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.

if you refund all or part of a paypal payment there is no charge at all.

In fact, you are also refunded part of your original PayPal payment!

you mean the fees not the original payment I guess?

but they do charge the buyer. someone gave me a partial refund and pay pal took 40p of it. it was under £10.

well they didn't give you a partial refund correctly if you got charged - they would have sent the refund as a payment to you, hence the fees. If they had refunded correctly you would not be charged at all.

Yes sorry fergoose - I should re-read what I write instead of hitting "Post". You are refunded part of your original PayPal FEES. But it must be done as a partial refund from the original payment for this to happen. If you set it up as a new payment, PayPal will take fees from the payee.

Note that if you do a partial refund the bit on screen/in the e-mail about the fee refund is very confusing - it looks like PayPal has charged again but actually they have refunded - double negatives and all that.

Thanks everyone . I've over-charged a couple of times for postage (and under-charged a couple of times too ), so I was thinking about giving a partial refund if postage was >50p less than I charged.

I may not have charged enough postage for the item i have just sold on ebay. I kept postage low as i thought i would get a good price for the item.

is it reasonable to ask the seller for more towards the postage if the postage exceeds how much i have asked for.

i always keep postage low as i think some people really do overcharge.

no you cannot ask the buyer for more postage if you have underestimated the cost.

I just swallow the cost if I stuff up and under-charge on postage.

If I inadvertently over-charge, and it's over about 80p-£1, I offer the buyer a refund.

Although looking at the ebay discussion boards, some buyers get worked up over 30p - and they are the ones who mark your stars.

but then you still have to factor in the packaging and your time and effort.

have you noticed though that some sellers charge a large amount for postage.

I usually am very fair and my items usually start at 99p.

OMG I sold an item that was faulty and said in the listing that it was faulty very very clearly- hence why it was so damn cheap!!! So the bitch paid peanuts for it! Now she is complaining about it!!! Damn it!!! People like her piss me off!!!

So I have given the woman a 1/4 refund. She seemed happy. Will this be the end though :(

i think the whole thing is a pain. sold an item of furniture very cheaply and then the people didn't turn up to collect it. it is now blocking my hallway.

i am beginning to think i would rather donate the things to charity.

Yup, it seems to be a slow and ponderous time of year for ebay. Had my first non-payers, for example.

I have invested some time over the weekend in going through lots of books.

Pile 1: will sell as oddities or rarities for over a tenner.

Pile 2: charity shop.

(By the way does anyone know how to remove red wax crayon from a [rare] paperback cover and inside page..?)

This is indeed slow time of yr.
Good for buyers, mind.
For once i have pleased news :).
I bought a pair of mobile phones on Ebay about 6 months ago for DS1 to use. 10-13 quid BIN, with postage, iirc. Just sold them on for 27 quid! .
Just hope the buyer doesn't mind what complete bricks they are.

Hi all.

I've got to the bottom of my clothes + shoes to eBay pile, and found that even the used but in good condition stuff sold for more than I thought (~£4 / item). I'll wait and see what feedback I get though!

I've been buying a few things for pretty much the first time too. It's great, I've had some lovely bargains. I worry about fake items though, e.g. for Boden children's clothes? Is this a problem, or is it more of an issue for higher priced items? And where do some sellers get their 5x versions of a Boden top if it isn't fake ?

i was really disappointed with my sale of a hoodie from a very good make. someone has done really well. couldn't understand why it went for less than £3. hardly worn and teenage boy age which you don't get a great deal of.

perhaps i should have waited til sep and i was very generous with postage amount so hoping it is not more.

only thing i think is hoping it has gone to someone who is hard up and will appreciate it. she did send me a note saying how pleased she was to have won it.

Well, I staggered over the finish-line for a compensatory silver on Sunday night - only a couple of days late! I didn't have a flurry of last-minute bids as I had managed to schedule my listings to end while the nation was busy watching Rebecca Adlington winning her bronze medal. Oops!

I think I'll have a break from listing now until September. I intend to try to get most of the next batch of washing/ironing/photographing/writing all done next month so I am ready to hit the ground running!

Well done purple ! I've got a box of things set aside to sell in Autumn too, but I don't think I'll be as organised as you doing all of the hard work now!

RecursiveMoon - don't tell anyone, but I have NEVER yet managed to be organised in advance... I am always scrabbling about on the Sunday evening of a free-listing weekend frantically trying to find some vital part of something!

But - I have very good intentions this time!

Oh good, that makes me feel a lot better.