Is it safe to list on Ebay now?

hammer1

Are summer vacations over? Or do you wait longer? This has been a slow summer for my sales.

Jinx86

I would say sales for me picked up about 4 weeks ago. However now with school starting back up it has been slow this last week and I expect the same for next week.

winky

It's never safe for me.

ebaybuyer

with the lopsided playing field, it may never again be safe to sell on ebay

LindeDad

Only cross at the marked cross walks, even better use the crossing guards in the school zones. Then maybe it will be safer.
Also stay away from ladders and high ledges.
BTW if listing is free what's the danger except the lost time.

LanceNewmanOCC

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listed straight through the summer. lots of under $100 items. 5k for the past 90 days. maybe not a lot to some but i am pleased.

despite making some listing/duplicate listing errors, ebay sent this to me while i was at dublin, oh show this past week.
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Congratulations! You've been doing a great job selling on eBay, and we've noticed. How would you like to list even more? Now you can.

Here's how much you can now list every month:

Items: 870 eBay Right Arrow 2610

Amount: $52,500.00 eBay Right Arrow $157,500.00

a nice increase and is more than i need. nice to have a high ceiling.

sales pretty much are always in waves. love to understand more about these trends, world events, moon phases or whatever is behind them. it is a little unsettling.

is it safe? ive never thought otherwise, even going back a decade. it is like life, only so much you can control and the majority of bashers that dont/wont use it, id say it says more about them than visa-versa. a few exceptions aside.

go at life as it wont be perfect, stay positive, dont be fragile and the rest should follow suit, for the most part. dont get stuck on the small things and do your best to work through the big ones and remain faithfull.
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CoinZip

Store items = always safe

Auction items = never safe, always a gamble.

ebaytrader

<< <i>Is it safe to list on Ebay now? >>




The scams seem to be proliferating according to the feepay forums. Most of the targets seem to be lower feedback sellers.
One story was that a scammer returned to the seller a pamphlet about avoiding scams on feepay rather than the item sent.

There's a saying on the feepay forums that you shouldn't list anything that you can't afford to have stolen because it will happen to you.

georgiacop50

Shiyts flying off the shelves in my neck... sales took a jump about 2 weeks ago....

TigersFan2

One story was that a scammer returned to the seller a pamphlet about avoiding scams on feepay rather than the item sent.

That's a common occurrence discussed in the Ebay forums. Buyer says item not as described, so Ebay generated a mailing label with tracking (charged to the seller) for the buyer to return the item. Buyer returns newspaper in the envelope. As far as Ebay is concerned according to the tracking, the item has been returned so the refund is given. Dishonest buyer has item and full refund. Seller complains to Ebay and is told to go file a complaint with the USPS for fraud.

TopographicOceans

You an list a $1000 coin with a BIN of $400 and it wont sell, but if you list it for 99c you can get $38

mbogoman

I'm in the middle of what will likely turn out to be my second case of fraud in about a decade. I sold 2 C&C sets, fresh out of the mint sealed box. Buyer is claiming that the coins are sub-par and that the capsules have evidence of being pried open by a screwdriver. He has filed an SNAD claim. I'm fighting it, but I know I'll lose. We're at the stage where we are quarreling over who pays shipping. I offer "no questions asked" returns, but the buyer must pay return shipping. Of course, it is patently obvious that the buyer went the SNAD route to avoid paying return shipping. In another day or so I expect Ebay to issue a return label and charge me for it. I expect when I get the coins back they won't be the ones I sent, but some problem coins with damaged capsules. I will then file a case against the buyer. A waste of time? Yeah, probably. But it really pisses me off and I can't just do nothing. I will out the buyer when the episode is finished so none of you have to deal with the jerk.

ambro51

I'm waiting on the return of a perfectly good item I make. The buyer made up all kinds of lies. The buyer I find out is well known as a total A******. When that package arrives at my post office box I'm walking across the street and bringing my Attorney over to the post office when I open this box on front of the Postmaster. If that clown has destroyed the item...I'm pressing charges BIG TIME.

Cougar1978

<< <i>Store items = always safe

Auction items = never safe, always a gamble. >>



Absolutely Agree. List Auction style starting say at 99c your risking giving it away. I have had very slow retail sales during the summer doldrums. This is the worst year retail sales wise I have had on ebay. I have been blowing out some duplicate material via auction and results have not been good. Due to current market conditions, this is really a bad time to sell. I think a lot of them simply do not have any money left over from vacation.

Best way to sell on the bay - have a base inventory for store fixed price and list some stuff auction style now and then and get a feel for it. Based on my spread sheet (and this is a lot of stuff I track like nice cert coins, etc) items since July have realized 69% of market value (as defined by TPG or CW) on average in a range from a low of 46% to a high of 93%.

hiijacker

What you can do is share the names of these eBay Buyers so we can block them.

LanceNewmanOCC

Originally posted by: LanceNewmanOCC

.How would you like to list even more? Now you can.

Here's how much you can now list every month:



Items: 870 eBay Right Arrow 2610

Amount: $52,500.00 eBay Right Arrow $157,500.00



a nice increase and is more than i need. nice to have a high ceiling.

sheesh. another unsolicited increase. they obviously have more faith in me than me! 3 months between increases.



Items: 2,610 eBay Right Arrow 5,220



Amount: $157,500.00 eBay Right Arrow $315,000.00



i may need to seek an angel investor to live up to these expectations.



how much time effort to monitor 5k listings? yikes!

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cheezhed

Originally posted by: TopographicOceans

You an list a $1000 coin with a BIN of $400 and it wont sell, but if you list it for 99c you can get $38

^this

coindeuce

Our shop has had 2 different a$$clowns return several hundred dollar coins in the past month. Reason given: "Didn't like it." It doesn't matter that we provide HUGE SCALE images in each listing. The latest return (Didn't like it) was more likely a case of " oh, shoot, I can't break this out of the holder and sell it raw for triple what I paid for it."



The latest escapade was a chiseler who kept badgering us for a deal on a listing with BIN / Make an Offer. When we acceded to his final offer and sent the invoice which included state sales tax (same state resident) he asked to cancel the transaction because he wouldn't pay the sales tax.



No exaggeration. If you try to fight a return request for a reason that isn't even legitimate (buyer's remorse), you can expect an uphill battle. It is easier to nod and smile, then block the nitwit after the returned item is in hand. eBay is the new Amazon. Everything is sold on approval, whether you like it or not.

Cougar1978

I believe that current maret conditions have not been very favorable to coins regardless of venue. I have found some good buys on slabbed 69 mod commem dollars for just a few dollars over melt. A beautiful NGC Star 40% silverr KH in MS67 I recently bought at 58% of market value, feel sorry for the seller - what a giveaway.

On ebay I do auctions, BIN, and BIN (make offer). When they are not even making offers its obvious they do not have any money.