Ebay - why do I bother?
Arrgghh, just needing to vent!!
Sold a few clothes on Ebay which ended today and I'm getting grief from someone in Belgium who is claiming my shipping prices are too high. Fine if she'd talked to me about combining postage BEFORE winning two items, but the cost of sending stuff abroad is expensive (around £6.50) and then I'm also trying to factor in costs of proper polythene envelopes (about £1.25 each) and my time and petrol to get to the post office and to go a tiny way towards recouping Ebay's fees.
What with Ebay's fees as well, and it's all just a complete ball ache as it takes ages to list stuff and then people who have paid £2.99 for a top want it to be like it's brand new when it's been listed as used. I'm not sure I can be bothered to go through this again. But I just don't want to see good clothes go to waste when there is still plenty of life left in them....
I really miss the old Ebay which was friendlier and had less high expectations and also fewer "business" sellers and more people who just want to make sure their old clothes and stuff go to good homes. I've bought some really excellent clothes on there in the past, the majority of my skirts are of Ebay origin, but selling is just so stressful.
Sold a few clothes on Ebay which ended today and I'm getting grief from someone in Belgium who is claiming my shipping prices are too high. Fine if she'd talked to me about combining postage BEFORE winning two items, but the cost of sending stuff abroad is expensive (around £6.50) and then I'm also trying to factor in costs of proper polythene envelopes (about £1.25 each) and my time and petrol to get to the post office and to go a tiny way towards recouping Ebay's fees.
What with Ebay's fees as well, and it's all just a complete ball ache as it takes ages to list stuff and then people who have paid £2.99 for a top want it to be like it's brand new when it's been listed as used. I'm not sure I can be bothered to go through this again. But I just don't want to see good clothes go to waste when there is still plenty of life left in them....
I really miss the old Ebay which was friendlier and had less high expectations and also fewer "business" sellers and more people who just want to make sure their old clothes and stuff go to good homes. I've bought some really excellent clothes on there in the past, the majority of my skirts are of Ebay origin, but selling is just so stressful.