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Personally, as long as the image is not being used for a commercial purpose, I do not care if someone grabs an image of a piece of ephemera and posts it on pinterest or instagram. I consider that free advertising. Someone might see the image, want it, search on it for ebay and find mine. I get a sale. Yay, free advertising.
If you scan an image at a lower DPI, or do not take the best pictures of an item, there is no way it can be used for commercial reasons. I don’t think the quality of the images posted on Ebay could be used for commercial purposes at all – the size and file quality of the images are just too small.
Normal photography used for Ebay listings would also not be good enough for a graphic designer to steal an image. If someone is interested in your image for commercial reasons, they will need to buy it and take higher quality scans in order to use it for those reasons.
Ebay was going to remove listings with watermarks earlier this year. Though they decided not to, I wouldn’t be surprised if they did so at a later date:
In September, as part of our Fall Seller Release, we announced that listings with watermarked images would be removed from eBay search results beginning on March 1, 2018.
We know that buyers want to see products clearly before they make a purchase, and watermarks create a cluttered experience not consistent with retail standard. Watermarked images are also a primary reason Google rejects eBay-funded Google Shopping placements, meaning less visibility for your listings and decreased conversion.
As a result, we encourage you to remove watermarks from listings in order to enhance your reach and velocity on eBay.
However, we have received significant feedback about our upcoming enforcement and for this and other business reasons have decided that we will not enforce the removal of watermarks in March 2018 as originally planned. We know this is a crucial time of year, and we want you to be able to focus completely on selling.
Thank you to those who have already removed watermarks. We know in many cases this has been a significant effort. Because of those efforts, your listings will more likely be included in Google Shopping search, your products will be featured in our product-based shopping experience, and will be considered for our deals and seasonal promotions. And, eBay will even more delight buyers with a world-class retail experience.
We appreciate your efforts and always value your feedback.
Yeah, I have one for books.
Books:
Rate: .39% (adjusted low).Average:
Me: .39%
Peers: .32%Adjustment reasons: Requests from less than 10 buyers.
1/254 = .39%
2nd category: collectibles.
Rate: 0.00% (low)
Peers: .23%
0/128 = 0.00%
12/20/2018 at 12:30 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 390: Building a Business to Build a Life #53770Yep, exactly. As long as it has been paid for, it is fine. If you buy it and sit on it forever with absolutely no return from it whatsoever…uhhh…what was the point?
Hoarders are more like…I love shopping! Listing, boo…when listing is the main component of reselling. No one’s going to know what you have if you don’t list it. I feel like a lot of beginners get all psyched up about thrifting and finding items with higher prices, but then stop there. Some turn into straight hoarders. “It’s all valuable!” It’s not. If you thrift frequently and have not many items in your store but a ton of unlisted items waiting to be listed, you are a hoarder.
Speaking of thrifting, I’ve been doing a lot of it over the past few months in anticipation of the winter thrifting slow down. I love nothing more than the excuse of it being too cold outside to just sit in the house and list and list and list. As it stands now, I currently only have 2 stacks of books/1 pile of random stuff to get through from these thrift runs. Staying on top of this is the key. The backlog doesn’t stand a chance this winter. 😀
12/20/2018 at 9:15 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 390: Building a Business to Build a Life #53747I just call them my backlog. When I get large collections in, I always make sure to get enough items listed to at least “pay for the lot.” Then, it may take years, but I’ll eventually get the rest listed. As long as the lot itself has been paid for with profit on top of it, it’s good.
It becomes problematic if you neglect to list from certain buys you bring in period. Like, go to the goodwill outlet, have a huge haul on your floor and list nothing from it. Go back in a few days. Add more that you don’t plan to list.
As long as you’re always listing what you bring in, you’re fine. If it’s too much to process at one time, you’ll eventually get there. Just at the very least list!
Looking back on it, the packges could have been sent by priority mail. The packages I have received from sellers on there have all been cheap kraft manilla envelopes with lots of tape, folded up to make the size as small as possible. I really thought the labels said first class. Oh, well. I guess I could have just assumed that they were being sent via 1st class mail due to the size and weight. Now I feel bad for low balling all of those sellers. =/
There would probably be a lot more buyers on poshmark if they didn’t set the shipping rates so high.
No, I’m just buying a lot of cheap fast fashion for myself. Some of it can retail for $50-$100 apiece new, so I get them used for $5-15 apiece. Works for me. The quality isn’t terrible on the pieces I buy for myself, so they should last long enough to at least make the $5-15 worthwhile.
I’ve read that there are people who flip from Poshmark to Ebay, so I know it can be done. I just have enough of a backlog with books and ephemera to list that even if I wanted to sell clothes (and I do, I have several bags full of good vintage to eventually list on Ebay & Etsy), I can’t until later in the winter.
When I had time earlier this year to find Poshmark like clothes to list, I only bought pieces that I myself would want to wear in case I didn’t get around to listing them. I did find a few pieces, but I haven’t had the time to list them now that I’m bored with them, plus I have a few pieces of my own to list (brand new, unworn with tags, past return date but bought on sale so overall cheap cheap cheap). Hopefully another winter project.
The thrift stores in my area have also started selling individual items for $5-20 apiece (that includes shirt), so I might as well just look for styles I’m interested in online rather than wander aimlessly through thrift stores to maybe find a piece I might want in my size. They’ve really taken the fun out of thrifting for fun. =/
I am really confused now. Oh well. At least they arrived as described.
Whaaaat? When I put the offer in, the checkout screen confirms that it will be for the offer price + $6.49 shipping rate. At least 1 of the packages I recently got was via 1st class, if not both from what I remember. Am I getting scammed? I just looked at my recent orders, and both had shipping for $6.49 apiece. I don’t see any refunds. Now I’m confused. 🙁
Yeah, I am sort of annoying and send what I consider really low offers to sellers. I just do it to make up for the high shipping prices automatically set by poshmark. So far, I’ve purchased 4 or 5 items. Sellers have always accepted all offers I’ve sent. They’ve always made up for the reduced prices they’ve given me by sending the clothes via 1st class mail. I’ve received everything I’ve purchased. No problems.
12/17/2018 at 11:40 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 390: Building a Business to Build a Life #53521I’ve noticed that when I list on the desktop, it automatically checks the option for international buyers to return items in 30 days – nooooooo. This option doesn’t come up at all in my 3rd party listing software.
Domestic returns in 30 days – yes, fine, of course. An international return could take 2+ months to actually receive back. Who would cover shipping? Sounds like an unbelievable amount of unnecessary work to put on the seller.
12/17/2018 at 11:29 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 390: Building a Business to Build a Life #53520That sounds like an exhausting “vacation” lol. Hope you’re able to fit in some real time off somewhere in there!
12/17/2018 at 11:28 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 390: Building a Business to Build a Life #53519I still find listing to be incredibly relaxing and enjoyable. It means you aren’t out in the midst of the hunt for stock – you’re just sitting somewhere, relaxed, able to just deal with what is in front of you.
Would I rather be commuting back from sourcing (as I am now), or sitting in my house with a cup of tea and a stack of work to focus on? Uhhh, sitting at home. Commuting sucks, even just to and from thrifts.
I get the whole anti self sweatshop mentality, but it is necessary to list and list and list to continue having a successful business at this. Whether it is listing today or a month from now, at some point the work needs to get done for full-timers. Having help definitely helps, but in the end, someone (or multiple someones) will be stuck doing the bulk of the work.
I don’t know if it’s really healthy to count your hourly numbers if you’re doing this full time, especially if you have other projects you’re working on simultaneously lol. I find the segue from one effort into another just sort of goes together. An initial burst of energy from work in one endeavor leads easily straight into what other project you want to work on. Being able to do this full time allows you to just stop what you’re doing at a moment’s notice – just go straight into whatever you want to be doing next, or nothing at all.
Some weeks could consist of 40-50 hours of work straight on reselling. The following week could be 20. I think it goes along with the peaks and valleys of numbers – the waning and flowing of effort.
I think asking questions on the nature of work itself is as confounding as being frugal and questioning the way normal consumerism works to the majority of people. However, they are all tied together, and only by being able to observe the mechanics of how it works by being even slightly outside of the way society normally is is the way to really see it.
Don’t forget forcing yourself to source on days you don’t want to. It’s snowing out, but I’ve been out sourcing since 9 this morning. Should be done by 2, I hope. Only 3 more thrifts to go.
Rinse, repeat if there are good estate sales this weekend. Days off?! Pffff…
When sales are strong, it’s time to source. When sales are weak, it’s time to source. What is a fun weekend or p/t activity is absolutely vital multiple times a week (or a really good auction haul or estate sale) to make sure you survive at this. If you do get in a large haul, sit down and list it all, or at least most of it in order to start getting your money back from the haul. Then, your prize is to go out and source again.
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