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Thank you both for your help. I’m checking with the customer to see if I can combine the order.
Has anyone used the international shipping service recently? I very rarely sell internationally. I had 1 sale over a month ago to Canada and I had to ship to Canada so the shipping cost ate all of my profit on a small item.
Is it still the case that you ship to a US address who then forwards the item onto the international buyer?
Thanks, they say it is a technical issue. Life got crazy so I haven’t had time to reach out to get the fix in place. At least I have a workaround.
Thank you for the reply. I will do some research on hot air balloons and see what I can dig up.
Golf – didn’t even think of that. Another avenue to explore.
Thank you for your insight. I’ve had no luck with Google image search but I will try it again.
Super slow sales this week so I took the time to do a inventory of my items. Wound up shopping my own stock as I found 6 items to list. 2 were cancelled sales that never got relisted, 2 were duplicates of an item that sold that I didn’t relist and 2 were items I had never listed but clearly planned to since they were in the bin with other sale items.
Feel good heading into the holidays knowing that my inventory is organized better. And I know I don’t have items listed that I don’t actually have.
I list 5 items a day during the week and 1 item on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday I take the time to go through the items with item specifics dings and try to get them updated (at least enough to remove them from the ebay list). On Sunday I promote all the items I’ve listed the previous week. The weekend is when I put together my drafts of new items. I do that once a month or twice depending on how busy my weekend is. This is manageable for me.
I just hit 2500 items. Not sure how much more new stuff I will list going forward. I have about 600 items that I need to photograph. I might try the ending and relisting items thing for a month or 2 and see if that makes any difference in sales.
I sell an item a day on average. I spend 3 hours a week on Ebay. I have a full time job so Ebay is very much a side hustle for me. I’ve built it up slowly and now it requires minimal effort to keep it moving.
Thanks Craig! It is a good point for hockey items in general. In this case if a Canuck or European buyer is interested they will reach out to me due to the rarity of the shirt I have.
I’m not an expert in much but I do know Hockey pretty much inside and out. The jersey I have is all about 1 patch celebrating the team’s final year at Hersheypark Arena. The Arena was built in the 30s and a Hockey team was brought to town after a hockey exhibition game brought in a huge crowd. From 1936 to 2002 The Hershey Bears hockey team (originally the B’ars – which had to be dropped when the team joined the AHL in 1938 because it was too commercial) played at the old barn. So my money is on the jersey selling to a local or not so local Bears fan with fond memories of the Arena.
If anyone cares about that sort of thing, the Arena is still hosting high school, college and junior Hockey regularly. Walking through the doors is like going back in time. It is also the Arena where Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points. There is a plaque on the concourse commemorating that.
If I can ever help you out with anything hockey related, please let me know. I’d be glad to help provide information or insight.
Thank you so much!
Hershey is one of my favorite places on Earth it has 3 of my favorite things – Rollercoasters, Hockey, and Chocolate. Yes I’m a heathen who prefers Hershey’s Milk Chocolate to the other kinds. Not that I don’t eat other chocolate but Hershey’s is my favorite.
I had never heard of Guido Fawkes, and now having seen it I’m not sure I ever wanted to. 🙂 Thanks for the information.
Thanks for your response. I did not know about that search. I will save it to add to my search tools.
12-26-21 to 1-1-21
Total Items in Store: 1
Items Sold: 12
Gross Sales:$ 312.32
Net Sales:$ 226.54
Cost of Items Sold: $ 10.00
Highest Price Sold: $ 57.00 American Eagle coin
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $ 50.00
Number of items listed this week: 10Posted my numbers all year. This was a goal of mine along with 2000 items and 1000 feedback. Came up short by 50 items and about 10 feedback. Very happy with that.
Thank you to the community for all of the questions answered and stories shared. I value this place so much.
Have a kick butt 2022 everyone
Thank you all for your thoughts. I contacted Ebay and was told the buyer has to contact Ebay. He contacted Ebay and said I have to cancel my listing and fix it so I can ship to Australia.
THe only international shipping I do is via GSP so I am unsure why this listing would be different. I will double check and see what if anything I can do. I’ve never had this issue with any GSP items which makes me think it is a buyer issue, but who knows.
12-19-21 to 12-25-21
Total Items in Store: 1932
Items Sold: 7
Gross Sales:$ 275.16
Net Sales:$ 185.17
Cost of Items Sold: $ 5.00
Highest Price Sold: $ 150.00 Bud Ice Beer Sign
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $ 0
Number of items listed this week: 50I know I’m late but I promised myself I would post weekly numbers this year. And I did it. I shut down the store from Wed to Sunday this week just for a break from shipping. Still sold stuff and shipped it out Monday. Pretty neat how that works.
Sound like most of us had a better than expected week. That is a nice present for everyone.
Onto 2022
12-12-21 to 12-18-21
Total Items in Store: 1892
Items Sold: 9
Gross Sales:$ 269.30
Net Sales:$ 167.81
Cost of Items Sold: $ 3.00
Highest Price Sold: $ 60.00 American Eagle Silver Dollar
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $ 1.00
Number of items listed this week: 80Lots of listing this week. Finished posting all the single items that came out of my lot listings. And sold 1 of them. That always helps the motivation.
Did a nearly complete inventory check and updated the location information in Ebay for stuff that had wound up in a new spot. Got rid of some bulky items and reorganized some items so they will be easier to find. Also found 5 cancelled items that had not been relisted. So I relisted them. There is 1 more item that was cancelled but I don’t remember if it sold in the mean time. Have to hunt for it. If I find it, I will relist.
Taking off the end of this week, leaving sales on just not shipping until next week. I’d rather do some fun holiday stuff and take a break from shipping, posting, etc.
Merry Christmas to everyone. Hope you all have a wonderful holiday season.
