becoming less enamoured…

I am slowly becoming less and less enamoured with ebay, at least as a means for selling goods. The FIRST time i sold the iPod, it went for $213. Unfortunately the person who won the auction didn’t pay, and wouldn’t even respond to the NUMEROUS emails that I sent her, not even when she was warned by ebay that she had an unpaid item, and would recieve a strike against her account unless she paid.

So I relisted it. It only went for $162 this time, but hey, at least the guy paid. Except for the fact that he paid with a credit card, and I just found out that paypal won’t let me accept credit or debit cards unless I upgrade to a ‘business’ or ‘premier’ account. Its free to upgrade, but if I upgrade, every SINGLE time I recieve money, I’ll get charged between 2-3% of what I’m recieving. Needless to say, I’m pissed the fuck off right now. I mean, as if it’s not bad enough that ebay takes a percentage of what I make there, but now they take it from me through paypal too? Ugh… I guess it makes sense when you think about it, but sometimes my mom uses paypal just to send me money when I need it. Which actually is the only reason I got a paypal account to begin with. If I’d upgrade, I would get charged every time my mom wanted to send me money. *sigh* I wonder if they’d let me open a second account to keep personal (and thus free)…

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Gin Fizz

January 17, 2006

I’ve always wanted to sell on EBAY. Is it hard? I sell my cards, jewelry, soap, etc. on consignment at local stores and they take 30%!!! Also, we have SO much junk here in our basement that it is insane. It would be great to sell it. How do you mail everything out? Is it a pain?

Nunzio

January 18, 2006

To not get charged the credit card fee all you need do is tell the buyer to pay without using one. PP debits his checking account, transfering to you at no cost. You could have refused the transaction, sending a note back saying “pay me regular Paypal way, not with credit card or, YOU pay the credit card charge by increasing the payment to me by 4%.” (You read your “good” notes, my last entry?)