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SO, I have not posted here in a while but since we are all home and being safe I thought I might share my eBay experiences.
I have been selling for 20 years since I found this podcast, I changed to long-tail selling and got myself a storage unit and started massing inventory. The cost of the storage unit here in NJ always bothered me ($150 per month for a 5×10) but it kept the stuff out of my house and the wife happy. When the pandemic started, I started to worry I would not be able to access my inventory. Back in March I ran to the unit and grabbed what I could. I started organizing the stuff and realized some of the stuff was not listed. After 1 week I got through all the stuff I took home in my truck and went back for more. A week later I went back for more, they were open and no one is usually there since people usually store stuff and access it once and a while. It finally took 3 trips and I got all the stuff. I canceled the unit after having it for over 6 years. I just finished go thought all the inventory and fixing old listings that had free shipping and other errors.
I also went through my business policies which eBay generated over 300! All in all, I feel more in control, and sales are brisk. I guess people are home and board and they are in a buying mode. No trends here I sell everything and anything.Marc in NJ
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If you have room at home, we find it best to have inventory close. We sold for years, storing our inventory in three different places.
We also finished a big inventory check so we could label everything. Found a handful of errors we had to fix, but it felt good to touch everything we’re selling.
Being organized and efficient is never a bad thing.
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Yes and I changed my handling time to 1 day on everything I feel more in control although the storage unit was not much of an inconvenience. I did find a few of my listings still stuck on free shipping so I changed that. Curiously enough those listings with free shipping also had formatting that eBay did not like. I could not bulk modify those listings and I had to go into each one. Once into each listing when I went into the description eBay prompted me to remove the formatting before I continued to edit the listing. I had to tap that twice (on my iPad) before it let me edit the description. Once in it dod not remove the formatting which showed up as HTML. I had to backspace and remove it myself. It was tedious but I got through them. About 100 out of my 700 or so listings.
Marc
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I was determined to stop selling on ebay. NOT because I don’t love it-I do. The storage thing is my problem. I cannot stand to live in clutter. Finally, I started getting cardboard boxes from the grocery store, and grabbing things to put in them for sale. Still not done, but I moved it all to my garage and can I just tell you how much better I feel? I was worried I may be on the next episode of “HOARDERS-Buried Alive!”. Lol. I also found myself getting more organized at home (again-not done yet) and enjoying being home more.
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