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The idea is so obvious I’m surprised it hasn’t been mentioned yet
PIVOT!!
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You’re welcome 🙂
Thanks for the tip. I feel like Ebay is hiding this for some reason, it is so tricky to find. I’ve got my order in.
And I have added the quarter starts to my calendar to remind me to check each quarter.
I thought I would add my 2 cents in about the missing offer accepted prices and even the lack of buyers screens names in bidding situations. It might have to do with the combination of GDPR and Ebay realizing the value in their data.
GDPR are the rules adopted by most? EU countries regarding its citizen’s digital privacy. I’m in IT and the nightmare of figuring out what to do with existing data and future data for EU customers is never ending. The protections offered in the GDPR are wide and sort of vague in some ways. But companies have had to jump to try to make saved data compliant however possible and show that future data will be collected according to the person’s wishes.
The other big factor could simply be Ebay seeing the goldmine data wise that 2 decades of exact purchases records with dates, names, prices, catagorization, etc. is. Why share that when they can sell it.
I’ve never noticed that before. I’ll need to pay attention next time I’m sending out offers. Thanks!
Thanks Jay!
I can only imagine how complicated VA will make this. I will look into it.
My comment is really about last weeks podcast. My favorite small item is enamel pins (the kind with a post and clasp on the back). I’ve collected them for years, when I started my ebay store I went through my collection and thinned it out a bit.
They are small and easy to store and ship. You can get $15 each and lots more depending on an endless amount of variables. I’ve been buying big lots of them via ebay for cheap and listing them 1 by 1. Usually 1 sale covers my COG.
Then you can always lot up the “garbage” after you cherry pick a lot and sell them as a lot as well. Its the Circle of Life. 🙂
Don’t worry, not all of us on the forum do the amazing numbers of the folks who post their numbers each week (or most weeks). I work full time and I only do my numbers when I get my invoice each month, so you are already ahead of me being able to do weekly numbers. 🙂
I have just shy of 1000 items listed. I average $100 a week in sales. Not great, but that number is steady now and I’m proud of that.
I started about a year ago now. I had a free account. Bumped up to a 250 item store. Posted like crazy to hit that 250 number. Saved up about 100 listings and went for the 1000 item store. Posted like crazy and burnt myself out.
So I began working on Ebay 1 hour a day, 5 days a week. I broke up my days as 1 day of photos, 1 day of research, 1 day of inventory, 1 day of posting, 1 day of book keeping. I’ve also tried posting every weekday (5 to 10 items). That worked better for me and allowed me to fill up my store without burning out. I also liked working a bit each day because if I missed doing something 1 day, it was easy to pick up the next day and not feel like I had slacked off.
My advice – Do the work when you can on a schedule that works for you and your family. You will get there.
My store – https://www.ebay.com/str/obeythejunk
The link has my old store name. I switched it awhile ago to Keps 424 but the link never changed.
Thanks Jay! I figured the “magic number” had been figured out but I always missed it in my reading.
For those of you with 1001 – 3000 ish items in Ebay, do you have the 10000 item EBay store? Or do you just pay additional fees to list and relist any of your items that are over 1000?
I’ve been curious about that for awhile but always forget to ask. 🙂
