Struggles as new seller

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Mud Pirate

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Hey everyone

I didn't intend to offend anyone's feelings; I was only expressing my ideas as a new merchant. I apologies for this.

I have numerous vendor friends, primarily from Bangalore, Mumbai, and Kolkata, and occasionally I post their stuff. I have sales all over the place, including in a Facebook group, Techenclave, Reddit, and offline.

Because I'm new, sometimes people avoid me and don't trust me at all. Despite my best efforts to convince them that payments can be made after I ship the products and provide tracking information, I still have trouble finding customers.

I constantly have to deal with hasslers and low-ballers; they just waste my time and tell me don't be rude when I ask them "Do you really want to buy?"

I did this lil venture for just passion and i manage it with my 12th studies, competitive exams prep.

I always believed that networking and making connections with ppl is right thing to achieve smth in any field.
Hope everything works out for me .
 
Mud Pirate said:
Hey everyone

I didn't intend to offend anyone's feelings; I was only expressing my ideas as a new merchant. I apologies for this.

I have numerous vendor friends, primarily from Bangalore, Mumbai, and Kolkata, and occasionally I post their stuff. I have sales all over the place, including in a Facebook group, Techenclave, Reddit, and offline.

Because I'm new, sometimes people avoid me and don't trust me at all. Despite my best efforts to convince them that payments can be made after I ship the products and provide tracking information, I still have trouble finding customers.

I constantly have to deal with hasslers and low-ballers; they just waste my time and tell me don't be rude when I ask them "Do you really want to buy?"

I did this lil venture for just passion and i manage it with my 12th studies, competitive exams prep.

I always believed that networking and making connections with ppl is right thing to achieve smth in any field.
Hope everything works out for me .
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Low-ballers and ghosters are a part and parcel of selling anything on TE. Just don't spend any energy on them and move on.

Everyone has to start somewhere. Perhaps starting with low value items may be one way to build your ratings since people are more apprehensive making large transfers to unknown people.
 
Trust is not a one-way street. What you can do from your side in the initial days is to only deal with members who have some good feedback here and agree to their terms. I'm sure some will ask you to wait for payment until item reaches them. You can do this with trusted members here (not new) to build your feedback and then continue as usual. Perhaps a little advance can be paid to cover shipping and other costs again this is something mutually agreeable.

With new members like you it's a hit or miss. Both parties should come to a mutual understanding if that's not happening then don't dwell on it.
 
enthusiast29 said:
Trust is not a one-way street. What you can do from your side in the initial days is to only deal with members who have some good feedback here and agree to their terms. I'm sure some will ask you to wait for payment until item reaches them. You can do this with trusted members here (not new) to build your feedback and then continue as usual. Perhaps a little advance can be paid to cover shipping and other costs again this is something mutually agreeable.

With new members like you it's a hit or miss. Both parties should come to a mutual understanding if that's not happening then don't dwell on it.
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Well said! Completely agree.
 
t3chg33k said:
Low-ballers and ghosters are a part and parcel of selling anything on TE. Just don't spend any energy on them and move on.

Everyone has to start somewhere. Perhaps starting with low value items may be one way to build your ratings since people are more apprehensive making large transfers to unknown people.
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enthusiast29 said:
Trust is not a one-way street. What you can do from your side in the initial days is to only deal with members who have some good feedback here and agree to their terms. I'm sure some will ask you to wait for payment until item reaches them. You can do this with trusted members here (not new) to build your feedback and then continue as usual. Perhaps a little advance can be paid to cover shipping and other costs again this is something mutually agreeable.

With new members like you it's a hit or miss. Both parties should come to a mutual understanding if that's not happening then don't dwell on it.
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I understand and agree too.
But getting my 1st feedback here is hell of task.i sold a mobo and psu few days ago but buyer had some problem with compability issue with his cpu which he didn't mentioned in his thread. I tried to sell a 1060 too but at the last moment it's fan making weird noise so deal fell through.
I m struggling but learning everyday.
 
You really need to read the rules carefully and observe how other members conduct themselves around here. I see one more sale thread locked because you didn't read the rule that bidding is not allowed.

Take your time, familiarise yourself with the forum, rules, basic internet etiquette, read through stuff before posting sale threads.
 
buzz88 said:
You really need to read the rules carefully and observe how other members conduct themselves around here. I see one more sale thread locked because you didn't read the rule that bidding is not allowed.

Take your time, familiarise yourself with the forum, rules, basic internet etiquette, read through stuff before posting sale threads.
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My another thread got locked
I really sucks at this thing.
 
blr_p said:
How do you do this without some escrow arrangement ?
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I didn't have to because,
1) I didn't sell an item here until I had good feedback from buying.
2) I did F2F deals initially. (A point I forgot to mention for OP)
3) My first deal was a high value item purchase so probably that helped.
 
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Mud Pirate said:
Hey everyone

I didn't intend to offend anyone's feelings; I was only expressing my ideas as a new merchant. I apologies for this.

I have numerous vendor friends, primarily from Bangalore, Mumbai, and Kolkata, and occasionally I post their stuff. I have sales all over the place, including in a Facebook group, Techenclave, Reddit, and offline.

Because I'm new, sometimes people avoid me and don't trust me at all. Despite my best efforts to convince them that payments can be made after I ship the products and provide tracking information, I still have trouble finding customers.

I constantly have to deal with hasslers and low-ballers; they just waste my time and tell me don't be rude when I ask them "Do you really want to buy?"

I did this lil venture for just passion and i manage it with my 12th studies, competitive exams prep.

I always believed that networking and making connections with ppl is right thing to achieve smth in any field.
Hope everything works out for me .
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Unfortunately feels sad esp. when you are offering to pay after shipping.

Last year was one havoc with new as well as old sellers scammed buyers hence the fear around.

Keep trying as some wise buyer will definitely bump into you and once a trust gets established there's no looking back!

Well! I have came across very adamant seller who are so called prof. sellers here. They will try to overpower you showing-off their trade points etc. as if sowing some US green card. And their attitude is like either it or move on as if they are offering Queen Victoria Victorias secret for sale at some throwaway rates. Very rude and arrogant!
 
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