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no, it shows some have sold BUT only on some of the campaigns. I change up campaigns with some frequency. But it is supposed to be working for all of the campaigns which show up as active. and it doesn’t
the error is that the promoted listings isn’t working. there is no ad being displayed, even though it appears to be an active campaign from that dashboard report. As to costing money. Promoted listings are advertisements which are charged once a promoted listing is clicked on and then purchased (if the original listing is clicked on for the purchase instead, then there is no charge, despite the fact that the listing is promoted). The issue is that I need the promoted listings to work to increase sales. That is one of the tools besides running a sale. So to the extent that my sales are hampered as a result, its more than a pesky bug.
let’s try this 🙂
https://imgur.com/gallery/Pi5QXOk, so in the process of going to one of my listings to demonstrate this with a screen shot. I discovered a new glitch! UGHHHHHHHHHHH. So, I called ebay to tell them about their newest technical glitch. So, I added 2 promoted listings last night. One actually went into effect and the other didn’t. The hitch is this: both of them indicated as being active and had a population of listings. If I wouldn’t have checked by pulling up individual listings, I wouldn’t have known! UGHHHH. I have a screen shot but dont know how to add it. I guess I’d have to do some kind of imgur thing. no time for that now. I’ll check back again later. thanks.
You have to search for the item by item number. then both the original listing will appear and the promoted listing will appear at the same time. you’ll see the differences then
I noticed from the outset of using promoted listings, which was about 1 month ago or more for me, that when i looked in the shipping column in the matrix during the set-up process for a promoted listing campaign, that there appeared the phrase, “local pick up only”. I called eBay customer service a couple of times asking them about why I would see the local pick up only in the setup of those promoted campaigns, and it became clear to me that the customer service people didn’t have a clear understanding of the impact of that. That’s when I decided to start looking at individual listings to see what the customer sees on the user interface side. This helped me confirm the impact.
I can only say that this is likely an issue which commenced with the most recent update to promoted listings. I don’t know if they are on their first initial roll out or if they have done updated releases since its initial roll out. That information isn’t transparent to us, obviously. Anyway, it’s been some weeks.
I doubt they will fix it anytime soon. But if I hear anything, I’ll post it.
I also sell hats, but just pick them up at the goodwill bins. Here’s my (current) process. I wash them all. I used to hand wash them, but now I just throw them in the gentle cycle, with a very very low spin in a front loading machine. I’ve never had damage doing that and they come out great. I air dry them and if necessary I will block steam them on a sewing ham (look it up if you’re unfamiliar with what that is). I research each one. I list as high as I can and nothing is listed for less than 20, even if that’s where the market is. Then I sit and wait on those. If they don’t sell in a year, I pull and either relist with new photos or re-donate.
As usual, I forgot to mention my highest sale and best scavenge of the week. First for my big store, I sold a rayon/polyester curtain new old stock in the package from the 1970s to a theater prop department for $75 that I paid 50 cents for. For my little store I sold 4 ephemera to onebuyer for a total of $116. They were 1980s cruise ship menus with lithographs by the French illustrator, Jean Mercier.
As for the scavenge of the week, my sister donated some antique Japanese figurines to me, that I need to research,but have high hopes for.
I had a great week overall. I have been only posting my numbers from my main store (me & hubby’s store), but not really of my 2nd store I have with my friend. Mostly, because we took that store down from 1000 + listings to a basic store of 250 listings. And because of other obligations, she and I haven’t been listing as much on that store. We still spend about 2 hours a week on it though and I used some of the strategies on that little store of promoted listings and sales to give it a boost. So, I’ll start including that store in my weekly numbers as of now. I also have decided that I need to have best offer turned off if I have a sale going on, because I’ll run a great sale, like 20-30% off and then folks make an offer from there. I don’t really like that. In fact, its irritating to me to deal with offers at all. So, I think for the moment the strategy will be to remove best offer. It will either be on sale or it won’t. whew! Now that that decision is made, on to my numbers:
Ebay Stores
Big Store (http://stores.ebay.com/tjdigs)
total items in store: 1111
total dollar amount sold (no shipping): $524.68
total items sold: 24
total shipping collected: $213.14
total COG: $12.19
total paid shipping: $180.79
total ebay & pp fees (insertion, marketing, final value): $97.39
ebay store fee for week: $17.50
net: $429.95
average sold price (not including shipping): $21.86
returns: 3….well, not really 3, but because I accidentally refunded the money to the wrong buyer on one of the returns, it made it 3 out of my pocket! I had one return where the cd player didn’t work upon arrival to my buyer. So, I refunded her and put in a claim with USPS because I sent it priority. All I can think is that the process of shipping it must have jarred it in someway. I don’t ask for items like that back because I don’t want to pay return shipping on a broken item that I only paid 29 cents for in the first place. The other return request is on a bedspread set that the buyer says is too faded, so I offered her a partial refund, less shipping fees and making her responsible for the return shipping. She denied it. Ebay continually told me to educate my buyer. I don’t feel I should have to go beyond my initial explanation I sent with the partial refund offer, so I won’t be sending her another email. I will instead ask for eBay to step in on 4/13/18 as apparently, that is the earliest I can do that. I assume the buyer will be doing the same thing. I told eBay that I described the item accurately and the fact that she feels it is faded relates to color (saturation and hue) which falls to buyer’s remorse. I hope this doesn’t go sideways. For now, paypal has my payment on hold.
Little Store (http://stores.ebay.com/diggers)
total items in store: 250
total dollar amount sold (no shipping):$248.73
total items sold: 10
total shipping collected: $57.73
total COG:$19.45
total paid shipping:$39.86
total ebay & pp fees (insertion, marketing, final value):$50.98
ebay store fee for week :$4.67
net:$191.50
average sold price (not including shipping):$24.87Poshmark
I have 35 items listed. I sold 1 bra this week for $10 and probably have 50 cents into it.Etsy
I have 47 listings, many of which are cross posted on ebay too. None sold last weekLocal selling
I have a few dozen listings up and didn’t sell any last week – mostly because I can’t deal with the buyers right now….here’s an example….it would be hysterical if it weren’t so crazy making!Here’s the listing info: Title – 30 Pre-K Picture HC, Board & Paperback Books. Description – one money for all 30 books. This is a random lot of books. The photos are representative of what I have in stock. I have multiple lots available.
here’s the communications:
buyer: Hi I would like the Elmo. Books.
me: You are welcome to a lot of random books which are age appropriate for a preschooler, but the exact title is not guaranteed. Please let me know if you’re interested in this. Thanks
buyer: Yes I would like the Elmo !
(me: pulling my hair out and mouthing “noooooooooooo….just make it stop!”
and in yet another transaction, a woman asks me many questions about some math text books I have for elementary school age, then ends up asking if I’d like to donate them as she is a teacher for a charter school (trolling for materials on in person apps)well, that’s my week folks! Marjean28
Hi folks, I can’t even remember if I posted my listings last week, but I can tell you that I essentially only listed new this week. But please don’t kick me out 🙂 I just want to be able to have some place to be accountable. I know, I am happy to take a deduction for every old item I passed over in favor of a new one to post…ha ha ha.
I have made some interesting strides this week. My husband read my mind and said I could have the entire basement, including finished living space, for my ebay store. So, I have listed my furniture on craigs list, offer up, and let go, along with the nextdoor ap and FB marketplace. Any reasonable offers are being taken, including free, just to get the space back quickly. We bid on some commercial shelving racks from an online auction and will be putting up storage. It will be done scavenger style, of course!
That should go a long way toward making room for taking photos and putting all this inventory somewhere instead of having death piles, mingled in with listed piles. UGHHHH!!!
As for what I listed last week, I put up 67 items on ebay, 7 on poshmark, 32 on etsy (but I only put up 9 listings because they are listed as variations….saves a lot of listing fees). I’d say about 10 were from death piles.
thanks all. Marjean28
Now my numbers for the week of 3/25 – 3/31
total number of items in store 1100 (approximate)
Gross Sales: $366 ebay + $60 next door app = total $426
Ebay FV and Marketing Fees & PP Fees: $97
COG: $21
Net: $329 total (includes 60 cash)
Total number of items sold: 15 + 4 = 19
Average Price of items sold: $17.32
Total spent on new inventory $107I’m slowly but surely climbing with my numbers. They are largely supported by promoted listings and sales, which in some way, is undercutting the process at the same time because of the cost associated with promoted listings and sales. My first goal is to get to $300/week net. And I can see it coming closer now.
My best sale of the week was ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DINOSAURS PREHISTORIC LIFE By David Lambert – Hardcover, I picked it up for 15 cents (that’s the per inch pricing at the goodwill outlet for books) and sold it for full price of $60. It was in my store since 12/23/17. I’ll take it!
I listed a ton. I put up at least 100 books from death piles, mostly on local selling apps and facebook and took $60 from that. I also put up clothing, electronics, etc. I didn’t really track how much I listed, because I was too busy listing!
Happy Hunting Everybody 🙂
Marjean 28Big Sally,
Whoa there! I saw that wagnerware and my heart started racing! You can list that roaster for $125 and sell for at least $100, IF you’re willing to polish it first. I use a product called, Mother’s Paste, for this. You can buy it at car parts and supply stores or online. Then you can take pictures of it where it will have a mirror surface. Whatever you do, don’t use baking soda on it. Or put it in the dishwasher. Great eye on your items! Happy selling! Marjean28I loved it Jay and Ryanne, when you mentioned bringing science into the auction discussion, and the foolhardiness of extrapolating off of one sale. So, from a scientific perspective, or at least from a statistically appropriate perspective, I came up with the right number of auctions for you to run, in order to do some viable extrapolation. Based on a 95% confidence level, a 5% confidence interval, and a population of 7100 between the 2 stores, your overall sample size should be 364. If you want to get fancy, you could stratify your sample sizes to be 313 from your big store and the remainder from your small store.
I did an auction recently on one item, a clock radio, not super cool or very old, but decent. Clock radios are one of my bread and butter items. I bought it for 29 cents, listed it for 10, there was no reserve or BIN option. It budded up to $18. I would have listed it for $15. I also took 25 of my very oldest items, and put them all at auction starting at $4 to $6 dollars. I’ll let you know how they do.
Congrats on your anniversary. You should be so proud! You guys are a great source of inspiration and joy to me😁
I can’t believe I didnt do this before, but I used the sold report download to grab my sales for the week. Then I just added a couple of formulas to get my data. Here’s what I ended up with:
total items in ebay/etsy/poshmark (again, these numbers are current as of this posting and not as of Saturday night)-1052/35/4
total sales ebay/etsy/poshmark – $271.95/$0/$0
total number of sales ebay/etsy/poshmark – 20/0/0
total COG (just the price of the sourced item) – $19.17
Gross Sales (not counting shipping) – $318.66
total COGS (price of sourced item, ebay FV & marketing fees, & PP fees) – $65.88 (this doesn’t include any calculation for eBay’s listing fee and monthly store subscription)
I listed quite a bit. Its all notated in the 2018 Challenge post with a breakdown between what I listed from death piles v. newer sourced items.As for the creepy doll…..LUCKY FIND!!! I love it! I’m always looking for creepy dolls. I didn’t know about the haunted aspect! I’m gonna start having seances for dolls and then selling them. WOOT WOOT!!! I absolutely love the whole story aspect of the sale. I’m down for that. Mostly because its good humor.
I’m still feeling very positive about the numbers I’m putting up. Definately a combination of a sales price and promoted listings is what’s driving some of my sales. 6 of the sales were a result of the ad rates I paid for promoted listings. So, its statistically significant (6/20).
Have a great week all.
Marjean
Amazingly, I just had an excellent experience with eBay customer service. It was my first. I sold a pair of pants. my listing title included the phrase: size 4 petite, I took a photo of the tag which showed “4P”, and I added measurements in the details section and the description. The buyer never opened a case or contacted me. She just left neutral feedback stating: pants are for a nig woman. I think she meant big and that nig was a typo because the n and b keys are adjacent on the keyboard. I called eBay and stayed calm, like J&R always say to do, I even had a sense of humor. I got transferred 4 times, the last transfer was to the appeals department. The gal who transferred me must have written something positive because i believe he was impacted positively by whatever she wrote. Ebay removed the neutral feedback because I had completely described and photographed the size information and had already advised the buyer that I would accept a return. I think it may be worth fighting every single time.
