Thread Number: 37508
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Tips and advice for selling vacuums on ebay |
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Post# 400135 , Reply# 1   10/28/2018 at 22:16 (1,978 days old) by weltron (Michigan)   |   | |
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My advice is this: Take lots of pictures and describe the machine to the best of your ability. Package the vacuum with bubble wrap, and also I would use packing peanuts. |
Post# 400713 , Reply# 3   11/12/2018 at 13:57 (1,963 days old) by Rowdy141 (United Kingdom)   |   | |
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Not ALL buyers are equal.
Be prepared for them to either; Swap-out your nice parts for crud and return them... Claim they never arrived... Claim they arrived damaged... PayPal will refund them instantaneously. You'll be lucky to get SOME parts back. Their "Proof of posting" may be for a used brick! Ebay will hide the Buyer's details for as long as possible. You'll be held to ransom with the threat of poor Feedback. AND you'll lose two-way Postage. Argue with eBay and they'll shut you out. Remember; PayPal and eBay are in it together. |
Post# 402644 , Reply# 5   12/15/2018 at 15:56 (1,930 days old) by alexb1186 (Ferguson/St. Louis, MO)   |   | |
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1. Get a box first and measure it. In the shipping calculator add 2 inches to the actual measurement and use a weight of 75 lbs if you do FedEx. I was using the actual weight and my FedEx costs were coming out sometimes $10-$15 more than the calculator eating up my margins, and it turns out they charge by dimensional weight depending on box size. Even if your Convertible weighs 20 lbs, they will charge you based on if it weighs 40 or 50.
2. Be a bubble wrap whore and cover every inch, buy the big rolls from ULine and you can get a lot covered and costs less overall than Home Depot. Also newspaper is a better packing material than peanuts depending on the weight so raid your stores for copies of the free community newspapers. 3. Be sure to put in your ad "Being sold as-is," photos of a glam shot (the machine turned on) and any and all flaws. 4. If you are selling multiple machines, be sure to label each box what machine it is!!!! 5. UHaul Sport Utility Boxes are your best friend for machines that don't disassemble easily (Concepts, Innovation, Dial A Matic, self propelled Eurekas for example) 6. I always have my listings start and end on Sunday nights. My thinking is that everyone is at home settled in and not going out for the evening, therefore they can bid! |
Post# 402661 , Reply# 6   12/15/2018 at 22:17 (1,930 days old) by vacuumdevil (Vacuum Hell )   |   | |
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