New seller, confused about listing multiple items

shudd1967

I have 20 Vodaphone £10 top up vouchers which I am going to put on ebay for £8ish on buy it now (will then email the code to the purchaser once payment received.

I am just doing the ad, I have put the price in and selected I have 20 items to sell. This WILL sell each voucher for £8ish each, not £8ish for the whole 20 will it? I just want to check as only ever sold something twice before on Ebay and lost out both times!

Please help!

soolin

shudd1967 wrote: »

I have 20 Vodaphone £10 top up vouchers which I am going to put on ebay for £8ish on buy it now (will then email the code to the purchaser once payment received.

I am just doing the ad, I have put the price in and selected I have 20 items to sell. This WILL sell each voucher for £8ish each, not £8ish for the whole 20 will it? I just want to check as only ever sold something twice before on Ebay and lost out both times!

Please help!

You can't sell codes on eBay. You will physically have to post the cards out , so make sure you include postage costs.

A BIN with 20 items will sell each individually, you can check before you confirm the listing as it will say 20 items and none sold so far

Frankly with no history as a seller I think you may well struggle in a market that has such a high ability to scam. Can't you sell them locally n Facebook or something?

shudd1967

Thank you. I have no listed the items and sold 3 already so i am pleased.

I have emailed the code and if the purchaser wants posting the token off to them second class, all three have successfully topped up their phone so happy with that

pulliptears

shudd1967 wrote: »

Thank you. I have no listed the items and sold 3 already so i am pleased.

I have emailed the code and if the purchaser wants posting the token off to them second class, all three have successfully topped up their phone so happy with that

You do realise you will lose any Paypal chargeback dont you?

shudd1967

Whats Paypal Chargeback?

pinkshoes

shudd1967 wrote: »

Whats Paypal Chargeback?

On any purchase, you MUST show that the buyer has received the item.

Top up cards are quite likely to be scammed. i.e. one of your buyers might open up a dispute saying they didn't receive it. You will then be asked to supply tracking, showing it was delivered. As you sent the code via email, you can't do this, so paypal will reverse the payment, so you will have no top up card, and no money either!

(and no, paypal will not be interested in an email you sent. they ONLY want tracking!)

ulsterbeef

shudd1967 wrote: »

Whats Paypal Chargeback?

A chargeback is a sellers worst nightmare. What a scammer can do is; make an ebay account under a false name at a rented address for example. They buy a £2000 camera from someone. They can then wait for the camera to arrive. Once arrived they can then claim their credit card was stolen and account hacked. Credit card company gives money back to scammer and they keep the camera and do a runner.

As for this case its up to you what you do. Ebay don't allow digital goods. As soolin says they want posted items. You could however message the buyer and ask what they want however if ebay see you sent something digitally they will give you an mc warning

shudd1967

Thanks for this, closed the item down and will start again when I come off nights! very stressfull!

Haffiana

Hmm. Whilst all this is quite true, I bought an XBox gold code from eBay recently, and it arrived by email within 10 minutes.

The point of me saying this is - I checked the seller's feedback thoroughly before buying. Seller had quite literally thousands of feedback, all positive, all for just that item, an xBox gold code. You can find similar sellers on eBay, all with loads of feedback, easily.

So whilst all that has been written re chargebacks is perfectly true, a bit of commonsense is needed. Are you going to go through all the rigmarole of claiming your card has been stolen, getting it changed by your bank etc over a £10 pay and go top-up? What are the odds of someone doing that? It isn't a £2000 camera, it is a £10 top-up. The real danger lies with the buyer, who could after all receive a duff code, tracked, through the post and would have to be bothered enough to return it through the post, tracked - in order to get his money back.

Crowqueen

You don't have to claim your card is stolen, you have to say you didn't authorise a particular purchase. My father had it done arbitrarily once by RBS when he used his card overseas (he regularly travels to France on business).

So the buyer could be unaware that the card company has flagged up the payment as suspicious and the seller has no recourse or defence.

I agree with you about the risk to the buyer, which is why I steer clear of ordering software that needs an activation from eBay or a third-party marketplace site (you can usually get it direct digitally from the publisher now anyway). I also don't like selling it, you have no idea whether the buyer will suspect you have used the code.