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We’ve sold four low dollar items since Sunday morning. I think it’s just the current market we’re in that no one wants our weird, vintage stuff. War, inflation, rumors of recession, another round of COVID coming….
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had a minor existential moment while listing 2 unmatching trivets/plant saucers. why am i listing this? who would ever buy these? they don’t even match or have a maker’s mark! these are going to sit in my storage for years!
sold the next day for $20. you just can’t predict any of it. 🤷🏻♀️
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I am not panicking just wondering if others were experiencing the same thing.
I almost tossed these old newspapers in the trash the other day. Because you know, old newspapers… and they sold within in 24 hours.
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I have felt like it has been slow recently for all the reasons @Jay mentioned. Especially the last three or four weekends but also the odd day here and there during the week. In a way, that’s reassuring because it means people are probably just not buying on eBay across the board right now.
One of the things I have liked most about eBay’s constant changes over the last few years has been their emphasis on adding more tools for sellers. I was able to create a promoted listings campaign, and 2 markdown sales, in about an hour total this week. It was simple and easy. I’m a list it and forget it seller, so it’s helpful to have these tools to get me interacting with older listings. Send offers to watchers has been a nice addition as well.
Do these tools have a real impact on sales, and is there a way we can measure it? I have no idea. I’m not sure it’s possible to know for sure. But I’ve had a few sales from promoted listings and a few from markdown manager in the last few days. I’m happy for any sales at all when things are slow.
I think it’s become easier to manage a large inventory with these tools, too. None of them are perfect. But they really come in handy on slow weeks like this. It is hard to motivate yourself to list when things are not selling, even when listing is almost always the best path forward. But you can send out some offers to interested buyers in a few minutes, or create a 500 item markdown sale and bulk edit all your offer prices in about an hour. When I do these things, it makes it easier to put the slow week in perspective and get back to the basics — buying, selling, shipping, inventory. I don’t know about anyone else, but all of those systems are always works in progress for my eBay business. But tweaking them and improving them really pays off when sales pick back up.
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Its been down lately, that’s for sure. But how often does it all of a sudden get busy? Pretty often. Although there are plenty of good reasons for people to restrain their spending right now (stock market, inflation, being two major ones), my experience is very rarely react reasonably to things like that. Remember the splurge we all got when the first economic stimulus checks went out!
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