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Yes, I do see the problem of double ordering. However, I’d have that problem whether I was independently crossposting or using a software. It’s just a risk that I take on. Luckily my main two places are Ebay and Facebook, and FB has pretty lax cancellation policies.
Update: As of this moment I’ve now sold 5 items that weren’t previously listed on FB through Listperfectly in about 2 days. I have about 300 listings up on FB, so I have another 500 or more to go. All were lower dollar sales, but it’s about $100 right now, so I’ve at least doubled my money from what I’ve put so far.
@Jay, I sell about 1 or 2 items a week currently, but those numbers are based off of only having about 200 listings on the site, and most of them were “dead” aka over 5 weeks old and not renewable. If I can get my entire stock over there in the same time it takes me to crosspost 100 items, and they are all fresh listings all the time, I think my sales will rise. I’ve had it for 2 days and have already made a sale on something that wasn’t there beforehand, so we’ll see where I end up at the end of the month.
@Retro I don’t think it does, it’s specifically for crossposting. Currently I have about 5-10 sales a week, so it’s easier for me to manage them. Facebook and Ebay both have search functions so it only takes me about a minute or two to pull a listing from another site after it sold.
OOH I love the sticker idea! I talked to my PO worker today, he said he still scans them individually, so I think I can do away with them. I’ll see how active poshmark actually turns out to be.
Thanks!
Yeah, on one hand I’d like a message that says I should be charging more for an item, but personally I hate seeing the little “Ebay” notification on something that doesn’t actually have a sale attached to it. I had someone today messasge me if I had recieved an item yet (it isn’t due to come for a month- China regular post) so I woke up to a message, got excited, opened it, and realized it wasn’t actually a sale, and got a little annoyed. Now, if I was selling 30 items a week I feel like I wouldnt have as much excitement as I do now, but I’m still excited any time something sells.
Happy Monday!
Items in Shop: 795
Items Sold: 7
Net Sales: $177
COGS: $7
Donation Fund: $15
Profits: $160
So, I expected this week to be slow. We got completely snowed in on Monday and my roads dont get plowed (if you buy a house CHECK YOUR SNOW ROUTES. UGH.) so I set my store to vacation mode from Monday to Friday, and shipped everything out Friday. Included this week were sales from the 300 piece dish set that my old university gave me. I’m donating back $5 a lot to them for the dishes, so that’s where the donation tagline is in.
RE: Can I go down to a smaller store. I’ve been running the numbers lately because I’m about to hit 1000 in the next few months, and as long as youre over 3 or 4 thousand non collectible items, it’s worth going to anchor. Anything less than 3 or 4 thousand (I think the number was like 3500 but I’m not sure. I did the math before on the forum for a new seller, I’ll try to find it) its worth paying the extra fees. That being said, how much do you value anchor support?
Building update: Concrete guy comes tomorrow. Maybe slab poured before the end of the month? They seem to be trying to do it before another cold snap comes in. We’ll see how it goes.
I’m setting a goal to sell 5 more items a week. Focusing first on crossposting to FB Marketplace because that’s my second best shop, but it could be better. I’d like to use another store that goes well with Listperfectly, and I’m leaning towards Poshmark, but it doesn’t look like they offer USPS scan sheets.
Another day, another dollar.
Crossposting! LOL. So I already have my listings on Ebay, and I’m crossposting the listing to Facebook. It takes me about 30 seconds per listing to crosspost using ListPerfectly. My current issue is that I’m maxing out FB daily listing limit, the software is great. So, I used to crosspost by hand and would only get 50 listings a week on fb and ebay, but now I can list between 100-150 items in about an hour (I crashed it today at 100, waiting to see if FB will let me list more in an hour or so) So now I can list 50 items a week on Ebay, imeadiately crosspost it in like 20ish minutes on fb, and then repost my listings after a month. FB lets you renew listings 5 times, once a week, until the listing essentially stops being able to pull up in the top of the search engine. Using listperfectly, I’d like to repost my entire store once a month (about 800 items currently). So, it should take me about 5 hours a month to do so. I was spending more than that just crossposting my regular listings that i put up on ebay this week. Now I’ll have 800 listings available at any time on FB versus the like max 200 I could do a month, that after a month would disappear in search.
I’m actually looking at another store to start posting on through List Perfectly. I have the time to crosspost using it, just looking for the right outlet.
Update: Apparently you can only put 150 listings a day. Well, that’s a quick crash to my productivity. It’s a facebook issue, not a listperfectly issue.
https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=10206535713471365
Lucky for you, Facebook seems to be very forgiving (at least so far). They give you 30 days until they cancel the item if you don’t ship it out right away. That being said, I think it’s 10 days after the item is delivered that you get paid officially, but it’s regularly sooner.
workhorse, that’s a great point!
Here’s the thing- I sell on Ebay and FBM
On FBM- I have 74 people blocked. Anyone that’s stood me up on meeting, sent negative information, or cyberbullied me (yes, THAT happened last week).
On ebay, I have 7. I only block the worst of the worst. Maybe I need to change my game up and start being more strategic with who I do business with.
Lol thanks all.
I’m definitely appreciative of people that help me identify weird things, its a huge help (like I said above, it seems like any glass piece I can’t identify was made by Viking. I should buy a book, lol)
It makes me laugh that it’s a bargaining tactic. This lady flat out said it would take forever to ship at that price for shipping, as if I could somehow make things lighter. I run into this problem a lot from California buyers, since it’s zone 7 for me, so I don’t ship to them often. Then on the other side, I just had a lady pay $40 shipping for a $30 item, through GSP to Canada, for a 10 lb item. Back on my belief that if you really want something, you’ll pay for shipping.
Hi!
Items in Shop:790
New Items Listed:50ish
Items Sold: 5
Net Sales: $137
COGS: $7
Net Profit: $130
This week didn’t *feel* like a slow week, but it definitely was. I only got 1 day of listing in, but I got 50 listings out which was annoying, but I’m trying my best to get to a minimum of 50 listings a week, which has been happening. I feel like there’s a constant battle of best offers where someone will send me, I’ll counter, and I won’t hear anything back, which sucks. Yesterday I wouldn’t take $40 on a $55 item since I just listed it, but today I would have, lol.
Building progess: I spoke last week about buying a building and getting it installed. Well, I’ve been putting off the actual order because my Transunion and my Equifax credit scores are like 40 points apart, which depending on the score they pull will raise or lower my interest rate by 3%, I’ve been trying to wait it out, but it’s been a headache. Placed the deposit down for the slab a week ago and haven’t heard anything, but we are in the middle of a polar vortex so trying to get anything poured in this time is difficult to say the least.
Thanks or the heads up! I tend to avoid “New” items from Amazon returns. They just don’t interest me. Weird that they would sell them at all though, like what are you supposed to do with a kit that isn’t sent in?
This is probably old news, but like 3 years ago, before I was selling on Amazon, I was sending books into buyback programs to get cash. There was one book- STRENGTHFINDER 2.0 That was white and red metallic that would sell for *SIXTEEN* whole dollars (lol. to be broke in college again) anyways, I didn’t figure out until 3 or 4 got rejected that there was a code to go online that is always cut out by the time the book hits the thrift store. Now that’s my least favorite book, even though I’ve never read it. lol
Right? I went from owing no tax to a lot of tax to no tax in like 2 days. Thank god for the good people at the Dept. of Revenue!
10,000 feels massive. What does your storage look like? I’m working on getting a new space and after running some numbers my top capacity is going to be around 7500, but I think I want to maintain a store around 5k. Do you sell mostly smaller things? You mentioned cummberbuns, of course you can probably fit like 50 in a tote, but cataloging that seems rough.
