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10/15/2018 at 3:01 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 380: What Do Lifetime Sales Really Mean? #50193
Retro, Just saw this and wanted to say Congrats on #5 on-the-way.. I have 5 and it is awesome!!! They are all my little “helpers” – the little ones run my packages into the post office and my oldest (12) helps me photograph – I pay her $1.00 a listing for setting up drafts and photographing. She also sells our happy meal toys whenever we go to McDonalds – The kids complain, but she figured out we can pay $2.99 for a happy meal and then sell the toy for $9.95 free shipping and profit a few dollars (We sell right after the toys are no longer available and people are looking to collect them). It’s free food for the kids, scavenger style, Haha! I hope your wife is feeling good and no morning sickness!
My Store Week Oct 7-13, 2018
Total Items in Store: 1141
Items Sold: 8
Gross Sales: $191.81
Cost of Items Sold: $13.97
Highest Price Sold: $40 (Tie: Military Camo Army Jacket / Wood Cut Out of French Cathedral)
ASP: $23.98
STR: 3%
Returns: 1 Initiated but not shipped
International: 0 (but one low ball offer)
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $29
Number of items listed this week: 12Wanted to post numbers before digging into listening while doing my packing! Glad you are all “caught up!” I am beginning to get “behind” – the garage sales have been too tempting to stop by on my way home – so I am getting a bit of a backlog. Low dollar sales, and slow sales this week – not sure what is up with the mostly low dollar sales only. And, I love sourcing shoes, I am finding most of my good “shoe spots” are jacking up their prices and getting very greedy. Seems like shoe-resellers are every where I look… the competition is getting tougher in this market so maybe it is time to diversify.
After all the angst this new policy caused when it came out – I can’t believe they are changing it back! Thank you for letting us know. Just a guess but perhaps they implemented it to avoid a legal problem (and the problem was resolved by the short-term implementation) and now they can re-allow perma-sales just in time for Christmas shopping. The verbiage of the letter implies that they may change it back again “within the year” so we may see this come and go yet again next year!
Hi Toni,
If the item in question was ending sooner than 48 hours – the offer will also “expire” along with the listing… perhaps that is what happened in your case?10/08/2018 at 10:35 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 380: What Do Lifetime Sales Really Mean? #49754Mark, sorry your sump pump froze up – but it sounds like you prevented any real damage to your inventory – that could have really been a disaster! My entire ebay storage is in my unfinished portion of the basement – I just purchased a battery backup / extra pump for my sump. Let’s hope it is never needed!
10/08/2018 at 10:06 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 380: What Do Lifetime Sales Really Mean? #49751My Store Week Sept 30-Oct 6, 2018
Total Items in Store: 1138
Items Sold: 15
Gross Sales: $381.45
Cost of Items Sold: $35.99
Highest Price Sold: $55.30 (Leather Jacket)
ASP: $25.43
STR: 5.6%
Returns: 0
International: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $44.42
Number of items listed this week: 5Typical sales this week and cannot complain for doing very little work – Getting a lot of lower offers and trying to accept anything within reason, it seems as if an expectation of 50% off (or more) is becoming the “new normal” with best offers.
Hoping everyone has a successful week…
Hi Retro, thanks for your input – you are exactly right – I made these shipping exclusions pre-GSP (2015 ish) so I guess that is were this whole exclusion thing started. At least I’m not alone…
Hi Mickdog, glad that you had a GSP sale and that you were able to correct your issue – for me, there are two different issues:
#1 Issue) With new listings, US Protectorets and APO’s are automatically excluded in listings regardless of any settings/toggles.
#2 Issue) When I have Priority International turned on as a 2nd Alternate Shipping Option, it disables the GSP option on the buyer end, even though it appears in the listing – the customers cannot complete the sale.For #1, I am still working on this with eBay, I have an awkward “hack” which involves creating a fake temporary shipping policy, moving the listing to this fake policy and then moving it “back” to the regular policy, and then the US Protectoret and APO exclusion will disappear.
For #2) I turned off Priority International as my 2nd option in the shipping policy and then refresh the listings and GSP becomes “enabled” again. (I figure GSP-Only is better than Priority International without the GSP option.) I’ll let you all know when my next International sale comes through and if I find out anything else.
If anyone else has shipping glitches let us know. MDC Mike, are you coming back with your coffee LOL, looking for nice big wall of text here 🙂 🙂
See ya!
I am not intentionally trying to exclude any countries (I want to sell Worldwide, to everyone if possible) – it is just that a long time ago as a naïve rookie I created shipping policies with exclusions and now they won’t go away, even though I want them to… Hopefully eBay will be able to shed some light – I will report back.
(Jay, I think I am an anomaly, and my account shipping is just messed up on the backend, but when I had International Priority Turned ON (as a back up – as you are suggesting) that is when my GSP was disabled – GSP was actually showing up on the actual listings (so I didn’t know it) – but my international sales came to a halt, in talking directly to international buyers, a few couldn’t go through with their GSP purchases and we dialogued about it, AND running the query above confirmed that most of my listings were not GSP enabled. Once I turned off Priority International – the GSP option seemed “enabled” again. I hope this makes sense. I just called eBay first thing this morning and they are “putting in a report” to tech support and getting back to me.. I will not hold my breath yet… but I’ll keep everyone posted.
Also, Mickdog.. even once you *think* it is fixed… well.. all I can say is if you have the same problem as me.. it is NOT, check your listings every time (regardless of your country settings) and you will still see the same problem come back once it is live. let us know how it is going.
Hi Again, Thanks for sharing your numbers – Idahoarder, based on what you are sharing, I think our problems are different – 80 out of 1840 is normal – your listings (perfumes and others) are probably automatically excluded based on the nature of the item and it’s not a glitch. You are trying to include it in the GSP program, but it gets automatically removed by eBay. In fact the textile rug / wall hanging you shared reminded me of one of my strange “exclusions”; macramé candle holders – same deal. I think jute/macramé/fibers etc. may be automatically excluded from GSP by nature of being a plant/fiber.
Now, mickdog, since you have done prior shipping exclusions, and only have 1 out of 592.. I DO think we have the same issue going on. I’m sure we’ll be talking more about this tomorrow and over the weekend..
Jay and others – one other note I want to add regarding my shipping issues – (and idahoarder.. I don’t want to “hijack” your thread – so I can move this conversation elsewhere, but I think maybe our problems are all related somehow..)
I am pretty sure all of my problems have originated every time I try to make a custom business policy to “exclude” a certain country or place. I’ve done this so many times for so many different reasons and at various times I have had many different combinations of policies. It seems like every time I have tried to “exclude” the exclusions “stick” and come back to bite me later. (This has also happened with flat rate shipping policy overrides also, but that is another topic!)
So, as just another point of data as we try to figure it all out – Mike, and Ida.. do you remember if you have ever tried to make custom shipping policies where you were excluding international or GSP shipping for example?
Mike you said that eBay says this has nothing to do with policies or exclusions, but I don’t think that is entirely true (at least in my case – I think there is a direct correlation). I am anxiously awaiting to hear what you have to add to all this! 🙂
I have had other shipping issues (can’t ship to Puerto Rico or APO’s) for a long time now but I noticed the GSP issue this past weekend when trying to sell a book to China GSP, no matter what I tried, he couldn’t “get it” on his end – that’s when I noticed my query results and realized that most of my listings appeared to be blocked. I do sell on average one international sale every month or two, but I remember a while back (last year?) it used to be multiple times in a week, or at least once a week.
Ok, Jay, so it doesn’t appear you have the problem I had – (out of my 1150 listings only 39 or so of mine were ENABLED…) Anyway furniture, large heavy items, some perfume, military and vintage antiques, etc. can’t go GSP – so nobody is going to be exactly at 100%.
Curious if any one else has concerningly low numbers?
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