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Wow! You’re doing great for two months in!!!!
Keep up the good work!
Are you a one man operation, or do you have help?
Thanks for the heads up! Hope this brings us more sales!
almasty, no need to answer if you’d rather not, but I’m curious: what are the things you’d rather be doing if you could afford to?
I enjoy doing ebay, and its something the better half and I like to do together, but sometimes I do get the urge to do some acting again, or to get back to doing local history research, or just try some new things. The urge generally passes, but it’s still there….
OK, that sounds great! You guys are my idols! Seriously. I think its great the way you keep reinvesting and creating more income streams….
Ryanne, I read the post. As my post says, the building you bought looks like a storefront, not a house you’d convert as another rental….so I was wondering what your plans are for the building? But hey, I’ll wait and listen when I get a chance, probably tonight…..just excited for you guys, that’s all.
OK, I haven’t had a chance to listen to the podcast yet, but can you at least give us a HINT….that photo shure looks like a storefront, not another house rental in the works….antique mall? Your own B&M shop? Or something else entirely? I probably won’t get to listen till late tonight….
Poshmark is following in the footsteps of ebay and etsy. I remember when etsy sellers were thrown off the site because they had grandma help with the knitting during the holiday season—-Nope! Must be handmade by the actual seller! But more and more people violated the rules, and eventually, we have today’s etsy, where the rule has been completely discarded.
I’m guessing same thing will happen at Poshmark…..too much effort to try to enforce the rules if too many sellers disregard them, and more money to be made by expanding from clothing to other stuff….just as etsy finally realized that the market for true handcrafted goods was a lot smaller than the market for stuff that kinda looks handcrafted…
“The fun “game” element is learning to find value where others don’t see it. That’s the hook.”
That really summarizes it nicely.
ebaymom,
1. I don’t think the idea is to assign a number that has anything to do with mall stores. I think eventually everything will have an EPID. Eventually. Our stuff will likely be the last stuff to be assigned numbers, so I’m not worrying about it too much. But if I have a truly unique iem, it will be the only item with that number.
I think ebay is trying to do something that may well turn out to be impossible,but they seem determined to try.
2. I think eventually ebay will ASSIGN the number…there won’t be any “Seller leaves it blank”
3. LOL—-
ebaymom, Wondering why you think it’s stupid? I see at least a couple advantages for sellers:
1. There are many items (especially in scavenger inventories) that predate UPCs, iSBNs, etc. Assigning them their own number is the only way they are going to get a number.
2. Again, scavengers often have newer items which lack a UPC only because we lack the packaging. But if we can be pretty certain its the same item, we can use the ebay ID number to ensure it gets seen on product pages (and, eventually, that’s probably going to mean ensuring it gets seen at all).
Sharyn:
first one: $95 for this artist proof
second and third link are the same link: $129.99 signed and numbered
It’s basically the equivalent of Amazon’s internal ID number. eBay has hinted that probably by the next seller release at least some sellers will be allowed to attach an ebay ID number to stuff. I think the way it will work is ebay assigns the number. They said a while ago that they had started giving out numbers in a very limited manner, so I assume that’s what you are seeing. I’ve seen them too.
Think about all the non-UPC stuff we sell….eventually, at least in theory, everything will have a number.
My guess? If you sell new, commodity type merchandise than some of ebay’s metrics, price guidance, and other Seller Hub stuff might be pretty useful. For scavenger sellers, the utility of most of that stuff is pretty limited. I will sometimes (at least before the new 14 day rule) use the watch list to put stuff bon Markdown Manager, because (supposedly) watchers are notified by ebay that the price has been lowered. Also, if I get an unusually large number of views I might adjust the price or the photos or something, because there seems to be interest but not one actually doing anything.
But I would also say, if ebay took away the view and watch count (and its been screwed up for weeks), I’d just continue along without it.
But I do stress, some of this data is probably very useful for commodity sellers.
It would be nice if ebay would focus some of their improvements on us scavengers, but then again, perhaps benign neglect is better than ebay’s “improvements” LOL
I hadn’t noticed the dashboard, but the shipping dates have been wrong sometimes….I’ve learned not to rely on them. Which is a shame, because if you have to double check everything in Seller Hub, it loses its promised efficiency pretty quickly LOL
Cool. Any idea why Georgia is so attractive to film makers? Tax incentives? Or….?
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