Step #8 Sold!!! Now what?

Written by Texas Tracy on March 10, 2008

Tagged under category: Listing Your Auction

One may assume that all bidders are sitting on the edge of their chairs at the end of an auction, on pins and needles to see if they have won. In auction dreamland this is how we want it to be, but such is not the case. Many times people will enter their max bid and, in ebay’s case, the computer will bid for them until they are outbid (called proxy bidding). As a result, you will probably need to notify your winning bidder via an invoice. This button will appear once your auction time has concluded. Sending an invoice is as easy as pressing the button.

After you send the invoice it is time to wait until they respond. To the veteran ebayer this is elementary, but to the ebay person just starting out please note that you do not ship the item until it has been paid for.

This past weekend I co-chaired the silent auction at my son’s elementary school that was held in conjunction with the school’s spring carnival. The silent auction alone raised over $10,000. We had a signed Emmitt Smith football (we are in Dallas Cowboy’s country, you know) that sold for $695! The surprise of the evening turned out when our family won one of the raffle baskets put together with various themes. They only have twelve of these, so it is kind of a big deal to win one. Our luck was slim, because we had only purchased ten raffle tickets. I made sure to fold our tickets funny, so they stick up away from the others. Lo and behold, we won the “Do Not Try This At Home Basket”! Full of fun science stuff that can stain your cabinets, as I learned today making our Magic Rocks. Here is a look:

As I had mentioned, we are now harvesting a fine crop of Magic Rocks. The instructions on the box say that it only takes 10 quick seconds to stain clothing, carpet or cabinetry.