2015: Sell £1000

ali-t

First sale of the year for me. £30for a hairdryer and set of ghd's. Woohoo.

kdalwayskint

:j I've got a bid on one of my three items on Eb@y, finally off the starting blocks! :j

newpennypincher

Good evening! I sold some trousers today so that's another £8.52 after deductions please

BohemianCoast

Time for an update -- this week has generally felt slow but today saw me getting the cash for an old iPod touch (a private sale to a friend that was agreed before Christmas, £70, a bunch of postcards, £2, and a Florence Nightingale £10 that I found when clearing out some books, £17 on eBay. But set against that is that I refunded an eBay purchase from before Christmas because the chap said the item didn't arrive. Sometimes you just know in your bones when buyers are going to do that, and this was one of those times. I should get most of the money back from the PO... eventually. Anyway, so total for the account is £72!! And I made great progress on decluttering my kitchen today, and put one more thing on eBay and a dozen more things on FB selling groups.

cw18

BohemianCoast wrote: »

But set against that is that I refunded an eBay purchase from before Christmas because the chap said the item didn't arrive. Sometimes you just know in your bones when buyers are going to do that, and this was one of those times. I should get most of the money back from the PO... eventually.

Did you send it by a method that required a signature? If so, I'm just wondering how he's claiming it didn't arrive?

I know eBay recommend that everything gets sent by Recorded Delivery (without a signature to prove someone took it I believe they'll always find in favour of the buyer and do a PayPal refund), but if it's worth more than £50 you have to shell out for ParcelForce (most cover £100 or £200) or Special Delivery by 1pm (£500). Actually makes it hard to set postage charges up front if you use auction style, as you don't want to overquote but also don't want to get stuck with a much bigger bill than the buyer is paying for (although with the latter that presumably means the items sold for a lot more than you expected it to, so you should still be quids in )

And they won't cover stamps, cash, or (breakable) collectibles, so I need to look around at delivery services as a lot of what I have for selling is ornaments - and I need full cover for those !!

SilverBird_2

I'd like to join this challenge, please.

£1,000 [STRIKE]should be[/STRIKE] is achievable, if I put my mind to the task.

Good luck with your own stash busting.

BohemianCoast

cw18 wrote: »

Did you send it by a method that required a signature? If so, I'm just wondering how he's claiming it didn't arrive?

I know eBay recommend that everything gets sent by Recorded Delivery (without a signature to prove someone took it I believe they'll always find in favour of the buyer and do a PayPal refund)

Most of the time I use regular post when it's under £20 which this was, because in 11 years of eBay I've had about 3 things go astray and sending tracked costs me typically 45 minutes as well as the 90p. Luckily this got sent at the same time as a couple of too-big-for-letterbox parcels, so I have confirmation of posting; otherwise I would indeed not get anything back.

I'm thinking of moving over to tracked though; because of the FB selling groups, I'm selling fewer things on eBay, and our PO has reorganised so there's often someone around helping people use self-service stamping machines, and he can do the recorded delivery registration so it's a lot quicker. Still a bit of a hike there and back though.

cw18

When I used to sell regularly (years ago!) I never posted without proof of postage as a minimum, so always had to queue anyway. The only difference using recorded makes is that the postage charge is higher for the buyer - which probably means I won't get quite as much for the items, as I think most buyers work like me and factor the postage into the total they're prepared to pay.

chocoholicqueen

Just sold a few things on ebay, not much but it's a start £7.27 i've also got a few things finishing tonight with bids on, not much but it all adds up.

owl_lover

Another £5.15 for me with more ending Sunday.
Well done so far everyone