albertabrightalberta | Volunteer Community Mentor
@louie261991 wrote:i think i'll leave it at local for now, since i can't figure out the shipping part. However, theat buyer does seem he wants to buy it for sure so willing to wait
You can't leave it as "local pick up" if the original buyer wants to purchase it! You have to ship it to him unless you plan to drive from LA to SF to hand it over.
And I'm offering unsolicited advice, @louie261991 .
You've come here as a new seller of an expensive item without a clue of what's involved in selling, collecting payment, fees, shipping, local pickup, etc. You claim not to use ebay yet here you are spending the better part of the day (and night) snapping at most of those who've tried to help.
It's been 12 hours since the same item was relisted with the same "local pickup only" and I predict that @louie261991 will be back again complaining that another someone purchased the item and wants it shipped. (How difficult would it have been to list with both options; local pickup and shipping?)
I'll sit back with my popcorn and be entertained.
I know the following posters don't need my apologies but I'll express them because none of you deserved the rudeness that was extended to you and I know you won't get it from the OP.
@ajs_coins_and_alchemy wrote:
Louie couldn't figure out shipping... there were "too many" options. That's why he hasn't changed it yet but it seems he has been trying all day.
Does seller school teach this?
Also, how much do YOU charge for such sage advice? 😁
Do you charge S/H for your advice too? Free shipping? Or Local Pick up Only?
I offer plenty of help here for posters who are respectful and sincerely want help.
There's a difference between helping someone learn and doing the work for them. As an educator (IRL), I go by the mantra of "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
@ajs_coins_and_alchemy While I commend you for the time and assistance you've put into this guy's questions, you are doing all the work for him and he's still pushing for more. And even with all the advice he received, he has listed another fairly expensive item with only local pickup as the option.
We were all new sellers at one time and no one (except the OP) is implying that it's easy. None of us knew what we were doing when we started and we all made mistakes. But we read through the TOS, understood most of ebay's policies and asked for help when we needed it. But we did our own work, waiting until we had a basic understanding before taking on items at the pricepoint of the OP's listings.
But the way one gets good at something is by doing it over and over, fixing previous errors, learning how to write clear and concise descriptions, taking good clear pictures, etc. And you @ajs_coins_and_alchemy can't do that for @louie261991 .
My advice to the OP (and it's my last post to this threaed) is to end the listings, find boxes that fit his items, pack the items as if they're ready to ship and (short of having a scale to weigh them) take them to the post office to calculate various shipping options.
That way, he's not going into this blind, not canceling orders resulting in unhappy and confused buyers and he's able to prepare for his first successful sales.
If the OP wants local pickup as one of the options, he can do that but he should still have shipping options available for the buyer who doesn't live within a few miles.
And if he doesn't want to do the work and learning necessary to be successful on ebay, he should list on CL, FB, Next Door or another local site where he doesn't have to figure out shipping costs.
I'm going to put on my fortune teller's hat and predict that the OP will be back in a week complaining about being scammed out of a keyboard and his money because he's going about this the wrong way.
