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At least one podcaster is reporting a disappearing package out of the bin as well.
I upped my general promotion rate on Sat to 3.1%. If I’m still seeing clicks in the teens this month I think I’ll phase out promoting or just turn it on (maybe higher for used, stale items). Things are a little bit skewed because I haven’t been listing, but I should get back to that by next week.
@clarity wow that’s not good. I had one want to cancel after I dropped off and it finally got a scan a couple of hours after I told her I had dropped it off the day before. In the second instance, it never got a scan and it wasn’t delivered. It’s been weeks. Unfortunately, regular people are not aware that they are not giving scans right away and are doing fewer scans. I did also notice things are taking longer to arrive in some cases, even though the Christmas rush is over. Yesterday I have apologize for making my postal guy scan all of my packages in. He said there are card sellers in our neighborhood that bring in like 50 items.
@jaepete that is a cool bag.
Sales are dreadful this week for me on all accounts. I haven’t been listing much but still.
PPS. If anyone is newly joining Poshmark, please let me know. I get to become a Poshmark ambassador level 2 if I refer someone after six months.
PPS. If anyone is newly joining Poshmark, please let me know. I get to become a Poshmark ambassador too if I refer someone after six months.
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.
