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Just listing and doing research and I noticed a new little phrase by the price of NIP items (with UPC) “Trending at:” and then “eBay determines this price through a machine learned model of the product’s sale prices within the last 90 days.” I wonder if this plays into deals and savings filter. Again, I don’t see much advantage at all as a seller to include upcs if they are not required. It really just helps Ebay drive prices down and show my shoppers other people’s items.
Selling slowly mostly bread and butter new items, but thought I’d post a few vintage sales.
These two had some noticeable flaws, so I hope they read and viewed the listing.Paid $7 at flea market. Texture and color sold it, my other plainer train case is not moving. http://www.ebay.com/itm/332154747905
Paid $3 at indy thrift and it had a big scratch on the top but otherwise in great shape. http://www.ebay.com/itm/332168246073 I can’t resist beautiful midcentury wood. I found an awesome like new salad set similar to this one and was stunned to find out Kustom Kraft walnut doesn’t really do that well. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Six-Piece-Kustom-Kraft-MCM-Solid-Black-Walnut-Salad-Bowls-With-Tongs-GUC-/142432132578?hash=item21299ddde2:g:jMMAAOSwDrNZPeY- I guess it’s one of those things like Courac that is underrated?
I do well with Williams Sonoma. Paid $5 for these at my favorite indy thrift and sold best offer $50. http://www.ebay.com/itm/232325496453 In the past I tried finding used WS tablecloths myself and they fetch good money on Ebay.
Nice little sale. So easy to ship. Not everybody has Ikea (including us). Goodwill charged $2 new. http://www.ebay.com/itm/232348253942
I echo what Amatino and So Cal said. After I add photos in the mobile app, I just quickly review for mistakes and make it live. In my iPhone I’m unable to upload photos directly to the listing, so they all get saved. I’m waiting for the 8 to upgrade. Personally, I don’t like to review my listings on the iPhone or do much typing since it’s so much faster on the keyboard.
I spend hardly any time typing the listings and my narrative is very, very short, but I feel a bit self conscious that I am slow. I’m working with a big backlog, so I always choose items that are virtually identical as something I already have listed so I can sell similar. If I have none of that I work on a bunch of very similar items (type, weight, size) from my backlog on the same day or week. I have it all sorted and kind of want to time myself.
As I go along the learning curve, I’m learning some items are my favorites and faster to clean up, list & ship. I like to sell art & art pottery but it can really slow me down on the research. I love to sell embroidery kits – everything about it is quick and most do ok.
Total items in store: 307
Items sold: 5
Cost of items sold: $220 (RA New) + $10 used
Total sales: $505
Highest price sold: $360 (New duvet & shams purchased Spring for $180)
Average price sold: $101
Money spent on new inventory this week: $0
Items listed this week: 4Crazy week of contract work and kid transport making really good money that will go entirely to the emergency vet. Spending a quiet weekend and this week with one of my kids and our poor doggie, who has a rare condition. Staying close to home and hopefully will manage better listing numbers. Grateful for the sales I have had the last month while listing barely anything. No time for promoting on social media groups either. Sometimes I think maybe Ebay’s home & garden category sale coupons might help move my items. Ebay upped my limits from tens of thousands to millions of dollars worth of inventory LOL. I went ahead and put on 60 day return policy since I have only ever had two returns. Another plus is nothing was added to the piles this week.
I hope everyone has a nice 4th of July holiday.
T-Salt: I definitely underused the PFR in the beginning, but many of my items are décor and breakable. I bought some boxes that fit in the PFR, but many of the items at that price point do not fit. And I know some people put mugs FOMO in there, but I’m not comfortable with that because I worry about breakage.
Total Items in Store: 336
Items Sold: 9
Cost of Items Sold: $10 used + $47 new RA
Total Sales: $193
Highest Price Sold: $30 new brass owl hook
Average Price Sold: $21
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: maybe $5
Number of items listed this week: 7Getting excited to see photos of the new rental. It would be fun to hear how much total you estimate you spent furnishing it. Great that you’ve been collecting items over time. I think the email alerts and some time are all you need to get great stuff if there’s a city nearby. We’re pretty picky and busy so it took some dedication to source for our own house. Husband is also not terribly keen on haggling or dealing with people. During reno, we didn’t get much notice from the contractor so we just paid up for some things. Have a search out for a backyard tiki. Thanks Paul for the recommendations last week. Unless I go see my friend in Palm Springs this fall, then I’ll check out Oceanic Arts. We should make a special trip, because we never find time when we are passing through that area.
Really tough schedule for Ebay again between pre-vacation work and the kids’ sports and camps. I did get a few things listed yesterday afternoon. Also the retailer I source RA from has made their sales less attractive, with shallower discounts. The new items are my better movers and keep my store active so kind of a bummer. I found some similar items missing and have no idea when they were removed – not in ended. Hm.
Went to the local college rummage sale but I bought items for us, except a couple of costumes for resale. Great to pick up matching Tupperware, post its, etc. Someone had been through the snapbacks, knives, and other good stuff before I got there. I tried to make a beeline for the perfume but couldn’t find any. Scores were ugg boots and Patagonia jackets for my kids. College students are so lazy. They just get it dirty and donate it in great shape rather than clean it. That’s ok, I’ll happily do it. The prices are amazing – the event is really all about recycling.
Have a great week.
This is an extremely important concept for new sellers to get. I totally bought things that were not worth my time in the past, having no idea how much time it takes to list. Though the Ebay listing functionality is running much more smoothly than it was when I started, I’m still limited as a part-timer in what I can get up. So important to remember when out sourcing. The other thing to keep in mind is that the cost of shipping items over a pound just keeps rising. I think there are some 1-2 pound items between ten and twenty dollars that are not going to be worth it to the buyer to pay shipping of $7-12. Some of those are sitting in my garage unfortunately.
I know, silly about the call and online chat would have been better.
Here’s another link summarizing the new policies and approach. They do mention used and vintage goods, so that’s good. More traffic to the site will be helpful to all sellers. I hope people don’t come to expect free shipping. I donwanna do it.
I read some other articles about Amazon using resources to meet the prime shipping, and it’s non-prime turnaround really suffering so I think Ebay pushing for faster shipping from all sellers is a smart approach. My non-prime orders from Amazon were painfully slow recently. Also I found interesting that Ebay says 1.1M listings at any time. I wonder about server capacity when my thoughts go all conspiracy like.
Total Items in Store: 322
Items Sold: 5
Cost of Items Sold: $49 new + $1 used
Total Sales: $124
Highest Price Sold: $38 new pj pants
Average Price Sold: $25
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: about $20
Number of items listed this week: 0Well keeping it real over here with some slow sales. It’s my third week not listing. This week I did have a couple of windows and I have to admit I just wasn’t feeling it for Ebay. One of my challenges is that I’m stubborn and have hard time giving up on items and donating them back. I’m not sure why since they can’t all be winners. So I’ve deleted some items as I am nearing my 250 basic limit and don’t want to pay $50 more a month to upgrade. I found the stinkers with some help from the forum. I find the growth tab to be useless, but better information under the performance/traffic section. At the bottom is a long list of your listings I had been blowing off. You can sort and I found out that some of my listings were getting impressions (I don’t think keywords are the problem) but hardly any clicks. Besides the seasonal and newly listed items, there were some Etsy type lower dollar items. I hear Etsy is slow for veteran sellers and maybe tinkering with search, but I hope to get on there later. I have read that you need to get up 100-150 listings ideally, so that is kind of a deterrent for me with the time constraints I have.
Speaking of time constraints, I love being a mom and I’m doing exactly what I want to be doing. It is very challenging at times and some kids are harder to parent than others. Lately just regulating internet use is the bane of my existence. I have good paying contract work to fill most of the time they are at school and now I squeeze in Ebay too as a hobby but also to pay for extras. I just took my daughter to see Into the Woods in LA and we stayed downtown with Ebay $.
Fixing up houses would be amazing and there are many midcentury and ’20s homes here that could use some love, but you need serious capital even just to get into and carry a house around here for months. The permitting process is expensive and ridiculous. We do our reno on our home one project at a time and that’s about as much as I can handle at once. So, I guess I’ll be watching flips on HGTV instead. They sure make it look easy and Flip or Flop labor prices are insanely low for So Cal. The joke around here is that if you grab someone talented from a cheaper area and rent them a place to stay here while they are working then the labor cost would still be cheaper with you putting them up than hiring someone local.
Brian, the art on those pasta cards is amazing. I’m still working on the piles, but I hope to switch to estate sales later. And Paul, love the tiki bar goal. We’re looking for an authentic looking 3-6 ft. tiki for our backyard and don’t want to pay shipping. If you know of a place in LA, let me know.
Struggling to get into listing. Had a great opportunity Friday to list for a while uninterrupted and I just didn’t feel like it. I did some organizing of inventory and pruning of unperforming listings. Will try to get my mojo back. The piles await!
Happy belated birthday to you both. Here’s to another year of you doing what you love to do. Should be an exciting one coming with the roll out of your new rental. Thank you for sharing and creating somewhere to share with other people who get it.
You’re right, that is better information. Ugh, have some listings with zero click through rate that I have not ended. Wasted space and I’m nearing my subscription limit. It’s interesting to see what’s trolling at the bottom. Some are maybe price related, many are out of season, but there are some similar items from the same brand or category. Like vintage wrapping paper is not doing well, Pimpernel drink coasters. I would love to check vs. solds on Etsy.
Mp I think they just updated it very recently. I don’t see that slider tab for recommendations. Here’s a visual of myself beating myself up: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/343399540327167003/
This part is a bit more helpful, depending maybe on how big the category is: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/4a/6f/36/4a6f360a24cd2e6d429a98abd4bb375d.png I’ve already lowered the price on this item a couple of times.
I suspect that these listings identified as underperforming are getting beat up a bit in search, but it would be nice to know if tinkering was worth it for sure. I don’t have time to sell similar every 30 days, even with a small store. On the other hand, this particular item is getting good impressions and similar page views vs. the category.This is still in the beta stage. I sell new and used items and both types get flagged as underperforming. I find this functionality unhelpful so far. Ebay just uses it to encourage me to add free shipping on my items even if they are priced lower than the comparison sales they are showing. Often, they send me comparisons of all of my own sales of a similar item, and then say I have a 100% less chance than myself of selling that item in an identical listing (even if the remaining item is priced lower). However, if they have an item randomly flagged with recommendations, I always tweak the item slightly – change lead photo, up the price, title words, etc. – just in case it matters to them. I use the filter button for items with recommendations only. Recently they added the traffic stats for the entire category vs your item. I might consider reviewing that data and doing some tweaking since they have labeled it underperforming. It would be more useful if they offered a list of items missing specifics – like after they add additional ones and you have old listings with blanks.
