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@Sharyn I’m thinking he will leave negative feedback no matter what at this point.
T-Satt,
I really enjoyed it. The workshops were pretty much propaganda… free returns, free ship, promoted listings, opting into the new payment system… No thanks, not before the upcoming 4th quarter with exclusion of Paypal and GSP.
That said, I learned a lot from my peers. I loved being with other sellers as this is such a solitary career. And my husband is a managing member of my s-corp, so a nice write off. Food was very good even though you could tell they spent less this year. I was satisfied. Closing party was a little bit of a letdown after last year, but we still had fun.
I have enough eBay chapstick to keep my lips supple for at least a year. 🙂 And the Fedex socks were another fun freebie.
I thought they danced around the lost photos issue and I’m peeved as I have about 200 listings affected. I need to use Sixbit, but I’m a Mac girl currently. I need to buy a new laptop to use it.
Loved Mandalay Bay.
All in all, very happy I went. I wish we had met up. Next year!
Sorry I posted that and disappeared. I was at eBay Open and I still haven’t recovered, lol. All of the returns were due to fit.
eBay for Business gave me a $300 credit for my anchor store subscription due to the lost photos on my hundreds of listings. Hit them up if you haven’t.
On the phone with anchor support right now. They are saying pretty much exactly what everyone is reporting. They are aware of the issue. They believe the pictures will repopulate. (why am I not holding my breath?)
When asked why there is no alert on the seller dashboard, she says they are not obligated to notify us of every glitch. She also said this isn’t even one of their bigger glitches. I said how can there be a bigger problem than an item not being able to be seen to facilitate a purchase? Good grief.
As a follow up, my sales have sort of rallied since Wednesday. A tiny bit. I sold $156 Thursday and $186 Friday. Not my normal, but it’s better than $45. And today I’m already up to $130 which is encouraging as it’s still the morning and I’m listing fresh stuff from an estate sale yesterday. I’m feeling a little bit better. Mostly because of all of you. Thank you again.
T- Satt and AdvetureE, Thank you both. I appreciate the pep talk. I’m sure this will rally at some point. It’s just SO hard to spend money right now when the gettin’ is good with very little coming in. I’m just going to plug along, stocking my store with the good stuff until things turnaround.
@adventuree my pricing does not allow me to move up any more than what it’s already set at. I price my items pretty competitively and going in to raise all the prices to adjust for it is very overwhelming considering my mental state right now, lol. I have my son’s college tuition payment looming in August and I’m in panic mode. I’m not going to do anything rash, mind you. I’m just venting.
@Jay finished the day yesterday at $49. So if you need me, I’ll be in the corner hyperventilating.
@Jay I sell a mix. Probably 75% clothes and shoes with the rest being jewelry and other hard goods. I source in the NOVA region (not far from you), so I have access to nice items for usually cheap prices. My inventory has grown significantly since last holiday season, so I have high hopes this year.
@Jay $250-$300 sales a day NOT during the 4th quarter. My sales get a bit of a bump then much like everyone else. My sales very rarely dip under $100. To have it happen so abruptly is just puzzling. And I’ve been listing like a madwoman.
Is it too late to sign on?
I had a huge death pile, but have made significant progress the last three weeks. The problem started when I began to realize what better brands of clothing to sell. My piles of Levi’s and Chico’s started to acquire dust as I found new more desirable items. It got to the point where I had about 12 Ikea bags full of “dud” merchandise that had value but not enough for me to passionately pursue it.
Enter my college age son who starts his junior year this fall. (my main reason I sell on eBay)…
He came home and I trained him how to photo and list. I pay him every Friday for 100 items listed that week. It’s been three weeks now and he has listed 300 death pile clothing items. I have him through August and I see us finishing the death pile totes in about two to three more weeks.
Going forward I will only buy after I list everything that I sourced. Valuable lesson learned.
Last week between the two of us we listed 140 items.
This week so far we are at 60.
