I always use several good pictures and make sure any flaws are shown. I want people to know exactly what they are coming to see so I don't waste their time or mine. I won't even look at ads without photos and it really pisses me off when I look at an ad and the photo's are crappy or sideways. Even people that do it with a phone can supply decent photos these days. There's no excuse.

No returns unless I made a mistake.

Money transferred to bank account usually. Occasionally have a check sent to me.

$150-$200 near me - Central Calif (Coast)

There was a unit we bought a couple years ago that was our best unit ever. Paid $500, made over $10,000 profit. At the time there was a comment made by the auctioneer that it was one of three the owner had in three different storage facilities. We have always joked that if another unit owned by "Marie D..." came up we would have to get it. So lately we are not buying any units due to a huge estate we bought 3 months ago that we are still sorting / selling, but we do go to the occasional storage auction just in case there is a unit we just have to have...and because it's fun. So yesterday my husband goes to a place we have never been to that has just one unit and its not far from home so, why not? Yep, you guessed it, "Marie D...". 10x15, looks just like the last one...messy lots of boxes. Had to buy it. Unfortunately others wanted it too so it was very expensive, $2600! Arrggghhh...An initial inspection has unearthed some gold jewelry (maybe $500's worth), a bag of assorted foreign coins and a few old silver coins, 4 mink jackets, some decent furniture and tons of boxes of books. Not thrilled about the books although the last unit also had tons of books and I did make about $1000 on just books selling them on Amazon. Hoping we find some treasure as we dig deeper.....wish us luck.

It happens occasionally. Seems like it is usually someone nearby but not always. In one case I had tons of miniatures from a closed miniatures store. There were these little porcelain vases. I had about 1600 of them. I was selling them on ebay in lots of 5 then 10 then 20, each time a slightly better deal because I wanted to get rid of them. I think the lots of 20 were $25.00. I would list 10 lots of 20 and the same person would buy them all. We finally exchanged phone numbers and made a deal off ebay for the rest of them. I think I had almost 1500 left at that point and she paid me $1400 for them. No fees. I do make sure to never make a deal in writing though. For me it's nice to avoid fees but not sure what the benefit is for the buyer.

Sometimes eBay buyers "forget" to pay within a reasonable time (say 3 days).  When that happens how do you prompt them to get with the program?

I send them an eBay email saying. "Thought you’d like to know I have your (item) packed
And ready to ship to you; just waiting for your payment.  Thanks !"

First I send an invoice with a message similar to MovieMan's message. Then if still not paid in another day or two I send another message (not attached to an invoice) saying something like:  I have still not received your payment for this item. If you need more time to pay or if there is a reason you are not paying please contact me so I know what to expect, otherwise my EBAY account will automatically open an unpaid item case against you.  Sometimes, depending on the item and how easily I think I can get another buyer, I will include a line about: If you bid on this by mistake let me know and we can just cancel the sale so I can get it relisted.  I have had a couple admit they couldn't really afford to pay. I'd rather know sooner rather than later so I can find another buyer.

You think that one is bad, check out this guy. He got 49 negative just in the past month, all because he wasn't shipping fast enough

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&ftab=AllFeedback&userid=foxconnect&iid=-1&de=off&interval=30&which=negative&items=50

That's crazy. Maybe he's sick or in jail or something. Still has stuff listed but I checked and most recently listed is November so he probably has stuff set to stay listed until sold. If you look at his whole year feed back he was doing fine until the past month or so then just stopped shipping anything. Maybe he's dead? I guess that teaches people to buy without taking a moment to check recent feedback. You would thing EBAY would notice sudden stream of bad feedbacks and contact the seller or freeze the account or something.