Learn from My eBay Selling Experience - Common eBay Mistakes to Avoid and What to Do Instead!

Just FYI, you can exclude 🚫 non continental US states & territories from your listings.

Great Video, Thank you. In my ebay account I can not bulk edit, is anybody have an idea how add that. Thanks

Thank you for taking the time to make this video 💪💯🏁

Do you go through your inventory at least once a year to make sure you have all items listed?
I have done this as I have found items that have fallen off my eBay sight but are still in my inventory bin.

Thanks for the pointers!

Help! I am afraid of starting to sell my picking hoard.😢

Very informative video. You are appreciated. Thank you!

For anyone interested in shipping to Puerto Rico, Alaska, and Hawaii I have never paid more in shipping costs than I do for my California shipments. I live in Ohio and all four cost around the same for me to ship. I only sell on eBay and I use either their shipping or Pirate Ship, depending on the item's weight and distance. Pirate Ship is a great place to estimate shipping as well to determine whether or not you want to add those areas to the rest of your US shipments.

In your eBay store, I looked at a dozen or so items & noticed that you rarely include seller description text. Could you address the strategy there? Thank you!

Yes, shipping video please!

Geeeeze girl.....This is better than a quarter of College Business Class!

I wish vendoo would automatically relist ebay listings before they renew. I have another software that would relist the items (kind of like posherva but another one) but then they are not connected to my vendoo anymore. So I just let it automatically renew or it is too confusing

I watch another sellers videos on You Tube. She also uses List Perfectly. She has been talking about a new feature that LP now offers...when your item sells on any of your platforms they will automatically mark "as sold" or remove it from the remaining platforms it is listed for you. (I am not sure of the exact process)

I’d love to see a shipping video! Love your advise and videos. You’re a great teacher!!!!

Hi Becky! Thanks for this helpful video. Do you have an EBay store? If so which monthly fee to you pay for your store? I saw there are several options. Thank you!

Awesome!!! Thank you!!! :)

Hi Becky! Watching the replay...About Ebay shipping - if you want to be "Top Rated" or "Top Rated Plus" You have to ship within 24 hours. I don't have a car, which means walking to the post office in freezing cold or in the rain, or after I've walked 6 miles at work all day. I really, really struggle with this. Those are the only lower scores I have.

This was very very helpful!!!!! This will make a huge difference in my eBay store. Thank you❤

One of goals for 2024 is to put more time into ebay & mayb involve List Perfectly. Hopefully make quicker or at least more $. Appreciate the tips😉🤑 Always helpful to learn from someone who has done longer than me successfully❣

Yes a video about shipping would be great! I am new to eBay selling and I feel like a lot of your tips were helpful, thank you.

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OMG such good info for a newbie reseller!! Thanks.😉🦋

I don't know what she's talking about. You can ship flat rate priority to PR, Hawaii and Alaska for the same price as continental US

Amazing video, super helpful! You earned a new subscriber today lol! Thank you thank you :)

I use to get hurt when something was returned. Now, I just accept it and not deal with negative emotions. However, I still struggle with NWOT sales. When the individual wears it just under 30 days before returning it. I then have to re-list it as pre-owned. Last week I sold a NWOT dress with embroidery flowers on it. It was beautiful. Buyer stated it was damaged with fraying flowers. I accept and paid for the return shipping. They haven't returned yet - just waiting to see if it legimate return or someone wanting to wear something free for 30 days. I did look at her feedback and I see 5 negative feedback. Most times when I feel they are not quality buyers I will automatically put them on the block list after I send the refund.

Love this video. Much appreciated!

you are so right ! didnt accept returns & had people lie like dogs.had a woman make a huge hole in a beautiful blanket and had a girl rip embroidery out right in the middle of a such a nice dress that she most likely wore already and wanted her money back.the more money it costs the more chance of them returning

Seriously if there was a video of the year video this one should DEFINITELY be it!!! Amazing job as usual with all the usual transparency. Great job!! I wish you great sales for 2024 and beyond.

The thing I don’t like about shipping is I wish I didn’t have to put an estimate guess on what shipping might be? I wish eBay would allow the item to sell 1st
Then after it sell at that point I get the item package up and because I have the customer information I can then get the correct shipping price

Vs now I listen to a item and I pre guess how much it will be for the service

This is the only thing I wish they would change big time !!!!

Wow I actually didn’t know that that all my listings that get renewed count towards my free ones Great tip!

And thanks for the tip about flaws i usually list the same thing all the time for years
But this year I’m starting to change up and do clothes books magazine toys furniture dishes basicly everything I can get my hands on I will make sure I look for flaws

The only flaws I had in the past is the customer switch my brand new item for their used item and say that I sold them a used item and not a brand new one

Hi
I understand perfectly on the area about stock
Because I have a actual store front and move TCG and games
Well the same items be on my eBay as well
Boy this was hard I eventually change the way from store and eBay to just eBay only and store only

So before that change I would have both of the same item at both in store and eBay so once it sold on eBay sometimes I could not find the item at all and find out that it was sold at the store but the employee didn’t remove it from the eBay site end listing

Or I would sell at the store and to find out it was sold online
lol this was a big mess

So after that went on for a yr I changed the business into two businesses eBay items went into its own storage area and
Store items stay in store and never put online

Good point I been selling on eBay since 2009 I have a perfect 100% top rated seller status but the top rated is hard to hold it jumps off then jumps on lol but no matter what I never got a negative . But I had to do lots of crazy deals and lost money just to hold my 100%
Because what most people don’t know ea negative mark u get the fees goes up and that’s the killer their.

The only thing I don’t like is over sea shipping I lost over $4,000 in items because I can never win a case so I refuse to sell overseas.

My biggest mistake on eBay and this happened all the time because I have over 100k inventory and I can only list up to 200 items per week. The biggest mistake is listing the same item more then once because I lost track of what I listed from day to day

One time I almost got my 1st negative because I sold an item for $150.00 then I sold 3 more of the same item for $150
I was super excited about the sale but when got home from work I went to my office and storage to look for the items and realized that I only had 1 items and not 4 items boy what a upset on the money part and a bigger headache of getting on customer support to help me refund all the customers and prevent myself from getting a negative.

I have had this happen a few times

Now I have everything organized a little better but not prefect yet lol

So I watch eBay videos to get ideas and motivation to push myself for sales over 300k per year.

I don't accept returns unless I made a mistake. I'm not in the clothes rental business. Period. With returns and everything else, it's important that you do things right away, don't procrastinate.

Yes do a video on shipping and how to use the flat rate shipping as well. If its beneficial to use flat rate?
I sold on ebay years ago and didnt have any problems with it but leary to do it now. Im also a part-timer dont want it to eat up all my time. Thanks your information is always very informative!!

Just one little correction. If an item is marked as delivered by the delivery service, the buyer cannot make a claim with eBay that the item was not received. This isn’t a risk to sellers as USPS, UPS and FedEx all have GPS delivery information. The responsibility to get the package is on the buyer once it’s marked delivered.
It is correct that buyers can and have destroyed merch to claim an INAD and force a return, so always best to accept returns.

OMG, I have the same problem with selling things that are already sold! Sometimes it's Ebay who relists the item I have ended, but sometimes, it's just me...🙂 My solution when something is damaged, is to message the buyer, explain the damage, SEND it anyway, and refund their purchase price.

Excellent video, thank you!

This was an excellent video👌Top notch👍

Hi Becky, this is the greatest video I've watched about poshmark in a while. I would love to watch 1 video just about Shipping, Shipping settings in the account, supplies, shipping rates, global shipping. Thanks for this video.

I'm a 3 month noob and am soaking up as much of this content as possible. I've made two mistakes that cost me and they were both things that I don't know how i could have seen coming. Sometimes the only way to learn is by failure, not that you want to fail, but when it happens you just have to embrace the lesson. I made it almost three months and then had a couple returns in one day, which freaked me out, but got them handled. There is a lot more to doing this than most people imagine. Good info. Thanks!

How do you handle fake purchases by scammers who try to get you to contact them off the platform?

Great tips, and an ebay shipping video would be awesome!

Yes more details on skipping. Great video thanks

Wait, are you telling me that buyers can see your listing date? I had no idea that was the case. Thanks

This video confirms that I am not ready for cross listing on ebay 🤪 Thank you!

I am going to date myself, but I was a ebay auction junkie when I collected vintage purses decades ago. I haven’t done that in forever and kinda forgot about ebay. After recently seeing a 60 Minutes episode on the stalking lawsuit, I was reminded that they do still thrive and was then horrified at their practices! Just wondering if you’ve seen it. Definitely recommend!

eBay vs Poshmark pricing: I assume buyers check other platforms for things they're interested in (I do!). Because of that, I price the same on eBay and Poshmark, because it can a) look sus b) cause someone to send an offer when they might buy outright and c) the ease of consistancy. BUT!! I have a 20% off everything in my store promotion running on eBay alllll the time. This effectively means the item costs 20% less for my eBay buyers without my having to look to buyers like I price differently for different platforms. Just an idea to consider!!

Great video!! I didn’t know that about the returns : I also have a PO Box and don’t visit it often. So far, I haven’t had any issues not refunding very fast. I’ve done it a week or two after it’s been delivered and haven’t had it ding me yet 🤷🏻‍♀️

What is your process of removing items from all platforms when they sell when thr LP link is broken because you have ended ebay listings/sell similar? Do you go in manually to delete items when they sell then?