The insurance company that Bob, Stu Tinker (Bett's) and I use covers all books that you have bought and sold while still in transit, also when you are transporting your book(s) to a convention, display etc. So, I don't "buy" extra insurance in my transactions.
Dragline : Nothin'. A handful of nothin'. You stupid mullet head. He beat you with nothin'. Just like today when he kept comin' back at me - with nothin'.
Luke : Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
Oh, I understand, no worries.Originally Posted by gguthrie
I just wanted to comment on the insurance topic, not attack your statement. I just think eBay is screwy when it expect the buyer to pay for the insurence.
I agree 1000% on ebay!
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...And The Gunslinger Followed.
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I know what you mean but I've been charging on all Ebay items I sell about $2.00 for insurance and make it mandatory, thus helping the buyer and seller out a bit. Many times it is over $2 but that's ok at least it is insured for the value. I've not had a complaint since I started doing that about 2 years ago. On a nice item, it's pretty inexpensive.
That would obviously annoy me a lot, as I'm sure it did you!
Not that this helps this time, but you should always do the dispute through your credit card company, and you claim the seller sent you an unusable item...you will 100 percent win...anything bought on a credit card can be returned and refunded through the dispute process.
You should mention the seller too...that's a pisspoor business practice and I would not want to buy from them.
What is the best way to know when these cash-back offers occur?
Be careful with this cashback program!!! I purchased a camera lens with a winning bid around $700 earlier this year that qualified for 15% cashback.....or so I thought. After 4 months and 15 emails through the Live.com help desk and a few to ebay, they finally told me, "sorry, your purchase does not qualify".....buncha bullshit if you ask me. I'm sure that it does work for some though.....
Was it a bidding auction or fixed price? You said winning bid, so I'm assuming it wasn't Buy It Now. That's why it didn't qualify.
Cashback only works if you use the Buy It Now option and then pay through Paypal.
Randall, I just do a search on the live site every so often to see if it comes up. Usually if it's running I'll also see it mentioned on some other non-book forums that I frequent.
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I have absolutely no idea what I did right, but this week I received this notice in my PayPal acccount:
Cash Back
Transfer to: PayPal
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Total Amount: $14.40 USD
Fee: $0.00 USD
Total: $14.40 USD
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Date: Jan. 12, 2009
Time: 22:53:47 PST
Status: Completed
You had me thinking there....I went back and checked the auction, it was a buy it now....even more madOh well, I still got a nice camera lens.
I have an eBay Mastercard, and recently got $50 in free eBay stuff. I purchased the entire Lemony Snickets series for $30 after the rebate.
SWEET!
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Nice move Dags!
Dragline : Nothin'. A handful of nothin'. You stupid mullet head. He beat you with nothin'. Just like today when he kept comin' back at me - with nothin'.
Luke : Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
This was a really stupid thing we were all hit by....I'm Canadian but I list on the US site so it hit me even harder cause we dont have any cheap media mail. I box my items and only ship expedited w/ tracking which costs me $14.
I got around this by simply saying in black and white in my listings:
"Shipping is boxed, expedited, with tracking for $12.70 to all of North America despite that Ebay thinks I can ship this item for $4. - IMPOSSIBLE.
Please don't ask for cheap bubble mailer shipping on pristine first editions. If the cost of quality shipping does not suit you, please do not buy our items."
People looking for quality stuff dont seem to mind paying for quality shipping.
These are the customers we want anyway.
Or you could just give a four dollar option NOONE would want:
$4.00 shipping option-We affix the stamps and write the addresses directly onto the dustjacket and then violently throw your book in a post office drop box.
Oh, I've bought from that guy !
The Man In Black Fled Across The Desert...
...And The Gunslinger Followed.
“I’m always on the Batman rule, sir.” - Kate Kane / Detective Comics 857
"It is the story, not he who tells it." Except to us collectors who have to put limits somewhere. - jhanic
I DID buy a book through ebay once that came to my house wrapped in a couple of sheets of notebook paper with the addresses and a stamp on it, so the answer is yeah. Someone has pretty much already done that.
Thankfully, the book was to be read and wasn't a collectible. I blasted his ass on the feedback though.
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I think we should add a tag to eBay...
How's this : eBay... It Bring Out The Best In People!
( that was sarcasm folks )
The Man In Black Fled Across The Desert...
...And The Gunslinger Followed.
“I’m always on the Batman rule, sir.” - Kate Kane / Detective Comics 857
"It is the story, not he who tells it." Except to us collectors who have to put limits somewhere. - jhanic
This is a picture of the wrappings on a book I received. I did not open the wrapping-it looked just like this upon arrival. Needless to say the book was damaged.Yeah, I got one once wrapped in wrapping paper turned inside out.
FYI, the wrapping was a grocery bag.
I hope the book wasn't too valuable.
John
You can just not charge for shipping and save the stress and aggravation...add the cost to your starting bid...I've been doing it for years on any item of serious value. I love it. One price, no questions about how I'll ship or anything.
Yeah...but that is exactly what ebay wants us to do so they can take a bigger slice of the pie.
Ebay makes more money if I sell an item for $100 with free shipping vs. $96 plus $4 shipping.
Sure, it is only pennies...but ebay takes a big enough slice already with listing fees, final value fees, and Paypal fees.
FOR SALE OR TRADE
Dark Tower 7 Artist Edition n/a
The Waste Lands 1st Edition in Shrinkwrap $200
1984 Grant Gift Edition of The Talisman $400
Lisey's Story ARC $50
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WANTED
Signed 1st Edition of Storm of The Century (Paperback)
100 percent true...though I'm not sure ebay looked at it that way...I think they got tired of hearing people's complaints about overpriced shipping.
Still, I am on ebay's side...they make it very easy to have as big or small storefront as you want - without rent, insurance, employees, etc...so you gotta take the good with the bad!
Agreed...but I still like to whine about it.
FOR SALE OR TRADE
Dark Tower 7 Artist Edition n/a
The Waste Lands 1st Edition in Shrinkwrap $200
1984 Grant Gift Edition of The Talisman $400
Lisey's Story ARC $50
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WANTED
Signed 1st Edition of Storm of The Century (Paperback)
Cashback is active again. It's currently at 10%.
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Is someone already using my idea...like for real?
