2015: Sell £1000

newpennypincher

Hi, £20.00 for me today please. It was a quiet Sunday but two sales today :j

pixtotts

Does anyone else get nervous when people start bidding more than they expected on ebay?
I listed a necklace a boyfriend bought me when I was 18, (I've actually put on a couple of items old boyfriends bought me lol). I started it at 99p and was quite chuffed when it got to £3.... it's at £15 now with 2 hours to go. I'm just convinced I've done something wrong somewhere and they think it's something it isn't
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well it sold....

£19.19to be added takes me to £43.37

apple_muncher

Another massive £2 for me please, Samiszel!

BohemianCoast

steady as she goes... an indoor aerial, some little IKEA lights and kids' sewing kits; another £13 for my pile.

[Deleted User]

Congratulations everyone. Some brilliant results recorded and lots of good selling ideas that I hope to try myself:T

Been on a bit of a downer because of death of a close friend and then the funeral to attend yesterday so I haven't been as good as I should have been in my selling efforts.:o. Will try to do better in February though.

Since last update I've made:

• £28.27 profit from book sales on Amazon
• £12 profit from a couple of items sold on commission in the little secondhand enterprise the Postmistress runs from the back room of a village Post Office near here. Useful for heavy/difficult-to-post stuff not suitable for eBay.

Total to add: £40.27


Will probably be my last update for January. I think it takes my total for the month to £137.91 (which is a lot better than I expected to be honest).

Good luck for a profitable February, everyone:beer:

cw18

Not quite sure how to account for this one.....

On Friday I sent out 3 recorded delivery items - one large letter and two small packets.

The person I sent the large letter to sent me an email around Saturday lunch time to inform me it had apparently been signed for by someone they'd never heard of, and they didn't have it (I'd already checked the tracking and thought it looked odd). I then got another email shortly after to say they'd found it behind their front door, which leads us to believe it had been signed by the postman and just pushed though (signed after 9am, so not too early to be knocking on a door on a Saturday in my eyes - one of the others was before 7:30am and correctly signed!).

I wasn't happy about this. If the buyer had placed a claim I guess eBay/PayPal should have accepted the signature to prove I'd sent it and RM claimed to have delivered it to the correct address, and therefore not have issued a refund from my account to that of the buyer. But I suspect the buyer would leave negative feedback which isn't good when I'm trying to build up a good seller reputation.

So I emailed RM on Saturday - fully expecting (from past experience) not to hear anything back from them. But I've had an email this morning which says they're sending me a book of 6 first class stamps by way of an apology - and to refund me the cost of the recorded service (more than covers it - £3.72 worth of stamps for a £1.30 fee).

As this is related to my sales, I can't see any way of recording it as 'money in' on my financial spreadsheet other than as a credit against the sales - which means it also counts as sales for this challenge.....

Not adding it on until I actually receive them though, as I've not received a grocery gift card I should have had in the post 2 weeks ago at the latest - so it looks like that one 'wandered' somewhere

Hoipolloi

Cw18

I have often had parcels and registered letters signed for by the postman.

It's worked out ok for me as usually I am the purchaser and it saves me a trip down to the collection point a couple of miles away. I can see how it must be a problem for a seller though, especially when the item can not be seen.

A problem that annoys me is when post or parcels is put into my preferred safe place (if not able to fit through the letterbox or no one is home) but no note is put through the door to tell me to go to the safe place as I have a parcel. Fortunately, it gets spotted when the bin is put out, but that could be after a couple of days.

Hoipolloi

Well, I have to admit, so far I haven't made any money for this challenge.

I don't have the energy to list everything on ebay, so will be giving it all to charity. I know some people don't have a choice and have to list everything they can spare, just to make ends meet, but fortunately I am not in that position.

Hopefully I will do better in February. I am determined to sell stuff this year, one way or another.

cw18

I used to have a postie who signed and pushed at the house I'm at now, as well as at a previous address. It stopped here after I made a few comments (the last one being along the lines of wondering what would happen if I claimed to have not received!) having previously asked him not to do it - but for me the delivery office is only a 5 minute walk, so I could never understand the need for it other than them not having to take back. At the previous address it stopped after a change of postie - but I could understand it being done more there as the delivery office was a 10 minute drive each way and the opening hours meant workers could generally only get there on a Saturday. I still preferred to do that than have the postie sign though.

I don't have a designated 'safe place', but the delivery people (including courier firms) all know that for any one of 4 properties they can try any of the other 3 and leave there if the addressee is out.... normally means they get left at mine, as all the others work

apple_muncher

Whoop!Whoop! We got a mention on the weekly email!!