I don’t know where everybody finds these people. I just sell stuff, they accept it, then I get positive feedback. I never get any goons like I see on these threads.
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Same I’m new to selling but I say outta these 40 or so transactions I haven’t had a problem so far.
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You both just jinxed yourselves.
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I sell about $1000-$1200 a month. So normal in the $20-25 range. Mostly. New stuff flips. Do enough transactions you are come across so wackos
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Yup, I sold $1500 in the last 2 weeks, over 70 transactions, and have had 1 person with an “issue” (which I actually posted here). In the beginning I got pretty upset and stopped using ebay for awhile because I had a run of bad deals, but it was some bad luck. Start blocking buyers / bidders and you will be on the way to happiness.
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I have a long list of blocked buyers.
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Anybody on CHU?..Is it Poyo?
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I actually didn’t have painters tape handy the other day and used scotch tape. All I could think about is “I hope this person doesn’t damage the book removing this…or get upset If the bag gets stretched or damaged…”
I am one of those who loath having to use x-acto knifes to “free” books from their captivity w/in the mailer…but 99% of seller do it or nothing at all…so I still would not hold, it against someone…I just find it annoying to deal with and wish others were as good as Poyo about it.
(Did you see that? I complimented Poyo on his shipping methods…someone might want to take a screen shot Of this)
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Everyone should fold over the ends of whatever tape they’re using and almost none of my packages come that way.
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Got the remaining two slabs delivered from Hotshot comics today. Packaged well and slabs not damaged.
It’s a Marvel book and you know what that means - lousy paper quality/spines - it’s interesting to get these in hand and see what made the cut for a 9.8. Definitely would not have expected these two books to be 9.8s but whatever - this means I have more raw 9.8 candidates in my possession than I thought I had… or that CGC is extra generous when it comes to authorized dealers, lol.
Books were finally delivered 86 business days after the release date (9/30/2020).
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Same here. I have a 9.6 of an older book that looks as good or better than a couple 9.8s I have that are brand new books. I don’t know if CGC has a serious sliding scale, or are just that inconsistent.
agggggh Wish I would have found this POST before I b*tched on the For Sale thread! lol
Here it is in case anyone wants to read it…
or I’ll save you the effort of clicking…
Who else out there is trying to cut the cord from eBay?
ok so I’m gonna B----h tonight. I’m not dying just tired of getting clipped by ebay. Sold 2 Tukis #4 at $40 each tonight via a Skottie Group Facebook group, glad I didn’t post on ebay…Considering I paid $4 for each from the LCS I figure that’s a win.
I got a grip of Skottie Young books (like 2 long boxes), most which I want to sell via lots because I’m thinning a majority of my books. I need to learn the shipping part of the selling game. I normally go USPS Priority Mail Medium Size Flat Rate (2 day shipping with Tracking + a signature confirmation) so I don’t get headaches later on… Not sure if selling via instagram or Facebook will be much luck but hey, can’t complain when getting rid of stuff right? Need to find how to get those Gemini t-mailers in bulk, need more tape… blah blah. im bitching tonight… never really do…
Thought about having a YArd Sale and letting 5 of my friends each buy a table for $10 and price their own books, or give them sticker dots and just have a massive dollar bin sale… eh… depending on the color of the sticker that’s who gets the profit, unless, we do $2 books in the mix… and yeah… possibilities endless… need to get rid of clutter.
I’m sure some of you have some of the same problems… So let’s help each other out, and give each other some ideas maybe on selling possibilities… who knows where this thread can go
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The managed payments is a failure in my opinion. I am tired of waiting forever to get paid. Love that they take the fees up front— I love that part. But it can take days for the money to show available after they pay, let alone having it actually hit my account. Once they pay, I’m supposed to be ok with shipping, but I don’t until I see it’s in ‘available’ status. One day, I was counting on the payment to be able to ship something and they had an issue with my payment being sent. It was resolved but it made my shipments late and may cost me my ‘Top Rated’ seller status. Nothing processes on weekends either. If someone pays on Thursday, it will not be available til Sunday at earliest. They need to give me an option to take money from my ‘Available’ money and use PayPal to transfer it- just in case I want it immediately. At that point in the transaction, it is costing me money to transfer, it shouldn’t be costing eBay anything.
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Yeah, the slowness of the payouts is super annoying.
A new wrinkle I’ve discovered that is very small in the grand scheme but I can’t help but wonder… why is that for their new trading card mail option, the eBay standard envelope (it’s awesome in the abstract, a PWE with tracking for basically a stamp cost) only bills shipping after delivery (or on some set time from label print, who knows) and so rather than take it out of my PayPal account it takes it from the pending amount they need to transfer. This is all fine except that there’s a huge lag and I haven’t yet discovered what happens if they try and take $0.51 from me and they’ve transferred all the money already. Just let me buy it with PayPal, sheesh.
Tis why I have not bothered and just stopped using eBay after January when they finally did force me to switch, which I didn’t. Even if I stuck around, I’d probably wait months cause eBay is always going to be a headache and them rolling out something entirely new was going to be a disaster in their own making.
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What I find annoying with eBay is that I’ll lower the prices on books, which I did yesterday & now less than 24 hours later ebays recommending I lower the price more. I guess it’s automatic and happens after so many days. Can it not see that I just lowered the goddamn price?!
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I have a book listed at $2 and they recommend I lower the price. I guess they want me to make $0 after all their fees on the book.
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Just to confirm, once funds processed you can pay for shipping with available funds, but you can’t use it to actually buy/pay for something you got…you have to send it to PayPal or some other account first…
Is this right?
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