eBay/ebid 10 a day challenge - any joiners?

soolin

mb73 wrote: »

Books have a £2.75 limit (until October) unless you specify they are large/heavy. If they are, you have to put the postage in your listing and tell the buyer to wait for an invoice before they pay. I had to do this today on a boxset of books.

Not sure about the rest - eBay seem to be saying you have to offer one free postage option (eg: 1st class) but can then have paid for options as well. It's very confusing - worth asking on the Q&A board over there.

If you sell in the book category then you cannot add more than £2.75 for books if using Royal Mail. Putting 'please contact me for details' will get your auctions pulled if reported and a possible suspension.

You can use a courier for heavy items, but you should then out the courier cost in as appropriate and of course as couriers are dear that may well imit your market. You can't say you will use a courier and then just use Royal mail.

The new rules are free postage is actually fairly simple considering this is ebay who never explain themselves well. They require that the first UK option for shipping is free, any non UK or alternative postage methods can be at an additional cost. So you could have the following:

2nd class postage: FREE
1st class postage £1
Europe airmail £5 etc

The buyer must always have the option of a free postage service and cannot be required to pay any further amounts or pay for an upgraded service. You will also not be able to even say recorded will be an additional 75p as that option is also disappearing on all listings this Autumn.
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jacki981

OK first a confession ive just bought 2 books for my exams and my oh a psp (he passed his probation and hasnt had a penny to spend from his wages for over a year) and the better news i sent him into the loft yesterday and he found some old lps and a massive box of top quality baby clothes i saved in case our second was a girl (he wasnt ) so now i have about 400items to list and ill be doing it asap so its free!

Nixxx

Only three things listed

Made £90 in August.

Where has my motivation gone?

bigbeff

3 items listed today and 2 on amazon.

What do you guys list? I am going to try and find some other things later, I have lots of novels but it hardly seems worth listing them when postage will cost more!!

Nixxx

hey bigbeff

I list mostly clothes, the odd dvd or cd, shoes, makeup etc

mrscmr

come on nixx get listing.. we will motivate you and once you see the money coming in then that will be enough to make you list more! good luck!

mb73

soolin wrote: »

If you sell in the book category then you cannot add more than £2.75 for books if using Royal Mail. Putting 'please contact me for details' will get your auctions pulled if reported and a possible suspension.

You can use a courier for heavy items, but you should then out the courier cost in as appropriate and of course as couriers are dear that may well imit your market. You can't say you will use a courier and then just use Royal mail..
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Hope my auction doesn't get pulled then - I uploaded a 1600 g book using TL and it told me to put my postage in the listing, which is what I did

mb73

I have changed my auction - it's now got free p&p and I've put the postage in the start price (which makes eBay more ££s in FVFs). That should mean it won't get pulled I hope

Floxxie

mb73 wrote: »

I have changed my auction - it's now got free p&p and I've put the postage in the start price (which makes eBay more ££s in FVFs). That should mean it won't get pulled I hope

That's exactly why eBay are changing it...to make them even more money!

mrscmr

listed 11 new ones, relisted 24 unsold, have sold £28.00 worth this week - not much eh! but hey ho!

Need to take more pics for my next batch of listings.
Any one give me any advice on listing magazines? what sort of price should i put them on at? which ones are good sellers?
thanks in advance
have a good friday and weekend all!
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