deffo a wannabe !!

setmefree2

Hi Daisy

There is a great clip on "you tube" called "e bay by weird al yankovic" http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HYokLWfqbaU

You'll be laughing in no time.

TTFN

~daisy~_2

LOL yeah heard it on chris moyles or some show on radio one !!

send bidding vibes my way peeps

~daisy~_2

if you ever ever hear me think about ebaying again - just shoot me !!

i have obviously done something wrong so when ppl are paying i have had to upgrade my paypal account and im being hit with horrendous fees

for example i sold a adidas workout top in excellent condition - i got the pricely sum of 99p for it -whoopee doo - so along with my postage im due £3.49 - well ive had to fork out 31p of that to paypal
then theres the listing fee and prolly some withdrawal fee as well

its been a very stressful experience and not something i will be repeating i can assure you - and im telling you now ill put money on that this will have ended costing me money not making me any

anyone fancy that bet ??!!!

Kaz2904

Probably not your thing then!
I must admit that I've never sold anything I just buy it all!

setmefree2

Hi

I've never e bayed anything either - too lazy:o. I cart it all to the charity shop and then tell myself that it's my charity contribution for the month. Interesting though, I had no idea it was like this, you can't be the only one whose lost out. I wonder if people ever regret selling stuff on e bay? I once gave some of my kid's toys to a charity shop and when they came in from school they were really upset :rolleyes2 & I had to pay £10 to buy them back. That was a bad money saving day

Dithering_Dad

I never upgraded my account, just stuck a disclaimer on all of my sales to say that "I DO NOT ACCEPT CREDIT/DEBIT CARD PAYMENT VIA PAYPAL" and if people paid I refused the payment within Pay Pal and sent them a polite email pointing out my disclaimer, telling them it was because I didn;t have a premium Pay Pal account and asking them to either pay directly using paypal or via a cheque.

I never had anyone back out of a sale and the worst that happened was that I had to wait for them to post a cheque. Saved a fortune in fees.

Trying_to_be_good

I upgraded my account as it seemed the easiest thing to do - it does encourage you to group things into 'bundles' to sell them, as not only do you save on listing fees, but the paypal fee is 3.4% plus a flat rate of 20p. I haven't sold loads, but have been quite lucky so far. Having said that, 4 of the 6 items I have on this week have no bids yet (they end tomorrow night).

Fingers crossed - I'm not trying to make loads of money (but ut would be nice!), but it is getting rid of clutter, and extra pennies towards the mortgage-free dream.

~daisy~_2

Dithering_Dad wrote: »

I never upgraded my account, just stuck a disclaimer on all of my sales to say that "I DO NOT ACCEPT CREDIT/DEBIT CARD PAYMENT VIA PAYPAL" and if people paid I refused the payment within Pay Pal and sent them a polite email pointing out my disclaimer, telling them it was because I didn;t have a premium Pay Pal account and asking them to either pay directly using paypal or via a cheque.

I never had anyone back out of a sale and the worst that happened was that I had to wait for them to post a cheque. Saved a fortune in fees.

i didnt know you could do this - i just thought paypal was paypal and that was it

hence me never going near it again - 4 ppl havent even paid yet and its only flipping pennies !!

baffcat

Don't be worried/frightened about stoozing. After I found this site a couple of years back, I started stoozing. Luckily, we have (had) a One Account mortgage, which allowed as much by way of overpayment as we could stick into it. As a lot of BT offers won't allow transfer into a bank account, instead of balance transferring to an Egg card, as a lot of people do, we put it straight onto our One Account credit card. Every week, if it's in credit, it gets swept up into our One Account.

One Accounts aren't the cheapest, but being able to overpay (and withdraw it again if needed) is great, and it's saved us thousands of pounds. Additionally, we still have the option of withdrawing up to our limit if we need or wish to. So guess who bought his Harley this year.

To cut a long story short, we haven't paid any interest in the past eighteen months, as our balance has been zero or better. We've even just taken out a couple of ISAs to get a good rate of interest on a fee-free, interest-free offer from MBNA at the beginning of this month, and are setting up two more for our sixteen & nineteen year olds.

It's great. DS just started Uni, so he's going to have around £200 extra. DD will probably use hers for clothes. We don't have to pay it back until September, so it's being put to good use.

I ebay full-time. My fees can be large, but turnover's pretty good too. I'm having to be careful to stay under the VAT thresh-hold. If you ever want to try again, pm me & I'll see if I can help.

Baff

~daisy~_2

baffcat wrote:

I ebay full-time. My fees can be large, but turnover's pretty good too. I'm having to be careful to stay under the VAT thresh-hold. If you ever want to try again, pm me & I'll see if I can help.

thank you thats really kind however ive posted off my items this morning and i will never be repeating it !!

however i still have 3 items that finished on sunday but havent been paid for ? any advice ?

to be honest i dont really care if they dont pay as it will only be pennies and one item is collection only and hub is a bit miffed it went for such a ridiculously low price - anyway - should i just ignore it or contact them or what ?

obviously i did send end of auction invoices with full amounts on - even had an email from the collection guy asking for my address which i stupidly gave them never thinking he wouldnt pay - hope hes not going to come and rob it from me instead !!!