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[Will B]

We did not notice this however – it was a real “Glitch” on ebays part (or maybe an unannounced test). There have been a number of posts to the eBay Technical Issues board pointing out the lack of or missing item description, without any response from ebay. Regardless we will check a couple of our listings on mobile to see if the ebay problem is universally resolved, and as Ina Steiner mentioned on her ecommerce website “Sellers might do well to document sales they make during the event and refer to it if they receive claims from customers reporting the items were not as described.”

Cheers

[Will B]

Thanks Jay. We don’t really list everything on each site we use. For example, on our Pinterest business boards I have set up feeds for about 8 of our websites more popular categories. And the fact that buyers use our website to complete the purchase of the item, it will automatically come out of the next feed. For ebay which has most all of our website categories on either of our two accounts, when it sells on ebay our website software automatically marks the item “Sold” and vice versa, then of course we have a record of that including the source of the sale. Our Inventory/Accounting software includes an entry for the source of the purchase which can be shown in a report. What we set out to do was to make as much of the multi-site listing as automatic as possible once set up for each ecommerce site, thus giving us accurate information and avoiding the dreaded ‘one item – two buyers’ issue (almost as bad as the ‘where the h*ll did we put that widget’ sale).

As for eCrater and Bonanza let me just say they are not our best performers, but listing on them probably helps with our product and name SEO. All of our venues have accounts with the same or similar name.

[Will B]

Read your original post a couple days ago and just now getting to throwing in my 2 cents worth. Yes, setting up a Facebook Shop can be complicated, and in my opinion, not worth the time and effort. Because they use Google Shopping requirements, which are geared to New – Branded products with generally large stock quantities, it can be difficult for many resellers to comply. We have a Farcebook Biz page and Shop page. We use RSS Feeds from our own website to populate social media a lot, and so it was pretty quick for me to place a feed in our Facebook Shop. My background is in programming and I do that sort of thing a lot. Also we have items selling on Ebay, Etsy, Bonanza, eCrator and others. And we use our website RSS Feeds to show most of our “stuff” on our Pintrest Business boards.

However as far as Facebook goes, I only did one category (one that was same on our website and our Ebay store) on our FB Shop on a lark. Most of what we do on FB is on our Business pages sharing our item photos and descriptions which are clickable back to our website where they can be purchased, incidentally – that’s how I set up the FB Shop as well. Sale is not completed on FB but on our website.

All of this focus on pointing to our website keeps our costs lower; and since the RSS Feeds automatically update once I set them up, it’s relatively “painless”.

We have no plans to expand our FB Shop – just too much trouble. Cheers

[Will B]

Hi,It looks like you have this on at least some of your eBay listings “Sponsored items from this seller”. Looked at a couple of your listings and you have a gallery showing other listings of  yours similar to what you are looking for.

Did you find a solution?

[Will B]

This is not the same thing exactly, however it reminded me of what people will do to get the lowest price. Something like this may have been told before as a story, but this Really Did Go Down.

A cousin of mine who I thought was the coolest (this was back in the late 60’s) wanted to buy a car as he had just got his driver’s license. He found one he liked a lot in the classified ads of the Detroit News and went to see the car. It was being sold by an older woman and belonged to her departed husband. My cousin offered her about one half her asking price as that’s all he could scrape together and she said “absolutely no”.

Well he really wanted that car so he and his dad (also a cool guy) came up with a plan. My cousin got together 4 of his buddies. Each one went to look at the car and offered her WAY less than my cousin had, with no intention of actually following through. A few days later cousin called to ask if the car was still available and the woman said “could he please come and pick it up today” as she would sell for what he had offered.

That’s what I think of when people ask that stupid question. Hey why not get creative folks and you may get what you want.

[Will B]

FedEx would be our choice. We ship a lot of big stuff. Example: Last year we shipped about 2 dozen large dolls, up to 4′ tall, via FedEx. Usually we build our own boxes out of ones we have picked from stores.

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