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I can’t believe, though, that your sales were below $1k and you have over 9000 items in your store!
Tell us about it. We’ve ended and relisted old items. Active sales. Send out offers. Everything promoted.
People just dont want us stuff right now.
It’s like a football jersey from the 1980s: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2303516.m570.l1313&_nkw=+vintage+football+jersey+1980%27s&_sacat=0
You likely already know its from a beer brand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_D._Kaier_Company
Doesnt look like a shoe horn but I have no idea.
Nice. In that case, you just ran into a grumpy buyer. It was smart to refund and block. Sounds like all your other buyers are reasonable for these items.
Cool. The motivation to do eBay is always greater when there is a concrete goal. Exciting!
It’s not a scam and you did nothing wrong. You didnt make the mistake of some sellers that show multiple items and then in the description say “price is for one”.
Personally, I don’t like listing that show a whole pile of items, and then use a drop down to further explain how it all works. I like one item, one listing.
Assume you did this to save on listing fees or not needing to take multiple photos/listings?
If you can throw the elbows and make the bins work for you, seems like a good place to scavenge. It would just make me mad when people acted as if they had a “territory” in the bins I wasn’t allowed to pick through. Like prison guards, the Goodwill employees always threw up their hands and said “you guys work it out”.
Where are you at with the move to the NE? Is it a plan in motion or just an idea?
If we’re talking about the same thing, there are times when we get a wave of sales from one particular category of our store. We assume our stuff (or that particular collectible) was linked to on some collector forum. Usually we can never find it.
eBay does incentivize people (or used to?) to build spammy websites that point people to eBay items. The website builder gets a tiny percentage of the sale if the person clicks through.
I feel like there was a page or report onteh Seller Dashboard that showed you where people found your items: https://www.ebay.com/sh/performance/traffic I dont see it on a quick glance, but that page may exist somewhere.
Good point. Many people may never go back to the office. Do you see a slowdown of men buying suits because office work is becoming more remote? I guess there will always be people who like to look really nice no matter what.
I like “lifepile” if you are excited about the inventory and know it’ll sell well. I think many of us have piles of stuff we scavenged for cheap, don’t excite us, have unsure value, but are too frugal donate back.
Yikes. Sorry to hear of this ordeal. Chronic back pain is no fun. One tip: if you have the money, pay people to do the grunt work that causes you pain!
Are you having any issues with finding quality merchandise to sell? Or are all your scavengers still able to bring you good stuff that sells well?
Its just easier to print our labels at home and leave packages for the Post Office to pick up.
The QR code seems aimed at casual sellers who dont have a printing set up, and take single packages to the Post Office themselves.
Did you have an operation to get you back in action? Or is this a long term illness?
Yearbooks are usually always cheap to purchase and do sell….but take a looong time.
Agreed. “chain thrift stores” are run like businesses to squeeze the most profit out of their inventory (that gets donated). They evolve their systems which costs them money to try to make more money. For instance, Goodwills in the US now have created their own eBay: https://shopgoodwill.com/home. I cant imagine how much it costs Goodwill to run this online store, ship, organize inventory, etc.
Independent thrifts and “church thrifts” run lean and mean. They get free inventory and just want to sell the stuff as quick as possible with as little overhead as needed.
