New Ebay Challenge. Gold make £300, Silver £200 and Bronze £100 by the start of olympics.

[Tortoise]

Welcome to the new Ebay challenge.
Good luck all.

Thanks everyone . Is the day of the auction day 0 or day 1?

I would say Day 1, unless it ends at night.

But I know nothing.

Hope everyone is having success with eBay, recently had loads of non payers! It's so annoying but the automatic case opening system has been so helpful and quite successful in making people pay up :)

Here are my bits and bobs so far

They are fab photos, Cracked. My stuff looks like it just fell out of a cupboard (which it did....)

Must up my game.

Been lucky with people paying up, though.

Thank you LineRunner. And pleased to hear you are having luck not having the non payers :)

If it helps, I take all my photos on a white or cream sheet, which I lay on my dining room table and position this under a window. The natural light does wonders for cracking photos!

Genius. Many thanks for the tip.

I have to say things are slow this past few days.

I got to bronze ! I think we're going to have a family holiday later in the year, so I'm hoping to be able to pay for our accommodation with my eBay earnings.

I opened my first case today. I'm going to set it up to do it automatically from now on.

Well done, Recursive. What kinds of things are you selling well?

I've only sold maternity clothes, shoes, and baby things so far (either new with or without tags). I think it will get harder from here on!

I've sold mostly my daughter's clothes. (She's grown about a foot in a year!)

I have one bid.

sorry

I have one bid, it's on a fabric patch for a band that broke up ten years ago, and I chucked on for the sake of it. I'm slightly amused.

It's not going to help me clear space in the house though!

Ooh, had my first bullshitter. 'Not as described' my arse.

What happened with your pesty customer LineRunner?

She says the item I sent is damaged when it isn't. I've simply said to return. (Then I'll block her.)

Yep, return, refund, block. She might not return if she was hoping for a partial refund / a refund before return?

Well, I haven't heard another word from her. I guess she was angling for a partial refund. As the next highest bid was only about 50p lower than hers, I'd rather have the item back, to re-list it. But I'm wondering if she'll damage it now herself.

I think you might be right about the partial refund. In which case, she wants the item (but just wants to pay less for it), so will probably keep it instead of damaging it then returning it. Hopefully you won't hear from her again .

Ooh, she's back! Still angling, I reckon.

Anyway, even if I refund her, I've finally made bronze!

Yay, congratulations !

Gosh, postage is expensive isn't it? It makes it difficult to sell anything cheap / small, as the minute you charge for 2nd class recorded delivery of a packet it adds on ~£3.

I thought I might get some of my last parcels through as large letters, but the post office just out them through as packets. Should I specifically ask? Would they be more likely to put them through as large letters if they were in an envelope? Sorry for the quite possibly silly questions !

I don't bother with recorded delivery for low value items (

You can get proof of posting per item for no extra charge.

You don't get a tracking number, though, so have to wait for either feedback or 21 days to release the paypal dosh. (I think.)