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Sometimes you luck out and two people just have to have it! When I do auctions, I list it for the least I am willing to take. I haven’t done too many clothing auctions.
I think for myself, I’ve only been used to listing home runs. Long tail is new to me. I’m not sure I really want to go up to the next store level. If I had enough of the right items, I would. To me, good long tail items are still vintage/antique unique or harder to find. Yard sale season starts in a few months. I will decide when I start buying again. I just have to survive this slow period.
As I just made a sale because I put my store on yet another 10 percent off, something came to mind.
Since eBay has been pushing that Send Offer button, I have noticed that over time, regular eBay buyers know this is there and are holding out. Or as you said in your podcast, they are just emailing their offers.
The sellers that have LOW prices. Postage going up. EBay pushing sellers to offer free shipping. Our bottom lines are shrinking. If we don’t adjust to the lower prices, our sales get stagnant. Yet many items, I literally have the only one listed of that item.
I’m just trying my best to figure it out.
In December I had a number of 30%, 40% and 50% sales. I was able to move a lot of dead wood which was great.
Jay are you impressed with the income coming in from your second store? If you were living on that income, wouldn’t you be in trouble?
Last February I didn’t have a store. I got the free 50 a month of Buy it Now listings. My mind set was you list what you think is going to sell fairly quickly. I got a store in March. So now my store has long tail items. Clothing, craft kits, books, etc. When I was doing 50 freebies, it was mostly unique vintage/antique items. So I’m trying to find my way back to making at least what I was last year at this time. Not zero. I thought getting a store would increase my sales. I do think I am still listing unique antique/vintage items. Yet maybe not as much as I think I am.
For whatever reason, the majority of my sales happen after midnight my time. That gives the West Coast another three hours to buy before the end of day. I just know that if I was working a regular job, there would be many times I couldn’t manage the one day handling time. Course I have health issues that make it hard to get anything done.
I feel like having a store has become a Pyramid Scheme. Once you list the number of items allotted, your sales plummet. Then we have to do gyrations to get them to move.
I make myself list ONE item a day. Doesn’t seem to help me. Last February I was constantly selling. This February CRICKETS. And now on top of everything else, I need to promote my listings on social media?
I always make sure I have the right box for an item that I list. Pre-packing is out of the question. I have a 10 x 10 room to do EVERYTHING IN. Not happening. Oh and a tub with a shower curtain to cover all the boxes inside of it. Two bathrooms in a tiny single wide mobile home. Ya that’s helpful… NOT 🙁
I can see some items being real easy to quickly ship. Yet I have had other items that has taken me an hour to package. Doesn’t happen often, but does happen.
I got my first Coogi sweater today as well. After knowing about it for about 2 decades! Its a newer Coogi Classic, but it was only a few dollars.
