***Make Us Money in 2010 with Ebay Challenge***

skintbint_2

another 2 sales today £8.00 so happy with that - quick post as i'm shattered! will read back the thread tomorrow - good luck everybody

mrscmr

do them as buy it nows then you can list ofr up to 30 days

captainspam

i did do buy it now. i wonder why it didnt say 30 days. I will go have a look at it now

Purpleroses

Few more sales today. love when people pay straight away.

No need to be VAT registered unless your profits are getting close to £70k. Just had a few days training on it as we're now vat registered but it still doesn't make much sense to me lol.

Right must get a few relists done before badminton tonight

captainspam

I just had another look and it said only 3 5 7 10 days and when i click the little ? it said this:

Using Shop Inventory format, you can list your item for long durations, such as 30 days or Good 'Til Cancelled. With Good 'Til Cancelled, you never need to relist - the listing is automatically renewed every 30 days until the item is sold or you end the listing.

jaynemaria

too_much_debt wrote: »

Hi

How do you work out what your profit is, do you have a spreadsheet that you enter it all in, I just can't be bothered to keep checking for FVF when I sell anything and Ebay is my only income so I use that money for food and stuff as well as for my credit card bills.

TBH as everything Im selling is my stuff, I just have a notebook, that I write down how much things have sold for, less the 10%

Floxxie

too_much_debt wrote: »

I just rang up the number on the HMRC website and they asked me about NI, I said I still wanted to pay it to keep my contributions up, my mum paid reduced NI contributions when she started work after having me and when she retired I think her weekly pension was 2p a week as she never paid enough NI so that is why I prefer to pay it as when I had DD1 they sent me a letter saying I had a State Pension, haven't had anymore correspondence since though.

This may be of interest if you have children and not paying NI:
http://www.pensionsadvisoryservice.org.uk/state-pensions/home-responsibilities-protection-%28hrp%29
The rules changed in 2002 and will change again in 2010.
There are also some interesting calculators for working out voluntary NI contributions etc.

JohnnieStar

mrscmr wrote: »

i read somewhere a tip on taking good photos... not that i have used this idea yet... but...

you have probably all heard of lightboxes - which are used by professionals well you can recreate your own lightbox if you have a white bath.

put your item in the bath [obviously a clean empty one!] and it gives a great background to photos.

Good idea, but my bath is green! :rotfl:

Had an email from someone saying item not received. I sent on Sat with 2 others which have been received. What would I need to do if its lost? Im not going to do anything yet, because Im thinking it could be because of the snow x

emmie

I want to take the plunge and join this challenge. This is my first one - how do I join?

mrscmr

hi emmie... you just did! welcome!