Well, finally!

[InvisibleTouch]

After a long dry summer, it looks like my Fall ebay sales are finally starting to kick in. Not a moment too soon, either, since I have dog-show travel to pay for next month. The irony is that I otherwise hate the Fall season, but this is its one redeeming virtue.

Anyone else starting to see an upward trend these days?

[demgrrrll]

1. I seem to be doing OK right now too. My auctions this week are perking

along and I have other auctions to put on this week. I have bids on a lot of my stuff this week and overall it looks like we will be productive.

[grasswire]

2. must be time for me to get busy, then

I'm going to have to work hard to carve out time. Minding a 9-month-old takes up more time than I remembered.

[Vinca]

3. I've just started selling again after a summer's absence.

Does it drive you nuts people seem to only bid at the last minute??

[demgrrrll]

4. Yes! You get all these watchers and you think something is going to

go well and then you get a little trickle of bids at the end. I guess some people watch to get an idea of what their stuff is worth. In 98 eBay was a real exciting bid a thon. Those were the days.

[grasswire]

5. no kidding

I once had two different staffers from an East Coast historical society bidding on the same collection of letters. They ran that sucker up, up, up! It was so sweet.

[Vinca]

6. The first year I sold on ebay (98), I thought I was going to be rich.

It was so much fun! Everything sold and usually sold for big bucks. My biggest sale on ebay happened then - it went to $500 almost immediately, inched up to $1,500 and in the last half minute of the auction went to $5,000. Those were the days . . . (oops - demgrrrll just said that).

[grasswire]

10. I could have been rich...

...if I could have gotten enough supply of stock. That is the trick, always. At that time I was shopping auctions in Massachusetts in the summer and selling as fast as I could list. When I stopped doing that, it became harder to get stock.

[Vinca]

15. Finding stuff is a real problem for me, too.

I just got back from a late Friday afternoon tag sale run by a hospital auxillary and it was total crap. Even if you weren't looking for antiques and collectibles, it was crap. If they clear $100 off their sale in 2 days they'll be lucky. Better luck tomorrow.

[InvisibleTouch]

7. Yeah, I've done that myself:

Watching an item to see what it will go for, because I have something similar. It's the lazy way to get an idea of the going price, rather than searching on completed auctions.

What's really frustrating is when you have 5 or 6 watchers on BINs, and not a one of them bids at the end. Ah well. I've found that when you re-list something that had a fair amount of watchers, though, it often does sell the second time.

On a happier note, I just got my PowerSeller status back. Yay! :)

[CountAllVotes]

8. I listed 14 items; 7 sold

and wow did I ever get screwed on the fees!! :mad:
They charged me over $30.00 in seller fees and I sold about $150.00 worth of stuff. :wtf:

:(

I give up on eBay after my last item goes off on Saturday I think.

This is ridiculous!!

I noted when viewing my listing of fees, I'd been charged a few different times for going back in to edit the description of one of the items that is still up for sale. :wtf: again ... ?

HELP if you can please.

On edit: YES in 1997 and 1998 etc. those WERE the days! :)

[grasswire]

9. what????????

They charge you to edit your listing?????

[CountAllVotes]

11. apparently so!

sh*t!!!!!!!!!!

I'm pissed needless to say!

Do you know of any way I can contest these excessive fees? I haven't even gotten one bid on the item and that is the reason I went in to edit the category it was in. Instead, they put it in two different categories! I went back in again to edit it to remove the 2nd category. Every time I did this, they charged me more! At present it is now in two categories! :argh:

Balance was $21.79 before I listed this last item:

Insertion Fee

Promotional Rate $2.70 $21.79
Gallery Fee $0.35 $22.14
Picture Fee $0.45 $22.59
Picture Show Fee -- $22.59 (wtf?)
Special Duration Fee $0.40 $22.99
Reserve Price Listing Fee $3.00 $25.99
List in 2 categories. Insertion Fee (I DID NOT WANT THIS LISTED IN TWO CATEGORIES - this is what happened when I went in to edit the listing!)
Promotional Rate $2.70 $28.69
List in 2 categories.
Reserve Price Listing Fee $3.00 (did I not already pay this?)
Picture Fee $0.45 $32.14 (did I not already pay this?)
List in 2 categories. Gallery Fee $0.35 $32.49
Picture Show Fee -- $32.49
10 day duration fee List in 2 categories. Special Duration Fee $0.40 $32.89

I now owe eBay $32.89!

As you see I paid almost $11.00 to list this ONE item with a $300.00 reserve on it for 10 days in ONE category was the plan with 4 pictures showing. Period!

I have written to eBay about this!
:argh: again!!

:kick:

[CountAllVotes]

12. you made me angry

I wrote to them and complained. They have agreed to refund the $11.00+ for the listing if I re-list which I just did (for the bargain price of only a bit less than $6.00! ... some deal huh?).

I'm guessing they don't like "reserve auctions" because they sure charge a lot!

Anyway, I think I will be getting about $6.00 back anyway, but still, sold 7 items (have one going off on Sat.) out of 14 it seems. Hopefully the last item going off besides the one I just re-listed will bring in a tidy sum, even after they grab their money from the deal.

Thanks for getting me mad! :D

[grasswire]

13. have you ever flubbed the listing price, big-time?

I have. Hit the wrong buttons and listed something for a thousand bucks instead of ten. Boy-o-boy. I was asking them to drop those charges ASAP. And they did.

[CountAllVotes]

14. yep, that is what happened

however ...

You can VERY easily do this without even knowing it. In fact, that is what I did in a way it seems. :blush:

The listing has started up again and I got 2 people bidding on it already and still I have 9 days to go.

Let's hope the reserve is met and I sell it. I really need the money at the moment - lots of bills if you know what I mean ... :grr: