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Very true. We got out of FBA after they raised storage fees. I think it was the start of not wanting to deal with small sellers sending in weird, used inventory. Easier to deal with large sellers who send in brand new consistent inventory with enough volume that they’re okay with a very small profit per item.
As a small seller, we could never live on the small profit Amazon kept suggesting to us.
I’m sure really small sellers still sell on Amazon, but this strongly suggests that consolidation is eating away at that….could we eventually get to the point where Amazon’s 3rd party Marketplace is basically 10 or 20 of these huge aggregators and what’s left of the little guys?
This is a good point. Evidence suggests that Amazon likely would rather deal with big “established” sellers. I think little sellers (like us) are too much hassle for them. Much easier to deal with an Amazon FBA seller that grosses $multi million+ a year with a dedicated staff that spends money on advertising.
Good news is that its your choice. You’re in control which is why we like pricing high and letting people send offers. Instead of starting low in an auction and hoping people bid it up.
Sometimes we counter if their offer is somewhat reasonable.
Sometimes we decline if the offer is insulting and we want to make a point.
Sometimes we just ignore it because we couldnt be bothered.
Sometimes we accept low offers because we’re hungry and why not?Whatever way, we get to choose how we run our business with no stress.
Yeah, it just seems like a trend that cant last.
–A number of Amazon sellers buying the same generic item in China to slap a made-up brand on it.
–The item is low quality so gets returned often.
–Those returns gets lumped into bins and resold at these new Amazon return stores and/or in online return caches.
–Those junky returns get resold online and returned again because its still low quality junk.
–Repeat.
This cycle cant last forever. I know we’re much more careful about buying items online. Preferring smaller sellers who are obviously selling their own items.
“I payed to empty their trash!”
Yeah, it’s funny to think how clunky eBay is, but people think they would be able to code a system to divvy out sales among tens of thousands of sellers in a strange pattern to “share sales”.
Yes, you can use GSP with managed payments. For a long time now, eBay kicks out some items out of GSP for no known reason.
Yeah, I love all this talk on selling trading cards. I doubt it’s anything we’d ever touch, but it’s exciting to see those sellers who have long been in the game really see their business explode.
Nice find and sale! Yes, vintage letterpress is a thing.
You;re now going to be obsessed finding these 🙂
Yeah, the mistake was giving a refund outside of the return process. If a buyer chooses to not use an eBay label, that’s their mistake since it cannot be tracked.
So in this case, since the buyer has now officially opened a return case, tell them to mail it back. They no longer have the item so wont be able to. If they cant show the eBay system a tracking number, the case will close.
Final Value fees are an expense that you can write off.
According to eBay, if you shipped the package to agreed upon address AND it’s marked as delivered, you’re good.
Its now between the buyer and USPS. Sometimes the package is dropped off at a neighbor. Or a family member took it and didnt tell this person. Or it gets stolen. Our of your hands.
I’d use the silent method and let the buyer talk to eBay.
Yeah, this seemed to be a big worry among eBay sellers about a decade ago. One reason why we bought some rental property. Instead of keep investing in eBay as the only source, we diversified. Now we can also serve coffee if the rental business and eBay fall through.
I worry about the people who only sell on Amazon. I hear many more stories of Amazon squeezing them out or shutting down their store.
Not sure anyone here can help since we cant see your numbers. The number on your 1099k includes shipping since its considered income. You then have to claim shipping expenses.
This is a good idea and one we’ve pursued.
But we dont have a local cleaning company (in our town). Closest place is the next town over 40 minutes. Prices are crazy for them to come to us and cant clean on our tight schedule.
We’ve actually been mulling the idea of starting a local cleaning and property management company. Need someone else to run it 🙂
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