Reply to "What's the catch?"

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Originally posted by nycenyer:
BUt now that I realize THAT is the way you make your money, I KNOW I must require it for all of my auctions.

No! No! Don't do it out of kindness. Do it because it's a teriffic deal! I take the calculated risk of insuring every shipment at no charge to the customer because it's cheap (a buck-five per $100) and if offering it gets me just one extra bid per auction...well...I'm in the money. Another great feature IMHO is that if you follow the rules, you can insure certain types of shipping that the USPS won't, such as International Air Letter Post. And, if you would rather charge for the insurance, (I think most people do) you pick up at least enough for a semi-decent cigar with every sale.

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How does payment to you and me work? How do YOU get your insurance amount and how do I get my 25 cents? Do I have to utilize sellathon to make this all happen?

Sell-a-thon has nothing to do with it. Auctiva gets their insurance through U-pic. You should be able to get what you need to know in the Help section: Help>Account>Checkout Settings>Auctiva Shipping Insurance. In a nutshell, you put a few bucks in your account and every time you designate a shipment for insurance (after the sale) Auctiva deducts the amount, say a buck-five, from your account. In the mean time, the customer pays you the regular amount, in this case, a buck-thirty.

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I want YOU to make the money you are entitled to for making these wonderful services available to me

Careful: to some, profit is apparently a bizarre and abstract concept.

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creating the illusion that I really know what I'm doing. )

I think that's a God-given instinct in all of us eBayer's!

CB