If you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the listing in the left hand corner you will see a link where it says ask a question. Click that and you can ask the seller if you can pick it up from him if you were to buy his item.

eBayer asked me the help a sniping program gives to buyers:
1) One such sniper program is esnipe
a. You cannot see highest automatic bid with this program
b. This program helps by putting in your bid at the last second so anyone manually bidding will never be able to get in there and rebid after your bid is submitted
2) I’m a little confused about your second question. You can see that you have watchers on your items who have put your item on their watched list with or without an eBay Store. You can see how many watchers you have per item, but you cannot see the buyer eBay UserID of watchers.
a. The purpose of an eBay store is to capitalize on the traffic to each of your items by driving buyers to your other items. Also, you get 12 free pictures per listing when you have a store and your insertion fees on fixed price listings are 20c per 30 days instead of 50c per 30 days.

1. We purchase packing peanuts from a company in Tracy CA (it’s up here) if you want his contact info, let me know. Otherwise, check them out from other sellers on eBay. It’s very competitive and you can get them with free shipping.
2. If you sign up for my listing program you get an electronic copy of my consignment contract that you can use as your own with your logo, etc. If you don’t continue to use my program, you still get to keep the contract. My commissions are on my website. After going to my website www.7daysale4u.com click services to view.
3. Buy it now is the same as fixed price. When you select the duration for fixed price, select GTC instead of 30 days so that eBay will relist every 30 days for you and that keeps you from bottom of the barrel every 30 days. Fixed price listings are 50c every 30 days until you sign up for a Basic Store—then they are .20 every 30 days.
4. I’m not sure about 4 minutes, but the only way to list faster is to use an advanced tool such as my program, Auctiva, Turbolister…. Neither Auctiva nor TurboLister create post sale reports that you can give your consignors.
5. That’s great that someone wants you to sell their car! Congratulations! I do have car selling covered in the contract as well.

Regarding the seller that sent you an invoice to pay other than with Paypal, some sellers who sell thousands of items, have their own merchant account and some of them don’t accept Paypal. How many feedback does the scale seller have? If it’s in the thousands, I think you’re safe, but if they accept Paypal, you can send them a message asking them to resend you an invoice that allows you to pay with Paypal.

I have not heard of the company you mentioned for drop shipping, but they might be just fine. My advice is that you do not sign up for anything that is a lot of money up front or monthly. Start small and test it out. You should be able to research their items, what they are selling for on eBay by searching the completed listings, and figure out what your profit will be. A good site with thousands of manufacturers is Worldwide Brands.

If I were you I would email the lady who made the return in person and let her know that unbeknownst to her, neutral feedback lowers your feedback percentage (most people think only negative feedback does). Then explain that you worked with her to work it all out (with the return) and that you deal in used items but do everything to ensure all goes well…..Then ask her if you send a feedback revision request to her through eBay, would she be willing to revise it (now that she knows it lowers your feedback %). If she says yes, go to Site Map> help topics> A-Z> and type in feedback revision request. You should be able to find the link there. If not, let me know.

Regarding international shipping—Did you ship that item in a Small flat rate box or flat rate envelope? If so, sounds okay, although the second label was your receipt you could’ve kept. Otherwise, if you ship international in any other priority mail box, you want to print that on paper (not sticky label). That will print four copies (two per page). You then cut where it says to cut, sign where it says to sign and you will end up with 4 similar forms. The one with bar code goes on top, the others are custom forms and the last one (the one that says Sender’s copy) you keep. You put the 3 that go with it in a clear USPS international shipping envelope. You stick that env to outside of box and put those three copies in there. You can get those envelopes free from the Post office or order them free at USPS.com

Where do I get the half-page shipping labels that Arley passed out? Are they free, or do I pay for them?
We bought ours on eBay from another seller on eBay. If you are interested do a search on eBay for Paypal shipping labels.

How should I print the shipping labels, PayPal or USPS or some other? I recommend through eBay which will automatically charge Paypal for the postage—it’s very easy and will link shipping info to item and will email buyer
Does USPS discount the postage if you print on their site? Discounted from in person but same price as eBay/Paypal
Do I have to pay the postage online when I print the shipping label, or do I pay at the post office? online

I am getting some things together that should be easy to sell and get experience. I have some questions:
1. I sent for the free USPS/eBay boxes and received six different sizes. Two of them say “Flat Rate Box”, the rest just say “Priority Mail”. Do I have a choice of how to ship with any of the boxes, or are Flat Rate boxes always fixed price Yes, and the other sizes always priced by weight and zip code? Yes Also, can I get free Flat Rate envelopes? Yes
2. I upgraded my PayPal account to Premium. I checked my status (?) on PayPal and it said that I was “Verified” by my credit card address I think. Is this the only verification that I need, or is there something else? I think I saw something on the eBay site that I could get “verified” if I open up an eBay or PayPal credit card. Is this the same “Verified”, or do I need something different? Two different VERIFIED but can use the same credit card with eBay as with Paypal I would rather not open another credit card account right now. But you should also go to Paypal and make sure you do not have a withdrawl limit. Go to Paypal and see right on the front where it says “view limits” or “ lift Limits” follow instructions on how to do that (if you haven’t already)
3. I have been looking at other sellers’ payment, shipping and return policies. I have created some boilerplate in a Word doc that I could just paste into the auction form. Also, I was planning on creating the titles and descriptions offline, so that I could just drop them and the pictures into the form also. Any suggestions? The most effective way to do this is to use a database (like the one I have online). If you are interested, it is $10 per month, but our program hosts your pictures for free. With eBay you will be charged 15c for every picture after your first picture (unless you open an eBay Store in which case you get up to 12 free pictures per listing). With our program you can include as many pictures as you like in each listing for free. Otherwise, yes you can copy and paste from word documents. I have attached a file which shows you some screenshots of my program.
4. I was planning to create the auctions Sunday night, figuring that they would end on Sunday night, when there is the most traffic. I believe that you said Sunday night and Thursday night were heavy nights. Is this a good strategy? Yes it is. If you use my program you can create your listings any time or day and schedule them to upload Sunday evening. You can also schedule your listings with eBay, but eBay charges 10c per item to schedule them.
After I sell some things, I’m sure I’ll have more questions, but this will get me started.

Let me know if you have any questions!

I have a possible buyer in Canada, even though my listing says US only. If I revise the listing to include international shipping for her, when I go to Paypal to print the shipping label, does it take into account that it’s going to Canada? Or do I have to do something different
If you add international shipping to your listing, yes when you go to print your label, Paypal will know it is going to the buyer’s address in Canada; however, Paypal will only print labels for USPS PRIORITy mail for international shipments. If you want to ship it the cheapest way possible to Canada, you would need to go to the post office and wait in line to ship it First Class.

I personally will NOT ship first class when shipping internationally because I do not have time to wait in line at the post office. USPS priority mail international comes with $100 shipping insurance also and First Class does not.

For international shipping I select Calculate for shipping and put the weight and let eBay calculate the shipping, but if the item will fint in a SMALL flat rate box, then that to Canada is approx $11 or $10.50 and to other countries is only $12.95 so if it will fit in a SMALL flat rate box (that’s priority mail) I will ship it that way internationally.

My personal approach is that I use a tool that leaves feedback for the buyer after s/he has left feedback for me. The reason I do this is because I don’t want to leave positive feedback for someone if they turn out to be the 1% of crazy people.

On the other hand, someone who took my class said that he leaves feedback automatically for people as soon as they pay for an item because people don’t get a great impression of a seller when they wait for their feedback.