Well the wife's done it again. She's gotten clearance to allow us to ship all the items we sell on Ebay via the company's shipping department so we now get the use of UPS for no charge to our personal bottom line. That will help our finances while we climb out of the debt blizzard we're in! Of course now it's an ethical dilemma as to whether I should continue to charge s/h for extra money knowing that money is going straight to our pocket. I was thinking of either making the s/h charge the seller fees and then I have those covered OR I could reduce the price of the items I list and then compensate for the difference by putting it into the s/h. I'm really not sure what to do at this point.
Well we sold 3 items yesterday for a total of $290.27 so we can add that to the total (a PDA was the bulk of it!)
$886.50
+$290.27
$1176.77
I still have nine items left for bid and five have bids (two didn't sell and were re-listed for $1.70 each. If they don't sell this time I'll probably just donate them.) I have three items ending today (two have bids) and three items ending tomorrow (all three have bids) so I'm going to wait until they all sell before I withdraw my Paypal balance to my checking account using the free service (takes 3-4 business days but that'll be a nice boost arriving around payday on Weds!)
This is fun...with more items listing this weekend I am really enjoying seeing my stuff take off!
Ebay Update
March 16th, 2007 at 02:48 pm
March 16th, 2007 at 02:59 pm 1174057171
As far as charging shipping--well you could make REDUCED shipping fees an attractive element of your ebay presentation. Just be abosolutely sure your wife's company really meant they would pay the shipping rather than simply serve as the pick up point for her packages for which she would re-imburse the company.
March 16th, 2007 at 04:02 pm 1174060963
March 16th, 2007 at 05:29 pm 1174066162
Good luck with the stuff you have bids on!!
March 16th, 2007 at 06:03 pm 1174068218
Hey Joan I hope I didn't come off too crabby in my reply to you. I apologize if it seemed "short." I wasn't snipping at you...just trying to clarify our situation.
March 17th, 2007 at 02:18 am 1174097880
March 17th, 2007 at 02:46 am 1174099596