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If you just wanted to sell them all in one go, you could lot them up and price them at $1 per invoice and envelope. If there are 30 of each, $59.95-64.95 with or without shipping included would probably sell them all pretty quickly.
09/17/2018 at 8:53 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 377: Talking Numbers with TSatt (Troy) #48858Yeah, 26 in a day. I think I had 9 sales on Sunday, and 7 sales so far today. That was just an oddity, but it does happen sometimes.
I’m also running a sale for the first time in a month, so stuff is “flying off the shelves” that people were hesitant to buy at full price.
09/17/2018 at 12:02 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 377: Talking Numbers with TSatt (Troy) #48805I sold 26 items on Ebay on Saturday! I’m trying to slowly get back into “work mode,” so I guess Ebay helped me out on that front this week. Saturday and Sunday were supposed to be my listing days with laser focus, but the amount of sales on Saturday completely messed up my anticipated workflow. So, I ran packages to the post office on Saturday instead (was planning on staying in all day to list), sourced some good items at a local thrift, came home, and listed around 20 items. I had been hoping to list 30-50 that day. On Sunday, I packed all of the items that had sold on Saturday, plus additional items that came in through the day. I got only 10 items listed yesterday (was planning on another 30-50 listed).
I AM NOT COMPLAINING. I was just not expecting that level of sales. It was a good work interruption. 🙂
I really can’t forecast at all what will sell when. My ebay store is currently up to 9,500 items. On normal days, I will sell 3-10 items per day. Then, there are days I will sell 20-30. I cannot predict when those days will be, they just happen whenever I hit the sweet spot of enough interesting items with right buyers for those items. I also don’t believe in the Ebay conspiracy of my store being shut on or off on certain days.
I’ve actually started working hard again because I know I’ll be lazy again come icy days in Winter. My “death piles” are vast, I have been sourcing a lot this past week to add a lot more to them, and then I will nibble through them during the Winter when I won’t want to leave the house for weeks at a time other than to get mail dropped off.
Yeah, Amazon has been doing this for those states for several months now. Any sale that goes to that state gets charged the tax, no matter where the seller is from. I don’t think there’s a way any individual seller can exempt themselves out of it.
Just finished listening to the podcast. Yeah, this summer has been brutal for home appliances. My dehumidifier conked out this past week, so I had to order a new one. Now that I’m dumping a full tank of water out a few times a day, I’ve realized the old one had probably been broken for at least a month! Ugh. The a/c has been barely able to cool my office, so I’ve been out of it by the hottest parts of the day.
Of course, the temperature has fallen over the past few days, so now I’m like “oh no, it’s too cold out!” Hah. =/
This past weekend was the first weekend in a row I didn’t go out looking for stock in over a month, so I stayed in and got 50 listings done. Yay!
As for “long-term greed,” we’re not all 24/7 workhorses. After working extremely hard over the past few years, I pretty much took July, August and will be taking most of September off. Well, that’s not fair to say. I still did ship-outs 6 days a week, did bookkeeping, sourced new items, culled items, listed new items, thought of how to better the business. Yet, at the same time, my attitude changed; I didn’t freak out over sales being down (that much). I didn’t worry as much. I didn’t feel like I had to be working at something every single day of the week.
I thought more about long-term goals. I thought more about short-term goals. I made sure to stop worrying about the business after a certain time period each day. I took a lot of days off (after the ship-out and basic bookkeeping were accomplished). I took off multiple days each week, sometimes. If I didn’t take days off, I combined them with more fun things to do, or sometimes stopped working by noon. I didn’t just work work work.
Setting up long-term goals is a great way to just “give up” one day and temporarily move onto something else that is not what you are used to doing. Otherwise, even “fun stuff” can cause burn-out. “Fun work” can be headache inducing, and stressful. Then, when you feel like coming back to lots of work, it’s there. It just doesn’t have to be there all of the time (when you work for yourself).
Yep, I’ve listed books on Amazon with a 10k rank that have taken up to a year to sell, even priced right (just too much competition going in and out). I’ve listed the most obscure, tiny piece of ephemera on Ebay and sold it within the hour.
I was responding to the article from my experience dealing with multiple, scare long tail items that start out with “0 desirability” and “0 rank.” 🙂
Given a long enough period of time, all items will sell, even duplicates of items that should not “even exist” according to a lot of the long tail theory out there that states there should be no desirability for that item, hence they should be just chucked for “better selling stock.”
It may be dependent on condition, price, online site where it is being listed, the ability to ship worldwide or not.
I believe the author of this study doesn’t fully understand the long-tail in terms of online selling. The C items will never not have sales, they will just be staggered way out down the line in an imperceptible way that is not currently charted for businesses.
If you sell 1 item 10 years down the line and have 5 similar items that are listed, you will eventually sell out of all items if given a long enough amount of time. 50 years might be longer than the existence of ecommerce itself, but it doesn’t hurt to assume that if you had an internet business that long, you will eventually sell out of an item that is a completely “unsellable” item.
A true long tail business doesn’t technically have “deadstock.” A long tail business is deadstock, along with items that sometimes move fairly quickly. Even “deadstock” itself can move fairly quickly, if it is desirable but rare to introduce to buyers as a product for them to actually purchase.
No inventory management system can truly help predict what does not yet exist for consumers.
Donate. If it was small and something I really knew I could get $20+ within a few months, I would keep it. This doesn’t appear to be the case.
I never knew there was so much competition for items like this. Wow.
I noticed the active listing total in my store change by 1,000 listings up or down everytime I refreshed yesterday. I haven’t listed anything since Sunday, but it seemed like items were taking a little longer than normal to appear in the store even a few days ago.
Sales were slower than normal yesterday. Only 3 sales all day. Anyone else notice a decline in sales yesterday? Could also have been because of the latest 15% off coupon.
I’ve actually spent the past month and a half moving my listings back to GTC from 30 day. As of a week ago, all 9k+ should be GTC.
I have to say, I’ve actually seen an increase in sales again to almost pre-July levels.
It could be sales just picking up in general. Items I’ve recently been listing might be more desirable. I don’t know. I’m selling items that have been listed for less than a week, to items that have been listed for 8 years. I have done no tweaks to the listings other than changing them back to GTC.
I might end and refresh several thousand listings in a few months it feels stale. If not, I will just leave them as they are. I am currently seeing no difference between GTC and 30 day for sales for a large quantity store.
SOLD FOR:$30.00
I think that some buyers just don’t believe that sellers are posting all of the info. about an item. Some have been so burned before on buying online that they have to double-check that the specifics are correct, or the condition is correct before buying.
I find it’s best to just copy and paste the condition and description notes again and be positive about it. Sometimes, they just want human acknowledgment that they have the item and that it is available, ready to ship.
Yikes, a 20k loan. Agree with the advice given here.
Since you’re selling vintage dresses, maybe cross-post them to Etsy if you aren’t already doing so?
I definitely agree with getting a job, even a p/t one, before depending 100% on selling online to pay for your bills. When you work f/t or p/t, you have to treat the hours you spend outside of working as another p/t or f/t job in order to get to the point of being able to quit all outside forms of work. If you put 20-40+ hours of work a week into your main source of income, you need to put another 20-40+ hours a week into your Ebay job.
Working from home can be distracting. You just need to make sure that you are treating Ebay as a job, like you would any other job. There are always dishes that need to be washed, or laundry, or maintenance tasks on the house, or 1,000,000 reasons to not just sit and focus and work. I think when you first start working on Ebay, you need to create rules for yourself that mimic an actual job that you can follow, at least for the first few months until you get the hang of it. Then, you can take it a bit more easy.
08/23/2018 at 3:15 pm in reply to: New login page for Ebay – Sign in with your username OR Facebook #47892Here’s another new change on Ebay:
All Listings – Accepts Offers – Auction – Buy It Now
At the top of every search page.
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