fluffythewondercat
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posted on August 1, 2003 08:01:07 AM new
From the greatest source of amusement on the planet, I present a selection of gems culled from actual eBay bottomfeeder mail.
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Note enclosed with payment, typed verbatim:
"Love your jewlery! I do not know if you know that your auction has a misspelling on `bargans'. It should read `bargains'. Just an FYI."
(If you don't get it, read it again.)
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Email from a customer:
"To date I have not received this item. I know I didn't PayPal you enough money to cover shipping, so is that the reason? Let me know, otherwise ship this piece immediately or I will report you to eBay."
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Another email from a customer:
"You have not responded to the email I sent you an hour ago. Why not try answering your email, you would be AMAZED at how it generates repeat business! How about it, give it a try, OK?"
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Ah, human nature.
I am not a bathtub full of brightly-colored machine tools on Vendio.
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tomwiii
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posted on August 1, 2003 08:04:28 AM new
bargains??
choking-pretzels??
Rosebud??
 
Ralphie loves Mr Blonde:
"Are you gonna bark all day little doggie, or are you gonna bite?"
http://tinyurl.com/5duz
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on August 1, 2003 08:29:02 AM new
Tom, I've been meaning to ask this for some time.
Do you mind sharing with us the name of the medication you're on that makes you completely incoherent? I'd like to avoid it at all costs.
I am not a bathtub full of brightly-colored machine tools on Vendio.
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wgm
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posted on August 1, 2003 08:48:00 AM new
ROFL, fluffy! I would love to hear your replies
"Be kind. Remember everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." - Harry Thompson
"I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it." - A Few Good Men
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neroter12
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posted on August 1, 2003 09:01:08 AM new
lol...pretty funny, fluffy!
I am with Wgm, I would think your replies would be even funnier!
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AuctionAce
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posted on August 1, 2003 09:10:56 AM new
There is no word spelled bargan or bargin, the correct spelling is bargain. When most people see that common word misspelled they must get a chuckle.
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on August 1, 2003 09:59:26 AM new
#1 - No response. She's a good customer. When you criticize someone else's spelling, though, you really have to be careful to get it right yourself! "jewelry" or "jewellery" (the UK version) are accepted spellings of the word; "jewlery" is not.
That selling persona is a hick, a hayseed, a clod with straw in his hair and mud between his toes. "He" commonly misspells words for effect. It's like Willard Scott dressing up as Carmen Miranda. Few people actually believe he wears a fruit-covered hat every day, though, so I was amused by my customer's earnestness.
#2 - My response: "Well, duh."
#3 - My response: "You must lead your friends, family and colleagues quite an `interesting' life."
I am not a bathtub full of brightly-colored machine tools on Vendio.
[ edited by fluffythewondercat on Aug 1, 2003 10:00 AM ]
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AuctionAce
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posted on August 1, 2003 10:37:44 AM new
Who wants to buy from a seller with a hick, a hayseed, a clod with straw in his hair and mud between his toes.? Especially jewelry. Maybe porn or gag gifts but not fine jewelry starting at a penny with no reserve.
There are about 100 results for the word bargin in title searches and about 3,000 results in description & title searches so it is a commonly misspelled word and even sounds like it should be spelled bargin rather than the proper bargain.
I think he just misspelled the word in all of your auctions like the other hundreds of ebay sellers that did it as well.
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fenix03
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posted on August 1, 2003 11:30:04 AM new
Who wants to buy from a seller with a hick, a hayseed, a clod with straw in his hair and mud between his toes.?
I've always enjoyed these types of responses. A high volume successful seller mentions a method that the use and some smart ass tells them that it's a ridiculous concept. I was informed yesterday that three different income outlets that I employ are "hogwash" and a "crock". Of course it doesn't really bother me that much, just means a few less potential competitors in the field.
An intelligent person would ask how or why a certain strategy works, not mock it simply because it seems unusual.
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If it's really Common Sense, why do so few people actually have it?
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kiara
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posted on August 1, 2003 11:41:48 AM new
Who wants to buy from a seller with a hick, a hayseed, a clod with straw in his hair and mud between his toes.?
LOL!
I loathe shoes and sometimes I slip them off behind the counter at work. It gets messy there if I don't vacuum so I could possibly have a bit of mud between my toes.
One day I was cleaning out a window manger scene from a Christmas display and when I dealt with a customer I had straw in my hair.
So do I qualify? Hahahahaha.....
BTW, they still bought from me.
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AuctionAce
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posted on August 1, 2003 12:07:28 PM new
I agree that unique selling angles ares a great thing to do. The sellers that have a scantily clad babe holding auction items in their auction photos must get more bids than the seller that just photographs the item.
Someone on this board is a class hypocrite as their auctions are not full of misspelled words by a madeup homespun sounding seller persona but instead contain only one misspelled word in their impeccable auction template and then they concot an elaborate lie to cover their honest mistake.
Enron would be the purrfect place for this seller but alas they got caught lying and it's now gone.
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on August 1, 2003 12:46:48 PM new
A high volume successful seller mentions a method that the use and some smart ass tells them that it's a ridiculous concept.
You might have to get to the kind of volume that Jay and Marie do before the nimrods stop giving you grief.
Recently I read a couple of interviews that Jay Senese gave. He said that he looks all the time, but he can't find an eBay millionaire. I also liked it when he said that eBay has no clue how to sell on eBay.
I am not a bathtub full of brightly-colored machine tools on Vendio.
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stopwhining
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posted on August 1, 2003 01:23:03 PM new
an ebay millionaire is a stockholder who bot at 18 when it first went public.
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AuctionAce
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posted on August 1, 2003 01:54:48 PM new
Both Jay and Marie are very critical of ebay much of the time. Ebay just goes along with the critisisms as Jay and Marie are the kingfish of the feedback ratings.
I can honestly say that I can see that most of the sellers that use the one cent with no reserve may soon be abadonning that approach or style of auctioning.
Two main reasons, one is that 26% ( and climbing rapidly ) of all ebay transactions are now fixed rate transactions and the nearly ten million auctions are more auctions than the limited ebay buyers market can handle. Not to mention the weak economy, but that's a variable.
Thoughts?
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stopwhining
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posted on August 1, 2003 02:27:28 PM new
like my local baker told me,if there is too much day old bread out there,it just means we are not doing our job.
all these remainders,remnants,washout items starting at one penny,someone is losing money and that somone(or somones) will not be around soon.
or another way to look at it - these items are really worth one penny or not too far from one penny and the retail stores better mark them down if they want to sell!!
excuse my grammer and my english,i have been on the phone all day with my japanese suppliers who have the most expensive items in the world for no reason other than the fact their own citizens are used to eating crows!!
-sig file -------They may have ginsu knife,but we have DING KING!!!!
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neglus
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posted on August 1, 2003 02:36:48 PM new
Thoughts about what Ace? This thread has meandered a little...Fixed Price Format? From other threads here, I have gathered you are a big proponent of Fixed Price listings. I certainly would not like eBay to go to an "all fixed price" format but don't mind that it is offered to those sellers/buyers who like them - there's room enough on eBay for all of it. If that is the buyers' choice than sellers will respond. From my personal experience I would say that, in my category at least, it does not seem to be the buyers' choice.
Sellers have to determine for themselves if the $.01 NR listings continues to return a profit and adjust their strategy accordingly.
Time will tell!
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AuctionAce
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posted on August 1, 2003 02:43:11 PM new
Thoughts on the possible/probable decline of the use of the one cent/no reserve style of auctioning.
I never said I was a big supporter of fixed prices. They have their place and they have to cut into conventional format auctions.
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stopwhining
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posted on August 1, 2003 02:44:10 PM new
with ten million listings,items starting at one penny will get the attention of the bidders.
but what is important is the high winning bid amount,is it enough ??
and what happens when there is no more day old bread??
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fetish128
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posted on August 1, 2003 03:33:38 PM new
Ace spends far too much time here to really be a seller of lots of goodies. Also seems to fuel the fires in e bays favor on most of his come backs which in turn hurt folks trying to make a living here. Where DOES he get all these carved in stone figures on various things. Almost like he WORKS for e bay?
I am having absoluetly NO problems with my .01 sales in fact they are BETTER than when I started them at say,,,$9.99. It ALL depends on WHAT you are selling and HOW you present it.
SSSSSSSnap! Crackle and Pop!
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AuctionAce
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posted on August 1, 2003 03:59:54 PM new
Found a sore whip welt with Fetishdude? The possibility of ebay rapidly morphing must scare some dealers. Ya gotta morph with the flow or be a flagstone somewhere. To even fear the discussion of ebay trend changes and to try to berate those that do chose to discuss the topic shows me that some sellers like ignoring those trends.
Whip it good!
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fenix03
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posted on August 1, 2003 05:13:39 PM new
Auction - I have to wonder what the story is on the nubers you quote. If they are items that at flat BIN - I'd love to know what catagory they are in because I sure as hell doin't see them in the catagories I shop in. I have a feeling most are auction format with a BIN thrown in for fun. That being the case, it doesnot change a damn thing. An auction is an auction. If someone wants to come in and pick it up in one fell swoop great but most people still opt for the auction format unless they are in dire need of the item or see the BIN as a great bargain. My mother and a coupe of her friends are ebay buyers so I use her as my measuring stick. This is a gorup of women whose ages range from id 40's to early 60's. Not only is the current economic situation keeping them off ebay... it's pushing them towards it even more. They are not sjust shopping for collectibles but electronics, computers, supplies... you name it. As my mother but it... short of groceries, there is nothing that I need to buy for work or thehouse that I can't save at least 10% with a little searching on ebay.
This is the market that has to be explored and marketed to.
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If it's really Common Sense, why do so few people actually have it?
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REAMOND
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posted on August 1, 2003 05:43:16 PM new
Hi,
"I am a new user on eBay. I want to place my bid in the last minute so that I can have time to compare with the other auctions or websites. Do you have a service that I can send an alert to my cell phone or email 10 minutes before it closes? I may forget to come back to your item on time. Ebay has a "Watch this item", but does only send emails the day before it closes. My friend told me that there is a "Remindme" service or something like that on eBay. I searched eBay and I found that some sellers have this kind of service in their items. I do not know if you have it or not. If you have this kind of service or other methods that can remind me in the last minutes, please let me know. If you do not, I will try to remember it myself."
Where to start ? How would you answer this email ?
I'll post later what my reply was after I read your suggestions..
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on August 1, 2003 05:57:06 PM new
As my mother put it... short of groceries, there is nothing that I need to buy for work or the house that I can't save at least 10% with a little searching on ebay.
This is the best insight I've seen all day. So true. I was looking for toothpaste on eBay a couple of weeks ago. Got fed up with paying nearly $5 for a tube at Rite Aid.
And I'm not on a fixed income. Yet.
I am not a bathtub full of brightly-colored machine tools on Vendio.
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fenix03
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posted on August 1, 2003 06:32:05 PM new
Fluffy - my moms not on a fixed income, just trying to recover from the damage done when the market collapsed. She's still in her 50's but had retired to help my step with his company. Between the cost of medical insurance and the drop in his business she went back to work so that they can rebuild the savings and start building on their waterfront retirement property. Right now I'd say she is kind of the model of the average consumer. I dont think she realizes how much I use her shopping habits as a model for how I try to market different items that I sell. She maybe a little above the norm, she's the only 50 something I know whose bridge circle has members in 5 countries  .
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If it's really Common Sense, why do so few people actually have it?
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neglus
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posted on August 1, 2003 06:40:22 PM new
Hey Fenix - I'm a fifty-something (LOW 50's )whose bridge circle includes people from 5 countries thanks to the MSN Gaming Zone!!
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Twelvepole
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posted on August 1, 2003 06:54:52 PM new
Fetish, why not go back to posting under your other ID, at least acting stupid is expected....
AIN'T LIFE GRAND... 
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AuctionAce
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posted on August 1, 2003 07:33:30 PM new
I've decided to apologize to Fluffy after studying her bargin auctions and her style of selling. Even at a one cent and no reserve format it is a win-win situation with her selling model.
Fine points are: listing fees are all just 30 cents and relists are extremely rare : A $4 s/h fee on very small items that cost maximum of 50 cents to $1 insure a $3 profit on s/h : charging $1 for insurance guarantees lost packages won't be haunting the seller and probably generates even more s/h profit : not combining s/h on any shipments means the guaranteed profits on the s/h overages are not jepordized in any way : not accepting any payment other than check or money orders or Paypal instant transfers guarantees those fees will not cut into profits very much and no waits on echecks or BidPay payments : not shipping outside of the USA cuts down the BS of international buyers and waiting for delayed payments.
Now I need a wholesale connection where I can get store returns at a deep discount and I'm set! Thanks again Fluff for the great inspiration and lesson on profitable ebay selling. You are indeed a 'wondercat'!
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bigpeepa
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posted on August 1, 2003 07:38:10 PM new
Hey AuctionAce, too much Blah Blah Blah. I am a hillbilly and proud of it. Better a hillbilly then a know it all Xgen.
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lurkyloo
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posted on August 1, 2003 07:44:11 PM new
reamond
I don't know of anything that will automatically remind you 10 minutes before an auction closes, but you can steer your bidder to a site like vrane.com or esnipe.com and invite him/her to make a maximum bid there at any time during the auction process. Bids can be revised or cancelled at any time, and they won't be placed until about 10 seconds before the auction ends. You could also advise buying a digital watch that has an alarm, and it can be set first thing in the morning to 10 minutes before the auction closes (of course one has to get in the habit of checking eBay every day as a reminder of what auctions are closing).
Are you sure you didn't get one of fluffy's buyers by mistake?????
Not lurkyloo on eBay
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noh2
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posted on August 1, 2003 07:50:23 PM new
auctionace-YOU ARE AN IDIOT.
have you bot from her??
her listing fee is more than 30 cents,she uses gallery picture,thats extra.
she ships usps priority using their label with dc,so thats 3.85 plus 45 cents.
do the math and you will see ,she is in trouble,thats why she needs to issue fluffy dollars!!
and you want to follow her footsteps.
go flip burger if you know how to fill out the application form
burgerflipper,you go first!!!!!
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