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I would. There’s a nice one for $375 on eBay, list yours at $100 or $150 with best offer. It’s worth a try.
I applied for the PPP loan/grant through PayPal. It went through quickly and easily. I am now documenting all my PPP expenses and will file for the loan to be forgiven once I’ve spent all the money.
I sell lots of magazines, both singles and lots. I’d lot them up by year or in groups of 10 or 12 and sell them that way. I would think being craft magazines that they’d sell pretty quick.
I’ve sold about 25 puzzles since this all started. I’ve been sending them by priority mail. I have a business policy with priority mail by dimension. I haven’t had much luck getting them below 1 pound to use first class. On some of the cheaper puzzles I lot them up in groups of 2 or 3. I size the shipping box down to fit just the puzzles (no extra space) to decrease the dim cost.
I’ve had that problem too in CA at Lacoste & True Religion a few years ago. Didn’t actually get banned but got the third degree on the clothes that I was buying etc. Told if I was buying for resale, they would ban me. That mindset I don’t get. I’m there to buy stuff, they’re selling stuff so what’s the problem? It’s not like I was buying out the store. I stopped going as often, didn’t buy if the clerks giving me a hard time were working. Now they don’t hassle me.
4 were the newer ones and 2 the older version. It doesn’t seem to matter which one.
As a book person, I would sell them as the whole set. Sets are good sellers. You can ship it by media mail and the shipping won’t be that expensive for a 20 pound package.
What about downloading your orders? That will give you your SKU number on a spreadsheet. I do that to print out my pull list when I have a lot of orders to pull.
The SKU is showing up on my sold page. I’m on a PC and on Chrome.
As a backup, I put my SKU number at the bottom of my description in case Ebay has some glitch and the SKU line disappears.
According to my mail man and the USPS website the Post Office is open on Christmas Eve. Where did you hear that they were closed? It’s one of their busiest delivery days of the year.
In a mile radius of my store, there are now 6 coffee shops. One is a Starbucks, the rest are indies. All the indies roast their own coffee beans. I was curious what they thought about there being so many of them so close together, and all of the new owners have told me it is actually good for their business to have a cluster of shops. More coffee drinkers will come since there is a wide variety of choices. The only one that was concerned was the one who’s been in the neighborhood for decades. We’ll see how they do.
Business Insider spoke with Marni Levine, eBay’s vice president of seller operations and engagement, to learn more about the company’s evolving stance on Amazon, how it’s supporting independent sellers, and its strategies to lure Gen Z. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories.These days, it feels like it’s Amazon’s world, and everyone else is just living in it — especially if you’re an e-commerce-centric company like eBay. Though both companies were developed at the height of the dotcom boom in the mid 1990s, Amazon spent the following two decades elbowing its way to global e-commerce dominance as eBay sought ways to differentiate and reinvent.Today the company has accepted that when it comes to Amazon, it’s advantageous to pick its battles wisely, and instead it’s leaning into strengths like serving as a resource for small business owners and independent sellers. We talked to Marni Levine, eBay’s vice president of seller operations and engagement, at a recent event in New York City to learn more about the company’s stance on Amazon, how it supports independent sellers, and its strategies for luring Gen Z. The following interview was lightly edited for length and clarity. Business Insider: What do you think sets eBay apart from Amazon? Marni Levine: We don’t compete with our sellers. We truly are the small business champions. We don’t have fulfillment centers all across the globe, we don’t have private-label products. We are a platform where buyers and sellers can come together and be who they are, and we don’t interfere. If you want toilet paper in an hour, that’s not us. We want that spectrum of value, or what I call the \”spectrum of era.\” For example, if I want an old Atari game and my son wants a new Fortnite game, you could buy both things on eBay. So on the business side, we differ from Amazon by not competing with our sellers and being a trusted platform. On the inventory side, we have a breadth of assortment that you can’t get anywhere else.Is Amazon terrific? Of course. They’re terrific at what they do, but we’re not going to compete there because we’re not going to stand up hundreds of fulfillment centers and we’re not going to own our own inventory. We’ve got to stick to what we’re really good at and what we know.BI: What are the dangers of small business owners trying to work with Amazon? Levine: There’s the perception of big, bad Amazon. If I have a product or I’m a maker, I don’t want it to be knocked off by Amazon. There’s a sense that Amazon is always watching, Alexa is always watching. Whereas we let these brands —whether it is a a big brand or a startup or a mom-and-pop — use eBay their way.[Amazon] can make [their own products] in their factories overseas and they promote it and then they put it on top of search. It’s obviously more advantageous for them to sell their own private-label products. We don’t do any of that. That’s the big difference between us. BI: In your opinion, how do independent sellers benefit from using eBay?Levine: Sellers really learn from each other. It’s one thing for us to show them all the demos, but until you’re in it, doing it day in, day out, that’s when the questions really come up. Of course, we try to be everywhere and try to answer questions, but they also have each other to learn from and talk to. That’s the beauty of it, and you can’t get that anywhere else — millions of people talking to each other, helping each other out, and it’s not very competitive at all. It’s very rare.BI: eBay hasn’t traditionally been a destination for young shoppers. How are you trying to connect with Gen Z and millennials? Levine: One way is really being where they are. We’re no longer in a world where they’ll come to us. We need to come to them. So whether it’s Instagram, whether it’s Facebook, or even on TikTok, we’re looking at the channels they’re in and we have to go there. We can’t expect people to come to us. We have to infiltrate where they are.BI: What, specifically, are you doing on these platforms?Levine: Well, the point is we’re looking at all of these. We have to just keep the aperture wide open to consider things like \”What’s the next Instagram?\” or \”How do we do more in local communities?\” whether it’s with [apps like] NextDoor, whatever it may be.TikTok is definitely the next version that we’re looking at. There’s a little bit of debate internally around how do we leverage that and should we — [Gen Z doesn’t] actually have income, but they will eventually, so how early on do we get them? But we’re actually looking at all of the newest, latest, and greatest social channels to see where we can fit in.BI: Are there any areas where you feel eBay particularly excels with Gen Z and millennials? Levine: We’re really focused on passions. Are we going to get every millennial, every Gen Z consumer? No, but we can get the ones that are super into gaming. Esports is huge for us. We have great partnerships with HyperX, Microsoft, and Xbox. We’re focused on kind of these niche categories where these younger generations are.We’re really focused on interests and focusing on specific product categories to go after them with. They have very specific desires. So if we get into their passions, we’re golden.”,
