Buying and Selling on eBay: Tips, Tricks, Problems & Questions - Page 129

damn. so i ended up winning the auction, but now i'm conflicted :T

If you're certain he was shill bidding, I wouldn't pay in your position. You can drag it out for about 2 weeks if you want and ebay doesn't really penalize you.

i looked at the transaction history of the shill account, and he only bids on the seller's items and has a history of retracting his bid if it goes above any legitimate bids. i think i can say with 99.9% certainty that it's a shill. not sure why all that information is visible (not really much of an ebayer), but when it's that obvious...

ugh, if it wasn't such a rare piece, i wouldn't even be debating this, but i really really want those boots SO DIVIDED BETWEEN MY MORALITY AND MY DESIRE TO KOP

10 day Thursday to Sunday is definitely the way to go. Use your time throughout the week to create your new listings and schedule them to start Thursday night (10 days)

what was the item?

carpe diem reverse horse backzips. pics are up on sw&d recent purchases. i doubt they'd get any love over on this side of sf

Here's the link. I think I posted it here a few days ago... or maybe it was on the thrifting forum.

http://pages.ebay.ca/sellerinformation/shipping/trackedpacket.html

Seems a bit like a flat rate service - which I'd welcome - as long as you stay within certain size and weight parameters.

You can't really put insurance on 1st class mail. I think you are limited to $45 max or something very cheap like that. That being said, I have shipped maybe 20-30 items, never had a single issue. Registered mail from what I am told is by far the safest way to ship an item. You can ship US Goverment Classified Documents via Registered Mail. It is logged and kept is a seperate area and signed off for each step of the way to the recipient. I have not shipped express mail so do not know how secure or not secure or what problems you might have with it, but I personally would registered mail vs express mail for something of high value that did not need to go fast.

 

Spoo... lol

It said he was located in Austria. Why do you ask?

I'm quite happy tonight because I dodged an ebay fee bullet today. A guy did a BIN on a blazer I had up. He lives in Asia but is in the US for a few more days. He wanted the item overnighted to him at his hotel. I told him I'd get a quote and the invoice I'd issue would be for the item + total shipping. But then he paid before I could issue the invoice. So only the listing's $15 shipping price was covered. It seemed impossible to reissue the invoice without a whole lot of trouble so I just sent him a paypal request for funds for the balance owing. He paid up and the item is on its way.

The BIN was only $69.99 but the shipping was going to be almost double that. So aside from the original $15 I don't have to pay an ebay fee on the ba;ance of the shipping - which would have been a fair chunk of change.

As far as I know (unless they changed it), you only pay the FVF fee on the least expensive shipping option, no matter what option the buyer selects.

Thanks for that. It makes sense: the seller shouldn't be penalized if the buyer wants to upgrade service.

Just make the changes and issue the second invoice. It is no more trouble than issuing the first one.

The problem was that he settled (paid) the listed amount without waiting for the invoice. At that point I couldn't see any option to (re)issue an invoice in the item pull down menu. There was a Unmark as Paid option. When I did that, no further invoicing option re/appeared.

All's well that ends well.