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All but one of the above unsold items I mentioned sold. 2 sold at full price, while I took offers on the others or sold them during a sale. The last one has been on clearance a few times and fields a few lowball offers now and then with no bites – just a bad buy.
Overall the investment wasn’t worth it. I tied up too much money in each one expecting similar quick payouts in 24/48 hours like I’d seen with my first sale from this lot, which was just a fluke that made me feel overly confident.
On average these items sold in 28 days, and although I said I was happy with a 40 day average above, I take it back – too long for this much money on the line. If I’d got full price I’d think differently, of course.
For now on I’ll only buy this stuff if I can get them for <$20/unit.
Best change IMO is the removal of duplicated promoted and non-promoted listings in search. Looks way cleaner.
I have neither a truck or warehouse space, I just meant that there’s plenty of stuff that’s larger and logistically harder to ship going unsold for cheap that someone with an existing B&M space (pawn shop, etc) could swipe up and make bank on.
There are zero additional operating costs.
The opportunities for investments in high risk -> high reward items are there, you just need to be willing to accept that some will only break even or cost you time/money. Your bread-n-butter items can cover the loss, surely.
eBay parts/repair, online liquidation auctions, surplus, etc etc. In almost all these cases you’ll be gambling money on things that aren’t tested or photographed well. I frequently take these risks and only a couple of times felt disappointed with the items once I got them.
I also don’t mind lower margins if the item will sell faster, like a near-$100 item selling for $200 in a week. OK with me.
I’d be doing these investments more often if I had a truck and a small warehouse space. Sometimes really good items sell for extremely cheap just because the shipping logistics are nightmarish.
They’re for shipping, not for packing. The policy is in place for a reason and applies to everyone. If the question is “Will I get in trouble?”, then the answer is no, just don’t complain when these “free” materials are put behind the counter at the PO and cost $2/piece.
I think anyone would find it looks lazy. Just imagine ripping open a box and finding it full of perfectly usable padded flat rate mailers for void fill.
Go buy kraft paper at Staples. If weight matters, get tissue paper or newsprint. You’ll spend $10 at most. For “free” supplies you can dumpster dive your nearest recycling bin or talk to a store owner about getting some of their packing material that would normally be dumpster-bound.
A channel that can barely hit 150 views per video having dozens of testimonials is the biggest red flag of them all. Their Instagram account also has low engagement. Perhaps they have a larger audience on Facebook.
It’s no mystery that people willing to sell in Business & Industrial can make a lot of money, but the sourcing, storage, and shipping is 100x more difficult than any other category. I can see the value of having someone teach you a few things (pallets, freight, etc) in person, but online? Not seeing it.
Fingers crossed for details on the revised seller protections, which I believe were INAD/feedback removal based on your “reputation.” Can’t recall where I saw that – maybe out of eBay Open?
Also assuming some clarity on Managed Payments.
I’ve been developing inventory management software for eBay and this was one of the most interesting things to see come up as a result of it syncing local on-hand inventory with what was live on eBay. At times I could believe that maybe I accidentally double-listed or messed up a quantity (30 of the same VCR?) but other times it was very apparent something weird had gone on internally and caused something to show up when it shouldn’t have.
I’m especially suspicious of quantity listings as they seem the most prone to error.
Depends. If it’s an OEM disk then that license is tied to that PC via motherboard ID. This is the case for any PC purchases from Dell, etc. If it’s a retail disk (meaning it was bought from a store for full price), it can only be installed on one computer at a time, but the license can be revoked for installation on a new PC.
If you don’t know the history of it I wouldn’t sell it. You’ll be competing with a bunch of people just selling keys and (what looks to be) pirated copies.
In that forum thread people are talking about moving everything to variation listings to escape fee increases. What’s that about?
I believe perfume is fine as long as it’s in its original bottle.
A friend asked me to sell her nail polish collection a while back and my research led me to believe that used cosmetics of any kind weren’t allowed.
https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-items/used-cosmetics-policy?id=4290#what
This page says “Not allowed: Used cosmetics”.
Rural areas have the best POs around. My hometown does a great job and it’s common to leave christmas gifts for the carrier around holidays.
Since I moved to a city it’s been nothing but problems. No rant needed.
BTW, if you want to go down the rabbit hole, there’s reddit.com/r/USPS/
It’s very interesting and good insider knowledge. A lot of the time you can find stories on there about how abusive higher-ups can be which leads to problems all around. USPS is corrupt at the core – they don’t fire people except in worst-case scenarios. Bad apples get “transferred” or put “on leave.” Explains everything IMO.
Almost everyone I see offering mentorship/courses is selling clothing or some other kind of high-volume item (wholesale, etc.) Just a wild guess, but I’m assuming that a lot of these people are just teaching marketing tricks/strategies for standing out. Cyndi seems to focus on the slanted photos + low/mid-range prices, while others teach social media marketing and such.
Craigslist Hunter’s latest video (https://youtu.be/u-qclwNP-fU?t=856 – timestamped to roughly 14:00) touches on these same issues. People have been contacting Pete about closing down their eBay stores after spending a bunch of time building up inventory. Turns out it was tougher than expected, especially given how hard it is to go full-time on just thrifting, etc. I think slow summer sales choked them out.
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