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A buyer has raised a dispute against you
What to do in the first hour, what evidence counts, and what the hold on your payout means.
Using someone else’s brand, photos or words
What a seller may use, what they may not, and how a rights holder gets something taken down.
Why certain items are banned
The reasoning behind each class of ban, because a list without reasons is a list people argue with.
My payout failed
Almost always the name, the account number or the IFSC. The money is not lost — it is waiting.
What is deducted from a sale
The commission, GST on that commission, and the costs you chose. Nothing else, and all of it visible.
Packing so it arrives in one piece
The specific failures, by material — and the rule that nothing should be able to move.
Offering pickup
Where, how long they have, and what you keep if they never come. All agreed before anybody bids.
Charging for delivery
Free, flat, by weight, by order value, or free above a threshold. What each one actually costs you.
Delivery zones, explained
Five ways to say where you deliver — radius, PIN codes, districts, states, or all of India.
Setting up delivery before your first show
Do this before you list anything. It is the ordering mistake almost every new seller makes.
A winner has not paid
What happens automatically, when, and the one thing you should not do.
Nobody is bidding — what now
Four moves that work, and the honest possibility that the stock is wrong rather than the show.
Scheduling a show so people turn up
Announcing it matters more than the hour you pick. Regularity matters more than either.
What to say when you are holding the item
A structure you can repeat forty times an hour, so you never have to think of something.
Camera, light and sound for a live show
A phone, a window and something to prop it on. What actually ruins a show is backlight, shake and echo.
Your first live show, start to finish
A plan for the hour: what to have ready, what order to sell in, and what to say when nobody is bidding.
Keeping stock straight across shows
The sinking feeling of selling something twice, and how to not have it.
What is a reserve price?
A hidden minimum. The item only sells if the bidding reaches it, and buyers never see the number.
Setting a starting price
A low start usually ends higher. Here is why, and the cases where it does not.
Photographing an item for a listing
A window, a plain surface and a phone. The expensive part is knowing which shots to take.
Why naming the flaw raises the price
Bidders discount for uncertainty. Telling them exactly what is wrong removes the discount.
Writing a title people actually search for
The words a buyer types, in the order they type them. Not the words you would use about your own stock.
Creating your first listing
Every field, what it does to the buyer's screen, and the two things sellers most often leave out.
Setting up where you get paid
Bank details in your verified name. Get this right on day one and you will not discover it on payout day.
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