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Total Items in Store: 402
Items Sold: 12
Cost of Items Sold: $97 + Free shipping of $15
Total Sales: $387
Highest Price Sold: $64 (Artsy measuring cups and spoons)
Average Price Sold: $30
Returns: 1 item broke in transit – buyer was great
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 33 (love my new iPhone 8 – upload photos to app, seems faster)Hope you have a wonderful trip to SF and enjoy getting home afterward. That’s a lot of travel! I’ve not been shopping and continue to hack away at the piles, digging out Christmas items in particular that I don’t want hanging around next year. Feels good to be getting some Ebay traction now that we are in our regular school routine. I take one large box upstairs from the garage at a time and it makes me feel good when I have a box of items listed and it goes back down.
I’ve heard people speculate before that accepting a best offer seems to give you a sales spurt and I saw that this week. I should probably go through my old listings and put BO on more of them. It’s funny – I thought I would try to create a lovely Etsy store by now, but I’m kind of doing the opposite and just taking super quick photos with the Ebay app on my dining room table. Whatever it takes to just GET STUFF UP.
Have a great week.
Nice Ebay arbitrage item. Had sold before for $90. Buyer paid full price. http://www.ebay.com/itm/332372655008
Paid $3.99 at GW. Took best offer of $45 http://www.ebay.com/itm/232284073751
I’ve been very unenthused about listing Hallmark ornaments, but have had a couple of nice sales. http://www.ebay.com/itm/232497847217
Sold quickly, paid $5 at indy thrift. http://www.ebay.com/itm/332381732983
These are from an estate sale. Paid $3. Sold immediately. Vintage linens do well for me and I think the free shipping has been helping. Promotions not so much. http://www.ebay.com/itm/332388384046
Splurged a bit over the coupon on some colorful ebay stickers and Boxes with the circle logo. Kinda fun for nerds.
Thanks Beth for mentioning this no scan issue. I had it too and needed to call. A buyer just asked me to wait to ship something, and combined it would knock me out of TRS. Update: just checked and it’s no longer there. 🙂
Total Items in Store: 372
Items Sold: 18
Cost of Items Sold: $128 (new RA and used) + $42 free shipping
Total Sales: $648
Highest Price Sold: $199 Koi art plates
Average Price Sold: $38
Returns: 1 tiny Wonder Woman costume from the college end of year rummage sale with tags cut out – didn’t fit. Free shipping (ouch) but basically got it for free.
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0A good sales week for me. The higher priced sale was a woman whose moving company broke one of hers so she’s ok paying up since they will reimburse her. A lot of low profit sales in there too – auction to get $ back on slightly damaged collectable ornaments. Unfortunately realized I had created some new listings and inadvertently left the free shipping box populated. I know I didn’t check it. So, lesson learned and just searched and double checked my actives this morning. I do think using free shipping has probably helped my sales, but is skewing my average price lower.
Last week my regular job picked up and we had some extra school events going on, so sad to not list. Hope to get back my Christmas stockpile soon and get back over 400 listings. There is great quantity of piles left in my garage and guest room closet, but I’m starting to feel a bit of breathing room and I don’t really feel the urge to shop much. I know there will always be plenty of stuff out there and I’d like to get inventory under control. At my rate, it will be a long haul.
Yes, monthly. I don’t check my invoice every month but I have more often in the past few as I’ve started using Smartpost more often. About a year ago I stopped getting any free listing promos. I used to get them all the time. The calculator wasn’t working in the field asking about the number of TRS items, but I think at about 425 I’d be better off upgrading without the credit. I’d do it before October 1 if I knew I would have good listing time available this quarter. Hopefully you will get the extra coupon amount if you do.
Thanks! Good to know. I don’t have guaranteed delivery yet either. Too much of a small fry. I just got dinged on a package Ebay says never got a scan but the tracking shows it did. Need to call.
* Total Items in Store: 420
* Items Sold: 10
* Cost of Items Sold: $25 used + $42 new RA + 24.24 free shipping offered
* Total Sales: $262
* Highest Price Sold: $46 1950s Waverly kitchen fabric
* Average Price Sold: $26
* Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
* Number of items listed this week: 22Felt like a slow week but just low dollar items going out. I might try free returns at some point on smaller items only because I don’t sell clothing and have only ever had two returns. I will probably see how prominently the filter is presented first. My instinct is that free shipping might have helped my sales a bit, even though they are not stellar. I’m hoping for algorithm favoritism rather than buyer behavior. I had a couple of old items sell after making the switch, but really it’s just a hunch. So far promotions I think helped less for me personally.
I need to read the forum thread re the 10konthebay video. He seems to think you have to pay now to run sales and that sales items are not presented well with the buyer only seeing a discounted price in the cart stage with a generalized sale banner in the corner. I have my weekly 15% sale priced into everything so it matters to me.
When I was young and crying about something apparently not significant. My dad (who is actually really awesome) used to say “stop crying or I will give you something to cry about”. I feel like the last few years life has been throwing up curveballs worth crying about at times. I’m a worrier by nature, but now I find it hard now to sweat the smaller stuff. I want to do a good job on Ebay, but be practical, efficient and certainly not get worked up about hiccups. I’ve eaten a couple of broken claims, provided a partial refund once. Well worth keeping the good feedback score and the peace of mind. That being said, I do get a bit frustrated that things don’t seem to be well thought out or operational before they are launched. I expect that occasionally customers will be unreasonable but I don’t expect that from a giant high tech company.
Wondering if anyone else experienced this benefit and for how long. Ebay is giving me a credit for my insertion fees over the store subscription limit (basic, 250). So last month there was a $50 credit against insertion fees on the extra 150 items in my 400 item store. They just sent me a promotion to upgrade my store to premium, but the discount to $30 was only for one month, not for the year like last time. I think the offer was artfully crafted to make it seem like the ongoing monthly fee would be $30, but scavengers the promo period was only 1 month if you read the fine print. I’m wondering if Ebay will continue to waive my insertion fees or if this is just temporary. Guess I will keep an eye on my invoices and upgrade once I see it go up or on the next promotion.
Thank you SL for mentioning vintage office supplies. These go in an old machine. Paid $2 http://www.ebay.com/itm/232487550738
This is a fun item and sold quickly. Paid $2. I feel like good keywords helped because someone was selling four of these for less than I sold this one. http://www.ebay.com/itm/232480881537
I’ve got a bunch of these in the garage. Sold quickly and I find them pretty often. Paid $3, went to NYC. http://www.ebay.com/itm/332362257137
Keep an eye out for vintage Gurley holiday candles because you often see a bunch together. This one took a while to sell at this price. The Christmas gnomes do well. Paid practically nothing for this at an estate sale with others. http://www.ebay.com/itm/231963434690
Paid up $8 at an estate sale. Sold overnight $40 best offer. http://www.ebay.com/itm/332380831693
I don’t know but they have created a count for Invalid / missing product identifiers in the listing improvements page, which I notice says beta now. Right now my count is zero. Last time this happened and their UPC catalog was wholly insufficient, they backed off. We’ll see. The rest of the email suggested four different places you could go out hunting for a GTIN or I can just “contact my supplier / wholesaler.” LOL. This is unrealistic for your average small seller so I’m hoping they end up folding again on this issue for certain categories and let you continue to put N/A and rollover the listings. The reason I’m selling on Ebay is because I can sell everything – new and used – conveniently in one place and because I can charge a premium for relatively hard to find items. Hopefully, this will continue to be the case.
Right now I’m totally putting N/A, but my understanding is that last time they were threatening to end your GTC listings for doing so in certain categories. The Fall Update says “Listings that do not have valid product identifiers may not submit successfully.”
But I also got an email recently, saying in part “We’re writing again to inform you that some of your listings are still missing a valid product identifier. eBay now requires all new and manufacturer refurbished item listings in most categories to include a valid brand, manufacturer part number (MPN), and global trade item number (GTIN). Starting this week, you will no longer be able to relist non-Good ‘Til Cancelled items without including valid product identifiers. And, starting the week of September 18, 2017, your Good ‘Till Cancelled listings won’t automatically renew until valid product identifiers are provided….Update your listings now to avoid any interruption to selling.”
I’m not excited about their renewed threat to require the product identifier for more listings. In the past I would try to enter the upc appearing on the price tag of a new item and it would not be in the database. Apparently, upcs that are particular to retailers are not included. Also had trouble with NOS items. The only items it found was some of my kids’ dvds I was selling and legos. Also, they just use this information to show cheaper products from other sellers and also to hound me to offer free shipping and lower my price, even if the comparables they show don’t justify that. I don’t like them showing similar items because I try to bring in traffic from outside Ebay through Pinterest with what I hope are superior photos. I also try to get people to buy multiple items from my Ebay store.
Total Items in Store: 396
Items Sold: 11
Cost of Items Sold: $25 used + $24 new
Total Sales: $302
Highest Price Sold: $76 (One used rare Anthropologie dessert plate; thrifted GW for $1.99, sold in 1 day)
Average Price Sold: $27
Number of items listed this week: 35!I caught a welcome break from my contract work last week and listed some vintage and used piles, thus the lower average price and COGS. Hopefully today I will cross the 400 mark for the first time. I’m getting less picky about my photography and trying to gain listing speed. I still feel like I’m slowish on the spectrum. I’m a bit annoyed because I have to remove the internal custom Ebay store link insert that I’ve been using in my description because it is now outlawed like external links. Already having to clean out my listing recommendations daily.
Ah, stress. I know it all to well, but I think it also makes me a great Ebay seller. Having a let down like that is really good for you and you are free to do it after the reno is complete. You didn’t have much of a breath before this big trip and fortunate that you didn’t start the trip with the video work. I hope you are enjoying reflecting on your amazing recent accomplishments while you are vacationing. I just started a small adult singing class last week and even thought I am outgoing one on one, I have an extreme fear of public speaking and singing. I originally felt like it was time to push myself out of the comfort zone but then I was like why the *&@! am I doing this to myself??? LOL
Maybe the Equifax hack is just making me paranoid but just got like three of these in a row today. I made two of them repurchase, the third was a low priced item. The last one emailed outside of Ebay, so we’ll see if they repurchase.
In my description, I encourage buyers to use the shopping cart and visit my store. I originally thought that the link I created internally in Ebay as a custom insert is requiring the mobile friendly checker / fixer. However, now I realize that I have also inadvertently copied in links while preparing my listings using outside sources for research. They have just started flagging the latter and putting in my Hub with a request to “remove contact info”. I’m thinking I’ll probably have to run the checker on all of my listings. There’s one benefit of having a small store I suppose.
