The whopping 10 auctions I have listed on eBay have finished
and I have sold a grand total of… wait for it…dun-da-ta-ta…1!
Yeah, that’s right one. I sold Gambit for 3.99 which I listed with a
cost of shipping and handling for $7.00. According to my Paypal account I will
be receiving a total of $10.37. I guess the $0.62 difference is the cut for
eBay, which is not bad.
Now, before the auction of the item actually concluded I
tried to figure out how to best package the item for shipping. The guy at the
post-office told me if I used a one of the Priority Mail envelopes it would
cost around $5. However, I told him I did not want to use an envelope because it
did not seem like it would protect the item well enough. Then he pulled out a Priority
Mail box and told me shipping that way would cost a little over $6. That seemed
to be the better option so I took the box home and waited for the auction to
finish.
Now that the auction had completed, while I was waiting
for a conformation of payment I started to stare back and forth at the box I
got from the post office and the Gambit figure. I got to thinking it is such a
huge box for a small item. If I was
going to ship it in that box I was going to need a lot of packaging material to
keep it from moving around. I looked at the other Priority Mail boxes that had
ordered from the post office earlier and found one that seemed to be a better a
fit. It was still a relatively large box for the Gambit figure but not as large
as the other one. I decided to use it and I got the package ready to ship for
the next day.
This morning I headed over to the post office to send off my
first eBay sell ever. By the way is there never anyone in-line at the
post-office? When I finally got to the register and handed the cashier the
package I was told that shipping the item would cost me a grand total of
$12.10. Now, that price was a bit higher than what I was told earlier. It turns
out that the box that I had packaged it in was not a better fit after all. It
was a flat rate box.
Well, I guess I could have just decided not to go through
with the shipping at that moment. However, there turned out to be bit of a mix
up with the Paypal account that had I linked to my eBay account. While the past
couple of days I was reading on eBay that the payment was still pending my
buyer had already sent his payment through Paypal. It was also already the weekend and I didn’t want
to wait any longer on sending out this item. I decided to go through with it
and take the loss in hopes that I will still get a favorable feedback rating so
that more buyers would be willing to bid on my auctions.
So as for my first eBay sell ever I ended up in the red at
$1.37. I guess I’ll just chalk it up as a learning experience.
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