We sell your stuff on eBay!

So my job this summer is sorta hard to describe... I'm working for my dad's company, which is essentially run by himself almost all year (except when i'm helping him, duh). He originally took stuff from ebay (computer stuff) and tried to either repair or refurbish the equipment in order to resell it back on ebay. After 4-5 years of this his company has evolved into something much more, and i'm actually very impressed by this. Nowadays he sells high value computer equipment over a professional trading site, for ridiculous amounts of money. Profit is both high and low depending on how much he paid for it when he got it. So over the years he accumulated a buncha stuff that couldn't sell, but he definitely made up his lost money by getting high yields on his other sales... and of course this is where I come in...

What i do is take these select products that he could not sell on his professional market place and put them up on eBay! I sort them, test them, clean them, then take pictures of them for the ebay listing... i guess it sounds somewhat interesting at first, and i was definitely enthusiastic at the beginning, but then come the issues of the picky customer. ebay is FILLED with people who just try to constantly nickel and dime you... like worse than any asian sales person. When i first started putting things up on ebay like 2-3 weeks ago my dad told me to put the starting bid at .99 cents. This was for the purpose of getting people to actually look at my listing and give them an incentive to buy/bid since my ebay "score" was 0 when i created my account, so everyone would know i'm some noob -lawl! Anyways, most ebayers are "smart" as they say it and SNIPE bids like mine at the very last second, usually like 5-10 seconds before the bidding ends. This is in attempt to get it really cheap aka my .99 cents starting bid. So i had like 5 listings up on ebay... and the first few were sniped for .99 cents... which i dont mind since i had charged a small handling fee so i made more than just a dollar lol... and my dad doesn't need any of the stuff i sell so good for the winner... so what ended up happening on one of my listings was that there was bidding war that brought up the price of my product to 53.00$ from .99 cents... so i think AWESOME since it happened when i was in florida...

When i get back the same person had also got one of my .99 cent listings and wanted "combined" shipping, which they thought would save them some money, since MOST other users on ebay over estimate shipping prices.... however I DO NOT as i want to make sure i'm giving my customers the best idea of the price that they will pay... so they asked for that and sure i did combine the shipping and gave them a revised price which was almost exactly what they would have paid if they won both listings at 2 different times (not shipped together)... so i gave it to them and they complain that i LIED to them and that i'm trying to CHEAT them.... BULL! so we "fight" for a couple emails back and forth and they finally give in and send me the money... then the day i'm going to ship it... they have the nerve to send me an email saying that i should pack the items they won NEATLY, and make sure they're CLEANED, oh and that i put the items they bought into 1 consolidated box.... NO DUH! like WOW... please...

that was like 1 week ago.... and it's shipped... it's prolly arrived at the destination, but they still haven't given me any feedback for my ebay score to go up... though i am happy that two other customers have given me positive feedback... so now i am at a score of 2! YESSS I have a buncha stuff up for bid right now for VERY HIGH prices... as it is more valuable! if they sell, which i'm almost sure they will i'll be getting some niiiice money =]]]]

So if you're too lazy to read all of the above here's a very short summary:

• My summer job is selling stuff on ebay
• It's fun and i like it, except for customers that try to take advantage that i have a low score... who think i'm some NOOB -pffff
• I make some nice extra money from the sales that will definitely be used for next semester at school or for any future endeavors that may require... money... hmmmm... hopefully i don't meet a gold-digger LOL... but shhh i'm not really that loaded with cash....
• I could prolly get away with this summary and delete all the stuff above...