid I have no idea about the courier thing. That is way beyond my level of experience. Hopefully someone who knows what they are doing will be along in a minute.

I have a few watchers - I suspect they are all you Tortoise

Mll

No idea why my phone posted before I finished typing! Oh well lol.

Millie yes I would revise listing but I would use a courier like parcel2go. Will be about £10 then which looks better than nearly £20 postage.

Millie - if I revise a listing, I make it clear why I've revised so no one worries that I've changed/hidden something - eg : * revision * have found out courier rate of £x so this has been added to postage options

that was supposed to be a couple of stars either side of the words revision, automatically made it bold but you see what I mean!

Hi there -Doing really well on ebay at the moment, have made over £120 in the past 10 days on 3 good items, shoes, boden and some Hilfiger shirts. On target to make the £200 mark by the end of this month hopefully as have 5 more items I hope to put up over the next 2 weeks!