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What doesn’t help is Ebay is actively making changes to the site and the app in the middle of this mess and during Q4.
New features I’ve noticed in the past day include:
If you run a sale, Ebay will now indicate on your sold page in the seller hub in green font “this item sold on x% sale.” I haven’t run a sale in a month before yesterday, so I don’t know how recent this change is.
On the Ebay app (iphone), when you add an item to your watchlist, it now has a heart and says “added to watchlist.” It used to be just watch and unwatch. I guess the heart is to compete with Etsy.
Why did they want until now to make all these changes? I’ve heard that creating new listings has been difficult today. Glad I took the morning and afternoon off to source and run errands!
Glitch or not, you’re better off having a record already established with Ebay of this specific problem in case you need to call back. Listing specifics are no big deal in comparison. Unaccounted for large amounts of money that haven’t been reconciled within Ebay’s system after 3 days is an actual concern that people should call Ebay about.
Yeah, I would call Ebay as soon as they open about a missing $400!
Ebay showed the correct fee amount this morning, so I was able to pay it. I’ve never filled in item specifics, so I don’t know if that is a problem still going on for the rest of you. Sales are running like normal in my store. Hopefully Ebay is overall working again?
This message is now appearing in the Selling Announcements on the Seller Hub:
Technical issues reported in Seller Hub, and listings in clothing, shoes and accessories
10-15-2019 12:32:19 PM
Last Edited 10-16-2019 10:42:13 AM
We’ve received reports of technical issues in Seller Hub, including sales graphs not being up to date, as well as problems when revising or creating listings within Clothing, Shoes and Accessories categories.We’d like to assure you that eBay is aware and we’re working on fixing both issues as a high priority. Please check back and we will update this post when it’s resolved.
We apologize for any inconvenience and as always, thank you for selling on eBay.
I have also noticed another potential problem that is not being discussed anywhere. Ebay just took their automatic payment for my last listed invoice amount. My current balance shown in the Seller Hub does NOT reflect the current balance that is shown when I attempt to make a one time payment to cover the additional fees that have accrued over the past few weeks. The price difference is off by $20. I am NOT paying the additional fees until the numbers are correct again.
Could someone please post a summary of what Ebay’s current malfunction is?
Why in the world is he discussing it in a closed FB group and not posting this to the Ebay forums at least? Or a write-up on Ebay’s official tech issues page?
The Seller Hub sales graph issue is not resolved. If anything, it seems to have gotten worse since last night. It originally only showed 3 days of incorrect data; now, it goes back to at least last Thursday.
Other than the Ebay glitch showing you’ve made less than you have, are sales really being impacted right now? I had 10 ebay sales yesterday, but none so far this morning. It’s still early, so I’m sure sales will come soon.
If you’re going to buy new, the refurbished/clearance section of the apple store website offers macbooks for at least $200 off. They look brand new, have mainly just been opened and straight returned to apple laptops that have had the os reinstalled. They look brand new out of the box, no signs of wear or prior use. A one-year warranty comes with them, but you can also purchase apple care like you would for a brand new laptop.
For a used computer, I would go with a refurb computer store that has a limited warranty and good reviews. Either in person or a shop on Ebay. Just look at reviews, number of computers sold, feedback, etc,. I would also be hesitant to buy directly from an unknown person, but it usually works out fine in the end. I would hope if anything went wrong, ebay buyer protection would have your back.
I would also suggest if you have a Facebook account posting to see if any friends (real-life) are selling their old macbooks. That or any other social media account people you know are on, there are a million these days. At least if you bought from a friend, you could trust that the item you get is legit.
I’m still very optimistic that this will be a great q4. It has already been surprisingly strong. Just need to get more listed! I’ve already had 5 ebay sales today. Currently getting 8-20 a day, so it is definitely trending up.
Sorted through 9 boxes of stock last week – half new items just in, half backlog. Still have a lot to list and price from some of the boxes, but any effort is good. Starting to notice actual holes and free space in a few of the backlog storage areas I have. Working through it for the past year has really helped. Hoping to create a really large dent in them this winter, maybe get to the point that 50% of the entire backlog has been listed or sorted through. I’m still buying new stock, but most of it is getting listed right away and not getting added to the backlog.
What I have noticed is I’m really bad about listing items outside of my niche – it took me a year to get to a box of goodies from 2 thrift stores I went to last October. I listed my first hat ever from out of it – $25. Several items from the box have watchers, 1 item sold within a day. A few items I tossed for condition issues. I was just happy to empty out the box! All of these sort of items go in my second “generalist” ebay store. Still, even that store has become niche. I’ve been filling it up with primarily records over the past year, not “everything else.” I need to get the rest of my random stuff listed this month and out of my storage area. Not sure how I’ll go about sourcing for it in the future once I’ve listed through all the random things. I’ll realistically still source the random things, but I’ll force myself to get things listed within a few days of purchasing!
10/07/2019 at 2:22 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 431: Top 10+ Scavenger Life Lessons #68727I had my 50th Etsy sale this week! Yay! Overall, I’ve had 4 Etsy sales this past week, 2 on the same day. I’ve been adding new listings to the store everyday for the past 2 days, so I’m now up to 120 items. I’ll continue to dribble out listings when I have time and find appropriate stock for the venue.
Otherwise, I’ve been focusing on my main Ebay store. I’ve always brushed off the Q4 expectations of “omg, sales will come in right away right on October 1st because it’s Q4” other resellers have because it has NEVER been like that for my store. Well, this year has been an exception. Q4 is here EARLY this year for me, and even though I have been stocking the store since early July for it, I still don’t feel like I prepared enough. I am continuing to list as much as I can to get in as many sales as possible over the next few months.
I’ve been looking for a good backup program as well. Do you use the $29 professional plan?
Still looking for a good ebay to shopify intermediary. This might actually work. Neat.
I sold my first $100+ item on Etsy this past week! I actually wasn’t expecting to ever sell the piece I had listed (too weird and high-priced), but it sold within 3 months for full-asking price. Went overseas.
One of the nice things I’ve noticed about Etsy is no one will haggle you on price. I’ve also never had to run a sale on that platform. For Ebay, I have to send offers everyday and ignore additional pleas for discounts. Sales run 1-2x a month. Meh.
I need to get more items listed for Q4 on Etsy, but I’m listing 20-50 items a day on Ebay as it is. Can’t believe tomorrow is already October. No matter how much time you prepare for Q4 (I’ve been sourcing and listing steadily since early July), there is still not enough time.
Not all books printed before 1900 are valuable, but this one is.
Abebooks is a bookselling site with a variety of different booksellers on it. It is currently owned by Amazon, but they didn’t create the site.
Not a rare book, but hard to find. 1 copy found in a library in France. I was not able to locate a copy of the 1882 edition for sale, but I did find an Asian specialist bookseller that had a different book by the same author and time period for sale for $270, also with a chart.
I would not aim that high, but I would go reasonably high with it due to the condition and how minty the chart appears. Will most likely be a long-tail item. It took me 4 years to sell a Cantonese dictionary from the early 1900s, but it wasn’t on Ebay.
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