posted on July 1, 2006 10:37:00 AM new
Today I got two of them without a note or anything, just scrawled signatures on money orders. Many of my postcards sell for similar amounts. In the past, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what to ship or just held the MOs, waiting for someone to contact me. Today I had the bright idea of downloading unpaid items from My eBay, opened the download with a spreadsheet and sorted by Buyer's full name. It took less than 5 minutes and saved me two headaches (one was a check from George for a postcard of a girl washing doll clothes - would have never guessed that one)
posted on July 2, 2006 03:49:39 PM new
Early on as a seller I realized it was best to make all amounts (shipping included) different by discounting them by a few cents, yen or pence so each payment total was unique within a 90-day period. Made it so much easier to match up unidentified incoming payments where the auction number or description was missing, wrong or incomplete.
I think most long time eBay sellers have received cash in an envelope at least once without a return address or accompanying auction ID.
