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Reading over that guy’s workflow and process is insane. He either hires a lot of people to do his work or he is just grinding. It’s incredible all the volume he plows through.
I’m very interested to see Mark’s Etsy experiment as he puts the work into listing 1800 items. Maybe Etsy has gotten a lot more users and sales will be good. It’s been a long time (5+ years) that we’ve tried listing there and sales were always mediocre.
It made more sense to put all our time into listing more on eBay than splitting our time listing on Etsy. But these crossposting tools make the experiment more sensible.
Facebook Marketplace appears to need to put policies in place to protect both the buyer and seller.
But once Facebook has to hire staff to monitor disputes and scam protection, their cut will no longer just be 5%.
Yeah, its always dangerous for us to go too heavily into few categories. When its good its good though!
I think the glut of online sellers is real. It’s becoming more common for people to have 1000+ items in their stores. I know we have to keep adapting our prices and what we choose to sell.
From people who sell on Etsy, it seems that holidays sales are always good. Nice to see.
Parting our appliances is an easy win if you’re willing to do the work and research.
I hate that buyers can leave long paragraphs as feedback. It really encourages the grumpy buyers who have a lot to complain about. Lots of spurious comments.
We agreed that it’s not realistic to use the pandemic years when evaluating growth. They are going back to 2019 numbers for charting the health of their business. When I compare my sales to 2019 numbers, it makes sense.
This is an important point. COVID sales were an anomaly because of pent-up demand. We’re now seeing things trying to get back to normal.
I think it’s going to crush a lot of little businesses who thought that gravy train would last forever.
Congrats on the toddler. Glad you can make it work scavenging at home. Its the best.
I’m glad to see the consignment pipeline continues to work for you. Seems like really “easy” money? I have no idea how that company can process hundreds of thousands of individual cards. What an operation.
Could you make enough money to live/thrive just on consignment? Or are eBay sales still important?
