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@Julie I didn’t read the fine print either until I had listed the items. I don’t usually spend over $50 on an item but ended up using the coupon on a Pottery Batn duvet from an outlet seller. She wouldn’t ho down too much on her price and I had to use it quickly. Sorry you didn’t get to use yours! I hope they offer it again.
Ok for fun I purchased two items: a $12.99 queen size handmade quilt from Colorado and a small $24 oil painting from Wisconsin. Shipping to me in California was $6! for the quilt and $8 for the painting.
People are having interesting conversations on the Facebook groups about the crazy pricing.
Someone at Goodwill finds listed a Lululemon tank top for $224. No refunds unless your item doesn’t show up.I like the new listing tool but I am noticing some bugs in the item specifics. There is a category where the style or something is stuck on Mammut and I can’t change it. Also I’m almost certain that the shipping boxes reverted as I have been stuck with an inappropriate flat rate on an item or two. I usually don’t take time to review after opening my draft to take photos.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/234707299943
My first time selling an empty box. Sold immediately for best offer $25 and buyer was super happy with it despite the condition issues.
This is just a run of the mill troll from Norway with a stamped bottom. It’s cute and funky. I found out while researching that some signed ones are worth hundreds. Fascinating.
PS. Jay on that video someone linked recently, it was said that Ebay slowed down on the required payment for offers as there were apparently complaints from Ebay buyers (and sellers) part of the early roll out who were used to having 4 days to pay and this was the climate on this platform.
I used to cancel after using the auto message to remind the buyers but have recently sent a super quick message and some have paid after that short second message.
Total Items in Store: 452
Items Sold: 12
Gross Sales, Ebay: $567.64 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $381.76 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $134 (Two were items I bought full price for my kids)
Highest Price Sold: $100 (4 x 2 sets Williams Sonoma Halloween Cocktail Picks (Paid $8 for my own use))
Average Price Sold: $41
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $29 (Rummage sale + 1 yard sale)
Number of items listed this week: 72 (ebay and Mercari)Having good sales on Ebay, and sold two high dollar items in the two days after this period and some items on Mercari. Shipping today will be annoying. A high number of my sales are make offers, with only a quarter of my recent sales coming in without an offer. 60%+ are buyer initiated offers, wow. I haven’t gotten around to sell similar yet on my really old stuff but I think the 4% promoted may be helping. After watching that video I referred to in my recent post, I think I may go back and fill in some item specifics for old listings as well. Hard to tell if the recent pinning on Pinterest was helping much.
I had a depressing thrift store run. One of my indy favorites has hired a bunch of college kids who look absolutely everything up on Ebay and price high. Then, the manager starts the really good stuff there and drops the price over a long period of time. That store gets really unique estate sale type items. Our regional chain volume stores are also pricing high again and stopped running color tag sales. So, obviously they have a lot more people shopping. This is consistent with the long lines at my favorite honey hole that started during the pandemic. On the other hand, Goodwill is churning stuff out, other than the smalls that they ship off to corporate. The current manager there is keeping prices low and things turn over super fast at that location. Happily I went to a small rummage sale and did well. I have an alert on Craigslist for rummage and church sales but there have not been many.
I experienced a glitch this week with the new listing format. I start on the desktop and when I switch to the phone, the price seems to revert to the trending price instead of the higher price I entered. Luckily it’s usually lower than the auto decline so it gets flagged and I caught it I hope for all of them.
@Anna I liked your video. 🙂 I also plan to watch Sarah’s video on reading your numbers / analytics.Yeah! I listed 73 items. A bunch were on Mercari, which is much faster listing. Mercari gave me a $20 credit too but the fine print says I have to buy a $50 or more item. That’s ok because I do find some things to source on Mercari usually sold by people living near the Pottery Barn outlet.
Negative. Check out 1:40 in the video and more like minute 3:00 for that point. Good thing is monthly for unique vintage items would not be necessary and maybe harmful for Google search.
Is anyone comparing desktop v iPhone with the new listing tool? I’m considering an experiment starting to list on my phone. I think it may require fewer item specifics. You still have to type and then hit the + to confirm for everything, which annoys me on desktop but it’s easier to click on the phone. It also keeps losing my low end offer amount when I switch to the phone to take photos.
Sharing this YouTube video about sell similar. Apparently this person spoke with executives at EBay while prepping for the Open and confirms harm to stale listings.
Along with the multiples issue I would need to repin my items again in Pinterest. I just started cleaning up over there and immediately sold a stale newly pinned item.
Mercari is giving out $20 for listing 30 items by Sunday so clothing it is.
@Sharon you can customize your active listings space and add sold quantity (which is currently not working for me) but also available and initial quantity and then sort them that way. Then exclude anything with solds from your sell similar.I was listening to the Ebay for Business podcast recently, which I don’t normally do. One host was like, “where are we with that autopay for buyers’ offers business?” and the other guy is like “I don’t know”. Would have liked to see an update on that.
I feel like there must be a downside to the switch from GSP. I don’t take international returns so I wonder if that is still ok with the new program. I definitely don’t want to call Ebay about feedback ever even if they promise to remove it.
