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I probably wouldn’t price this over $25, but you could probably price higher with a bo and maybe make a bit more.
wow, it actually worked! i am seriously shocked.
I’m actually shocked that worked. Usually it’s the *shrug* response companies give when they have no idea what the problem is. I’ll try it later.
I called ebay anchor support and they told me it was an error on my end and to clear my cache. I’m out again all day today, so I will go with option #2 when I get home, which was to screenshot the error and send it to them because everything is fine on their end, of course.
I was out all day yesterday, so I didn’t notice this error until yesterday evening. I still can’t log into this page. Anyone else?
At least the phone app is working well.
Yay, 25 items listed! More than I was expecting to get done today. 🙂
14 items listed today. Photographing another pile of items that I hope to get listed today. If not, I have that leg up for tomorrow.
I plan on listing on Ebay for the next 2-3 hours. 25 items were listed yesterday, and I have already sold 1 so far out of that listing binge. Have another 10-15 items to list that were also photographed yesterday. I will work on those first.
I’ve been listening to the Reezy Resells/Book Flipper guy discussing the new long term storage fee changes for Amazon FBA sellers. I have around 50-100 books set aside for FBA, but I think I’ll donate the majority of them and list a few MF. FBA really does not seem worth it!
I just came to this thread to laugh at the enterprise store level pricing. That is all.
02/21/2018 at 11:59 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 348: Acknowledge When Hard Work Pays Off #33518I think there are variations to “good stuff that people want,” and the price points people want them at. People want unique items at various points – from $5 to thousands of dollars. If you have a large amount of inventory with unique items at various price points, those items will sell to the people willing to buy them at those price points that are determined to fit for the customer.
Having a store with a variety of items at various price points that are not commodity items requires a large inventory. Some items take less than an hour to sell. Some take 10+ years. It really depends on the item and the customer. In order to have a long-tail, unique vintage store, you need to maintain a large inventory. You can of course do it with a small inventory too, but you’ll make much less money per month. If this is your full-time income and you have the space, having a large inventory makes a lot of sense in order to pull in a full-time income based on that store.
It really comes down to the sort of business you want to run. If you want to have fast-selling items and an inventory of less than 100 or 200 items, that is just like having a job. You need to be out sourcing several hours a day, every single day per week to maintain those sorts of numbers. I know people who do this and it is a complete grind. It looks like the least fun way to spend your life as possible. You live to work, and you work to live.
If you want to make this more of a lifestyle and focus on what you are interested in, it is completely different than having a fast-moving, commodity based store. Your interests revolve around what you like, not necessarily what the average person likes. You will eventually find that there are people out there that share the same odd tastes as you, and you will see the results in your sales.
02/20/2018 at 3:04 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 348: Acknowledge When Hard Work Pays Off #33460You can list up to 10,000 items with an anchor store. Might as well list as much as you can if it’s “free.”
I personally would like to get up to 10,000 items listed. Currently a little over 9,000, and I have thousands of unlisted items to catch up on.
While I have this large amount of stock, I do try hard to sell items as quickly as possible and price them reasonably. Still, they are all pretty much long-tail, so there is an element of patience required as well. Items pile up due to their uniqueness. You have to wait for the right customer to come along for many of them.
Also, I sometimes get too busy to list in the store for weeks at a time. When this happens, sales continue in the store due to the sie of it. Yay.
I bought some items last Sunday that I threw in bags or placed on top of other unlisted items. Some, I see multiple times a day. Others from that run, I have not seen since. I consider items purchased and unlisted in that short of a period of time to be part of the death piles.
I feel that to an extent it is sort of a frame of mind. I don’t see it, I’ll eventually get to listing it, but it’s not listed yet. Since I don’t realky care about when I will list it, it is part of the death piles.
Yesterday, I listed items purchased from 2 months ago, a month ago, a day ago. They were all from the death piles, other than the ones juuust bought. I was actuallt proud of listing some items from the day before, that’s sort of rare for me.
(not a hoarder, just can’t keep up sometimes. All of the unlisted piles are as neatly organized as the listed)
02/10/2018 at 10:08 am in reply to: Ebay Took Down My Listing After 6 Months, 150 Watchers & 6,000+ Views :( #32630I actually put the kibosh on a listing like this that competed with one of my best-selling items a few years ago. I had individual issues up of an obscure music magazine I was getting $10-20 apiece for. Sales slowed, so I went to Ebay to see what the culprit was.
Some guy had put up 100 issues for $4 apiece + shipping, with a “please contact me for individual purchase” comment in the listing. It looked more like a Craigslist ad than an Ebay one. I reported it to Ebay, and the listing was gone within a week.
I believe you can make pull-down variations of items in the listing, but I don’t know if it can go up to 200 items. It is confusing for the buyer to see listings like this, as you can’t tell from the ad what is actually currently available for sale.
Some strategies I have for listing:
-List what you can, when you can. Even if it’s only 5 items, that’s 5 less items you have to list the next time you have a chance to list.
-Don’t do other tasks at the same time that will easily distract you. If you only have 10 items to list, list them as quickly as possible, one after another, without distractions. Turn off your messenger program. Don’t check email. Don’t look at Ebay for messages or sales. Just list.
-If you have 20-30+ items to list, list them in smaller chunks. Reward yourself with a break after 10 or 15 items listed. Distract yourself. When you’re bored of being distracted, get back to work. Don’t give yourself hours to be distracted, but 5-15 minutes here or there will do wonders for productivity.
-Once you have finished listing, that’s it. Move onto other tasks. Check email. Pack orders. You’re done with listing. Stop thinking about it.
02/09/2018 at 12:43 pm in reply to: Late shipping seller performance doesn't seem to be accurately reading tracking #32595i’m not part of the guaranteed delivery program. the majority of items in my store are shipped by media mail (books), so i don’t think i could get into that program if i tried.
i feel like you’re right about calling ebay, but i also don’t want to draw attention to my store having stats that bad, even when it is ebay’s fault. the stats should overall be up by the 20th, during the time of their next evaluation, considering the change in handling time.
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