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I am so glad you posted this! I have been selling some furniture/ bulky items on FB marketplace and was just starting to look into booth space. I watched several you tubes/ read some articles. I think I am better off doing my Facebook marketplace system.
Agree with the “house always wins.” Around here antique malls are “something to do” in a tourist area and it skews WAY older. The coolest one in our city also requires? you do a shift at it – which, no thanks.
We have these vintage pop up events 1/ month weekend events in the old warehouse area of the city. They draw lots of shoppers and dealers. I wonder if anyone is making money at those. The crows are crazy, but is anyone shopping or just looking around and enjoying a mimosa ? I could see a Pop up event being a fun way to sell as opposed to a long term commitment.
So sorry Sally! I recently had a doozy as well – a very fine painting that I sent to What is my Stuff Worth ($15 evaluation). Nope, it was just an excellent student original copy of a famous artist. Bummer…
I just sold it for $100 on ebay rather quickly, maybe could have gotten more b/c of the excellent work. But, I was happy to be done with it.
Better luck next round!Medical equipment I always look up and am willing to pay up for. While there are some restrictions, it’s mostly a great market to sell in.
Certainly coincidences can be true. I guess I have enough “coincidences” to notice a trend over time. So, I’m going with it and leveraging my buying to move inventory when I need to.
Jay – ebay likes a happy buyer. So they present the option to the buyer that makes them most happy. Whether it’s a seller who leads the category in product and customer feedback, zip code, etc. It’s not the only thing, but it certainly is one of the things.
Taking offers increases your rank b/c it shows you as a successful seller. So, yes, accepting offers does just more than get you cash in hand it shows you as a ebay seller willing to do business and make sales within the category.
Let’s take remote controls since you just listed a bunch of them. If there are 100 of your same remote controls of same condition, model, etc showing up John’s Electronics (made up store name) are going to show up as a preferred before yours for best match and possibly even more than that if you believe ebay hides listings to make it an even playing field where both You and John can win.
This is b/c John’s Electronics sell electronics day in and day out and are higher ranked than you in the category.
For vintage items, I think it also there but different a bit. So, a buyer is looking up military patches let’s say. Sellers with military patch and adjacent sales history will appear first to buyer and they get preferential rank for best match (best match to this particular buyer, not to ebay as a whole).This is why big sellers talk about going niche all the time – b/c the see the faster sales as they snowball sales by listing same / similar category items.
No, I can’t point to anything in the ebay handbook that says this is true, but this is what I think happens.
We have had IKEA plank flooring in our kitchen for 10+ years with barely a scratch. It’s great, easy to install, and lightweight. Great for a condo.
re: lowering prices to move stuff. My new philosophy/ theory is that you do not need to be lowest listed b/c ebay’s algorithm shows the potential buyer different items based on their search terms, region of buyer and seller, etc. That’s not a conspiracy, that is real. eBay wants best buyer experience. So, if Jay has shoes for $20 and I have them for $10, a person in Virginia may only see Jay’s at $20 since he’s closer and I am far.
This is also why I search Google shopping for my comps not just internally in ebay. Google will pull more listings/ different listings that what ebay will show you. Same for Poshmark.
The other day I saved about $30 going through the Google shopping portal as it showed me cheaper/ different results (all active listings, by the way).Posting for MARCH (monthly) totals:
Store; 1300
Items sold: 131
Sales: $4,425.72 – $50 returns
Poshmark:$504, 16 items
Mercari: 1 item, $18
Depop: 1 item, $18Sales: $4918 March total
Overall a good month, lots of mixed inventory sales from different categories. I am increasing my clothing purchases again, so that has helped a lot.
Mercari – I am now only posting certain things on there b/c the return on my time has been so-so. Mostly smalls (purse dustbag, lipsticks, candles that sort of stuff).
Poshmark continues to be about 10% of my ebay sales. I basically look at is as a cherry on top at this point.
I would do it as you never know when the baby comes if you won’t feel like sourcing and need a rainy day pile socked away. If anything, sort it by size and sell it in a big bundle by size/ brand.
Store: 1300
Sold: 25 items
sales: $1100
Poshmark: $110
Mercari:$0
Depop: $0
Total: $1200
Returns: 3! (one INAD, one fit, one I talked buyer into keeping with a partial refund). A lot for me! They come in waves. WHY? who knows.Highest Sale of the Week: anthropologie jewelry $100
ebay Auction talk: I have been running 10-20 auctions to move some older clothing. I experimented with 7 day, 5 day, 3 day and 1 day! Best results were a 3-day starting Thursday PM- Friday AM. Free shipping is a deal sealer and seems to help immensely. Not one item got bid up – all sold at first listed price.
My FOMO totally depends on the person / entity I am looking at. Of course, Instagram is the prime spot for FOMO, drama, and hype. I really have to monitor my time there.
In other news:
Sales ebay, 1300 items in store:
$1,233
Items sold: 30
ASP:$41
Sales Merari: $140
Sales Poshmark: $128GRAND TOTAL: $1500
yes, Jay, Pirate Ship CAN be cheaper, but unless you have zones/ weights memorized, you may need to toggle b/w ebay labels and PS website. PS website syncs your eBay orders, so it’s super easy.
My true benefit is:
I use Pirate ship for Mercari shipments (USPS not fed ex).
I use Pirate Ship for Depop shipments
I use Pirate Ship for any non-ebay / business related postage or if I need to send a buyer something I forgot to include in their shipment and cannot generate a NEW ebay label.
I use pirate Ship for USPS First Class int’l. There is a bunch of youtube on this, so I won’t repeat.FINALLY – you can use Pirate Ship and pay with your own credit card (and get miles / points) unlike Ebay where you pay via PayPal (for now anyway). So if you are a points hound, I think it’s worth it for that!
I am interested as well. I am confused about the new policies:
I have heard “accept it and then appeal later”
OR, accept the return, get it back, but before refunding the buyer, call ebay to dispute.
OR, I have heard INADS don’t matter as much if you are in Free Returns
AND I have heard if you have too many INADS you will be penalized with higher Final Value Fees.HELP
