Today has been a bad day for eBay. Last week I listed loads of clothes on the auction site hoping to earn some extra pennies towards my deposit. But then this happened….
I’m devastated. I was hoping to get at least a fiver for each item. With many items having up to 12 ‘watchers’ in the last few days of the listing, I thought that some items might even fetch a tenner. How wrong I was!
I’m feeling a bit down about all this and I’m starting to wonder whether eBay is worth the hassle. Sure, when you add all the items together that I’ve sold, I’ve not done too badly, but once I take Paypal and eBay fees into account my profits do drop. Also, when I think about the hours I’ve put into listing everything I feel like it’s been a massive waste of time.
Also, who are these people who will consider bidding on this top when it’s 99p only to change their minds and not bother when it reaches £1.04. Are you kidding me?!
Arghhhhhhh!!! Now I have to pack these clothes and treck to the post office on my lunch break on Monday with a bag full of them.
I’m probably more upset than I should be, but I just feel like I’ve wasted so much time.
I’m trying to make myself feel better by reminding myself that none of these clothes fit me any more and so if I hadn’t sold them on eBay, they’d only be sat in my wardrobe gathering dust.
Also, it’s not like there’s much of an alternative. While some of these items could have fetched more on a car boot sale, others, like the flowery Tesco shorts, would probably have sold for just a quid. If I had of tried to sell them on Buy, Sell and Swap groups, I could easily have found myself sat waiting by the door for people who wouldn’t bother to turn up to collect them.
Please tell me I’m not alone in feeling this miserable when something doesn’t sell for as much as originally planned. How do you tackle it? Do you make sure you charge more for other items that you sell, or do you adopt a ‘you win some, you lose some’ approach? Let me know in the comments below!
