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It has been ages since I posted on the forum, but I had a thought and was hoping maybe it would be something you would consider trying.
I also wanted to thank you guys for everything you do! I worked a part time job for years that I didn’t enjoy at all. The only good thing about it was that I was able to listen to podcasts while I worked. So I spent the majority of that time soaking up all of your great ideas. I now do ebay full time and am loving every second of it! I couldn’t/wouldn’t have done it without you guys – so thank you from the bottom of my heart!
Anyhoo… I noticed that your listing are posted sometimes with several days of no listings. I think it would be interesting to have your helpers leave several listings as just scheduled, but not put on yet. Then, on the days they are not working – throw those listings on. So you are listing at least a minimum of 10 items every single day. I have noticed that every day I list – the next day, I almost always have sales. It would be a super easy test to run with the volume of listings you put up. I play around with it a little on my listings, but would love to see how it plays out in a huge store like yours.
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Congrats on going fulltime. Glad we could be some inspiration, but you did all the work and solved all the puzzles to create a store!
Yes, the idea of scheduling listings to show up each day isnt new. It’s one of those “black magic” tactics that some sellers have thinking that eBay rewards activ2ity. It’s something we could consider.
Currently we always sell items each day (maybe not as many as we like). I think there might be three days a year where not one item will sell. But we also have a large inventory to capture a multitude of searches.
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Hi Jay, Thanks for responding 🙂 I know this has been talked about before, but I do actually think there is something to it. I know you enjoy testing theories as much as I do, so I thought it might be a fun thing to try. Not sure a test at this time of year would be fair though – the holiday sales would probably throw off the results.
My store is small – only 1180 items at this moment. I have been selling on ebay for years, but it took listening to you guys to encourage me to make it a full time gig. I usually aim to get about 10 – 15 items on a day. I rarely make it every day – which tend to be followed by days of little to no sales. Which of course, fuels my activity equals sales conspiracy theory. Thanks for everything you guys do. I look forward to your podcast every week! -
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I have noticed that when I stop listing my sales go dead, and pick up again when I start listing regularly. Maybe coincidence, but it’s happened so many times I suspect there may be something to it. (stop rolling your eyes, Jay)
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HA! If it works, I’m all about evidence based experiments.
So why don you schedule listings so you have items posted each day? Just not sure why people believe these tactics but then dont use them.
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With the way I upload new listings using File Excahange it’s only a few minutes to upload all or a few of what I have ready, and I sometimes stretch those out and just upload a few daily. Since this is my slow sales time of year right now I want to get everything up that I can. I’m not likely to keep any extra records, its just not that important to me.
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Agreed. We also just list what we can as soon as we can. I see no reason to hold listings back.
I only asked because some sellers really get into the “black magic” of eBay, thinking they can manipulate the system by different tactics. But then when asked if they do it themselves, they dont.
I know on Amazon sellers say there are ways to “win the buy box”. If they have a hot commodity item that hundreds of other sellers have, I can see how that’s important.
Im unconvinced that with weird, long tail items that similar tactics can work for eBay.
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Jay – I try to, but I can barely keep up with getting 10 listings on per day. So having extras to save for the days I don’t list is almost impossible. That is why I was hoping you would try it. You have workers who hustle on the days they work for you. I would guess that they easily have extras to spill over onto the days they don’t work.
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I think it works only because if an item doesn’t sell right away it’s a long tail item, so if something is listed and it sells in 1-5 days and some of your long tail items sell during that period you feel like things have picked up.
A bigger store just means you have more long tail items that haven’t sold yet so if you stop listing it’s going to seem like sales have slowed down.
Get a few thousand items up and like J&R you’ll see a steadier number of sales but will still ebb and flow with how much you’re listing.My own store has never been higher than around 900, in years past it was fairly steady, even when I wasn’t listing much, but now I believe my store is all long tail as I’ve been very lazy about listing. I’m just not finding the quick sale inventory I used to.
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I think a lot of this might be down to normal market fluctuations – my sales on Monday were incredibly high on both of my main stores – Amazon and Ebay. Tuesday, sales were slow on both stores until the evening. Today, sales are steady and consistent on both stores and it is still early in the day. I’ve added nothing in weeks to my Amazon store and have hardly had the chance to list much on Ebay and both stores are performing the exact same way for this time of year.
New items listed might draw attention to the new listings and bring in sales that way, but I do not believe they overall drive the sales ability of a store.
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