I think this one might be a bit out of Miss Manner’s realm of expertise so I pose it to all of you. A friend mailed me a small gift, a holiday music CD in a thin cardboard sleeve. Instead of taking it the post office and alerting them that it needed special handling, she [...]
21Dec09
Holiday etiquette question: Someone shipped you a gift that arrived broken. Should you tell them?
The discussion of whether to pay for a listing service or not that was started here and here brought up an interesting question: is a paid service always the “better” or more professional choice? I have been running a successful eBay business for many years. Other than two brief months of eBay’s Selling Manager Pro [...]
I actually had to make a trek to the post office the other day like a commoner and the woman working the counter, upon seeing my eBay branded Priority Mail boxes (which oddly enough I was using to mail a non-eBay related item), asked me if I sold on eBay. I told her simply that [...]
