lmao: can you guess that ??) so I am not going to just prompt mickey or mickey mouse I am going to narrow it down to chef mickey or gourmet mickey
better for you fun for all
I took a quick look at your Tees...cute...but I would consider selling in the Disneyana, theme park wear category...
its more likely Disney people will buy than others...just a thought
and maybe put measurements in inches....that would help me to know if I was looking at them. have fun !!!!
Your auction looks like you did everything right
I took a quick look at your Tees...cute...but I would consider selling in the Disneyana, theme park wear category...
its more likely Disney people will buy than others...just a thought
and maybe put measurements in inches....that would help me to know if I was looking at them. have fun !!!!
It's a MESS and unless you are going to be bring in big time $$$ (100K+) I would not go this route yet. If you get bigger then incorporate and tell with all these additional taxes.
eBay "forced" the majority of sellers to use PayPal and ONLY PayPal a while back on most categories. Some big ticket items are excluded (cars, boats, planes, etc..) where the transactions occur face2face.
To the OP I would recommend adding SIGNATURE CONFIRMATION when you ship. Last year I shipped ~ 500 items via USPS Priority Mail. I mostly sell LEGO related items on eBay. In any case I had 3 cases last year in which charge backs were done becuase the buyer claimed I never delivered the items. Got burned on the first one (before I was using SIGNATURE CONFIRMATION) as I only had proof via CONFIRMATION DELIVERY & PayPal made the determination that while the item was "delivered" it did not get to the actual buyer or his representative. Learned my lesson on that one lost the money on that one. So now I pay for the SIGNATURE CONFIRMATION and it has worked nicely. Has 2 more cases where buyer try to do a charge back and this time PayPal afetr me sending them the paperwork with the signature denied the buyer's request and banned both of them!
Also don't forget about taxes. Uncle sam is going to want his cut of your profit at the end of the year. Put aside about 25% of your profit for this. Plus I would recommend NOT allwoing sales within your home state. Else you will have to collect and send your state it's taxes as well. It's not that hard but then your local county/city may want it's share ofthe taxes and the county/city may impose "biz" permits cause you have a "biz" even if it's in your home. Then the city/town can fine you for havine a home biz in a residential zone.
To help you out get some type of tracking software (Quicksbooks is great) to track your sales and expenses. Quickbooks (what I use) also has tax reports that you can use come tax time. It may seem like a lot but slowly but surely you will get there. Good luck.
Pm or eMail me if you have more questions.
eBay "forced" the majority of sellers to use PayPal and ONLY PayPal a while back on most categories. Some big ticket items are excluded (cars, boats, planes, etc..) where the transactions occur face2face.
To the OP I would recommend adding SIGNATURE CONFIRMATION when you ship. Last year I shipped ~ 500 items via USPS Priority Mail. I mostly sell LEGO related items on eBay. In any case I had 3 cases last year in which charge backs were done becuase the buyer claimed I never delivered the items. Got burned on the first one (before I was using SIGNATURE CONFIRMATION) as I only had proof via CONFIRMATION DELIVERY & PayPal made the determination that while the item was "delivered" it did not get to the actual buyer or his representative. Learned my lesson on that one lost the money on that one. So now I pay for the SIGNATURE CONFIRMATION and it has worked nicely. Has 2 more cases where buyer try to do a charge back and this time PayPal afetr me sending them the paperwork with the signature denied the buyer's request and banned both of them!
Also don't forget about taxes. Uncle sam is going to want his cut of your profit at the end of the year. Put aside about 25% of your profit for this. Plus I would recommend NOT allwoing sales within your home state. Else you will have to collect and send your state it's taxes as well. It's not that hard but then your local county/city may want it's share ofthe taxes and the county/city may impose "biz" permits cause you have a "biz" even if it's in your home. Then the city/town can fine you for havine a home biz in a residential zone.
To help you out get some type of tracking software (Quicksbooks is great) to track your sales and expenses. Quickbooks (what I use) also has tax reports that you can use come tax time. It may seem like a lot but slowly but surely you will get there. Good luck.
Pm or eMail me if you have more questions.
Several train of thoughts on this one. My comfort level is no more than 20 items per week for me. Any more than that & I can't keep up with the email questions, shipping, items, and provide good customer service.
Keep in mind that eBay will bill you every 30 days for the past 30 day fees. I tend to give eBay their cut as soon as I get the money from the buyer this way I don't have to worry about it later on. Thus doing 20 at a time and selling 75% of that most of the time and I can cover all the ebay fees with one or two sales so it's one less thing to worry about.
When i first started I did 1 or 2 per week until I felt more comfortable and had a system in place to track stuff.
Would also recommend that you make yourself a template for your auctions.
Something like...
Description
Pictures
Your Policies
- Warranty
- Returns
- Shipping
- No SALES to
- Copyright Info
- etc..
This way all your auctions have the same "look" and its' easy to toss another auction up by just filling out the description and putting the images up.
Taking about images I would suggest uploading to a free host (majhost.com, flicker, etc..) and embedding those images into your auction via a small thumbsize pic so that the buyer can click on the image to enlarge. This cuts down on the cost since eBay only allows one FREE image but you can put them images "INSIDE" your auction.
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