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Many online resellers get attracted to Amazon because it’s easier to scale. Get a handful of sku’s. Find reliable way to re-supply. Automate the ordering and shipping. The business becomes more of a marketing job as you fight for the Amazon Buy Box, top ranking in Google Adwords, or Facebook. Easy to scale but super cut throat because the barrier to entry is so low.
For a Scavenger business, the only way I know to scale is manpower and storage. Lots of individual items cheaply purchased. But each has to be listed and stored, waiting to be purchased.
Yes, we still use Inkfrog and love it since it backs up all our listings in real time. It’s a small price to pay for security. Its pretty user friendly. We like it because its cloud based, vs other systems that make you maintain a database on your own computer.
Understood. eBay is a weird machine. Over the last 15 years, we’ve learned to “hack” its system to get what we need.
So in your case, you want to use Terrapeak for research but it only allows 250 searches per day per account. Here’s your choices:
–Be really mad about it and complain. The eBay forums are full of people who seem to use eBay’s deficiencies as the reason why they fail. It’s a strong echo chamber so everyone supports their misery. You’re not one of these people.
–Get a couple of eBay accounts. Each account should give you another 250 Terrapeak searches. Other than making up new email addresses, an eBay account is free.
–Be more focused in your Terrapeak searching. If your goal is to list 20 items a day, I would think 250 searches would be enough research for those specific 20 items. The goal is to list the items. Random research don’t pay the bills.
Don’t let eBay slow you down. You’re a Scavenger!
Strange that a huge corporation would forget to take out fees and then play catch up!
I found out two days ago that you need to uninstall your old eBay app, clear your cache (do a restart) and then install it again. That should give you all the bells and whistles and return your cha-ching!
Good to know!
Please spread your experience to the people who need to hear it. Future historians are going to have a massive trove of info to weed through when they tell the crazy story of why a virus became political.
Hope you, your wife, and all your kids pull through and can get heathy again.
It’d be a guy selling stuff out of his car boot. Next to a guy with junk randomly spread out on a table with photocopies of eBay listings to show prices.
On another note: We stopped getting the cha-ching sounds on our eBay phone apps months ago.
Like Popeye with his postcards, I have no doubt that the larger and more varied your patch inventory, then more you’ll sell. Glad to see your sales getting steady!
Yeah, we once were all about vintage typewriters. They look so cool! But then buyers starting complaining because they weren’t working perfectly. And they are a pain to ship.
We didn’t have the inclination to either sell “for parts” (meaning cheaper prices) or learning how to fix typewriters. I feel you have to become like Steven Schultz + old speakers and become a real expert.
Interesting. So the 12 months of data is that much more valuable than 3 months of data.
That’s a good solution to just make a “search” eBay account if you’re doing more than 250 searches on Terrapeak a day.
