my MAD e-bay challenge

nevadagirl

Just dropping in to wish everyone good luck with their targets. I would join in, but, I nearly did myself a mischief listing 300 items last weekend, which is pretty much the last of what I have kicking around to sell. I've been selling things I'm finished with and unwanted free gifts for about 4 years and made nearly £2k in that time, just from periodically clearing clutter.

You can do it!

andyauk

debt_free_me wrote: »

Does anyone know how to get the turbolister? I can't find it on Ebay or on here. Also, does anyone know if when you open a shop on Ebay, do you have to start paying VAT on thigs you sell, or is it just another format so people can see all your items easier?

Hi you do not pay VAT on ebay shops its just another format for selling on ebay which allows you to have a long selling time (think its 30 days) and you can list your items as buy it now which lets people buy things instantly rather than hanging around waiting for an auction to close

kashton_2

Morning all, how are you doin?
Well i am in a bit of a pickle this morning, listed an item about 3 weeks or more ago and it sold for £30, the buyer didnt contact me to pay or anything, so after the waiting period i did the non payment thing..still nothing..waited the 8 days after that and still nothing, i relisted the item 7 days ago and it sells in about 2 hrs, have 14 watchers and a bid of £9 at the moment, thing is....i have just been paid via paypal from the woman who bid in the first place? after almost a month? wot shoudl i do? wait and see how much it goes for this time or just refund the payment? any advice would be great!

one-day

i have to keep looking at this challenge to see how everyone is going as i think this is one of the best ideas i have ever seen. i would love to take part but have not got anything to sell but then again my send husband around the house to have a look as got loads of dd old baby things but with another on the way in 3 months i'm trying to keep most of it

laura2481

Hi Kashton, you can stop auctions early but it is tricky and you won't get back the fees you paid for listing it the second time. See
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/end_early.html

I would probably stop the auction because the £30 was quite a good amount and you might not get that much this time, but i would try to contact all the bidders and explain the situation so they know it was a genuine mix up.

Hope this helps
Laura

1jb

Hi Everyone! Hope everything is going well with the Mad challenges!
Think I'll join in, I'm going to aim for around 200 quid, so thats around 200 items.... Going to try and save for a holiday

Good Luck everyone!

miaoww

Hi - Ill join in I have loads of debt and lots of craft stuff so may make up some craft kits for kids and ive made some jewelry I also have lots of little girls clothes - great idea but as a bit of a spendaholic ill have to be careful not to just use any money to buy other stuff!
will give it a go though :cool:

runmichellerun

Hello

Can I join in please? I'm trying to pay off just over £2000 from my credit card so although I have small bits of income coming in from elsewhere, I'm going to aim to declutter and get £1,000 from ebay.

I already have some bits on from last week which are on target to sell for over £80 so it'll be a good start.

Good luck with this everyone! :beer:

RMR
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oopalah

Finally listed my first 4 items of the challenge. I'm aiming to list things twice a week if I can then I don't get too bogged down. Will update my sig when I get a minute.

candyblue

Four of my items have sold for £10.90.

If items sell for more than a £1 for example £5 are we counting that as 5 items??