Things You Never Thought You Could Sell

Princess_Jane

I'm having a nightmare with crazy buyers at the mo'.

Just sold a few items which were used and clearly labelled as such - photos, description etc.

One buyer paid £1.25 for an item then emailed me kicking off saying they thought it was new.

I replied saying I couldn't understand how they could think that, but if they returned the item by recorded post I would refund their money.

And they agreed! For the sake of £1.25 because they didn't read the listing!

And I've just had one buyer make a 20 mile round trip to collect an item to "save on the hassle of postage".

I was going to charge them £2!

Am I going mad?

Tigert

Princess_Jane wrote: »

Am I going mad?

No you're not going mad - that's the way ebay is these days. A while ago I had a car listed as an auction but with a buy it now price of £300. Someone came and offered me £500 to end it. I pointed out that he could buy it now for less but he wanted to make sure someone else didn't get it before he got home.

arthurdick

haha, tempted to sell my motor now for £400, but will accept £600

gilligansyle

i never have much luck with Ebay, mainly because I am rubbish at taking photos, so everything looks fuzzy.

Found a stack of old Friends videos and sold them on Amazon.

Pinkpegasus

A couple of years ago I bought a lot of maternity clothes on Ebay. There was always only about 5 pages worth of maternity clothes at the time on Ebay, and there wasn't as much choice in High St as there is now.
I put them all back on and made a profit.
I also bought a holidays worth of clothes in sales the same year in a larger size (due to baby weight), put them on Ebay in April and made almost the same as what I paid for the items.

I put a note on my listings that though I accept Paypal, I do not accept debit card payments via Paypal and that the transaction must be instant payment from the buyers bank account. This is so I can remain as having a Personal account rather than a Premier account and pay 25% for the transfer of funds! Go and check your Paypal accounts xxxx

Princess_Jane

You have to laugh I suppose.

Now I've had a buyer withdraw his bid because he can't collect.

My auctions do stipulate (politely) no collections as I work two jobs and keep pretty anti-social hours.

Apparently he didn't read this bit.

And my other buyer who wishes to return an item has emailed me again today asking for my address. In caps. Shouting.

I did email her the address on Sat, but seems it didn't get through.

I don't know why this would be, but don't like the thought of a buyer sitting cursing me when I am giving them the info they need.

Does anyone else offer returns on ebay item? Not sure what the law is on this..Distance Selling etc.

^!£$&

I had an old first generation ipod mini which didnt work wouldnt take a battery charge and had a guys name engraved on it
I was gonna chuck it out but when ebay had the last listing offer i listed it just to see if it would sell for anything as it only cost me 5p to list
Ended up selling for £12.50 funny thing is the week before an identical ipod in better condition with acessories sold for £3??

honeywall2008

I love this thread so much!!!!!!

It inspired me to give eBay a go, and I have done really well so far. Sales include:

13 Empty Lip Balm pots I was going to throw out - 99p + P&P

Filter for an old vacuum cleaner I don't even own any more - 99p + P&P

Electric Oral B Toothbrush (unused in packaging!!!) - £7.01 + P&P (this only cost me about £4 new in a sale)

Pair of shoes that cost me £3.99 (got them home and changed my mind!) - £5.99 + P&P

Job lot of 6 old, broken & VERY SCRATCHED mobile phones - £13.95 + P&P

Nokia 6230i which doesn't work and has scratched fascia - £31!!!!!!!!

I make hand-made jewellery, so have used the proceeds of this to go towards materials on eBay for my first craft sale coming up in August. There are some real beady bargains I can tell you! Swarovski crystals cost me £2.49 for 24 in Hobbycraft - I have been buying 100 for £2.60 a time!!!

Anyone else had any decent sales recently??? xxx

1379kim

Pinkpegasus wrote: »

pay 25% for the transfer of funds! Go and check your Paypal accounts xxxx

It's actually only 25p per withdrawal under £50 (not 25%), also if you withdraw £50 or more it's free

Also, does anyone know why people buy gift vouchers and pay more for them than their value????

milliemonster

this has inspired me!!!, I have loads of old Cambridge diet shakes some are out of date but they are fine (dried that you have to make up yourslef) and I know these go for a fortune so I'm going to put them on ebay