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Almost certain it is use it or lose it, at least for TRS status, again assuming it is the same for the anchor store perk. But I just did some searching I can’t find anywhere that confirms or denies this on ebay.
Jay, glad that is helpful to you! I usually start a quarter around 1% promoted and then increase it a couple times as the quarter goes to use up as much as my $30 quarterly credit allows. I’m at 1.7% now and normally would not do it again with 6 days left in the quarter. But I do have $12 in “credit”, so I think I’ll up my percentage for these last few days and see I can use up my free money.
Disclaimer: I don’t have an Anchor Store but what I’m about to say about Promotional Listings probably applies and does for Top Rated Seller status.
If you have Top Rated Seller status you get a $30 credit every quarter. So if I have in July $7.95 in fees paid for promoted listings, in August on my invoice I see this:
Miscellaneous credits
Aug 18 Invoice Credit etrs Promoted Listings Q2 Credit July transactions -$7.95So yes Jay you are charged for them in that month’s invoice but automatically credited the following month until the credit is maxed out. This is for my Top Rated Example and I assume it is the same each month in the Anchor Store. Someone else will have to confirm.
Also @DantheDiner asked if it keeps track of your credit used somewhere and the answer is no (in the above case they never tell me I have $22.05 left over to use for the rest of the quarter), but you can check yourself by:
First, go to the Marketing Tab on the Seller Hub page, and select Promoted listings. Then in the top right corner you will see Last 31 Days which is clickable. Do that and select custom. Then it gives you a starting and ending date. If you put the starting date in (say Sept 1 2019) and do nothing else, it’ll prefill today as the end date and give you a total. So for example for me from Sept 1 to today I have use a whopping $3.10 in promoted listing fees. If I look from July 1 to today I have used $18.30 of my allotted $30. So this info can be useful. For example, if I was at $29.89 and I wanted to turn off my promotions until the quarter ended, and not go over my credit, I could.
Hope that is clear and helps.
Yep, I got the email earlier and the apology email just a few minutes ago.
Good job on the IKEA set. I consistently sell IKEA pieces throughout the year. I just looked and they only amount to 2% of my sales so far in 2019 but they are easy to find in my area, photograph and list. I think the Goodwills of greater Portland have an arrangement to take some of the closeout and damaged box items from IKEA because I find a bunch of that stuff and it tends to come in waves.
Monthly sales Aug 2019
Shockingly this has been my best month ever! All the hard work of increasing my part-time store from 650 to 850 items this summer is starting to pay off. I also sold my highest priced item ever which never hurts (see below).
Total Listings: ~850
Items Sold: 64 (4 shy of my record month)
Net Sales: $2126.33 (new record and first month over $2K!)
Highest Price: $262 (Starbucks Doonesbury Statue)
per sale avg: $33.22 (also new record!)
Returns: 1 pending (they’ve not sent it back yet though)The Starbucks Doonesbury Statue was an odd find at a local auction, and I have to say, I owe it to Terapeak. I saw the item during auction preview, looked it up on ebay and didn’t see any recent sales, then went out and did some research on Terapeak and saw that some sold in the past year for $250+. It was me and one other bidder and I won, paying $43 (includes the buyer premium) and listed it for $349.00. I sent out a few 15-20% off offers over the past two months but got no hits. Then a person sent me a 25% off offer and I decided not to counter and just take it.
I also had three other $100-200 items sell this month, helping my sales numbers pop.
I hope to get my store up to 900 items before the holiday rush and I hope that I can beat this record month in Nov or Dec!
I agree with IndySales about new USPS packing material but if you have used padded envelopes (from things you’ve received) save those and use them to wrap fragile items or as filler. Someone might find that tacky also but most people appreciate the recycling effort. I’ve never received a complaint. We have Amazon Prime and order a lot from them and I re-use their boxes and padded mailers all the time for ebay sales.
Ok, second month in the books, I think this will be the last update because the months are similar and the data is sufficient for me.
Protocol: I send offers out on items that are more than 2 weeks old and I give an offer of between 15-20%.
Recap
July: 127 offers sent, 7 accepted and paid. Original Price: $142 Sold Price: $116 Avg Price $16.57
New Month
Aug: 244 offers sent, 11 accepted and paid. Original Price: $213 Sold Price: $177.50 Avg Price $16.14
Two Month Avg
July/Aug 371 offers, 18 accepted and paid. Original Price $355 Sold Price: $293.50 Avg price $16.31So on average for every 21 offers sent I get one sale but that sale is on a low value item (~$16 as opposed to my normal avg sale of +$30). Still for minimal work (less than 5 min a day) the extra 8% sales bump and $150 extra for the month is probably worth it.
Here is one archived on picclick (no longer available on ebay) round instead of oval, and they say Kaj Franck….
https://picclick.com/Vintage-Arabia-Finland-Kaj-Franck-Mushroom-Pattern-Casserole-222389129669.html
I luckily have not been pestered yet, but also I have a PayPal Capital loan that I’m working through. If I opt in to managed payments now I would void the loan agreement with PayPal and have to pay off the loan immediately. I will paid in full with them before the end of the year so I should be fine with accepting management payments later in 2020.
Are the “scales” actually metal or are they shell? Some shells have that cool reflective look when polished. Unfortunately I’ve not seen these before.
July Sales report – things moving back in right direction
Total Listing In Store: 815
Items Sold: 45
Total Sales: $1456
Highest Price Sold: $150 (vintage 90s Starter LA Laker Wool Snapback Hat)
Average Sale Price: $32.362nd best month of the year behind January. Some cancelled sales but no returns. Listed 130 items this month which was great as I’m trying to get at least 30/week listed during the Summer. Still have a huge deathpile stack I’m slowly burning through.
The baseball hat above was a lucky find at a thrift store for $3.00. Had original tags and looked unworn. I listed it high but maybe not high enough because 10 minutes after listing I got an email with a $100 offer, which I ignored, and 20 minutes after listing, it sold for full price. Regardless, I was thrilled.
Put my store on extended handling for 6 days while out of town. Sold 12 things, and only one person asked to cancel after I sent my email letting them know I had longer shipping time. Love selling things when on vacation!
