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

[disneychrista]

All this talk about paypal freezing funds and removing funds from attached accounts as gotten me scared. I opened up a new checking account just for PayPal, that I will use to transfer pay pal funds to and then transfer to my main/regular savings account.

 

[Taja]

Happy Halloween!

We're actually experiencing autumn in our own low key, low desert fashhion! There's a nip in the early morning air (by our standards) and it's cool enough to walk at lunch time! A definite improvement over the past two years when the high temperature on Halloween was 100 degrees!

Question: How long does it take PayPal to post an "instant" payment? I received notice from them on October 29th that a customer had paid, but nothing shows in my PayPal account or bank account as yet. I would like to advise the customer that payment has been received and when the package will ship, but I haven't actually received the payment yet!

Thanks for your help!


Taja

 

[claudia]

Question: How long does it take PayPal to post an "instant" payment?

An instant payment should post immediately if your buyer has a confirmed address. You may want to check to see if it is in your ledger waiting for you to accept or deny it. (you would have the option to deny the payment if your buyers address is unconfimed)
If you do not see anything posted at all, but have received a notice from paypal that it has been received then you would need to get intouch with paypal to find out what happened.

 

[cpl100]

I've only had one experience, but it showed right away when I went to check after I got the paid notice.

On the other hand, as a buyer it has taken quite a while after I sent the payment for it to actually finish the transaction! It took several days for some items to be completed (cash transactions, not cc).

 

[DMRick]

I just tried Turbo lister for the first time in years (used Mr Lister in the past) and I have to admit I like it. It woudn't be worth it for me for items where I list a lot of pictures, or items that I will have lots of pics and schedule the auction at a later time, so for those I'll stick to Vendio (I can have 20 pics if I want, for the same .10 or .05 if I go over 50 for that month..and of course the 1% fee they charge on the end listing. Since my items are lower priced, the 1% is less than the cost of extra photo's or scheduling fees. . I was disappointed, that it only let me pick one type of shipping in the auto figuring thing a ma jig..or am I doing something wrong? I also forgot to Pick out a background, so it's sort of a dull listing LOL!.

 

[bradsmom123]

Yes, I jsut started selling on ebay less than three weeks ago and I have paid for my whole trip to disney in december!!!!!!
I have covered the hotel, THREE 5 day hopper passes, my two character meals for the whole family AND the rental car!!!!! It is kinda amazing.

 

[cpl100]

Originally posted by bradsmom123
Yes, I jsut started selling on ebay less than three weeks ago and I have paid for my whole trip to disney in december!!!!!!
I have covered the hotel, THREE 5 day hopper passes, my two character meals for the whole family AND the rental car!!!!! It is kinda amazing.

My goodness! If you wouldn't mind me asking, what did you sell to get so much money in so little time?

 

[bradsmom123]

two items were 'biggies' we got about 600 from a piece of equipment from my husbands job and a barbie doll that I had that was a limited edition. But the rest was just stuff we had collected around the house. I used to collect Barbies so i dumped alot of them for cheap prices, stuff my son outgrew and doesnt play with anymore, videos he doesnt like, stuff of my dhs out of the shed, 2 way radios..... basically just stuff around the house. I redid my kitchen in birdhouses and sold a box lot of all the sunflower accessories.....

Havent had to ' buy ' anything to sell yet!

 

[cpl100]

Wait. Are you serious? Do people actually buy stuff to sell on ebay? Really? Please share the thinking on that one.

 

[claudia]

Wait. Are you serious? Do people actually buy stuff to sell on ebay? Really? Please share the thinking on that one.

Sure....many people buy lots at wholesale and resell...many people who run business sell overflow and excess lots...these are many of ebays power sellers. I would think that there are many people who make a nice living that way. When I find a great deal I will always buy a couple more than I need and resell....and have done very well with that. Some people here have mentioned that garage sales have provided them with some great stuff to sell as well.

 

[cpl100]

I am sorry as I know this has been asked and re-asked.

Somewhere back (and I just read over 20 pages and cannot find it) there is information about downloading a program for a discount on delivery confirmation. (I hope my recollection is good!). I was able to find a link to 'the shipping assistant' but that post did not give enough information for me to judge if that is what I am recalling. Also, no mention of the 'discounts' if you avail yourself of that program. I remember something about a free label and a 13 cent label. I think that the free one was for Priority mail and the 13 cent one for media mail. (Yes?) I am sending first class though for my two first items (!!!). Should I do the downloaded program for that?

Any help and tips at all would be appreciated as I'd like to mail these out tomorrow and include the delivery confirmation.

Again, I am sorry for asking this question when I know it's here somewhere. The search isn't working, though, and I just can't read all 235 pages now.

THANKS!

 

[cpl100]

Originally posted by claudia
Sure....many people buy lots at wholesale and resell...many people who run business sell overflow and excess lots...these are many of ebays power sellers. I would think that there are many people who make a nice living that way. When I find a great deal I will always buy a couple more than I need and resell....and have done very well with that. Some people here have mentioned that garage sales have provided them with some great stuff to sell as well.

Thanks for the response. I appreciate it.

 

[dg39]

cpl100 try this www.uspswebtools.com/ShippingAssistant/sa_Splash.htm .This should explain everything about it. You need to download the adobe reader in order to get shipping assistant. But everything is at this site. It explains it all.

Denise

 

[cpl100]

Originally posted by dg39
cpl100 try this www.uspswebtools.com/ShippingAssistant/sa_Splash.htm .This should explain everything about it. You need to download the adobe reader in order to get shipping assistant. But everything is at this site. It explains it all.

Denise

Thank you so much. I have read the information Acrobat Reader file and am confused. I thought you could use this and still pay for the postage at the Post Office (and have them calculate it). This seems to be asking for the weight and all that to be entered for the label. Am I reading it correctly?

 

[DMRick]

You can pay at the post office..but they still want your weight put in. It may be because you use the same form if you are paying on line. If you are paying at the post office, don't worry about what you put in for weight.
Doris

 

[cpl100]

Okay then. Thanks again. I didn't want to worry about the postage as I don't have a postal scale. I really just want to avail myself of the discounted delivery confirmation feature. I know I've read somewhere that others do that.

I sure wish the darn search feature worked!

 

[dg39]

THats what I use for my shipping labels and to calculate the price of the packages. I put in the zip code and the weight, if I'm using priority mail, the del. conf. is free and if I'm using parcel post the del. conf. is 13 cents. I pay for postage at the post office. And even if your off with the weight, thats ok, because when you bring it to the post office they scan everything and weigh it. So no matter what you put down for weight, they go by what their scale says. And, with the shipping assistant, the buyer gets the confirmation number by email, which saves you time. You don't have to email them anything ,the postal site does all that for you.

All I do when I use shipping assistant is type in the buyers name,address,city/state and zip. The weight of the package and I click on del.conf. by email. Then a little box pops up and you type in your name and email address, along with there email address.After you click submit(on the bottom of the page) a few seconds later a del.conf. number comes up. Then you click "display label". Once the label comes on your screen, just click "print label". The label prints, and then you cut off the receipt and attach the label to the package and bring the receipt to the post office with you. I give them the receipt to stamp with todays date and keep that part for my records. They weigh and scan the package, you pay, they give you a paid receipt. And then your done. I'm pretty sure this is all of it. I have a few auctiions ending on sunday, I'll be using shipping assistant and if I missed anything I'll post for you. But its verrryyy easy. If I can do it, any one can....Hope this helps...Oh, also, on that page on the top, these a spot that says "domestic rates", if you click on that, a page comes up and there you can find out how much a package will cost to send. You type in the your zip code, the buyers zip code, the weight and how your mailing it, (priority/parcel post). You click submit and you will get how much it costs to send. After I get the notice from ebay with the buyers zip code, I go to that site and get the cost for shipping to them.

Denise

 

[cpl100]

Denise,

Thank you so much for taking the time to type all of that for me. It really is helpful and I do appreciate it.

Cindy

 

[cpl100]

Oh Shoot! I am the person things always happen to on the computer.

On my screen the 'Email the Confirmation number' box is greyed out so I cannot select it. Any thoughts on that? I did the full registration, not the 30 day trial.

Okay, I now discovered that was because I had 'test' checked. So I have that solved. BUT, big but here... when I click on 'display receipt' I get an error message that states 'there is a problem trying to use the image display module. Use and external viewer application to view the labels.' Two things came to mind, the first is that I have a pop up stopper, but I pressed control which should have avoided that issue. The second thing that comes to mind is that I did not save this to the 'labels' folder as it was defaulted to do because I prefer all my downloaded programs to be in one place.

I hope someone can help me because I think I'm supposed to be able to see this.

I am just going to edit again to say that I've solved the problem (I think and hope). It turns out that I had AR 4 installed on my computer and you need 5 or above to support that function. I am editing rather than deleting in hope that another person will benefit from my distress.



Oh, and btw, for those who were asking earlier about that SAMPLE thing... reading through the PDF files it appeared as though that would happen if you did the trial registration rather than the full.

 

[dg39]

cpl100 hopefully by the time you read this post, everything is working good for you. I forgot to mention that if for anyreason you click on "submit" twice, you'll get a diff. confirmation number. That happened to me quite a few times in the beginning. The buyer will get both numbers also. What I did when that happened was I emailed the buyer, and gave her the confirmation number that was on the printed label and told her to disregard the first confirmation number that was sent to her.

Denise