Funny ebay experience

[Hardcoreruss]

I have always been paranoid selling expensive gear on eBay. You always get the people asking to pay via bidbay etc... and the person who wins always has little or no feedback or is a new user.

I sold two phones on Sunday, one for £270 a Nokia 9300 and one for £550 a Nokia 8800.

The 9300 sold first, I checked the blokes address that was provided in checkout. The road did not even exist and the postcode was for some hotel in London. After about an hour the address changed and then the bloke wanted to pay via bidpay. So I basically told him to go and do one.

The 8800 sold about an hour later (expensive phone) and straight away the bloke contacts me and says he is having problems with Paypal and can he pay via credit card over the phone. I can accept cards over the phone for my business but after the first experience I just thought no way. I told him I would wait for paypal to sort it out and that my payment account was not working. He kept being really pushy offering up all kinds of payment methods and I say I would only accept Paypal or Nochex.

So this morning he asks me to call him and he says he wants to drive down and collect it. I reluctantly accepted as there have been loads of fake notes round my way. So I got my mate round here just in case.

He turns up about an hour later in a brand new Ferrari 360 Modena (130k worth). Turns out he was a songwriter for Kylie Minogue among others. It was great seeing all the neighbours peering out of their windows at that parked on my drive.

[Bodyslide]

Good Story...

[Shadow57]

I can accept cards over the phone for my business

And speaking of your business.......!!!

Are things going the way you want them to?

Just curious!

[Hardcoreruss]

Yeah suprisingly well.

I knew it was a good idea and I would EVENTUALLY make money but this past month it has gone of the scale and I am so busy.

I have got over 150kg's of toys waiting to go out tomorrow and I send out around that many every day.

My main problem is that I may run out of products. There is an electricity drought/restriction in China at the moment and they are only allowed to run the factories 4 days out of a normal seven so that has really thrown a spanner in the works.

One thing I did not budget for was advertising. I am the cheapest in the UK by far for pet toys and I thought everyone one would automatically order from me but it is letting them know that I exist. I am spending about £2000 a month on advertising alone.

It helped that me and the missus used to have very good jobs and I had a lot of cash to invest so we could buy a LOAD of toys in the first place to drive the price down. The main costs though are storage and advertising and doing this all on my own is killing me.

[Shadow57]

Yeah suprisingly well.

I'm in the USA and, from what I see, things are great,
although media reports might not always be rosey.

We're in the food business and we're busy when times are good
and bad!

Seems like you have some dynamite advertising because I don't
know how you can be selling all of those animal toys. Wow!

Doing everything yourself isn't bad in the beginning. Eventually
you will have to hire employees, and that's when your life
will go down the toilet!!!

Have fun Russ, but you probably are!!!

[lordsmurf]

and doing this all on my own is killing me.

An absolute, total, utter bitch, and I can relate to that.
Got any gray hairs yet? Or is it too late for that?

[Shadow57]

and doing this all on my own is killing me.

An absolute, total, utter bitch, and I can relate to that.
Got any gray hairs yet? Or is it too late for that?

Russ was young and vibrant before he started the business.

Unfortunately he's been aging quickly..........

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

Congrats on the growing business Russ!