The Numbers: September 18-24, 2022

[Jay]

We’re no economists, but whenever we see “recession is coming” plastered all over the headlines, we listen. With rising interest prices, the governmen
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[Mark S]

09/18/22 – 09/24/22

Total Items In Store: 4703

Items Sold: 18

Gross Sales: $774.53 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $601 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Highest Price Sold: $ 70 (Snow Pants)
Average Price Sold: $ 33.39
Money Spent on New Inventory: $ 252.13
Number of items listed: 29

Gut Sales Report for the week: Sales were decent again this week.

Focus for the week : Trying to get my items cross listed to other platforms to increase sales for the upcoming busy season. See – Thoughts for the week below.

Scavenge of the week: I found two pairs of competition Ice skates for cheap. Should sell for a couple hundred each.

Thoughts for the week: I found a company that will do an semi-automated crosslist of all my vintage ebay items to Etsy. There are about 2000 of them. They will charge $399 (so about .20 per listing). This is great for me because that would take a long time for me to do this manually. Then Etsy will charge me .20 for each new listing. So, about a $800 deal. However, that means I will have 42.5% of my ebay listings on etsy. If etsy sells about 60%
(there are about 60% as many etsy users as ebay) as fast as ebay, then on etsy, I should gross about 25% of what I do on ebay. Don’t know if my projections are correct, I guess I will have to wait and see.

Then, after all of my etsy listings are posted, I will have to supply Vendoo the etsy url (which the company doing the automation will provide to me in a spreadsheet) so that Vendo can keep my items in sync.

I am just waiting for my etsy account to be set up to pull the trigger.

Also, my research shows that Mercari now has an import feature from ebay that is in beta testing. You can get it, but you have to sign up for it. See the link below.

https://www.mercari.com/us/help_center/article/499/

Mark S

[Mark S]

Oh, forgot that I have to pay $100 extra for that spreadsheet with the ebay title and etsy url in it. That makes it a $900 deal.

Mark

[Sharyn]

@mark-s – I don’t have any personal experience, but, from what I’ve heard on the forum here, it will be much cheaper to sign up with SixBit or List Perfectly. I know a few people here use SixBit, and I think it costs $20-$30/month.

[Mark S]

Sharyn,

I think you are comparing Apples to Oranges.  There are three different things I am describing here:

1. Import all existing vintage items from an existing ebay store into an existing Esty store. As far as I can tell, no one offers this as a full service. I found a company that will give you an assistant that will do all the work with some automated software. That is what costs $399 plus the $100 extra for the functionality I want. Etsy is going to charge me $.20 for each new item regardless of how it gets there. Vendoo told me that they are working on software to do this. But, Vendoo couldn’t tell me exactly what it would do and when it would be available.

2. Going forward after all my vintage items are in esty, I need to be able to cross-list the new items I am listing. Sixbit and Vendoo both do this. Sixbit’s cheapest paln is their Home & Hobby Edition – $24.99/mo. The next level is Small Business Edition – $42.99/mo. It is unclear to me which I need.

Pricing

Vendoo pricing is $19.99\month to  be able to cross list up to 125 new items per month. I believe that is the  plan I need right now. Plus, I need to add the importing (from ebay) option for $4.99\month.  So, that is about $25 total

https://www.vendoo.co/pricing?utm_term=&utm_campaign=Brand/Competitor+Terms+%7C+Search&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&hsa_acc=8757080323&hsa_cam=16388667038&hsa_grp=134129589335&hsa_ad=584048115059&hsa_src=g&hsa_tgt=dsa-1536308248263&hsa_kw=&hsa_mt=&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gclid=CjwKCAjwm8WZBhBUEiwA178UnMbA_hnTY4iUp6bYpIuaQH_WItFfmrV2w5hYqLIAnJ4uulvSJVH7ORoCnEQQAvD_BwE

So, the pricing is close, depending on exactly what plan(s) you need.

3. The other feature is to keep track of what sells on each platform, and then delist the item on all other platforms when it sells. It appears that Vendoo and Sixbit both do this.

Now, the question is which market places does Sixbit support? They mention etsy, but they are very vauge about which others they support.

But, Vendoo clearly supports the 10 most popular sites (at least it appears that way to me). They support the following, but I am only interested in the first 5 right now.

1. ebay
2. Etsy
3. Mercari
4. Facebook Marketplace
5. Poshmark

6. Grailed
7. Depop
8. Tradesy
9. Kidizen
10. Shopify

Because, I would like to have my items in all of the first 5 market places above and have software to manage that.

But, Sixbit appears to be one of the industry leaders, so I will check more into them before making a final decision.

Mark

[Sharyn]

Perhaps, I haven’t actually used these products myself.

From reading other posts, I was under the impression that SixBit would upload your eBay listings and then you could cross post to other sites with some minor modifications.

Again, I don’t have any first hand experience. Since I have a part time job, it isn’t worth my money to try to get a higher volume. I hope someone who uses SixBit, or another cross posting app, will chime in.

Just seems like a lot of money to pay

[Lukastreasure]

@Mark-s – I’ve been cross listing to Etsy since January using Sixbit.  Their cheapest option that actually allows you to cross-list to another “channel” is $120/month.  I find it pretty pricey, and it has a big learning curve.  Once you’ve got the hang of it, it is pretty easy and I find I like using it better than the eBay interface.  I believe they have an option where you can get assistance to ease the learning curve and it might be worth paying to speed things up.

I only have 254/1088 of my listings cross listed due to what I’ve deemed good fit.  I’ve been underwhelmed by the amount of increased sales for my store.  That said, Etsy has accounted for about 10% of my sales this year and only 25% of my store is on there.  I sell mostly vintage collectibles and I don’t have the impression that Etsy is the best place to sell these.  I’m still weighing whether the benefit makes up for the effort, but I’m going to hold on through the end of the year to see how the Christmas season plays out.

[Mark S]

lukastreasuretrove,

Thanks for the information. That makes Sixbit a lot more expensive that Vendoo.

Which other Market Places does Sixbit allow you to cross-list? Which of the 10 that I listed above?

Your results on etsy are similar to what I am expecting, just a bit lower. 25% of your inventory moving only 40% as fast on etsy gives you your 10% of all your sales from etsy. I was thinking etsy would move items 60% as fast. That could be true for me because I have a wide range of vintage items, but I will not know for sure till I take the plunge.

I am projected to gross $50k on ebay next year. So, if your etsy sell rate of only 40% of ebay holds true for me, that means etsy will account for 17% of all my sales which equates to about $8500 for the year. That is fine with me. That is about $700 a month more to sell on etsy also – I will take that.

Mark

[Lukastreasure]

Even more expensive if you want to inegrate with more than one other marketplace.  The $120 is just for one, you get “unlimited” at the next level for $160/month. Pricing – SixBit Software

I’ll be interested to hear how Vendu works.

[Mark S]

Ok, I see Sixbit states, “Sell on unlimited channels” for $160. However, they don’t list what channels that includes.

Mark

[Mark S]

Ok, after a lot of hunting, this page appears to state which channels Sixbit supports:

https://www.sixbitsoftware.com/EN/Site_Differences.htm

Looks like it is 4 – ebay, etsy, amazon, and Shopify.

It doesn’t have these other 3 that I would like:

Mercari
Facebook Marketplace
Poshmark

Mark

[ChristineR]

Total Items in Store: 465
Items Sold:  8
Gross Sales: $542.49 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $336.18 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $93
Highest Price Sold: $179 (My last set of Williams Sonoma clearance plates, boo)
Average Price Sold: $68
Returns: 1  ($50)
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $18
Number of items listed this week:  36 (Ebay and Mercari)

A pretty good week on Ebay for me.  I think I might be able to hit 500 Ebay listings this week or next, depending on which platform I focus on.   I have a few bins of better brand used clothing of ours I really want to get out of our bedroom that’s going to go largely on Mercari.  (I prefer not to sell clothing on Ebay unless it’s flawless and due to returns.)  Since I got a run through the Halloween stuff, I’ve shifted focus from thrifting to listing, as it should be.

I randomly went to an estate sale on morning 2 of a 3 day sale after driving by.  The woman had really interesting vintage stuff but had researched everything and was going for only a bit off the Ebay price.  I was tempted to ask her to come back after the sale was over and pick but I have too much stuff already to list.  I bought an empty Shiny Brite ’50s ornament box that’s already sold and paid for my small bundle of items.

The news is grim but people still keep buying stuff.  Personally, I’m looking to pare down rather than accumulate stuff.  That’s mainly from leaving my job, though groceries were extra expensive here before the pandemic even so that’s got my attention.

I read an interesting article by the Auction Professor about a monthly + sell similar strategy to fight declining sales of vintage items.  He apparently has connected with many other Ebayers and concluded that there were adverse algorithm changes last October.  I have been adding some item specifics and changing some prices on old stuff.  I’m also doing 4% promoted and sales, offers to watchers, etc.  I may start doing sell similar too.

[craig rex]

Here is a link to the Auction Professor article if anyone is curious:

How to Offset Declining Sales on eBay with a Sell Similar Strategy

I experimented with end and sell similar a few times last year, here is my most recent post on it if anyone wants some hard numbers.

My theory, based in my own experiments with the strategy, is that a subset of eBay users  only, or mostly, check newly listed items in their searches and saved searches. So end and sell similar would be the best way to get these potential buyers to interact with your listing.

I have only every tried end and sell similar once every few months, but it might be worth trying once a month during the upcoming busy season. The new bulk editor makes the whole process very quick. End 200 items at a time, go into unsold listings, sell similar with all 200, and repeat as many times as necessary. I like to sort by price so I can change prices in bulk if I want to.

[Sharyn]

I’ve done this a few times this year based on the discussions here on the forum. One thing I have to watch out for is my multiple quantity items. If I have three of something and one sold, and then I decide to end and sell similar, the new listing will show the original quantity of three. But then I will only have two in inventory.

Before I end, I have to look through each listing and write down quantities.

Does anyone know of a simpler way to sell similar with the old quantity?

This issue is multiplied when I have a listing with variations. For instance, I don’t think I will ever sell similar for this listing:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/184501956215

[ChristineR]

Mercari is giving out $20 for listing 30 items by Sunday so clothing it is.

@Sharon you can customize your active listings space and add sold quantity (which is currently not working for me) but also available and initial quantity and then sort them that way.  Then exclude anything with solds from your sell similar.

[ChristineR]

https://youtu.be/i1mQaKvRgas

Sharing this YouTube video about sell similar.  Apparently this person spoke with executives at EBay while prepping for the Open and confirms harm to stale listings.

Along with the multiples issue I would need to repin my items again in Pinterest.  I just started cleaning up over there and immediately sold a stale newly pinned item.

[Jay]

“confirms harm to stale listings”

Do you mean it’s positive or negative for stale listings?

If eBay is now telling seller explicitly that its good to relist each month, I wish they would just make it automatic.

 

 

[ChristineR]

Negative.  Check out 1:40 in the video and more like minute 3:00 for that point.  Good thing is monthly for unique vintage items would not be necessary and maybe harmful for Google search.

[annaesthetic23]

I can confirm this is what they told her–I was also present in person for that conversation! It was directing from an executive and also the team that works on that part of the back-end.

I also wondered why they don’t just make it automatic. I’m assuming it’s because they want to give people a choice about losing the history of watchers/views/sell-through on that listing, which is all tied to the item ID, which is what changes when you sell similar. I think selling similar is really unfavorable to some sellers who have multiple quantity listings that they keep forever and restock when it sells out because they want that history to be continuous. That’s what I gathered from talking with other sellers at eBay!

[ChristineR]

How old do you think us too old for one off vintage items?

[annaesthetic23]

Well, it’s still kind of a matter of preference, but it seems to depend a lot on how much competition there is for that kind of item. If it’s super specific and it is always on the first page of search results because there are only ever like five of that thing listed on eBay at a given time, it might not matter so much. According to eBay’s definitions, any listing is stale after 30 days and stagnant after 90.

For me, I’m not really attached to the data on the listings re: watchers/views, so now I just cyclically refresh everything in bulk by selling similar 200 at a time.

Also, a bit of a detour, but I used to think promoting those kinds of listings wouldn’t help much because it’s always high enough up in search results by virtue of being rare… but I also learned that’s not exactly true. They told us that the organic search results placement is more about having a high-quality listing. If your listing is excellent (great photos, no spammy stuff in the title, all the relevant item specs, etc) it may yet beat out listings that are lower quality on the actual search results page. So even if you have an item that’s always showing up on the first page of search results, what promoting those rare-ish one-off listings will do is actually put them in other ad placements around eBay, like the “similar/related sponsored items” offerings on the actual listing pages of  the others, etc.

Sarah Styles (from the video) is awesome, and she is going to be putting out a buuuunch of YouTube videos to discuss these things as they come up. I’m actually going to be joining her live on Fridays for a recap chat where we can discuss whatever came up in our store that week, keep picking apart all the stuff we learned while on campus at eBay, etc!

[The_SEAM_Store]

Total Items in Store: 3768 listings for 5729 items

Items Sold: 44
Gross Sales: $2979.39 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $2071.70

Cost of Items Sold: $588 ($64 mine / $524 consignors)

$Highest Price Sold: $170 Zegna Sport Coat
Average Price Sold: $67.71
Returns: 2
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $5
Number of items listed this week: 10

 

[Sharyn]

Pretty decent week as I had two sales over $100 and one over $50. However, all but 3 sales were commissions, so my COGS are high.

Week of Sept 18 – 24
Total Items in Store: 1699 eBay, 29 Etsy
Items Sold: 14 eBay, 0 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $7 + $229 Commission
Total Sales: $620.61 eBay, $0 Etsy; includes fees but no shipping
Highest Price Sold: eBay, somewhat of a tie (both on commission):
$109 Gucci Accenti EDT spray 50ml
$105 Apple iPod nano 6th generation never used
Average price: $44.33
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 31

[craig rex]

I had about 575 auctions ending last Sunday and Monday, so most of my numbers from this week are from those sales. I added best offer to all of my auctions and sold a few that way, so it was about 100 sales total from the auctions. This seems to be pretty common with auctions, at least in my experience — if you set your minimum bid to the lowest price you’d accept, then you’ll do real well to you sell more than 20% of your auctions. It’s simply a numbers game about who’s looking for auctions that week. I wouldn’t recommend setting your minimum bid to $0.99 or whatever eBay recommends. You’re more likely to get less bidding activity than you expect rather than a bidding war.

If I wasn’t confident about that before running these auctions, I am now that I’ve started relisting the unsold auctions. Already a few have sold for higher than the minimum bid price in last week’s auctions. It’s a reminder to know what your items are worth and, even when things are slow, be patient. Send offers to watchers, run auctions or markdown sales if you want. But sometimes your buyer won’t find your item until next week or next month because they’re not looking for it yet.

9/18/2022 – 9/24/2022

Total items in store: 1023 (down from 1363 last week)

Items sold: 92 (18 via best offer, 0 via seller initiated offer, 10 via promoted listings)

Gross sales: $2946.27 (down 8% from one year ago, $2018.57 from auctions and $927.70 from fixed price)

Net sales: $1945.12 (down 17% from one year ago)

Average sales price: $32.02 (down 36% from one year ago)

Time spent searching through online auction listings for new trading cards inventory: 12 hours (up from 5 hours last week)

Highest price sold (net): $126.76 — Tony Conigliaro 2010 Historic Autographs In memory cut autograph

Conigliaro was a Boston Red Sox outfielder in the 1960s, and Massachusetts native, and both his baseball career and life were cut tragically short by health problems. I can see why someone would spend $100 to add one of his autographs to their collection. I wonder what the value of something like this will be in 20 or 40 years as personal connections to these players are basically gone. Of course, who knows where technology will be in that time, and how it might allow us to “reanimate” the dead!

Lowest price sold (net): $7.51— Austin Listi autograph game-used batting gloves

The lowest minimum bid I set on my auctions was $10, so I had a lot of sales which were $10 plus shipping — 23 of them to be exact. I wonder how many more of these $10 minimum bid items would have sold if the opening bid was $5. I like to experiment, but that’s probably too far even for me. It takes a lot of $5 sales to add up to any real kind of money.

[annaesthetic23]

9/18/22 – 9/24/22

Total Active Listings: About 12,400

Total Number of Items Sold: 69

Gross Sales (including shipping): 1338.21

COGS: 150.89

Highest Price Item Sold: Handmade mint and white disco/leisure suit from the 70s ($75)

Average Price Sold: 19.39

Returns: 2

Sourcing Cost: 0 (still working through a pile from an estate clean out)

Sales have been sloooooow for me since about the beginning of August. I am really hoping and praying Q4 comes through for my store. I think not sourcing the way I used to for nearly a year now is taking a toll. I had a great run about April-July, then it sales kind of tanked. So I’m going back to the regular pattern of trying to source better stuff, no time-intensive estate clean outs, and listing consistently, listing non-consignment stuff! General sales volume has been down, but also my average sale price has gone down.

It has been an awesome couple of months, ironically, in the sense that I had the opportunity to put together a seller-led session for eBay Open and present it this year. At the end of August, I flew to San Jose to work on eBay open content for a week. It was terrifying but really, really fun, and I was SO happy to see My Cottage in my chat! My session was about inventory management, called “Bin There, Done That” (haha) and it will be on the eBay for Business YouTube channel for the rest of time, I am told, after they post it sometime next week.

I made some amazing friends at eBay, both with corporate folks and fellow sellers. We also had the chance to talk with teams from every department you can think of, and heard about some of the new stuff they’re rolling out soon (like hopefully no more unpaid items, ever, by the end of this year).

In light of that, its disheartening that my sales are so crummy at the moment, but I’m keeping the faith in conjunction with putting my nose to the grindstone! I have been listing the whole time, but not as much as I used to, not as consistently, and have been paying contractors for more front-end estate clean out work rather than directly for items processed and ready to be listed.

Any ideas about semi-liquidation would be welcome if you guys have thoughts, because I’m also gearing up to move back to my homeland of southern Illinois, probably in about 6 months or so. I want to keep the business going obviously, but if I have fewer than 10k items to move, that would be awesome. COGs are always low, so I’m not afraid to drop prices, I just don’t have a ton of confidence that a price-drop alone will generate sales more quickly.

I hope everyone’s week is more profitable than the previous! Cheers!

[sooz]

Anna, I watched your session at eBay Open and it was my favorite! Especially the “permission” you gave us to release our un-inspiring items back out into the wild! You did a great job with a little humor and lots of great info. And your talk was not boring or too fast. Thanks! I’m going to watch it again!

[Ryanne]

please post a link to this, we all want to watch!

[sooz]

Anna’s talk: Bin There Done That on youtube. From eBay Open 2022.

[Lukastreasure]

Anna, Great job on the video.  You looked very professional and the tips were great.  You’re a natural.

[Retro Treasures WV]

Items in Store 2109
Items Sold 20
Total Sales $732.00
COGS $87.00
Total Profit $645.00
Average profit $32.25
Average sales price $36.60
New Listings 0
Items scavenged 2
Listing 2022 weekly Avg 44

Another week goes by, another week with no listing. I have a couple issues, my ebay workspace is a DISASTER (not conducive to listing), and my weekends keep getting hijacked. I’m just scraping by doing the bare minimum shipping.

 

This weekend I planned on installing a new hot water heater  and expansion tank Sunday morning. Yeah… that turned into a 2 day affair with a plumber involved. On the bright side, I now know why I’ve had so much trouble with water based fixtures and appliances over the years – my water pressure was 100+psi.  The other issue I brought him in for was a plumbing crossover issue I was having (cold water on hot water side even though everything is closed.) I explained why I thought it was one of the shower cartridges. He said he had never seen that and it would be pretty much impossible. He also chastised me for “learning things on the internet”… so I banished him to the crawl space to do the work I didn’t want to do and left the crossover and hot water heater for myself. I had the plumber install a PRV and expansion tank as well as replace the exterior frost free hose bib that has been broken for a couple years.

 

after he left I replaced the shower cartridge I suspected of being the issue. He said it would be very difficult and take 1-2 hours. I did it in less than 10 minutes. I was also right – the design DID allow crossover if an o-ring goes bad. Replacing the cartridge fixed the crossover issue – no more cold water on the hot side.

 

[Retro Treasures WV]

I also tried out Whatnot for the first time last week. I partook in an auction done by a fairly prominent youtube video game reseller. It was shocking how much people were overbidding on things! Contrary to what I expected with the sheer volume of items being sold and the limited amount of people (<1000) in attendance, I thought for sure some deals would pop up.  Nope pretty much every single item went for OVER ebay trending prices. I felt like I was in bizarro land!

I was mainly there to see how things work on the platform and to enter the giveaways (they had ALOT of giveaways). I ended up buying 3 things. One I got below ebay prices, but sweeter deal because of the $10 referral credit.  The other was an ok deal for something I wanted personally (full ebay price, but free shipping), and the last was a lot I was getting for resale. That one ended up being very misrepresented.

I started a item not as described claim with whatnot and contacted the seller. They responded very professionally and offered a full refund return, so we’re good.

I’ll say this, the youtube resellers with their built in audiences and their pseudo celebrity status are making BANK on whatnot. It is basically a dream scenario for them.

 

For people like me and you that would have to build an audience organically, not so much. If I do whatnot again I’ll have to find an auction that isn’t filled with people bidding on the experience more than the actual item.

[Retro Treasures WV]

So Whatnot experience Part 2.

Last night I couldn’t sleep so I got on Whatnot to look through other auctions that caught my attention. I ended up on a vintage shirt auction. I stayed up WAY too late and ended up winning 18 shirts. With tax & Shipping I paid $10 per item average. While my COGS are high, the quality of the items was phenomenal. My average sales price will easily exceed $25/shirt.

Overall it was pretty darn fun. This seller did 15 second auctions starting at $5 with time added to bids under 10 seconds left. If the shirt had damage he started them at $1.

Shipping was $5 for the first T shirt and $2.50 per additional. Sweat shirts were $4.50 per shirt additional shipping.

The most I paid (Shipping and tax included) was$24.91 for an awesome sweatshirt with a wrap around graphic. I knew it was special and I was willing to bid up. Ebay solds sell immediately and the listings were under priced. I’ll be putting it up for $100 and will take offers over $60.

This auction had a TON of vintage “The Mountain” graphic t shirts.

You know ’em if you see ’em:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=the+mountain+vintage+t+shirt&_sacat=0&LH_ItemCondition=3000&Brand=The%2520Mountain&_dcat=15687&LH_Sold=1&LH_Complete=1&_sop=16

Awesome shirts, but there were two people in the auction who bid every one of them up. I didn’t get a single one, but I at least had the satisfaction of making them pay up. Lol!

 

All said and done, I really enjoyed this type of auction! It is tedious to look through t-shirts at local thrifts as the junk to treasure ratio is incredibly high and the prices are close to $5 each with tax for t-shirts. Being able to see an awesome vintage t-shirt every 30 seconds or so and be able to get them at a great price was perfect.

 

I assume this seller has people go to goodwill bins and just grab every shirt they find that is vintage and/or from a set list of brands/themes. It is a SUPER fast nickel (maybe penny more accurately) but they sell 100 t shirts a night for $5-25 each and make money on the shipping too. Just chugging through volume.

It’s a great plan for them and a great plan for me, the slow dime seller. Win/Win.

I’ll do this again, as the local thrifts have started sucking and I needed a breath of fresh air to reinvigorate my scavenger side.

[Jay]

It really is interesting to seeing how online selling is evolving. So is WhatNot just about creating the excitement of the “auction buzz” online? Kind of a mix of commerce and entertainment?

[Retro Treasures WV]

Most definitely a blend of both. It was pretty clear that some bidders in the video game auction just wanted to be part of the show. That’s not my scene. There were some people who were so outlandish with it that I started to suspect shill bidding was going on either to pump up bids or purely for entertainment and views. People buying games for $50 and telling the seller to “rerun it” or “unbox it on camera” for a sealed game. Basically making a sizeable donation to the seller in these instances. Some people really get into that being part of that celebrity thing though and like supporting their youtube entertainers. After all, Patreon is a BIG thing!

 

Whatnot is still a pretty wild west thing so shill bidding has got to be going on, similar to the old ebay days.

 

You can always sign up and just watch a random auction. Pick one with alot of giveaways you can enter. Randomized giveaways is a big part of the experience.

[Timo]

I use SixBit and their Small Business Edition ($42.99/month). SixBit also has a Home & Hobby Edition that costs $24.99/mo. Plus more expensive plans that add cross-posting to multiple platforms and online inventory management.

The above post by @mark-s is correct in that SixBit supports: ebay, etsy, amazon, and Shopify. I only use it for one site: eBay. Also they are starting the Beta test for integration with the HipCommerce collectibles marketplace. Sellers in these categories can list with SixBit to any of the three collectible sites: HipStamp, HipPostcard and HipComic.

SixBit is the least expensive assistant that I can hire. A few features that I love:
For “one-of-a-kind” items: SixBit saves info about these forever in my database. When listing a similar item many months later, just use the duplicate function, make a few edits, update the pictures & list the item.
For items in the same category that are very similar: Use an item template or the duplicate function to create a new item. Use snippets & wrappers (like SixBit macros) for common listing details. Again, make a few edits, update pictures & list item.
For eBay end and sell similar: SixBit makes this super easy. Sixbit automatically ends the listings and then I re-submit to eBay. I end & relist about 75% of my items every 30 days.

There is a learning curve, but SixBit is worth the effort. And, SixBit tech support is awesome. I get prompt support by posting a ticket on their website whenever needed. And, if you ask, they make special efforts to help you get started during the free 30-day trial.

SixBit has Free 30-day trial. If you want to check it out, this is my referral link.

[Temudgin]

For the week ending Sep 24:
Total Items in Store: 288
Items Sold: 6
Gross Sales: $519.86 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $432.88 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $18 (including consignment commissions)
Highest Price Sold: $360 (Land Rover OEM detachable trailer hitch)
Average Price Sold: $86.64
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory: $0
Number of items listed: 1

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