Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
I had them call me about using the word kevlar. We bought several motorcycle jackets and gloves that had kevlar. I was very surprised when a nice rep called me and said they were getting ready to pull the listing. But, he said if I wanted to keep them up I just had to change the wording to “made with kevlar” and it would be fine.
Throughout the years I have had many items pulled for being prohibited, but I never received a suspension until a company called ebay and had them pull an item. (beachbody exercise dvds)
I recently sold some Railroad locks that had keys in them. They sold in a day without problems, maybe they just avoided detection.
I recently put our entire store on promoted listings, I set the rate at 1% just to see if it would make any difference. Its only been a month so waiting to see how it pans out. We sell a lot of media items that are on the shared product page. So if the 1% promoted listing fees gets us the nudge then its worth it.
Will let you know how it goes over time.
Borrowed 30k at the end of June 2018, at the 30% payback the fee was $1,528. So thats 5% give or take? No credit check, income proof and instantaneous decision sealed the deal for us. I also like the small payments everyday versus a lump monthly sum.
Only real downside is that they take the 30% out of the gross sale, including shipping. So you pay a bit out of pocket for each shipment. Also refunds do not reverse fee payment so if you have a $200 sale and have to refund your still out $60.
“If” you are planning on a laundromat there is one being liquidated near DC with all of their machines on sale. Check auctionzip, think I saw it on there.
Jay,
Let go off the two part time workers last August, they were causing more of headache than helping. I have one contract employee that goes to one charity three times a week to procure books, I go to the other sites twice a week. The other three days I’m in the office, listing and packing. Books are easy to list, I just scan an ISBN code into an excel sheet and list the condition. Roughly 60 books and hour. Its the other items that are piling up, going to hire someone now that school is starting up again.
Roughly 60/30/10 split amazon, ebay, other.
Rydell Relics
Thanks for the info. I am currently using discogs but as you said they can get into the weeds on specifics. Will check out the other guide.
Mike
We don’t sell on Etsy, stopped Bonanza when they started creating alot of double sales.
Cant use it for amazon because it will not carry over our location codes. So we would have to print packing slips on shiprush and then look up the location codes on our inventory software.
The scan sheet feature is nice, I wish they would add in other marketplaces. We do alot of business through alibris, barnes and nobles and a few other sites. I know you can manually create labels but kind of a pain. Maybe I can try it again, its been awhile since we first tested it out. Perhaps they added in some kind of new import features for amazon. Thanks for the info.
Whatever you guys decide for the downstairs you don’t plan to actually work in the building? Just seems like a tied down “9-5” would cramp your current lifestyle. Part of the allure of ebay and airbnb businesses is owning your own time and deciding on when you want to wake up in the morning not when you have to wake up.
Either way buying the building at that price was a steal. Walked by over the weekend, impressive building with a lot of potential.
Rydell Relics,
Nice record sale. I am trying to dig into vinyl sales more, seems to be an odd niche to figure out. The sold listings have prices and conditions all over the place. What made that Tom Waits record sell higher than the $25 average? Just picked up a lot of Metallica and other metal bands but difficult to understand the price fluctuations on the sold comps.
Nice podcast. The only third-party app I use for ebay is monsoon, our book inventory software. Other than that I have a hard time paying for an app or site if I can do the same work myself. Ive tried inkfrog, sixbit, shiprush and shipworks. Just seemed faster to list and ship the item directly through ebay.
Good sales this week, vintage Triumph gas tank for $200, J.K. Rawlings Harry Potter book for $140 and Teac reel to reel for $125.
Went to the Rt. 11 yard crawl in Virginia, 42 miles for yard sales and flea markets. Only made it about halfway through before running out of energy, money and car space. Picked up some good finds and learned that I need to start on Friday morning instead of Saturday.
T-Satt,
Why is shiprush free for you? Sorry if I dont get the hire out the tool, get the free tool reference. Affiliate program or something?
I tried shiprush but found it did the exact same thing as going through ebay print label page, except they wanted me to pay for it.
I really dont understand eBay sometimes.
With Amazon recently raising its selling fees, eBay was starting to pull a small slice more of the market share. Many of the large cross-platform companies could lower their cost on eBay by 5ish percent and still make the same profit as selling on Amazon. Ebay takes the sell over Amazon and earns its final value fee. By raising Media categories final value fee they have closed the gap to Amazon’s current fee structure, and over time will lose back that small slice of sales.
T-Satt,
Sorry I missed this. Books sale at a steady rate. Amazon does a great job ranking books based on their speed of sale. The lower the number the faster it sells. We keep a mix of low-high/low rank and high dollar/ high rank books.
MMVI,
Excellent sales for sub 1k listings! Sounds like you mainly source auctions for your higher priced items?
