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10/09/2018 at 7:28 pm in reply to: Fixed-price listing fee above free allocation for anchor store subscribers #49898
Noooo. It is true. 🙁 I was secretly hoping it was a typo.
I’m surprised they never made an announcement of the fee increase. It just happened one day without a word.
I’m pretty happy with having a very large inventory. It steadies out the long-tail more in terms of sales. If you have enough stuff listed, you’ll get sales for the weirdest, most obscure items daily. Even 10,000-15,000 items feels small for this type of inventory, but it’s a good starting point.
Huh. I’ve gotten used to running more infrequent sales, so I think I’ll stick to it for now. It makes it feel more like an actual event in your store when it’s once a month or every few months, as opposed to all of the time. Running them all of the time feels more like a desperation move: please, take all of my stuff! I beg of you! Not like the treat it should be for customers.
FWIW, I ship packages to Amazon customers all the time using Ebay shipping supplies. I haven’t heard any complaints. I also ship packages to customers on Ebay using Amazon boxes that I have received in the mail. I don’t think most people care either way?
I actually liked the new sale rule for putting items on sale that are only 14+ days old. Does this also mean we can run sales all the time now, no matter what? Or will there still be a 14 day period in between for items that have already been on sale previously?
When I did a search for Whiting, Beaufourt House, I came upon this link:
https://www.stampcommunity.org/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=49732
It is unrelated to the image that you came up with here, but it did allow me to find out the full name of Whiting: Charles Whiting.
According to the link, it appears he was working at Beaufort House in the 1840s. That should also date the flower print to the 1840s most likely. I believe it was made during the same time period because the borders are very similar on the stamp sheet shown and the images you show here.
I looked up Charles Whiting on Worthpoint and found 2 copies of the stamp print shown in the link that sold for $165 and $400.
I don’t believe the Scrap Sheet you have is worth as much as $165 since stamp people are obsessive and will pay a lot for what they want, but if you price high with OBO, put 1840s? and indicate it is Charles Whiting in the listing, you should be able to put it up for at least $100 OBO and get more for it than you’d think.
That’s pretty much where I’m at with Uber. If a good thrift run or estate sale is by my house, I can sometimes fill up a trunk for $10 or $15. Most of the time, an uber trip back will cost $20-80, depending on how far the thrift run is, or the estate sale. If I want to fill up a trunk, it better be a good run!
Otherwise, I have to figure out when I’m at a sale how much I want to bring back in addition to the actual costs of the item at the sale, and how much I expect to get for them on Ebay. If it’s not worth it, I will fill up a backpack with stuff. If it’s good, I go all in and buy a ton of boxes in order to make an uber trip back worth it if it’s far away.
Those that do this for even a few months will quickly realize it is not the way to get instantly rich. The only people putting out that sort of false information to the detriment of the reselling community are the youtube people who expect to get a viable secondary income stream coming in by promoting “how to make six-figures as a reseller, join my patreon or mentorship group and I can show you how” sort of people.
I think just telling people you’re a f/t reseller will be enough to confuse them, even in 2018, let alone telling them how much you make from doing it. It was completely unbelievable 15 years ago as no one knew what the heck you were talking about. Now that everyone can “do it for themselves” and has sold probably 10-20 items themselves online, it is even more of “What? How?” They think there must be something else other than reselling. Nope.
That being said, I am with you on the feeling of “Really? That’s all I made?” when you look back at all the hard work you’ve done over the years, and the actual earnings displayed on a year by year basis. At the time, it does feel like more is being earned. Still, there is a lot to untangle from the feelings of money and free time earned after the hard work has been put in (too much for this response before coffee).
If it wasn’t for reselling, I definitely would’ve atrophied at a normal job. The hours may sometimes be similar, but the differences are vast. A normal job will leave you lacking in ambition for your own personal projects, shunting them to weekends or vacations (if you even get paid vacations off). Eventually, all you will have to do is look forward to retirement to do what you actually want to do.
If you have a self-directed business backing you, you can push some of the momentum into projects outside of what you are doing. Then, you can succeed or fail while you are in a prime age to be doing it (mid-20s-early 60s), rather than starting your “second life” after you have retired (for the full-timers reselling).
(Being able to move around without having to sit at your desk all day makes it totaaallyyyyy worth it by itself. Having to sit perfectly still at a desk all day is meh. Wearing headphones so you don’t bother your co-workers is meh. Being able to play music loudly all day and dance around to it because you’ll only bother your sleeping cats is the best.)
Also, I’m sure if you broke down the numbers, 35k per year per person in a rural area vs. having to move to an expensive city in order to get a good job for your degrees would probably leave you with more money earned in the rural area. Those posted numbers also don’t include your rentals.
I don’t have promoted listings turned on for any of my listings. It just seems like a bad bonus fee on top of everything else.
As a buyer, I get annoyed when I scroll through listings and see the same listing repeatedly because it has been promoted.
If I didn’t want it the first time, I won’t pick it all of a sudden because it has been promoted.Here are the stats from my seller hub:
Magazine Back Issues is showing that I am down 3.4% compared to the prior 31 days, while the market is down 7.5% over the past 30 days.
Antiquarian & Collectible Books is showing that I am up 9% YOY and that the market is up over 10% YOY.
7 sales total Saturday and Sunday between both of my Ebay stores (nearly 9,800 items listed between both stores). Cheap items, to boot. Verrrrry slow.
Still, it gave me a chance to list rather than pack, so that was a nice break. I already have watchers on a number of items I’ve listed, yay! Also, I was able to spend some much needed time organizing the next few collections of items I want to get listed, so that will be fun to get to and list over the next few weeks.
09/29/2018 at 10:05 am in reply to: Asking for your advice – I'm In Over my Head with a Shipping Request to China #49348Ah, that’s why he’s still trying to buy the book! He should’ve just paid the original shipping and been happy with it. Now, if he wants to buy it again, he’ll have to pay more $$$ because of the noted signature. 🙂
09/28/2018 at 7:40 am in reply to: Asking for your advice – I'm In Over my Head with a Shipping Request to China #49289If he put in an offer and saw that it said $63 for shipping, it’s on him to pay the $63 for shipping. Buyers can’t negotiate different terms for shipping after they have put in an offer and agreed to the stated shipping amount in that offer.
I would just tell him that this is the way that you have to ship, since you originally indicated in your listing that you would ship that way. If he is unhappy with that shipping method, you would be happy to cancel the order for him.
No need to go through such a fuss for an item. If he’s this much trouble to begin with, you don’t know what it’s going to be like when he actually receives the book (or doesn’t receive the book, since it’s international).
Thredup rescues seem to be the current hyped up thing. I can’t tell if the boxes have anything good in them, or if the people posting youtube videos about them are hoping to make their money off the unboxing rather than the contents of the boxes themselves.
Haul videos and unboxings are too boring for me to sit through, but watching them would give a general idea of the sort of items to be found in the boxes. I am also not a clothing seller, so it would be completely zzzzz for me
Did you just list the item? It’s possible that someone wanted it, realized they bid too low, and then sent a bunch of anxious bids in order to make sure they got the item.
I once sent in multiple bids to an item that was just listed on best offer, and then bought the item outright at full asking price when I realized it was a good deal to begin with. It’s possible this could be a similar situation.
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