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Aesop wrote: »

yes I had that, and someone on the mse ebay thread has £3 as do others.

i have started listing stuff on BIN as noticed stuff not getting bids for higher than what I minimum list at. So might as well stick on bin for what I would like and leave it for 30 days. can reliset when free listings

Mostly I list BiN and remove teh "Best Offer" box - if they're going to make an offer, they will anyway - no point in encouraging them

If I've got something unusual and I don't know what to charge - I'll decide how much I would BiN it for, then auction it to finish on teh Sunday night, with a "No reserve" starting at the price I would take for a BiN as above.

I had a Garden machine I was thinking "Maybe £60" for and it went way over £200 ! Also a Boat which wanted a LOT of TLC I was thinking I would be delighted at £500 and it went nearly £1400 !

Just bear in mind, you don't HAVE to sell it quick, as long as you have enough free relists, it can just sit there until the person who Does want it comes along

If you have turbolister and "Synchronise" sometimes, you can let items lapse and not relist them until the "Right offer" comes along (thanks for telling us about Turbolister Aesop)

Anyway - enough about me and thanks to everyone who uses this thread - it's so positive !

Aesop

Glad to see someone is using turbo ister. I still am not . Got loads i need to shift asap

lexbubbles

carbootcrazy wrote: »

Had a reply already from an idiot who asked if I'd sell one item (on at £35) for £17:eek:. He said several had sold around that price recently but when I checked they were all 'used' whereas mine is brand new and boxed (which the listing makes clear). I'd accept £30 but that's definitely it;).

CBC, you can set it to auto-reject or accept offers below/above a certain price. So, like, "auto accept anything above £34, reject anything below £30" then you only have to manually deal with anything between those.

I normally set mine to auto accept anything 50p less, and reject anything half price or below but my items are typically not more than a tenner anyway.

Got £4 on am@zon this morning after fees. It would have been £2.50 but I can send this particular book as large letter not small parcel, I think.

lexbubbles

If anyone has a cat that eats wet food, there's an Am@zon deal of the day for 84 Whiskas jelly or gravy pouches £18.68 and free delivery with prime (normally £24.90)

I would, but only one of mine eats wet food and only half a pouch a day. I go through a box of 12 every 4 weeks @ £3.50 a box. So 84 pouches would last like... 28 weeks and works out at a saving of a whole 20p a week, which isn't worth it for spending that money all at once.

But if you have more than one cat who eats wet, or who at least eats an entire pouch, it could be worth looking into.

ETA: normally bulk buying saves money but in this instance the full price of the 84-pack is no cheaper than buying 7x 12 packs from the supermarket. Actually, it's 40p more. So the saving on that isn't huge. Maybe if the 84-pack was cheaper in the first place...

lexbubbles

Having to email prolific again about eligibility issues again. There's a £5 study that it says I;m eligible for. I click the page and, yup, still eligible, select start study and "your eligibility is unknown please answer prescreening" but no prescreening is available! :mad:

This happens every time there's a high-paying study available and I've missed out on £30 now. Every time I email about it I just get "it was a site error, sorry!" or something else equally vapid and useless. Yeah, great, but are you fixing the error so that I stop missing out on large-paying studies? Because it doesn't look like it. Since it, y'know, keeps happening and all.

lexbubbles

Did just manage to complete a £1.50 study, so at least the smaller earning ones still work!

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lexbubbles wrote: »

If anyone has a cat that eats wet food, there's an Am@zon deal of the day for 84 Whiskas jelly or gravy pouches £18.68 and free delivery with prime (normally £24.90)

I would, but only one of mine eats wet food and only half a pouch a day. I go through a box of 12 every 4 weeks @ £3.50 a box. So 84 pouches would last like... 28 weeks and works out at a saving of a whole 20p a week, which isn't worth it for spending that money all at once.

But if you have more than one cat who eats wet, or who at least eats an entire pouch, it could be worth looking into.

ETA: normally bulk buying saves money but in this instance the full price of the 84-pack is no cheaper than buying 7x 12 packs from the supermarket. Actually, it's 40p more. So the saving on that isn't huge. Maybe if the 84-pack was cheaper in the first place...

I agree about bulk-buying not always working out cheaper but the opposite:eek:

My cat eats a combination of wet and dry food, well mainly wet for his 'meals' and dry as snacks during the day whenever he feels peckish. That cat sure can eat!

I've tried him on all brands of food over the years and he just won't touch Whiskers in any of it's variants or flavours. He loves Felix 'As Good As It Looks' but will tolerate the Co-op own brand and even Morrison's if he's in the mood. Anything else, including 'posh' ones like Gourmet he just sniffs and ignores. He'd live on roast chicken if he could but seeing as we only have it once a week and make it last for 2 days' meals for OH and I, he doesn't get it as much as he's like;)

lexbubbles

carbootcrazy wrote: »

I agree about bulk-buying not always working out cheaper but the opposite:eek:

My cat eats wet eats a combination of wet and dry food, well mainly wet for his 'meals' and dry as snacks during the day whenever he feels peckish. That cat sure can eat!

Mine has a half pouch of wet in the morning for his breakfast, and dry food is down all the time which they eat throughout.


Got a response from Prolific all of 5 minutes later with the same one-sentence copy paste answer I've had every other time "this was an error which has been fixed". Um, no, it hasn't and even if you were fixing it there's no way you did it in 5 minutes. Emailed them back pointing out that I've never received a proper response from them, and that no the error has not been fixed as I've been getting it since November and never get to participate in the high paying studies I'm eligible for because I get the error until the study is full! Like, I've lost £30 in eligible studies at this point and all they can give me is a one-sentence copies and pasted response :mad:

Aesop

lexbubbles wrote: »

Mine has a half pouch of wet in the morning for his breakfast, and dry food is down all the time which they eat throughout.


Got a response from Prolific all of 5 minutes later with the same one-sentence copy paste answer I've had every other time "this was an error which has been fixed". Um, no, it hasn't and even if you were fixing it there's no way you did it in 5 minutes. Emailed them back pointing out that I've never received a proper response from them, and that no the error has not been fixed as I've been getting it since November and never get to participate in the high paying studies I'm eligible for because I get the error until the study is full! Like, I've lost £30 in eligible studies at this point and all they can give me is a one-sentence copies and pasted response :mad:

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Aesop

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