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My Store Week June 24-30, 2018
Total Items in Store: 1042
Items Sold: 9
Cost of Items Sold: $25.53
Total Sales: $232.45
Highest Price Sold: $70 (muddy distressed cowboy boots)
Average Price Sold: $25.83
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $57
Number of items listed this week: 31It has been a very long time since posting my numbers – I had baby #5 in December (now 7 months old!) and went through an extremely rough pregnancy (bedridden with constant nausea 24 hours a day for months on end – so needless to say my eBay business came to a grinding halt. It was an extreme effort just to pack what I sold. I listed nothing for 9 months. Somehow, I was able to continue making relatively steady income through this time.) Now I am feeling a million times better and back at it – as best as I can with my little kids always around 🙂 This week was a very slow week for sales – I recently hit 1000 listings and am looking forward to growing and also purging my store from all the low dollar mistakes I bought when I started a few years ago.
Hi Joe, Thanks for the update on this – A few weeks ago I received an INAD for selling an almost empty vintage bottle of perfume “AS IS” – and buyer filed INAD for it being “almost empty” – young kid, didn’t read the listing. I didn’t try to fight it – but have been thinking about it. If I end up calling for another reason, I will try also. Sometimes it seems that younger inexperienced users happen upon our listings and think this is run like Amazon… This is unfortunate that Ebay can’t (or won’t) change the reason and it could be counted against us. I don’t want the INAD’s to build up. I am considering more carefully what I am listing (no more empty perfume bottles for me) – but – if a buyer doesn’t take the time to read clear and accurate titles/descriptions and look at all 12 highly descriptive photos, then, what else can you do?
There is a chance that when you express you are wanting to leave… you will be offered a raise to stay… A good employee with technical skills – you are worth more than you are getting paid. Good luck!!!
Retro, well… in the last 48 hours I sold … hold your breath… a TIE, for a grand total profit of $2.50 and I have been listing like crazy as well.. I finally just broke 1000 listings *woo hoo* – you are next, right?
Ok, so just put a knife in me – lol – I am at 4.76% Tracking Uploaded. I know this board is awesomely famous for its positivity and solution-oriented approach – but this is getting absolutely ridiculous – eBay are you falling apart?!?
Hi MDC Mike,
We touched on this before, and I am still having a shipping exclusion bug/problem – very similar to yours except mine is excluding APO and Hawaii/Alaska! Every new listing, no matter what exclusions I clear or new policy or listing I create – the exclusions remain. I haven’t been able to get anywhere with ebay on this one. (I believe I caused this when once I had set up an exclusion for selling a bottle of perfume that I just wanted to stay continental US and somehow it stuck in their backend.)Anyway, I feel your frustration – and admittedly your problem is a lot worse than mine! So I just wanted to commiserate with somebody! 🙂
Here is what I figured out as a work-around in case anyone else ever encounters something like this – it is a pain in the butt, but it works to clear out the exceptions in my case – it just adds another minute and 1/2 to the listing process, but it does work using the bulk editor.
* First I created a New “temporary” Flat Rate Free Shipping Policy with GSP and choose the Exclude Shipping Location checkbox and “edit Exclusion List”. Pick ONE arcane country/location that you have never heard of. I choose Tuvalu! Apply and Save the Policy.
* Create a second New Calculated (Priority Mail) Shipping Policy with GSP AND include Alternative International Worldwide Shipping (Priority International) and make sure no exclusions are selected and Apply and Save.
* List the item with the Fake “temporary” Shipping Policy. Check the listing to make sure your one country is excluded. Somehow if you can get this far, it clears out the other hidden exceptions that aren’t supposed to be there.
* Close all windows/tabs with old listings. (I found this step to be important.)
* Go back into My Selling Manager and open the new listing, select Revise the Listing – now edit to select the second New Calculated (Priority Mail) Shipping Policy. Update listing.
* Finally open the listing again to verify that Worldwide Shipping is displayed with NO Exceptions.
Interested to hear if that works for you, good luck and keep us posted.
Sorry, editing this post to reply that the “Order Discount” IS working – you have to add the item to the cart and then the 5% off order is automatically applied. The promotion is hard to see – sometimes the banner is displayed on the storefront and sometimes it isn’t. These alternate promotions will only work if the user has clicked into your store and added the item to their cart to checkout. If someone goes to “Buy It Now” from a generic eBay search they may not know about the order discount and I don’t believe will receive any discount. I really dislike this alternative discount option because no “strikethrough” price appears – and the “hurry only 30 minutes left” call to action doesn’t apply – just a small banner inside your store that most people don’t see.
northernpinesgallery,
that is a brilliant idea to file the USPS claim in “reverse order” – something new to file away in case I ever need it. Thanks 🙂In the past I have tried every other type of promotion.. buy 1 get 1 … buy 1 take %20% off … take $10 off… etc. etc. codeless coupons and free shipping in certain categories.. and I have never even gotten one sale from these other promotions so I no longer use them – the time just has never payed off. The only effective marketing tools for me have been running constant sales via “Sale Event and Markdown” (even a low % amount helps) and promoted listings. Ebay is hoping to increase revenue by this change (isn’t it always about the money?) so I would bet they are aiming to increase promoted listings… or have us lower our listing prices from the get go to drive more sales and attract more customers. In any event the “SALE” is going to take on a new meaning now for the customer – it will be a lot rarer and infrequent. We will need to plan it out – perhaps rotating through different categories every day so we can cycle through each one every 14 days to still utilize the “sales psychology” marketing effect that creates the urgency to buy.
Hi Nancy,
The rules are vague – I think it means that an item has to be at the “Same Price” for 14 days – meaning no prior sales and no price reductions or increases in the prior 14 days. Yes, I agree hard to remember and keep track. I think eBay has “caught on” to sellers who price higher just to discount and who run constant sales. (Because that definitely works well for me!) The urgency felt from the “Sale Ending in 3 hours” etc. always generated sales at the end as well as the beginning of the sale. I’m not sure how I am going to approach my sales strategy going forward – but I need to come up with a game plan. In the meantime, I put best offer on everything and interested to see how this is going to play out for everyone here who uses frequent sales. I don’t like the change, but … I guess just keep listing, right?Ryanne, let us know if your sale “a different way” ends up working… I also noticed I was not able to “bulk edit” my items by lowering everything by .01 last night – and none of my view counters are working either – so everything seems super buggy right now.
Here’s the link:
https://community.ebay.com/t5/Announcements/2018-Summer-Seller-Update/ba-p/28511766Starting June 25, 2018, you must list your item for 14 calendar days at the same price before you can create a markdown sale event.
Hi Ryan,
The reason markdown manager is probably not working for you is because the new “Summer Seller Update” went into effect yesterday regarding no sales allowed until a listing has been at the same price for 14 days… everyone is having this issue. I am one of those “permasale” people – always putting my store on sale, and nothing will work – even my good til canceled listings that have been at a constant price for longer than 14 days! I think the counter just started!
