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Originally Posted by Baby Blessing Wow, that is great, I was thinking of selling a lot of things too instead of having a garage sale here, I have never had a garage sale. My daughter said they practically gave things away. My mom gave me several Elvis Presley magazines that she had forever, she loved Elvis  she was his greatest fan. Wow and also I just thought of my collection of knitting books of Spinneran they are all great shape, will post them there too.
You just gave me the idea to put them on there, thanks Connie did you open up a Pay Pal to handle the charges and payments? It seems like that is the safest and easiest. |
I'm glad I gave you an idea. I like selling books or magazines because they can be mailed media mail and it is so much cheaper than regular mail. I've never had a problem mailing things that way and they usually don't take much longer than the regular mail...much that I've mailed media mail is there as fast as priority! I think people are more likely to bid higher if the shipping isn't so costly. At least that's how I am when bidding.
I do have a Paypal account and love it. I also accept checks or money orders on my auctions and then just have to wait for that to arrive before mailing out the package. I've never gotten a bad check...thank goodness. One word of caution...when you open your Paypal account...if you get emails saying that there is something going on with your Paypal account and they ask you to click on a link and then ask account info...don't do it. There are so many scams where they are trying to get your credit card#'s and bank accounts. Paypal will never send an email asking you to give info or verify anything. There are also those going around claiming to be Ebay and same goes for them...just people trying to get account numbers.
Oh...one more word of advice...When putting something on an auction, for the title...make sure you have as many words in that title that will cover what people do a search on. Sometimes the title doesn't even always make sense, but it will bring more searches to your auction. For instance, if I was selling a paper craft book...I would put the name of the book and then add words like stamping, scrapbooking, origami...so people searching for one of those words would also get my auction in their search results.
Good luck! Let us know how you do! Those Elvis magazines may be a big hit!!!