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Hey Texas! Go Texas! Whoop whoop!
Hi Jillann. Great to have you on board. My hubs wasn’t as on board as yours is for quite a while, but now that my sales are starting to be consistent, he’s been helping out a lot more with things like testing equipment or stripping things for parts. No way I can get him to go thrifting though. Yet! 😀
Picking pair, Griff said to look at your shipping page. There’s a “ship by” date and time next to each listing. However, you can adjust your handling time to your own time zone, if you wish. (Item #19)
They look like Ammunition Boots. Are they hobnailed? If so, possibly Yeomen.
Additional notes on the live transcript:
Firstly, please excuse errors. I was literally typing as they were talking.
Secondly, item #9.2 Griff seemed to think that eBay will cover late delivery for all reasons, including seller’s not shipping within their stated handling time. The ladies were very definite that this is NOT true. If you ship late, you’ll pay for the remedies. If you ship on time, eBay will pay. Griff repeated this mistake later in the webinar. He thinks eBay will cover ALL late shipments for 2018 and seller will only pay starting next year. The ladies shut that one down entirely. There’s further discussion on this in one of the Q&As.
Item #17 They were talking too fast for me to keep up here, so it’s a bit garbled. Free shipping is NOT a requirement for EGD, but they recommend it.
I got the Items in Carts email today. 10 items. After giving it some thought, I chose those particular 10 items, put them on a 5% sale and called it Easter Madness sale. It is running until Monday only.
The last IiC email I got was for two items and neither sold, despite me reducing the price. And now I have to remember to go change them back. If the promotion works, even if only 1 or 2 items sell, I may use that as my go-to response in future. Certainly easier to set up.
Timing is everything.
I had a box of stuff that would have made an awesome Junk Lot that I’d been adding to over the past months. Stuff that I just couldn’t find a way of listing it that worked for me, or was worth listing but less than $10, or was too heavy for me to justify selling it on its own. Flat rate box would have worked perfectly. Buuuuut… I got sick of that box being in the way and took it all to Goodwill the day before the Junk Lot call and posts. 😀 😀 😀
New box starting in 3…2…
That was me, Jay, I suggested List It and Tend It. On that topic, though, I’ve moved from L&F (List & Forget) to L&T (List & Tend) over the past year. I started L&F and had it running until summer last year, when I got a bee in my bonnet to move all my stock into 30 days, so changed to L&T. I think I was changing my inventory system and wanted to ensure I still had all my stock.
Then in the Fall, as each item expired, I moved it all back to GTC and went back to L&F mode. This month, I started ending all my listings when they showed up on my Hub as Ending Today, so I’m going back into L&T.
Sounds odd to do all that work, but I noticed last year that I seemed to be doing more sales when I was in L&T than when I was L&F. This year’s change was triggered bc I’m SO. FED. UP. with that stupid Underperforming tab and those annoying emails telling me that I need to revise my listings. They can’t even give me suggestions because I HAVE THE ONLY ONE ON EBAY!!!! Gaaaaaaaaaaah!
Anyway, I figured that I’d shift everything to 30 days to get rid of that tab, and then do a little analysis. With a consistent listing routine (didn’t have that last year) and a store (didn’t have that before I did the shift last year, I actually shifted because I had opened a store) and an historical sales figure with (1) and (2) from this year, I figured it would give me an accurate real-time feedback of whether active listing is better or worse than passive listing.
Will report back.
There’s a threshold at which you don’t have to charge tax, as far as I’m aware. In Texas, it’s around $3,000. If my sales in Texas are less than the threshold, I don’t have to charge tax. However, it’s a bit of a crapshoot. If I don’t cross the threshold for six months, and then I do, I’m liable for all the taxes for the year, even though I didn’t charge them. I got burned in a brick-and-mortar business by registering for taxes before I needed to. Ended up adding hugely to my workload for absolutely no reason. I’m watching my sales to see how I’m doing, but I was nowhere near the threshold last year, and so much of my Death Piles are donations, I made no real saving on taxes on purchases either.
Oh lord… another Californian in Texas! 😉
Better move to the Hill Country Sigilini, then at least you’ll have another “immigrant” to keep you company. If you’re not born here, it can be difficult to be accepted! Texans are incredibly friendly people, but it’s hard not to feel like an outsider some days.
OMG! I wanna come! That looks fantastic! And it’s only a 32 hour drive for the 2,000 miles, according to Google maps!
I really wish I could. I shall add it to the Bucket List!
I got an email this morning from eBay advising that I am losing my TRS status bc I haven’t sold enough items for the year. I checked and it said I had only sold 66 items and my rating was Average. According to the Sales tab under Performance, I’ve sold about three times the requirement for TRS.
Then, this afternoon, all my metrics changed and I’m back to Top Rated, with 519 listings rated TRS+
O.o?
I think eBay has Glitch Elves messing with us Trash Elves!
LOL. That’s rough! 😀
Out of my… erm… approximately 200 sq ft of DP (we won’t go cubic feet, bc that’s just too scary!) I’ve got about a dozen pants left to finish my first two square feet. Woot woot! I’m gonna be in this group for a loooong time!
Wow, Marjean, great finds! And great listing numbers! That being said, if you’ve cleared up everything up until the end of 2017, you’re pretty much cleared of Death Piles according to this thread’s definitions! Very well done!
Are those seed beads glass or acrylic?
Sharyn and ChristineR – seems like the three of us are rowing the same boat. Perhaps that’s why we’re going in circles? We’re lopsided! LOL
Good luck on your antique show, Vintage Lacy. Where is it going to be? Perhaps those elves in the area will swing by and say “Hi!”
