Did You Ever Screw Yourself on Ebay? (1 Viewer)

[gk5717]

I plead guilty! I put some old Marx Ft. Apache stockade fences & blockhouses, quite a few. $9.99 for shipping and when they didn't sell for $4.99, reduced to $1.99. Unfortunetly they sold for that price. Took them to ship today, postage $14.00, that along with ebay fees I lost $4.00. I should have just thrown them away.
Unfortunetly I have a few more old plastic soldiers for .99 cents, I,m afraid the same thing is going to happen. Lesson learned from this mistake.
Gary

 

[jazzeum]

Yes, unfortunately it happens. I sold an item on a Buy it Now that I had intended to sell at auction. Probably lost $20 or $30 or more. Not the end of the world. Just annoying.

Brad

 

[mikemiller1955]

I plead guilty! I put some old Marx Ft. Apache stockade fences & blockhouses, quite a few. $9.99 for shipping and when they didn't sell for $4.99, reduced to $1.99. Unfortunetly they sold for that price. Took them to ship today, postage $14.00, that along with ebay fees I lost $4.00. I should have just thrown them away.
Unfortunetly I have a few more old plastic soldiers for .99 cents, I,m afraid the same thing is going to happen. Lesson learned from this mistake.
Gary

if you put ads on Ebay long enough...
it eventually happens to everybody Gary...
whether it's a bad miscalculation in the shipping cost...
underpricing an item...
or a combination of other factors...
it happens to everybody...

 

[gk5717]

There are still good people out there.
I started this thread because I underestimated the postage. Well tonight the buyer sent me the difference, the money I lost on postage. All on his own.
Finally a REAL positive taken from ebay. Now off to OTSN.
Gary

 

[The Military Workshop]

Biggest Ebay disaster for me was sale of a 1/6 German motorcycle with sidecar. Only 100 made.

Should have listed it for sale in Australia only but left it open for overseas buyers. Was bought by a guy in Spain and he paid by PayPal straight away. When I posted it I was $70 more than what he paid. That was bad enough but when he received it he sent me the picture of how many pieces it arrived in. Total loss.

However good to hear Gary's buyer came good.

 

[Rob]

Forgetting the thread content for a second, I reckon Gary deserves the award for oddest and most unusual thread title!:salute::^&grin

Rob

 

[hotel3alpha]

Gary,

Got cocky one time and bid on a concrete sink mold that I thought would be super cool to have at my store. It was the shape of a sea shell and a hell of a deal. As soon as I hit the button I felt good about it...then horror struck as this big *** box would be coming to my shop and my wife asking "whats that"!!! Then me having to explain why I spent a couple of bills on a concrete sink mold that would never rent out, that is ugly, that sucks and all of the above. I was NOT about to go through that!

I emailed the seller and begged, pleaded to release me from the bid and you know what? He did. Some dude in Detroit.

Later out of the blue, I showed the sink mold to my wife and said "yeah was thinking about buying this once"...her reply.


Wow...I like it. I can never win.

John from Texas

 

[Rob]

Biggest Ebay disaster for me was sale of a 1/6 German motorcycle with sidecar. Only 100 made.

Should have listed it for sale in Australia only but left it open for overseas buyers. Was bought by a guy in Spain and he paid by PayPal straight away. When I posted it I was $70 more than what he paid. That was bad enough but when he received it he sent me the picture of how many pieces it arrived in. Total loss.

However good to hear Gary's buyer came good.

Hey Brett,

If it's any consolation mate EXACTLY the same thing happened when I posted the 1/6 German Kubelwagon to someone, it arrived looking like it had been shot up by a Typhoon!{eek3}
Rob