While I was on RRB Radio last week (you can catch the replay here), we talked about several tips for eBay Trading Assistants. Apparently that segment caused some confusion so I want to take this opportunity to clear some things up because I’m getting phone calls.
- If you want to hire a local Trading Assistant to sell your stuff, start looking in the eBay directory. Do not call me with the expectation that I will read the entire directory aloud to you or pick one out for you.
- During the podcast, Melinda asked me for the url of my eBay store while we were discussing a completely different topic. This does not mean that my eBay store is the Trading Assistant directory. Please do not call me berating me or to tell me that I or my store “suck” because it didn’t list a local TA for you. Your state of confusion has nothing to do with me or my store.
- If any of you had left an email address or Twitter name or something in your message, I would have been happy to send you a quick note to set you straight. But if all you leave is a phone number, I’m certainly not going to waste my time and call someone who has already been rude to me. Yes, I try to help people sell on eBay but I’m NOT eBay support and I don’t have to drop everything, take your abuse and cater to your every whim when you haven’t even bought something from me!
People never cease to amaze me. And not in a good way…
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It’s truly amazing how cluelessly rude (and just plain stupid) people can be. I just don’t get it.
Welcome to my world. I created one website 3 years ago that attracts two or three angry AOL users per day wanting me to fix their eBay support related problems. In one extreme case I even had one person threaten to report me to the FBI just because someone on eBay has a userid that they think they should be entitled to. Fortunately that one is a free site that is basically just a forum so I just ignore them.
I can’t help but think of that old Disney tune, “Oh, the world owes me a livin’…” when I run into people like that.
Hi Hillary,
Can I just say how useful I found the show. You shared some great information and it gave me a lot of food for thought for my own TA business. You as usual went the extra mile and shared great content. Thank You
Thank you very much for your kind words, Andrew, I’m glad I could help out!
I’m especially glad it was helpful at all since we only planned doing it seconds before so it was all off the cuff as it were. 🙂