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.

I am the worst ebay photographer ever

I planned to list some things tonight too, but I'm going to do some housework instead. Woop woop!

LineRunner, we need a link so that we can check out your photography skills .

Hi again!! Long time since last check in!!

I had 96 items listed at beginning of this week, and they're all finishing in the next half hour!! 81 items so far today have sold since 2pm- I'll have made over £390 this week!! Very pleased AND I now have a load more stuff to list courtesy of a friend having a massive clearout and offering it all to me

Way to go milk

I'll let you know my final total for this batch of sales in about 15 mins!!!

Put it this way, I've made enough for a weeks camping down south when re summer ever arrive???!!

Free listing again this weekend!

Right, as it's free-listing tomorrow, my mission is to build, photograph and re-list the PM mansion. I have listed it about 10 times with the intention of taking photos during the listing but had to end each listing early because I just never get round to taking pictures . Now it must go!! I've also got a friend's buggy that is taking up space whilst waiting to be sold so will also add that to my urgent list .

What's good to list that you'd normally have to pay for? Toys, obviously - anything else?

School stuff will sell well now, lunchboxes & uniform, especially younger primary sizes. Scouts-Brownies-Guides pack holiday spare uniform. Wet suits, summer clothes.

I got to silver !

How is everyone else getting on?

None of my items are selling :( My eBay luck seems to have run out :(

I have become a crazy woman who keeps pressing F5, waiting for my items to get bids :P

It sold That does make me happy indeed :)

Forgot to update that we have now moved and our total was around £715 . My mam has just given me 3 bin bags of ladies clothes to put on ebay.

you know when you have money in the paypal account, should it offset when you buy something on Ebay or do you have to ask them to do this. I was given some money back from a seller but it is still sitting in my pp account even though i have bought some other things on ebay.

I have the odd thing on ebay this week but a bit lazy about it and not good at photos and putting them on computer

I'm going to join you-I have a stack of stuff to sell and a real cash flow problem at the minute.

Does anyone know how often the free listing weekends are coming up at the minute? I got a few things on on Saturday,but none yesterday.

If I include a couple of Gumtree sales I am around £15 short of silver at the moment! Not sure I'll manage to make that from the 3 listings that finish on Wednesday, though! However, one of my 3 remaining Gumtree listings may give results.

Mirage2012Olympics - this year the free listing weekends have been about every 2 or 3 weeks, with special long ones coinciding with Easter and the Jubilee. You can see the previous announcements here.

I would say FLW come up every 2-3 weeks right now.
August is a lousy month to sell most things, though. Folk are on holiday, not many buyers about. School stuff excepted.

Shouldn't we have a new thread, this is summer only, right?

ps: I only got to bronze. But it's a £100 I wouldn't have had otherwise, so fine by me :).

Thank you both..Now I've got the tedious job of going through all the DD's Cd's & DVD's to check them for faults.

I'm wobbling about selling now or hanging on,but I need the money now.A lot of mine is horse stuff which seems to go well all year round.[hopefully].

Mirage2012Olympics - if the weather continues to be bad, there may be some desperate parents wanting to buy DVDs in August! (Assuming you have family DVDs to sell of course. )

I'm amazed.I put on a pair of jodphur clips,which had a bit of tarnish due to the tack shed being damp,and described the fault,put them on at 10p,just to get rid-they are up to £1.30 so far.I wonder if we have any more lurking about?

I was just going to say that ebay seems to have completely died!

Does anyone know what PayPal charge you if you give a buyer a partial refund, e.g. if the postage was cheaper than you expected?

I did this and it was (apparently) free.

Unless anyone knows different?