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Item Description Lost on Save And Finish Later

I spent a lot of time on setting up a listing for 60 pieces of China/Pottery. I did a detailed description of every item and hit the save for later. I then packed the items one by one with bubble wrap , newspaper and peanuts for safe travel in 3 boxe...

Merchandise for eBay ~ I'm Still Buying Inventory

I'm off to Boeing Surplus to pick up a few thousand pounds of tools for my eBay sales. I used a Paypal Working Capital Loan to buy this merchandise. This is my 7th Working Capital Loan in the past 5 years. It's going to be a good day and even a bette...

Blouses or jersey? Searching in women's clothing.

While searching for women's cotton blouse today I noticed 80% of the inventory was jerseys.A women's cotton blouse is described having buttons, collars and sleeves.Is there a particular way to search for a women's blouse?

Holiday Settings

So i'll be off for 3 weeks this summer, i will put my shop to holiday for this time, and will hide all my listings. The question is: What happens if someone has watches an item/saved a bookmark? They will still find it i think and can buy it, and i d...

The future of eBay

A lot of complaining lately and people posting with what they think eBay should do (including me). But it is what it is. At some point you either have to accept it or leave. If you are staying, why not make the best of it? Do what YOU can to improve ...

Resolved! Was hoping to supplement my income

I have been selling on eBay for 2 1/2 years and was hoping to supplement my social security, which is not a lot, but I don't think that is going to happen. I've had less than $300.00 in sales so far this month, minus fees of course, and no sales the ...

Listing items for a friend - but she takes photos & posts - what to charge?

I have seen a few discussions about what to charge when selling for others on a consignment basis, but I'm in a different situation. I'm considering selling goods for someone interstate. She would take photos of the item and send me any measurements,...

How do you ship your items? And how to look more "professional"?

I sell items on Ebay but I'm not a pro business. I ship from home. So my return address shows my home address and my name. Those who are in the same boat as me, what do you do? Do you ship with the return address showing your home addres and name. Et...

Manufacturer directly?

Hello guys,A little background:I'm from Hong Kong and are manufacturer. We never went online to do any business before, therefore we started a new department to target online retailers on small quantity (very small quantity) on manufacturer pricing. ...

Another day another no FVF for eBay

I'm now doubling and tripling the time span between sales on my accounts. This is major record territory for me. I have accounts that haven't produced sales in over a month or two. In the past month I've only had 1 sale on this account for less than ...

Amatuer Ebay Seller theory question?

So let's say I put up an item with 14 day return service and it is bought as well as shipped, and paid for but say the buyer uses the item and wears it out then decides to file a false claim how long until a case can no longer be opened after the suc...

bad buyers

Its really starting to **bleep** me off that there are more and more buyers claiming something is "wrong" with the item even if its sold AS IS with NO returns. They want 50% off the purchase price. If they dont get it they leave negitive feedback. Eb...

buyer left negative untrue feedback

I've been selling for a while now, and got my first negative feedback left by a buyer, which was completely untrue, but makes me look bad. How do you deal with it? How does it affect your selling? Will buyers stop buying from me now? I'm so worried a...

Scams- my 16 year old got it good

on june 8th my son sold his applewatch2 on this site. i was traveling at the time so his mom helped him execute the transaction. the money was to be wired to paypal or however that works , and we were to ship the item. of course , the item gets shipp...

Would it be insulting to ask a seller to sell something for a fixed price?

There's a seller that I've bought about 10 items from recently. I generally snipe his items and the prices for these (very similar) items have all been within $5 of each other. This seller has a new item listed and it's a 7 day auction. I'd like to p...