You HAVE to try this!! EBAY your way to DISNEY!!

[DMRick]

If you sell it to the 2nd bidder, can you still request FVF back on the first bidder, since you will have paid the FVF twice, otherwise?

Yes

 

[C.Ann]

Oh dear.............

Bidding bug has bit me... (Try saying that fast about 20 times - LOL !!)

I won 3 auctions and not counting S&H, the grand total was only $16 !!!!!! 3 gifts for my son-in-law who is SOOOOOO hard to buy for!

During my Looooong bidding career ( ) I have found that if people don't include the S&H up front - or if they don't have a shipping calculator I hit the back button right away..

Same for negative comments ("I'm not responsible.."; "neg will be left" etc..

No Paypal? No bid.. Getting too close to Christmas to be sending money somewhere and then waiting and hoping the item gets back to me in time..
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Anybody got anything I want to bid on ???? LOL

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I DO have auctions I worked on today though and will put up in a few minutes.. Can't keep spending if I don't earn something, right?

I LOOOOOOOVE shopping this way - would rather not go out in the stores and buy something "just because".....

 

[Mrs. Snowgod]

Just got a BIN! Love it!

 

[jcemom]

Originally posted by C.Ann
Oh dear.............

Bidding bug has bit me...

I'm buying dresses for DD...

 

[pjlla]

Originally posted by pjlla
I shipped a book to a person in CT at the address provided through Paypal, although it was an unconfirmed address. (So is mine, so I didn't worry about it.) I have now found out through the Delivery Confirmation that the package is "undeliverable." I presume that it will be returned to me by the USPS. Now for the question.... if the buyer provides a new address to mail it to, who pays for the additional shipping? I don't want to be a tightwad about this, but he only paid $3.75 for the book. I charged $4.50 for the original shipping (it was a large, heavy text book). It cost a total of $3.23 for USPS media mail, including DC, plus an additional .70 cents for the shipping envelope, so I didn't really gouge him on the shipping in the first place. (I was lucky he was an East coaster, or it may have cost a lot more!) SO ANYHOW, who pays the $3.23 again? Do I pay for, eat any profit I may have made, just for the sake of goodwill, peace on earth, and positive feedback? LET ME HEAR YOUR OPINIONS!!... Thanks.... pjlla

GOOD NEWS!!! As soon as I (nicely) notified him of the additional shipping charge (after he gave me his new address), he paypal'ed me the amount immediately.... now I know that I lose a bit to the Paypal fee, but that's okay... at least he made the honest effort!! I'm happy...P

 

[disneychrista]

I just tried to email the buyer of my magazines and the email came back "mail box full" Now what?? UGH!! After worrying all week that they wouldn't sell to have them all sell to one buyer and now that buyer not paying. It's just like a going on a roller coaster.

 

[DMRick]

"mail box full"

Sounds like he's either having computer problems, or is away. Why not pull the contact info and call him?
Doris

 

[cpl100]

I am going to be away on Sunday and I just realized that means I can't do my auctions.... And this is the BEST week. Isn't it?

What is that Turbo lister thing and can that help me in this situation? Can I turbo list from someone else's computer? Extra fees? Please tell me what I need to know!

Thanks!

 

[C.Ann]

I just spent 3 hours trying to do the mandatory update and it won't go through.

Checked the eBay boards and lots of others having the same problems. Tried doing some of the things suggested and it was no help at all.

I have 14 auctions sitting in there that I wanted up TONIGHT !!

WHY does eBay have to mess around with things?

I don't have a CLUE what I'm going to do now but I sure as heck am NOT a happy eBayer !!!!!

 

[jgates]

Originally posted by cpl100
I am going to be away on Sunday and I just realized that means I can't do my auctions.... And this is the BEST week. Isn't it?

What is that Turbo lister thing and can that help me in this situation? Can I turbo list from someone else's computer? Extra fees? Please tell me what I need to know!

Thanks!

I am using the one month free trial on Sparedollar.com. Once I got thru the initial quirks I really love it. You can schedule auctions to launch at a certain time, however, my autolaunch failed. If there is someone else you can trust with your log-in ID & password, I would get your auctions ready to go and then have someone log in and launch them for you late on Sunday. If you will be back later on Sunday, they would still be sitting there waiting for you to go & launch.

I have to say - I really love Sparedollar and intend to keep using it. I can just select from their templates, display a ton of pictures for the cost of one photo and the auctions look great.

If you use SD, get working on it tomorrow cause it will take a bit to be comfy with it - but it is super easy. Once you do launch them, then go back to the counter area and add them so you can log in and look at the counter tab to see your totals. Go to the gallery tab and add them so you have them all displayed (if you choose that template) on your other auctions.

 

[dg39]

Hi Cpl, I know nothing of turbolister, although I do hear good things about it. I never tried it and one day I will but for now, being I'm such a computer dummy, I'm passing it up. But, what I do, when I know I'm not going to be home to list, I just go to my regular sell page and list with the schedule ebay has. Everything is the same as when you list the regular way only you can schedule it what day and time you want it to go off. It's .10 cents extra per listing. I think turbolister has the same fee, but I'm not 100% sure with that. When you schedule your listings, they stay in the pending section on your selling page until its time for them to go off. This is what I do, but I read that turbolister is real good, so I'm sure someone will post about how to use that...

 

[cpl100]

Originally posted by dg39
Hi Cpl, I know nothing of turbolister, although I do hear good things about it. I never tried it and one day I will but for now, being I'm such a computer dummy, I'm passing it up. But, what I do, when I know I'm not going to be home to list, I just go to my regular sell page and list with the schedule ebay has. Everything is the same as when you list the regular way only you can schedule it what day and time you want it to go off. It's .10 cents extra per listing. I think turbolister has the same fee, but I'm not 100% sure with that. When you schedule your listings, they stay in the pending section on your selling page until its time for them to go off. This is what I do, but I read that turbolister is real good, so I'm sure someone will post about how to use that...

I never knew you could do that! This may be what I need then! I'm not sure I could learn Turbolister today since we're having a house full of people for a party. But I may be able to deal with Ebay. Thanks!

 

[Mrs. Snowgod]

You can set up your auctions in advance and have them start at the specific date and time that you choose. Ebay charges .10 for each auction done that way, as Denise said.

This can be done both through your direct listing with ebay and through TurboLister, and the fee is the same. So far as I know, there are no fees incurred with TL that are not actually ebay fees.

Now, TL could potentially help you avoid those fees for a later start time... will you be home at the approximate time you want your listings to start and end? The benefit with TL is that you could set all of your listings up today on TL, save them, go have fun tomorrow, and then do the upload to ebay when you get home.

The real benefit to TL is the ability to save your listings: either because you prepare them in advance a few at a time and then upload them later, or so you can go back and relist again later long after ebay has cleared your old listings.

TL is free to download from ebay. It is mostly a good tool, except for the experience C.Ann mentioned a few posts ago. There are updates that need to be downloaded - almost daily - and sometimes they can really hose up your computer.

You could feasibly use TL from someone else's home, but then the data on your listings would be on thier hard drive and not yours for later use. I have no idea how to save and transfer TL files between workstations, and I don't know if it is even possible.

HTH and that it isn't TMI

 

[jgates]

FINALLY!!!! One bid on a UW Madison TShirt!!!!! At least I will sell one item this week. I did list some bonus coupons I had last nite too for Linens N Things, Lerner NY etc and I see the LNT has 28 views already. I made them cheap so even if I sell all 3 I will only have enough for about 1 bottle of water in the park one day, but beats throwing them in the trash!

jcemom I wish your DD was a little older. Kendra's dresses I have listed are very nice but WAY too big for that little doll of yours! Any they have no bids!

I apologize too - I should have mentioned the delayed ebay listing, but I refuse to give them .10 more of my money. They charge too much to begin with!!! Spare Dollar includes it in your monthly fee so I'll get my moneys worth from them.

 

[jcemom]

Originally posted by jgates
jcemom I wish your DD was a little older. Kendra's dresses I have listed are very nice but WAY too big for that little doll of yours! Any they have no bids!

Yep, she's tiny (though DH and I think she looks like a boy when she's not wearing dresses...lol...maybe that's why I buy so many of them!) She's 13 months right now and wearing size 9 months clothes.

It seems that with all the "browsing" I've been doing, I'm noticing a lot of things with no bids, or only the opening bid. Sales must be slow for many right now. I would think with the Holidays upon us sales would be booming!

I'm doing my share of shopping, anyway.

 

[C.Ann]

I tried till 2:30 this morning.. Got up today and tried again - no luck.. Uninstalled and reinstalled.. No luck.. Did everything suggested on the eBay tech boards where people are flipping out over this - still doesn't work.. Tried eBay live help and when I told them it was a problem with the TL, they ended the session!!

I am SOOOOOO ticked off! I have all these listings sitting in there and can't get them up!

Please beware - if you have to do the MANDATORY update today you may end up in the same boat.. You would probably be much better off trying to list on-line..

So much for all the things I wanted to end on Thanksgiving..

As of yet, eBay is not responding to anyone on this matter.. I'm afraid I can't say much for their "customer service".....

 

[disneychrista]

Originally posted by C.Ann
So much for all the things I wanted to end on Thanksgiving..

You can always do a 5 day listing starting today. This is what I plan to do on the few things I plan to list.

 

[DiznEeyore]

So does that mean Thanksgiving is a GOOD day to end on? I was thinking it might not be, if people are out visiting .... I have a bunch of stuff to list and would love some expert advice!

 

[CindyBeth]

UPDATE - I just wanted to give an update on the winner who had decided they didn't want the item after they won it. They paid me for the item today!!!! Yea!!!! I am so happy, cuz I was so bummed about having maybe to relist it!!!

 

[cindala]

Originally posted by jcemom
It seems that with all the "browsing" I've been doing, I'm noticing a lot of things with no bids, or only the opening bid. Sales must be slow for many right now. I would think with the Holidays upon us sales would be booming!

After a few months away from Ebay, I am back, and I also noticed alot of lookers and few buyers. One of my items up now has 76 lookers, but not one bid! Crazy!!! Maybe people are waiting to see how good the after Thanksgiving Day sales are?