Christmas Challenge! £300.00 by Christmas.

[BenedictsCumberbitch]

I'm getting back into my eBaying, massive clear outs will keep me busy over this free listings weekend, wondered if anyone wanted to join me in making Christmas as cheap as possible and having the good people of eBay pay for most of it!

[Tortoise]

fergoose I use that tip loads. Makes life a lot easier.

[Bubbless]

okay, havent had time to read the entire thread- but plan on later- so hi!

ive got 10 items up on ebay at the mo, but its saying ive hit a limit blah blah blah
so ive got to wait for them to send me a letter so i can sell more at a time ¬¬
also; how do you calculate how much it will cost to send the item? im useless at charging the right amount for postage and some money always ends up coming out of my profits!

[chihiro]

I am so in on this this year. Just had an email from ebay about no insertion fees this week, but the twins only do mornings at school from the 10th and full days from the 17th so I'm not going to find much time to do listings before then.

Got loads of baby clothes and equipment, books and DVDs - some of which may get decent amounts, others prob. only a quid, but hopefully it will all add up.

I not only need enough for a decent Christmas, but a new battery for my car, some new autumn/winter clothes and I want to get the sewing machine repaired so I need a lot of sales.

Good luck to everyone - hope you're getting lots of bids.

[lljkk]

Bubless
It helps if you can get a good set of kitchen scales, some that weigh up to 3kg accurately.

Small packet 2nd class rate,
up to 749g, is £2.20 charge from Royal Mail.
750g-1kg 2nd class is £3.50.
Parcels up to 2 kg is £5.30,
and £8.80 for up to 4kg.

I add 30-70p to the RM prices (prefer to duck out of the debate over whether that's outrageous, that slight overcharge helps to make for the many times I get the charge way too low).

By now I can usually guess just holding something in my hand if weighs under 750g, over 2kg, etc. I go to desperate measures to keep the weight of packaging down.

I've sent a few things for just a 2nd class stamp recently, nice to put the P+P charge down to 80p!

2nd class.

Parcels.

[Bubbless]

thank you so much! id hate to rip someone off, but on the other hand dont want to be caught short!
will see how this goes...

[BabylonPI]

It's a car transporting trailer

There are smaller ones listed with buy it now prices of £700-£900 and they're selling!!

We're now up to 72 watchers and still 2 bids but am expecting a bidding war in a week or so

Best of all, anything it clears over £350, we get to keep too Dad said the trailer had cost him £350 and that's all he wants back - anything over that is mine!!!!

[EmptyCrispPackets]

Don't forget collectplus, 5kg for £4.99, £3.99 for 3kg


www.collectplus.co.uk/send

[dizzyday07]

Just sold a box of mixed toys & games I was going to give to the local charity shop for £25. Result!

[Tortoise]

Only problem with collect+ is that they use Yodel and they are shite lol. Been waiting over a week for a parcel to arrive!

[EmptyCrispPackets]

How do I stop eBay trying to put a maximum on postage of £4 for heavy / bulky items? I've got some books for sale and it will be £5 to post..

[lljkk]

You can't, it sucks. You have to raise the starting price to cover the postage excess, which means you'll pay 10% FVF to EBay, on that part (the excess just to cover postage) of the starting price.

Can you split your book lots up to come under 1 kg? Or use CollectPlus as linked to above who only charge £4 up to 3 kg? But watch insurance, conditions, etc.

[Tortoise]

I put it in the description that postage will be x amount but ebay won't let me put in a price above x.
Also ive got a feeling job lot items don't have a postage cost restriction so could put there instead of books.

[EmptyCrispPackets]

Yes was planning on using collect & plus.. I'm thinking maybe I'll edit the listings as I have some journals for sale so may list those as books


I've just tried adding some of mine and OHs branded items and it won't let me as apparently I've reached my allowance this month any idea how to get around this? I've requested higher allowances. Can't see why as I've been a member 6 years and 100% feedback

[EmptyCrispPackets]

Also I did the scheduled listing thing, so I can come back tonight and edit. Just went into edit and it's now charging me to list! I don't know where I've gone wrong


It is coming up 15p listing fee and 6p for scheduled listing? Hmmm. Help.

[fergoose]

Is the 15p for a buy it now?

It will say it is charging you 6p for scheduling, but as long as you edit and send to live auction before the time of the scheduling you shouldn't be charged.

[EmptyCrispPackets]

No bit it's starting price was £1.99 could that be why it's not free listing?

I went into list now but it gave me a few minutes ahead of time, using the eBay iPad app so maybe I need to switch to safari?

[fergoose]

no - it should be free due to the free lisiing.

[LineRunner]

Can I ask about addresses?

When I sell something I get an email from ebay (with a shipping address) and then when the buyer pays I get an email from PayPal (with a shipping address).

98% of the time the addresses are the same.

Today I've had two sales where the addresses differ. (Not 'gift' addresses.)

I have messaged both to say, can you confirm you are happy that I post the items to your PayPal shipping address, as it differs from the address ebay sent me?

Heard nothing back. What do I do? I'm worried I'll get hammered on dispatch time.

[Tortoise]

I always send to paypal address otherwise I don't think you are covered by paypal if it gets lost in the post. Because I print labels through ebay I assume its the right address!

[lljkk]

I never notice if there are different addresses at all.

Is Paypal address the same as the one that comes up with "Order Details"?

[fergoose]

You have to send to the Paypal address otherwise you lose all seller protection.

[mygirllollipop]

I'd like to join again but not sure how much I have to sell after clearing loads for the house move. Will start ebaying once kids are in school.

[HiccupHaddockHorrendous]

Yay, just made my first sale of the challenge! I now have £11 in the pot - woohoo!!

Desperately need to shift some buggies next . I currently have four cluttering up the hallway with two of them listed. 9 watchers on one of them...might drop the price just to get a couple of bids.

[LineRunner]

Thanks, everyone.

I've now got a buyer whose PayPal shipping address doesn't make sense - 18, Something Avenue, Leeds, East Sussex (with a Leeds post code).

Why does PayPal accept these mistakes?

[VoldemortsNipple]

I've just sold my doc marten's for 47.50 :o They were two years old too. Putting them on for 99p definatly paid off.

Im over a third way there. I made $120 this week :)