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post #1231 of 3340
11/15/12 at 8:01am
He's probably trying to scam you. Mark payment sent manually and then inattentive buyers will see the item as paid and just ship the item. Then you're out your item and there's nothing you can do to recover it. Best to open a case and contact ebay.
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post #1232 of 3340
11/15/12 at 8:29am

Just be sure he didn't send an e-check via paypal and it is just pending approval. They can take 5 or 6 days to clear your account.

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post #1233 of 3340
11/15/12 at 8:31am
That will still generate a transaction in your paypal account immediately, so he should be able to tell if that's the case.
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post #1234 of 3340
11/15/12 at 8:36am
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That will still generate a transaction in your paypal account immediately, so he should be able to tell if that's the case.

Correctomundo... but it will look like payment sent in the items awaiting payment list, and won't move to the items awaiting shipment list until it clears. 

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post #1235 of 3340
11/15/12 at 8:52am
Thanks for the info guys. In my PayPal account there isn't anything listed from him, e-check or otherwise, in my account history. I can open the unpaid case today, so at least I won't have to wait much longer.
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post #1236 of 3340
11/15/12 at 8:53am

Woaaaahh that was close. I just cost myself like $45 for a stupid mistake, but caught it before it got any worse. I had my listings scheduled to start tonight around 11PM. I went in earlier and did a bulk edit, and somehow switched the listing time to AM instead of PM.  They all went live costing me listing fees, I had to end each one individually and reschedule. baldy[1].gif

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post #1237 of 3340
11/15/12 at 8:54am
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Correctomundo... but it will look like payment sent in the items awaiting payment list, and won't move to the items awaiting shipment list until it clears. 

But when you go to print a label through ebay, it will give you a warning at the top that payment hasn't cleared yet.

Not sure why I'm replying to you, I'm sure you know all of this smile.gif But for his benefit and whoever else reads this thread.
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post #1238 of 3340
11/15/12 at 8:57am
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But when you go to print a label through ebay, it will give you a warning at the top that payment hasn't cleared yet.
Not sure why I'm replying to you, I'm sure you know all of this smile.gif But for his benefit and whoever else reads this thread.

lol...I was thinking the same thing when I was replying to you....it was just for the teacha.gif of the OP

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post #1239 of 3340
11/15/12 at 10:03am
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It was balls to the wall for me all last Christmas season....I found it to be a prime time to sell. Was still selling stuff on Christmas Eve and Christmas Night. If anything, you could maybe do 30 day BINOBO listings and just let them ride.
Thanks for your suggestion. I will give the 30 day bonobo option a try.
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post #1240 of 3340
11/15/12 at 4:23pm
What do you guys do when you attach the wrong label to a purchase? I sent a pair of boots to one buyer and a pair of pants to another buyer, and one of them contacted me to let me know they got the wrong shipment. I contacted each of them last week to send them a new label so they could ship the item to the right buyer, and I haven't heard anything from either of them since then.
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post #1241 of 3340
11/15/12 at 8:42pm
You probably should explained the mistake and paid them both to ship the items back to you. Then asked if they still wanted, and shipped as originally intended. Having them ship to each other sounds like a recipe for disaster and you really shouldn't be sharing their personal information with other people anyways. As a matter of practice though, I'm not sure how you accidentally confuse pants and boots?
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post #1242 of 3340
11/15/12 at 11:15pm
Yeah, having them ship to each other way probably the wrong move.

I messed doing that with two shirts once, I think I offered both buyers full refunds and offered to pay for the return shipping back to me as well.



So I gave a question about Garagesale (the mac ebay app):

I'm a small-time seller, I mostly do it just to feed my own clothing/thrifitng/discount store hobby.
I have no interest in templates, or operating an ebay store. I generally just try and take good, well-composed, well-lit pictures on a table.

I know that I'm leaving money on the table by doing this, that a mannequin and lights and templates would make me more money but it's easier for me and I like that once everything is shipped out, the only remnant of anything left in my apartment is a roll of packing tape.

The thing is I loath the actual listing process, it's time consuming, tedious and dull.
I was hoping for a program or app that would speed it up, make listing a little less clumsy (fewer "regular or big and tall" dropdowns and waiting for photos to load), ad ideally somthing that would allow me to prepare listings earlier in the week, istead of rushing to type them out thursday night.

I can;t quite tell if garage sale would be any better for me in these regards, it seems like a great tool for big time seller, but I'm concerned it's more of an "ebay store maintenance app" than a tool for making listing easier.
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post #1243 of 3340
11/16/12 at 4:42am
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Yeah, having them ship to each other way probably the wrong move.
I messed doing that with two shirts once, I think I offered both buyers full refunds and offered to pay for the return shipping back to me as well.
So I gave a question about Garagesale (the mac ebay app):
I'm a small-time seller, I mostly do it just to feed my own clothing/thrifitng/discount store hobby.
I have no interest in templates, or operating an ebay store. I generally just try and take good, well-composed, well-lit pictures on a table.
I know that I'm leaving money on the table by doing this, that a mannequin and lights and templates would make me more money but it's easier for me and I like that once everything is shipped out, the only remnant of anything left in my apartment is a roll of packing tape.
The thing is I loath the actual listing process, it's time consuming, tedious and dull.
I was hoping for a program or app that would speed it up, make listing a little less clumsy (fewer "regular or big and tall" dropdowns and waiting for photos to load), ad ideally somthing that would allow me to prepare listings earlier in the week, istead of rushing to type them out thursday night.
I can;t quite tell if garage sale would be any better for me in these regards, it seems like a great tool for big time seller, but I'm concerned it's more of an "ebay store maintenance app" than a tool for making listing easier.

I would love to hear more about it as well as it sounds like I'm about in the same boat as Ruben. Anybody out there use it for hobby selling?

Also, I'm not sure when it happened as I just saw it, but why did eBay.com make using the completed searches more complicated? It used to be a small box on the left and now it's a bit buried in a pop-up menu. It's not on eBay.de yet and I hope they don't make it that way as it's a pain to get to it.
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post #1244 of 3340
11/16/12 at 5:09am
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I would love to hear more about it as well as it sounds like I'm about in the same boat as Ruben. Anybody out there use it for hobby selling?
Also, I'm not sure when it happened as I just saw it, but why did eBay.com make using the completed searches more complicated? It used to be a small box on the left and now it's a bit buried in a pop-up menu. It's not on eBay.de yet and I hope they don't make it that way as it's a pain to get to it.

It seems to go to that default old format every time they are working on updates. This time it happened 2 or 3 days ago. Now when I go to ebay (as of this morning) it is in the new format with the completed listings and sold listings options right at the top of the results list....far more convenient than ever. What is strange, is that it has been in the new format at my home computer for a few weeks, but this is the first day my work computer has seen the improvements. 

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post #1245 of 3340
11/16/12 at 7:32am
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It seems to go to that default old format every time they are working on updates. This time it happened 2 or 3 days ago. Now when I go to ebay (as of this morning) it is in the new format with the completed listings and sold listings options right at the top of the results list....far more convenient than ever. What is strange, is that it has been in the new format at my home computer for a few weeks, but this is the first day my work computer has seen the improvements. 

That explains it! I was afraid that they intended to bury the option to make it harder for sellers or potential sellers, but that made absolutely no sense as they attempt to make it easier valuing whatever it is that you're trying to sell. Things are much slower to happen to eBay.de, so a change that's made on eBay.com is a prediction of what I'll see later.
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