Today is Sunday the 5th of May otherwise known as Cinco de Mayo. The plan was to have a job in April 2024 but that did not happen. The day after my car broke down
I put some of my things on eBay which I hated to do, but it was absolutely necessary. I put my zoom telephoto lens on there and ended up accepting an offer of $350.00
for it and I paid a little over $600.00 for it from Amazon in 2021, now eBay has altered the amount of their “Final Value fees” they used to take 10 % off the top and
now they charge 13.25% in addition to that if you really want anything to sell on there you have to list it as “Free Shipping” because people will overlook your auction if you charge for shipping. So that comes out of the final value fee also, which is cool I think, because eBay extends to sellers a discount on shipping, I imagine because they purchase in advance so much shipping in advance, it is just cheaper and easier. Also, I do not have any money right now in my Bank account so I like them to take everything out of the money that the buyer pays and
just give me the change, so that way, I do not owe anyone anything for that transaction. Ebay also transfers the money electronically to my bank account. I removed all of my UM coverage from my auto policy and that dropped the bill that was $372.00 down to 278.18 and that was due on the 05/02/2024 and then I altered the due date on my auto policy to 05/07/2024 to give the funds from eBay a chance to arrive before I had to give it to progressive. I also put on ebay my East Pack everyday backpack which I loved and paid over $300.00 for in 2021. I charged shipping for that one. Because that backpack is big and it takes up a lot of space shipping was almost $42.00 for it. It sold for like $117.00 with shipping, eBay charges their final value fee on the entire amount of $117.00 (not just the actual $66.00 that it sold for. I saw yesterday that eBay sent me a payout of like 30 bux for that pack. I calculated $117.17 – 13.25% – $42.00 for shipping should come out to $50.47. Ebay has some other way that they do math so when that money actually arrives in my bank account if it is not what I calculated I will contact them to find out why the money I actually received is so low. I also put up there my yeti rambler 64 oz which I have had since I started driving for Uber and it never leaked a drop (I kept it in that backpack) and all I ever put in there was water from my R.O. filter system. That sold for $26.00 and after shipping and final value fees Ebay sent me $15.20 for that item. I also put up there my Viltrox adapter that allows me to clip on EF style lenses on my M50 camera. The buyer that won the auction had a 289 rating at 100%. When I saw that, I just figured he was going to pay me. so I did the math and that came out to $29.5 to me. I paid 156.00 for it in 2021. I sent him 4 messages over 3 days and he just did not respond to me. I contacted eBay about that and I told them the story, and they told me they like to wait 4 days before canceling the sale and there would be no repercussions to me in anyway. They told me I could cancel and relist it right then
with no repercussions to me. So I waited to hear from that person until this morning and I heard nothing again, so I relisted it and the canceled the original auction. Ebay has gone through several changes over the years. The lady told me that my account is now over 22 years old, I created it when I was in college in 2002. The way eBay is now, is VERY hard to deal with. They used to be owned with or by paypal and when something was sold on eBay the funds would always go through paypal and then Paypal would transfer the money to your bank account. It is not like that now, eBay says if you want to sell ANYTHING on their platform, then they want your bank account numbers, If you do not have a bank account then you can’t sell anything on eBay and that is the end of that story. They are very straight forward about that. Also, eBay wants to charge for EVERYTHING and they do NOT want to refund you at all. Their marketing is very good too. They tell you in advance that there is an associated fee, for example if you choose to use the “Buy it now” feature there is a fee to the seller for that in addition to the final value fee that they charge. But there is no fee for setting an offer limit that you will accept. If you make a mistake, too bad for you then you get to battle it out with them and they usually already have your money, and they do NOT like to refund anything pretty much, even though they are huge and make a lot of money, they don’t care about much else than earning money hand over fist. So I lower my progressive auto insurance bill and got it extended from the 2nd of the month to the 7th, I also lowered my mint mobile package from unlimited to just 5GB of data per month with no Hotspot making it $82.00 instead of the usual $130 something and I also sold my Yeti Rambler and relisted the viltrox adapter for my camera. So that covers me until the 25th when my canca bill is due. Also Adobe extended to me 3 months with no fees for their all apps plan which was very awesome I love Adobe and Sue Keating donated to me $25.00 dollars which also was awesome. I haven’t seen her physically since we worked together over 25 years ago. Which was really awesome, now I just need to get through today.