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Revenue
Poshmark
$298.00
eBay
$314.10
Total $612.10
Standard Fees (Orders) $105.58Definitely not a good week on Ebay for me. Poshmark picked up a little bit this weekend. There is a lot of Facebook chatter about Ebay glitches and (once again) the at least temporary disappearance of items delisted for end and sell similar. I have to check out mine this morning since its automated.
I’m in the middle of my COGS bookkeeping – trying desperately to be done before I am scheduled to meet with the CPA tomorrow. It takes SO long. I am feeling pretty motivated to start regularly putting it into the software at listing. I hate to take the time when I finally sit and list to do it but it’s much faster at that point and I won’t be having to sit for a couple of days and do it in the spring.
Unfortunately won’t get back to listing until at least tomorrow or Wednesday. The yard sale will be early May and I should have my unlisted all sorted by then. A realtor has scheduled the annual community sale in my neighborhood and dealers don’t linger but it should create a bigger turn out to participate (and keep me from shopping it :)). There is so much stuff still but I definitely should make pretty good progress in 2026 on the remaining piles. I have not been sourcing a lot at thrift stores but once in a while I need to get out. Really have not found much when I do go and I’m out of there much faster. I remember seeing the pros coast in and out when I first started and I’ve reached that level. You get to the point where you just realize there is SO MUCH STUFF out there. Better to be super choosy. There are also higher thrift prices and more competition.
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I upped my general promotion rate on Sat to 3.1%. If I’m still seeing clicks in the teens this month I think I’ll phase out promoting or just turn it on (maybe higher for used, stale items). Things are a little bit skewed because I haven’t been listing, but I should get back to that by next week.
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Ebay is on some sort of government compliance kick and it seems to be causing some technical issues. Some podcasters were reporting that listings without country of origin were being hidden, including from domestic buyers. Another reported she checked with Ebay and that was false. My listing impressions are down by 50% this past week. A whopping 32% of my clicks are coming from external sources, while that usually runs around 6%. Something is definitely up. I only had two sales on Ebay this week, and zero until I started running my weekly sale. One of these is missing from the order page for now, which as been reported as a glitch. On the other they have a new bubble about hazardous materials.
Promoted listings clicks are still down in the teens. I don’t want to pay extra for lousy placement so I will probably phase out promoting via nifty as an experiment and see what happens.
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I’ve decided to phase out general promoted like you did. It feels like things can’t really get much worse saleswise. I have been listing again, but have some outside Ebay stuff going on so not a ton. Today should be pretty good. Still need to finish my bookkeeping this weekend as well.
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