If you are a responsible individual, you have a bank account. If you are a thrifty individual, you sell on eBay. If you are both, you are awesome and probably have an eBay account just for your store. Or at least you should. But what if aren’t quite there yet? What if you’ve been limping …
In the golden days of eBay, fees were a flat 10% of the sale price per item (they didn’t take fees from the shipping cost). Then they started taking fees out of the shipping as well. Then they moved to managed payments where they also charged a transaction fee and (even more sneakily) did away …
When you first start selling on eBay (or Poshmark, Mercari, etc.) you’re going to mess up some things. If you’re anything like me, you’re probably going to mess up a lot of things. It probably won’t be anything too egregious but you’ll definitely lose some money, waste some time, and delay growing your business as …
Fees are one of the biggest expenses in our eBay reselling business. Who would have thought that one of the main problems of earning money would be moving that money around? Many people use questionable methods to avoid paying fees such as selling off-platform, mismarking payments, paying cash under the table, etc. However, not all …
When I was in 5th grade a kid came to school and told me about something called “eBay” where he had just won a Playstation 1 for $.01 Naturally, I found the site as soon as I got home and tried to find a similar deal. I bid on dozens of penny auctions and didn’t …
My wife and I are terrible at keeping track of gift cards. For some reason, we always tick them “somewhere safe” and then forget about them. This is especially true for prepaid Visa cards. If I have an IHOP gift card I think of it when I see IHOP. Nothing jogs my memory about Visa. …
When we first started selling on eBay we were listing a couple of items per week. Even though I knew that people made big money doing it, it was just a way for us to get rid of things around the house. It wasn’t until two of the best items in our eBay store sold …
As someone who sends thousands of packages per year, I have more than my fair share of frustrating experiences with USPS tracking numbers. There’s not much more frustrating than checking your tracking and seeing that your package isn’t moving. Add in the fact that my wife and I order at least one thing online every …
Shipping on eBay is hardly a mystery. For most items, it is a matter of about 3 clicks and you can print out the label. eBay handles the transaction with the carrier, puts in your return address, and even sends the tracking to the buyer automatically. All in all, it works great…until it doesn’t. This …
When I first started selling on eBay I wanted to make sure that I filled in every Specific that I could. I figured that, if I left any blank, I was missing out on potentially showing up in search results and making a sale. One of the Item Specifics that plagued me the most was …