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

[capnwes]

Indoors at Rodrigo y Gabriella show. Expecting snow, but toasty warm.

 

[capnwes]

Speaking of football, I went to that garbage Gophers/Badgers game. Holy hell am I cold now. I’d never been to an outdoor game in a snowstorm. Pretty brutal to be getting rained/snowed on in 25 degree weather for 4 hours only to watch the team you’re rooting for get destroyed.

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Hard to tell from the fur, but is she rooting for gophers or badgers?

 

[dadjeans]

I watched my beloved Michigan Wolverines get clobbered by Ohio State for the eighth straight year.

Halftime was spent trying to figure out how many yards of fabric I'll need in order to sew some new Christmas stockings for the family.

 

[Tweets]

Showed the lenses didn’t disclose in description tho

I always make some mention of something like "prescription lens are used and scratched but will need to be replaced with your own prescription anyways" There are people out there who want to wear prescription glasses as fashion accessories and don't seem to care if the prescription is wrong.

 

[kbadgley84]

I always make some mention of something like "prescription lens are used and scratched but will need to be replaced with your own prescription anyways" There are people out there who want to wear prescription glasses as fashion accessories and don't seem to care if the prescription is wrong.

Holy crap people wear Rx lenses that aren’t for them?

 

[Tweets]

Holy crap people wear Rx lenses that aren’t for them?

Yep, I've got messages on multiple occassions like "can you tell me if they are very strong prescription or if I could wear them as is?"

 

[kbadgley84]

Yep, I've got messages on multiple occassions like "can you tell me if they are very strong prescription or if I could wear them as is?"

I get That too but thought someone just wanted some cool reading glassws

 

[California Dreamer]

Pfft, football... I was watching the Manchester City versus Chelsea match while working the other day.

Pfft, football. Sitting here watching Australia slaughter Pakistan at Test cricket, the only truly important sport.

 

[drlivingston]

Pfft, football. Sitting here watching Australia slaughter Pakistan at Test cricket, the only truly important sport.

I watched the recap... What an odd game. I had fun listening to the announcers.

 

[California Dreamer]

I watched the recap... What an odd game. I had fun listening to the announcers.

Cricket commentators are renowned for their wit. My favourite example was a comment Richie Benaud made when another commentator noted that West Indian champ Brian Lara called his daughter Sydney because that's where he played his best innings. "Lucky he didn't make it at Lahore".

 

[California Dreamer]

I watched the recap... What an odd game. I had fun listening to the announcers.

BTW you picked a hell of a day to watch a recap. Records falling everywhere, highest ever individual score at Adelaide and the second-highest score of all time by an Australian batsman.

 

[capnwes]

Got Negged for scratches on prescription lenses. Seriously? Aren’t they going to change them out anyway?

As a precaution, I always use "FRAMES ONLY" in the title and "FRAMES ONLY, Script Lenses Need to be Removed/Replaced." in both the condition details and description of eyeglasses. Also, I typically avoid using the words Rx and Prescription in my listings in case the search bots flag my listings for the illegal sale of prescriptions.....which happened a few years back.

 

[eddiegreen]

As a precaution, I always use "FRAMES ONLY" in the title and "FRAMES ONLY, Script Lenses Need to be Removed/Replaced." in both the condition details and description of eyeglasses. Also, I typically avoid using the words Rx and Prescription in my listings in case the search bots flag my listings for the illegal sale of prescriptions.....which happened a few years back.

Same here, most lenses pop out easily so I remove them when possible too

 

[noob in 89]

Random thoughts:

1) What percentage of buyers leave you feedback? It’s got to be under 20% for me. Only thing I can think of is that I usually have to wait a few business days to mail. (Then again, I mailed one item within the hour, gave a discount, sent a nice note — no feedback) :-/

2) People complain about Grailed, but yesterday, I sold something in 30 minutes...and they only took 6% to eBay’s 10. That was nice!

 

[kbadgley84]

Crazy I’ve sold hundreds of pair of prescription glasses and never had a problem until now