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Michael used to post here often. HE also was planning on building his own website with shopify and use Sixbit to handle the same inventory but different platforms.
If you email us, I can see if I have his email to reach out to him.
The issue is that all the different selling platforms use different API’s and require different information. Im not sure platforms wants sellers to be able to list elsewhere so dont make it easy.
Fair enough. Maybe we will do a deep store wide sale for one week to see what the action would be.
But the Auction Professor regularly uses end and sell similar, and he deals in a lot of the same oddball stuff you folks do.
I’ve never dived into his details but I’ve never seen a direct correlation between the ways people futz with their store and sales. Or at least never seen evidence of huge jumps in sales for the odd ball stuff.
I also question the game of “Price High and immediately offer 50% off”. Maybe that game works? But difficult to tell.
I’m always open to experiments, but I think trading cards is much more price sensitive than most clothes and the kind of random, vintage items we sell.
I dont think there are dozens of watchers for our vintage items who are just waiting for the right price before they purchase. Instead, I think most of our items have zero watchers and then suddenly someone does a search, finds our unique item, and purchases.
As Retro said, deep discounts have never spurred a huge amount of sales. I even question whether the items that do get purchased during a discounted period would have purchased at full price.
Its amazing how this niche has exploded in the last six years. We used to be able to find old video games in the bottom of boxes for nothing,
What we do is create a new listing for this buyer with both items in the listing. Then they purchase that listing. It’s not pretty but the easiest work around.
Nice! So about $28 for each pair on average?
Whats the story on this collection?
We use State Farm for insurance. Home, auto, liability, commercial. We do not insure our eBay inventory.
I’d ask for business inventory insurance. Our agent would ask if we have receipts for all our inventory. They’d insure what we paid for it.
But obviously we cant show many receipts for our inventory. We’ve found much of it in thrash. Bought by the bagful at thrift stores, where items arent clearly itemized. Bought at yard sales with change.
(congrats on the office space!)
So what exactly are you trying to get insurance for? You cant insure the price it could be. They insure what you paid.
At least I don’t think so. This is why I’d ask a local agent in person.
Good to see your inventory can keep selling while you’re busy with family.
We used to buy/sell those old singer machines but have a difficult time finding them cheap these days. Plus, we had issues with returns since either we didnt test them well enough and/or buyers didnt know how to use them.
We’ve had a busy week outside of eBay, but good to hear what everyone else is up to!
Welcome! What kind of inventory are you listing and what is your storage like?
14,000 items is often people who sell postcards and smaller items.
