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06-12-2011, 06:55 PM
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Baron Zemo
Join Date: May 2006
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Couple more questions for eBay sellers
So I am selling some stuff on eBay and have a couple question for people who sell a lot.
-Has anyone ever had something up and after the end, someone asked to buy it outside of eBay. Anything bad happen?
-I have put on my auctions that I do not sell internationally yet of course I have people asking. I have told them I do not sell unless I mark the true value of the item when I ship it. Of the few people who have asked, they all ask me to greatly reduce the value to minimize customs duties. I don't feel comfortable with that. Anyone else actually mark the value less when shipping internationally?
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06-12-2011, 07:11 PM
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What's another word for Thesaurus?
Join Date: May 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by joefixit2
So I am selling some stuff on eBay and have a couple question for people who sell a lot.
-Has anyone ever had something up and after the end, someone asked to buy it outside of eBay. Anything bad happen?
-I have put on my auctions that I do not sell internationally yet of course I have people asking. I have told them I do not sell unless I mark the true value of the item when I ship it. Of the few people who have asked, they all ask me to greatly reduce the value to minimize customs duties. I don't feel comfortable with that. Anyone else actually mark the value less when shipping internationally?
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I actually am happy when someone contacts me outside of Ebay to buy an item! It saves me the Ebay fees! I don't bother with international sellers because there's a lot of extra work AND risk! IMO it's not worth the hassle.
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06-12-2011, 07:42 PM
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Borrow money from a pessimist, they don't expect it back.
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 761
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Quote:
Originally Posted by joefixit2
So I am selling some stuff on eBay and have a couple question for people who sell a lot.
-Has anyone ever had something up and after the end, someone asked to buy it outside of eBay. Anything bad happen?
-I have put on my auctions that I do not sell internationally yet of course I have people asking. I have told them I do not sell unless I mark the true value of the item when I ship it. Of the few people who have asked, they all ask me to greatly reduce the value to minimize customs duties. I don't feel comfortable with that. Anyone else actually mark the value less when shipping internationally?
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I've sold a bunch of stuff outside of ebay. No issues.
I ship internationally and depending on the cost of the item i'll always mark it as a gift and sometimes lower the amount to save customs fees. I've never had any problems when i did that.
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06-12-2011, 09:50 PM
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A day without sunshine is like... night.
Join Date: Aug 2004
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I will sell outside of ebay no problem> sold one guy about 20 items in one lot after he bought a couple things off ebay. If they will pay what I ask then I don't care how I sell it. Don't worry that ebay is going to find out and get you.
As to International I say no way. Too expensive, too hard to track and too many fraudulent buyers that say they never get the item and Paypal refunds the money.
Ebay looks after buyers a too much these days.
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06-12-2011, 10:46 PM
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A day without sunshine is like... night.
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Pennsylvania
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I am one of those guys that asks to do it outside of ebay and in the past month I had 3 diffrent sellers sell me something! There really are nice people out there that know some people are not rich and let me even do payments!!
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06-13-2011, 12:15 AM
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Mandarin
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: My House
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Quote:
Originally Posted by joefixit2
So I am selling some stuff on eBay and have a couple question for people who sell a lot.
-Has anyone ever had something up and after the end, someone asked to buy it outside of eBay. Anything bad happen?
-I have put on my auctions that I do not sell internationally yet of course I have people asking. I have told them I do not sell unless I mark the true value of the item when I ship it. Of the few people who have asked, they all ask me to greatly reduce the value to minimize customs duties. I don't feel comfortable with that. Anyone else actually mark the value less when shipping internationally?
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I dealt with people outside of ebay and had no issues at all - you still don't send it out until it's paid for - and then there is no worry that the buyer is going to give you a negative. Just make sure you get Delivery Confirmation.
Don't bother selling International - it's way too much of a hassle...
By the way - WOW on some of those items - and good luck!
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06-13-2011, 07:49 AM
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Baron Zemo
Join Date: May 2006
Location: we know each other, he's a friend from work
Posts: 16,341
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ratchet
I dealt with people outside of ebay and had no issues at all - you still don't send it out until it's paid for - and then there is no worry that the buyer is going to give you a negative. Just make sure you get Delivery Confirmation.
Don't bother selling International - it's way too much of a hassle...
By the way - WOW on some of those items - and good luck!
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thanks for the advice.
I have some more rare items I am putting up later this week. It's a little rough to put all of them up but I am already reaching out to some artists about getting some artwork. That should help ease the pain. After this, I am going to redo my website since toys have been such a big part of it before.
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