posted on April 6, 2002 10:30:38 PM new
Bidders, please consider leaving a well deserved tip for your seller. For example, if your invoice total is $18.97, can't you write the check, or PayPal $19.00?
posted on April 7, 2002 09:26:16 AM new
I've actually gotten a couple of tips. One purposely (have a beverage); and one refused a refund ("no problem, thanks for asking".
posted on April 7, 2002 10:16:38 AM new
I don't know if you would call this a tip or not, maybe just a fee for a late payment I don't know. But in the past month I received an extra dollar for the buyer paying me after my item reached him. (I usually don't do that, but since I had packaged it my husband said why not mail it. It was not an expensive item) and $2.00 for fees paid on another auction from someone that accidentally bought the wrong item. I made a dollar on that transaction after fees were paid. I don't expect a tip though, but I wish my buyers would pay as fast as I send their item. I try sending the same day or the day after. A lot of times when my buyers use a BIN and pay by paypal they have their item in 3 days.
posted on April 7, 2002 10:49:59 AM new
I was shopping for a gift for my Nephew a few years ago. He was all about a movie character that had come out a few years earlier and he wanted the 8" tall 'talking' version. Well... Not available as a toy anymore, so I searched for a collectible. I won the item and arranged for payment and for delivery. The seller understood my dilemma of time and sent the item the same day auction closed and I was sending payment snail mail. Well, when she told me this, I sent an extra $15 in payment as a real thank you for her. As I recall, she thanked me.
posted on April 7, 2002 04:03:08 PM new
I would love a tip! How do you go about asking? Is it against ebay policy? Like if I send them an email asking, can they forward it to ebay and get me in trouble?
posted on April 7, 2002 06:00:15 PM new
I think tipping is all in the buyer, I would never ask for it. As a seller if I sell an item that is 9.93, I round it off to 9.90. Sometimes I get a thank you but most of the time not.
posted on April 7, 2002 06:11:50 PM new
I've been selling on eBay for about three years now and I'm happy if the buyers simply pay me within 10 days without bitching about paying shipping costs.
However, I guess I did get a "tip" one time. I sold a Limoges plate for $65 ($69 something with shipping)to a lady who paid by personal check. She had wonderful feedback and the check had a high #, so I shipped it immediately upon receipt of payment. Well -- it bounced. I was pissed!! I called her on the phone and she was mortified. She assured me she would send me a money order for $79+ that same day (I charged her $10 for the bank fees). When I got off the phone, I was sure that I'd never see that money or the plate again. Well -- three days later I received a money order for $100!!! She enclosed a note, stating that she was so embarrassed, had never bounced a check in her life, something about changing banks, and the extra $21 was "for your trouble". Amazing.
[ edited by sun818 on Apr 7, 2002 10:21 AM ]