{"id":595,"date":"2010-03-15T21:42:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T01:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/?p=595"},"modified":"2010-03-15T21:42:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T01:42:30","slug":"first-sale-on-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2010\/first-sale-on-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"First sale on eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It is not uncommon to have purchased something from eBay<\/a>, I’ve had an account for several years and tend to buy something every couple of months. \u00a0Most of the items I buy on eBay are low cost and generally hard to find locally. \u00a0I’d often thought about selling stuff on eBay but just never got started.. until now.<\/p>\n

What started this off was a sweep through some of the gadgets and whatnot that we’ve got cluttering up our home office. \u00a0This stuff has to go, and if it has value let’s sell it – otherwise its time to eCycle<\/a> it. \u00a0I initially thought I’d start by selling some N64<\/a> games, but the game values (<$5) far outweigh the shipping costs. \u00a0So I figured I’d move onto the iPod<\/a> that was no longer being loved ever since the iTouch<\/a> arrived.<\/p>\n

I used eBay to research what the going price was for an iPod in the condition mine was, and priced it on the lower end as a starting point. \u00a0I set a $10 USD flat rate for shipping since if I shipped to California it would be around $8 shipping + $2 for the bubble mailer. \u00a0Had someone in Vancouver bought it, I would have lost money on the flat rate shipping (about $4)! \u00a0Shipping is the first real hurdle you need to get over as a seller, and I think it is worse for Canadians (both as sellers, and buyers).<\/p>\n

Lucky me, as a first time seller my first 5 listings are fee free! \u00a0Cool. \u00a0Of course, it took nearly 24hrs for my item to appear in any search results (trust me I tried). \u00a0No worries, it was a 7 day listing so lots of time for people to find it and bid.<\/p>\n

Days passed. \u00a0I watched several broken iPod’s get more bidding activity and a higher price than my item. \u00a0I could see from the eBay dashboard that after 6 days, only 5 page views of my item had happened (2 which were mine!). \u00a0Then on the 6th day, the watchers arrived – 8 watchers tracking my item – there is hope. \u00a0The number of views rapidly climbed.<\/p>\n

With less than 6 hours to go in the auction the bidding started. \u00a0My $30USD start price, jumped up rapidly. \u00a017 bids later it sold for $76USD + $10USD shipping<\/a>, the winning bid was made in the last minute of the auction from a bidder with no previous bids on my item.<\/p>\n

After that it was smooth sailing. \u00a0Payment was via PayPal<\/a> (who take a small percentage). \u00a0A quick trip to the post office and the iPod is on its way to the winner. \u00a0It has been an interesting experience, one I plan to repeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is not uncommon to have purchased something from eBay, I’ve had an account for several years and tend to buy something every couple of months. \u00a0Most of the items I buy on eBay are low cost and generally hard to find locally. \u00a0I’d often thought about selling stuff on eBay but just never got … Continue reading “First sale on eBay”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}