Saturday, October 24, 2009

Crazy

Our company lists it's inventory on eBay for sale. In the past we have done quite well, recently it is hardly worth the effort. Most of the reasons center around eBays silly policies.

Several months ago we found out that in October our listings would end, unless we update them with a "return policy" and "handling time". Both items are ridiculous. First of all, I am not KMart and you cannot just return sometimes because you have buyers remorse. My items are very sensitive and they cannot be returned.

If you purchase an item from me and install it and then find out that is not your problem, I cannot take it back because it has been used.

Handling time is silly when everything that I sell is physically in my stock and I can touch it within seconds of an order.

So a few days ago things started ending. I was not able to update the items before hand because of a silly add-on that we put on the auctions when we listed them. They no longer offered this add-on so everything had to end.

The stress of my 1200 items ending (fifty to a hundred each day) is better than using
diet pills for weight loss. I am trying to get things fixed and relisted but it seems like no matter how many I do, I cannot keep up with the items ending.

The part that is most upsetting is that we were having a fairly decent month. We were well on our way to doubling our sales of last month. That has come to an end.

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