**Make Me Rich This Year eBay or Else!!**

bravobeastie

well I had 27 items listed, 6 ended and only got 1 bid of 99p. Out of this I had allocated 10% to a childrens cancer charity so not much profit there.

Have 21 items left and 3 have bids on, 2 at 99p and 1 of £3.50 Trying to sell my mums gorgeous white day bed and brand new mattress, i've put a reserve on it and a starting bid of 99p. Have had loads of people asking for a buy it now price but have asked them to just make an offer, only a couple got back to me but price was too low. Do have a lady coming this evening to have a look at it though so fingers crossed. It has 25 watchers but not 1 bid yet lol

Yorkielass

Miss empty piggy I completely agree with you - I lost my ebay mojo before Christmas a bit as I was listing 10-15 items to finish at the same time and I ended up spending ages packaging things up, I failed miserably at the weekend with ebaying but I will try again this weekend and I'm going to do 5 things a week to try and do things gradually and not get into a muddle again, things I can start at 99p, and then save other bits up for free listing weekends!

I really want to get off zero for this year!

pixiedust09

All but one of my 10 items listed have at least one watcher, my mobile has 17 watchers but only one bid at the mo , I'm hoping that will go up nearer the end of the auction. I also have another item with bids up to £31 but nowhere near my reserve on that. I'll be searching the house for more stuff to list this week. Hubby better watch out, I might list him!:rotfl: This e-bay lark is addictive.

JesaRose

too_much_debt wrote: »

I have sold about 7 items to someone in Germany, was just wondering if anyone else has sold a lot of items to someone abroad before and what you posted it. Normally I just do Airmail but wondered about International Signed for, is it worth it though if they only track it until it leaves the country?

Airsure might be a better option for you TMD

martafdz

Congrats skylight!!

What kind of items are you selling? I must be going for the wrong ones because I listed about 30 now and only about 4 watchers and one £0.99 bid. I put everything at £0.99 though and p&p between £1.50 and £1.99 depending of size and weight. I have mainly clothes, a few accesories and ink cartidges (these ones I put today). I have seen empty (but refilable) ink cartridges are selling at around £2 each and I had 5 laying around in drawers. I have DVDs I know I will not watch again but I did a search and people are not bidding on them either A few years ago I sold a broken Xbox and I got £30 for it, obviously someone knew how to repair it!

DansMum_2

Listed another 9 things today....

Have got 3 more bids on what I'd already listed.

Up to about £30 so far, although still waiting for one payment... :j

Didnt think about mobile phone boxes....:eek:

CompletelyLost

Well done skylight! You must be over the moon.
It's amazing how much stuff we amass, and what it can be worth...

Out of my items listed 4/39 are selling, total bids £8.65. I sold another item last night to a German buyer, made about £15 after p&p :j I have a 6 items ending tonight but none with bids. I live in hope of some last minutes ones though!

skylight

Well, one item was a musical instrument so a bit of an unfair advantage! Some things have sold for 99p (which is still 15p in selling/paypal fees.....). I have also have some language bits on there; although one didn't sell so may do that again next week at a lower price.

I am now out of collectibles, but I may sell some of the DS games (card only) as there are lots the kids are not interested in anymore.

mrsiwannabefree

Hi all

I listed lots of stuff last year on Ebay and then Ebay stopped me listing unless I registered as a business seller rather than a personal one, which I did.

Business sellers don't have those lovely free listing days and I seem to spend all my earnings on listing fees so not really getting anywhere!

Any ideas? Would I be better opening a shop (I sell womens clothing - some new, some secondhand) or would that incur even more charges? I think there's a monthly charge but I'm not sure ~ maybe someone on here would be able to tell me.

Thanks in advance for your help

weeclick

Ebay bids are now up to £65 this afternoon and just responded to another 5 questions so hopefully if I answered right there will be more bids in the next day or so!

Sorry can't answer your question on business/shop account Ive only ever had a personal account