@taadaa58 wrote:I feel for new sellers 49. The way ebay advertises to draw in new sellers makes it looks like all you have to do is list you item,it sell and wah lah you have money in your PP acct. The new sellers come in not knowing all the ins and outs how ebay really works. It would take a few weeks to really learn everything and if you've never sold before it can be mind boggling to say the least.'But' it can be done,it's just not as fast and simple as ebay leads people to believe it is.
I don't say all that to deter people,but it is soo important to learn how the site works before jumping in.There is no wading pool here.Learning before jumping in the deep end is the best life preserver.
I agree completly!
j2, you are "spending" (wasteing perhaps) your hours lately learning some of the ins & outs required to sell things on eBay, I think that if you spent the same amount of time reading eBays rules and many of the topics that are being discussed on the various eBay community groups & boards your "eBay education" would not be as frustrating as it seems for you.
It is certainly possible to bend some of eBays "recommendations" (or rules) if you clearly understand the rules to begin with. Understanding eBays rules takes more that weeks, more than months, more than 10 sales and more than 100 sales.
It's clear that you are attending the school of hard knocks in your approach to selling on eBay and, to some degree, all sellers have had to learn some of the rules by experience (the hard way). You are making this harder than it needs to be.
I recently began selling here also and made the exact same mistake as you did by not realizing that my shipping and payment preferences had to be set correctly to avoid overseas sales. I was very surprised to have an item of mine sold to someone in Albania. I don't even know where Albania is but I checked the USPS rate table, calculated the shipping cost, sent my buyer an invoice that included the overseas shipping cost, waited to get paid, and then had to take the package to the post office to buy international shipping for the shipment.
The whole ordeal took about an extra hour over the time I would have spent if the sale had been to someone in the US. I learned a lot about eBay preferences, online shipping calculators, overseas shipping options and many other things. It took me "too much" time to accomplish that one small sale but, after that experience, I know exactly which countries I will never have to ship to again.
I'm a smarter seller than I was 3 months ago & there are at least 100 mistakes I now know how to avoid. That extra hour it cost me to ship an item to Albania has paid me back in saved time & aggravation with interest.
What would it cost you to wait to be paid and to ship your item to the UK? Maybe an extra hour. How much do you get paid per hour when you work? $140? (I think that was the amount beyond your start price that you made). You have made it clear that you are POd but I think you are doing quite well for your first sale.
Try not to harass the winning bidder so he doesn't cancel his purchase due to fear of your ardent & numerous messages regarding payment starting hours after the auction ended.(If it isn't too late already).
It's 6:33 PM PST where I'm sitting. Do you know what time it is in Great Britian?
BD 
@axeshun13 Hi, axe ~ sorry this happened to you, but why in the world would you refund before you received the watch back? Always, always, reply to a return request with "return for refund".
...and when listing something that doesn't work, you absolutely have to list it using "for parts, not working" and list it by itself and not as a lot.
I see that you haven't sold in a while so you should spend some time reading the boards...and bronx-dog is correct ~ this is a buyer's venue and there is very little that we can do to protect ourselves as sellers....come back here if you have question, because we can provide you with the info for the small amount of protection that eBay affords their sellers.
Hi, @nunnya71_9 ~ Let me guess...the iPhone listing? If you give us the details of what happened we might be able to help...at the very least give you some information on how to protect yourself in the future.
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...and thanks for bumping an old thread to help with the slow connection glitch ~ PT joke!
