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Ps. they also have depop and mercari. I don’t have clothing for depop so I haven’t done that. My old buried Mercari listings have been refreshed by Nifty AI. Just that alone probably pays for the software.
@ryanne I use Nifty AI. I waited to find out which was the best cross posting software. I have spotty internet here so I went with Nifty AI, which I believe is only one of the two working from the cloud and not your computer. It’s been very reliable so far with delisting when something is sold. If they have a glitch with that they will email you to alert you. It’s not the cheapest but amazing software. I will use it to store my cost of goods starting with this year’s listings. It’s pretty liberating to get out from under Ebay’s algorithm and I think they tend to have younger buyers. However, Posh fees are higher and about 80% sells on offer. I have my offers automated. The Nifty AI listing tool is much better than Ebay’s but sometimes sell similar is faster still than using it for vintage or weird items. I’ve sold about $5000 on Posh already, more than enough to pay for the software. I wish I had done it sooner. It feels so great when something sells there that’s been listing on Ebay forever. Some of it I think has to do with their great shipping rate – $6.49 for up to 5 pounds! I think it’s only $10? (or $10 more) for up to 10 pounds (seller needs to upgrade the label).
Thanks @retro
I’ve been impressed with Poshmark. The fee is hefty but I started crossposting by category in October and have sold 166 items on there so far. OLD things have sold, cross stitch kits, decor, kitchenware, all kinds of things. The shipping rate they have going at USPS for under 5 pounds is really great. I hope it lasts a while. My average sale price on Posh is lower than Ebay, as is the profit but I’m looking to move things, so that’s ok.
Regarding the dragging down of your store by old listings theory, it can only help your Ebay store to get rid of that old stuff on another platform. They do keep records of the original list date per Ebay staff.
I definitely think they have upped the freshness factor tremendously since the podcast days. I asked the Cassini guy himself at Ebay Open if old listings dragged down your whole store and he couldn’t directly respond but did say he had two stores, one with some things over a year old that was slower. He also said “sales beget sales”. That phrase has stuck with me and I’ve moved away from the highest priced model and started taking lower offers and running a little bit of a deeper sale. Unfortunately that means I have less money to spend on advertising and I can’t afford to pass on my shipping discount to buyers. The ladies from corporate in the ladies room bluntly said re 90 day listings “you don’t want any of that”. It feels a bit like cheating having the software automatically do it.
I am a bit surprised that after the recent change in attribution rules, I’m getting less promoted clicks while promoting at the same rate. This is espeically true considering how many sellers said they quit promoting. It suggests they tweaked the algorithm. I can’t imagine that it’s because a good number of my competitors upped their rates after that policy change.
Of course I haven’t done anything about fixing this or the low picture count listings. I am so bad about going back to old listings.
@retro that’s awesome. I could do this as well. I’ve set Nifty for relisting at 120 days. I’m not sure it catches it all? Mine are bunched up due to my past manual resets. I feel like running my weekly 4 day sale is a boost, and I’m making offers. So I can’t really afford to run pay per click as well, definitely not on my RA items. I’m also making lower offers on my old used items and dropped my Ebay offer floor. I tried a small pay per click experiment before when they gave a big credit and they chose the items and it was definitely not what I would have chosen. So for me the question is just whether or not to phase out my current % or try a higher rate on used items only.
I also kind of feel like we are in a transition period with a number of long time sellers reporting that sales are off. Ebay wouldn’t want to have lower sales overall so perhaps it’s just a ball pit and the ones willing to pay ball are going to get shown. Ebay wants to show investors revenue growth on our backs so they would be willing to play hardball with the objectors. Of course if you have amazing sell through items at competitive prices or make great discount offers, that would likely get you sold too. Personally, my items are a mix. I still have a lot of old piles I am working through and I’m down to one RA supplier but those items have good velocity.
@retro are you listing with Nifty AI yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGUWn4S94MM Good video on the issue with Country of Origin, skip to 3:42
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KuRviA9ho8
Here is a demo of the AI lister I use. It’s not quite this quick and accurate for me, and I still need to get back to listing and customize my preferences. But, as you can see, it’s pretty awesome.
By the way, there is something going on with Country of Origin being an enforced item specific. Some people were speculating that this added to the slowness on Ebay.
I looked at my shipping policy and there were a lot of disallowed places. I thought I had on International Shipping to most places but it seems like just North America was not clicked. Did anyone notice a change? It’s been a long time since I’ve looked at it.
@Dylan, awesome thanks.
Continue to see poor ebay sales even after running my weekly sale. Poshmark is doing ok thankfully and even had a few on Mercari. I hope they are just temporarily testing people to try to get them to promote higher.
I don’t have another good forum but would love to hear if someone does. I listen to a couple of podcasts to try to keep up on the news – the selling on Ebay podcast, pure hustle podcast. There are some others but there is too much banter or off topic stuff for my taste. I sure miss Scavenger Life. I also follow a few selling groups on Facebook that are not attached to influencers but there is not a lot of great information on those.
There is a lot of chatter in the Facebook groups about Ebay making site changes and slow sales. My sales really dropped off a cliff after last weekend but I haven’t listed in over a week and my sale ended Sunday night. There was also talk of Ebay enforcing requiring the country of origin due to tarriffs. I tried to bulk edit but was unable to do so without going into all category item specifics. LMK if you have another way.
Got an interesting email from Ebay. It gave me 50 listings to revise supposedly 90 days old or more. I thought I had gotten rid of those but I guess I missed some relists. Anyway, they had some suggestions, many included making a longer description. Some suggested adding photos and others adding free shipping. I took the list and bulk edited prices a bit. We’ll see if that helps at all.
Pretty much no listing last week as I had a local pop up show on Friday. I’m still doing my big unlisted sort. I have a lot of sales to get out this morning, then I should be able to return to listing tomorrow. I’m going to try the AI listing again for some items, for others I will probably stick with sell similar on Ebay and then cross post. I kind of made a mess of unlisted items near my desk and need to decide what to focus on. Really I should probably make myself go back to linens. Doing the sort gets me distracted.
