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Revenue
Mercari
$41.10
Poshmark
$292.00
eBay
$619.69
Total $952.79Shipping is going to be annoying today as these are a bunch of hard goods sales, some lower dollar. But I’m grateful for them since (1) I basically didn’t list at all this week due to a pop up market; and (2) this time of year is usually DREADFUL for me. I’m 100% convinced that using this cross posting software and having it end an sell similar is helping all of my items get seen more often and in some cases sold. My Ebay items are possibly also being helped by the liquidation of some old stale stuff on the other two platforms.
The market I tried was students at the local UC, and it was pretty good with many small sales. I still have a ton to get rid of. I’ve filled up my Costco racks and now it’s time to do a futher sort and find a weekend to do a garage sale on some things. We also need to go through our family clothing before I have it. On the other rack, I need to sort what I want to focus on listing and put the rest back in bins by type of item. My original plan is to list linens this time of year and I ought to get back to that and get just the handful of Easter items I have up. I have until April until I do another pop up market, then I have two in a row. So I will be able to focus on lisitng.
Regarding AI listing, it seems to be actively in progress on the software. They have been tweaking some of the things I didn’t like about the description it was producing. I will be giving that a try again this week. I’m following posts on a seller group on Facebook to see what’s going on with that.
Last week I read an article that your general promotional Ebay campaign does not get you seen if they sort by lowest price. That kind of sucks to know. I’m staying the course at 2.6% for now.
Mercari is starting a temporary campaign soon for $4.99 shipping on new and updated listings.
<h4>$4.99 UPS/FedEx Promotional Rate</h4>
During the Promotional Period, Qualifying Listings that use a Mercari UPS or FedEx prepaid shipping label (<b>Mercari Best Rates: UPS Ground Saver or FedEx Economy</b>) in the 1–5 lb weight classes for shipments 1 cu ft / 22″ longest side or smaller may receive a $4.99 promotional shipping rate per label. This promotional rate applies only to the specified 1–5 lb weight classes and only where these Mercari Best Rates labels are available as a shipping option on Mercari. <b>Promo pricing does not apply to UPS Ground or FedEx Home Delivery labels.</b> Where available, the $4.99 rate may apply to both buyer-paid and seller-paid shipping, subject to Mercari’s standard shipping options and configuration at the time of listing and shipment.”
Very unfortunately Mercari does not allow for bulk editing of shipping methods, and their shipping relationships with the 3 carriers has changed from time to time. It’s probably not worth it to go through all of my listings but thought I would mention it. A fair number of my listings do have Smartpost.
The big death pile sort is making me realize how much stuff I have here. I continue to cut deals to move stuff that is already listed and my Ebay store is down to about 850 items now. Out with the old!
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Got an interesting email from Ebay. It gave me 50 listings to revise supposedly 90 days old or more. I thought I had gotten rid of those but I guess I missed some relists. Anyway, they had some suggestions, many included making a longer description. Some suggested adding photos and others adding free shipping. I took the list and bulk edited prices a bit. We’ll see if that helps at all.
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There is a lot of chatter in the Facebook groups about Ebay making site changes and slow sales. My sales really dropped off a cliff after last weekend but I haven’t listed in over a week and my sale ended Sunday night. There was also talk of Ebay enforcing requiring the country of origin due to tarriffs. I tried to bulk edit but was unable to do so without going into all category item specifics. LMK if you have another way.
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Hi Christine – and all,
I figured I’d post this here as it looks like this forum is essentially moribund.
Thanks Christine for being so consistent posting here. I stopped doing ebay maybe five years ago and I’m just about to get back into it, hopefully in a decently serious way. It’s seems generally the same, but what should I know about what has changed? What are some other good (or hopefully great) forums and sources of information people are going to these days?
– Cheers to everyone keeping this place alive. 😉
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