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Ryanne, I think shayward is referring to this thread’s conversation, where ebay sellers acknowledge basically “renting” items from Target etc to offer on ebay…if they don’t sell within the store’s return time limit, they return them for a refund. From Target’s perspective, how is that any different from an ebay buyer buying something from an ebay seller , say, a magazine, photocopying an article they want and then returning it? eBay sellers complain about that sort of thing all the time, but some ebay sellers think nothing of doing something very similar when they engage in retail arbitrage. When an ebay buyer does it to an ebay seller, they are a “bad” buyer, but when an ebay seller does it to Target, its just smart business?
At least, I think that’s the point shayward is raising.
Gompers, I guess what I’m saying is, that’s a non-issue for me. Doesn’t matter to me if ebay says this is a retail standard or simply: this is our new policy, we aren’t going to explain why we think it’s good, here it is. Either way, I need to focus on my business, the retail standard thing just becomes a distraction. I don’t care what Best Buy does, I care about what I think will work for me, and I’ve got to figure that out within the framework of whatever marketplace I’m on.
the way I look at it, it really doesn’t matter whether they are industry practice or not. what matters is : what are the pros and cons for me to implement a particular return policy? Same question I’d ask on ebay, Amazon, etsy or anywhere else.
here’s a link to my thread:
ChristineR, Yeah, I look at GD —for me—the same way I look at free return shipping: it’s low risk, low (to maybe high reward. Low risk because all I need to do is get the package out the door within my stated handling time and get the PO scan—and my track record and my local POs track record for doing that is excellent. But low reward because, with the likely exception of the Holidays, most of my buyers probably won’t use the filter. But the reward might be fairly high when they do, because many of my competitors probably won’t use GD.
About your verbiage encouraging multiple item purchases, I implore you to look at the thread I started about using the Reply with Offer button. Watch the video I link to. The video gives the WRONG impression that this works only with auto parts. But this works with any category. I never knew the “reply with Offer” button had such enormous potential as an upselling tool. AND you can encourage buyers to contact you—through ebay messages only, that’s important—to ask about bundling additional items. And get this, you can include items not currently listed in your ebay store in the bundle. (ebay will collect an FVF on the total sales price, but forgoes the listing fee on unlisted items.)
An example: you put verbiage in your description (or even pay for a subtitle) telling buyers you have more in the pattern , contact you through ebay messages. Buyer contacts you through a dinner plate listing, asks about the dessert plates and creamer you have listed…would you lot them together? And do you by any chance have a gravy boat too? Well, it so happens you do, just haven’t listed it yet….arrive at a price with the buyer, and right there in the messages you provide an ad hoc invoice…buyer can pay via PayPal, and you ship. You do have to manually take down the other listings that sold, but it sounds pretty simple. If sellers start using this, I think ebay will work to streamline it further. Let me know what you think once you’ve watched the video.
I wouldn’t want to live there, but I wish I had been invited to the parties that were thrown there
to me, under 3″ is skinny, 4″ or more is wide, classic is basically 3 1/2″ to 3 3/4″
Nope, store fees might be pretty important,especially to lend some stability, but it has been years since individual listing fees made up the bulk of ebays revenue…FVFs are the lion’s share. In the early days of ebay, ebay made most of its money from listing fees, which is why ebay didn’t care whether stuff sold or not….just keep relisting, sellers! But that changed years ago….FVFs are king now. I don’t have stats handy, and don’t have time to hunt for them, but if you want to, go ahead.
AdventureE, I’ll be happy to use this, but I’ll continue to list. Why wouldn’t I? Buyers still have to find something they want from me, and if I have no listings, they can’t find it. Sure, a few sellers will try to use this to limit their listings, but even so….that just means ebay gives up the listing fees….the unlisted items that are sold through a private offer are still assessed an FVF, which is where ebay really makes its money, not listing fees.
I don’t see this turning into a complex maze either. In most cases, it would be pretty straightforward.
The interview with Josh from ebay is on ebay Radio, Episode 715, Segment 7.
Jay, I guess I’m already registered with them…didn’t see that as any big deal.
I really think this has a lot of potential for sellers. I get the impression that ebay will be doing more to get the word out to the seller community, and not just the auto parts folks, so hopefully there will be a regular YouTube video in the near future. I gather there was a discussion about this on ebay radio lately, I’ll have to check into the Radio Archives…
Should have revised that—ebay has confirmed that this will work for any category. Really, this is GREAT NEWS!
03/21/2018 at 2:20 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 352: Scavenging is The Alternative Early Retirement #35779Now here’s an interesting guy—he seems to do most of his scavenging ON ebay, but he would fit right in on Scavenger Life:
https://gizmodo.com/the-man-who-built-his-house-out-of-stuff-he-bought-on-e-1823833307
So Cal Joe, yes, but I think you need to use the shopping cart and pay for all the items with one PayPal payment.
03/19/2018 at 10:48 pm in reply to: Jesse James photograph bought on eBay for just $10 could be worth $2 million! #35627Yep! Sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you! LOL
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