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neck ties?
Yeah, I fully expect we’ll do something similar when we finally make things official LOL
Great story Brian!
Welcome, and…Wow! Sounds like you sure are busy! I’d love to hear a little more about the vintage shows. Some years ago, I argued that small shops and shows would make a comeback for vintage and crafts because a lot of people like to shop for that stuff in the Real World as a form of entertainment. It’s one reason I feel more and more people will buy stuff like toothpaste online….no one enjoys “shopping” for toothpaste, but people enjoy “going out and shopping for antiques and stuff (often shopping with a friend or two, making it into a social occasion). Also, commodity goods, like toothpaste, are easy for sites to catalogue and are thus ideal for online selling, whereas older stuff is harder to catalogue properly (as ebay is finding out, and as Amazon admitted when they pulled out of their one effort at running auctions of older stuff)
What I’m seeing around here is, older antiques can be a tough sell because the market for the real thing is so small, but “vintage” and repurposed (and new stuff with a vintage vibe)seems to do well in shops, in part because so many lifestyle shows, magazines and blogs etc encourage people to buy the stuff. I think it is also the “hunt” and, at the same time, the serendipitous discovery of some great treasure the buyer wasn’t actually hunting for.
So, I’m really wondering: what are you seeing in the real world selling? What stuff seems to be popular? Is it a social thing? Buyers demographics? Young , old, men, women? Just any observations you’d care to share would be appreciated.
12/26/2017 at 10:49 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 340: We Reconnect with Cyndi from Amazing Taste #29413Great interview! Cyndi has inspired me to make 2018 the year I expand from an almost exclusively ebay operation to more venues. And I am going to look into some of her other ideas as well: wholesale sourcing and sourcing from ebay itself (as well as other online venues). I’ve done a little of this in the past, with some success, but never a real experiment. But I do like her “hour a day” experimenting….will try that. So much good stuff in this interview! Thanks for posting it!
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Oh, I also should note that the most recent update to that page says that YouTube videos won’t currently work within the ebay app. I tested the carousel listing on a smart phone, but was just using a browser, not the ebay app, so can’t say for sure whether it works with the app at this point or not.
Well wait, I’m wrong and apologize, that does say you can embed if you use HTML5, but I’m not sure there’s an practical way for most people to do that. Linking to YouTube is probably the best option at this point.
Jay, As I said, you can’t really EMBED a video anymore. As the policy you quoted, you can LINK to one, if you follow those rules and the instruction page I posted, you’ll end up with something like the example I posted (which works on PC and Mobile)
I think the instructional page you are looking for is here:
Nancy, I don’t think you can EMBED a video within a listing description anymore. You can LINK to a video, which will put the video image in your description, but when clicked on, it will play in a new page. Here’s an example (not my item):
Is this what you want to do?
The Announcement is ambiguous, but there is a clarification on the ebay for business Facebook page:
“We’re delaying enforcement until sometime after March 2018. We’ll share another update when we have a firm date”
So the policy has NOT changed, the only thing that has happened is the date for compliance has been postponed to a new, to-be-announced date.
I don’t use watermarks, so it’s no big deal for me, but if sellers interpret the announcement as changing the policy itself, and start adding watermarks to new listings, they are going to be less than happy when the new date is announced.
Thanks Christine— I do think with eBay’s emphasis on New stuff, those of us selling used and vintage definitely need to at least consider doing marketing beyond eBay. I like the List it and Forget it idea, but I’m not averse to trying to give sales a little nudge LOL
ChristineR, I’ve just started doing that, in a very small way, and so far it looks like I’ve probably added some views to a few things, but I don’t think any sales have resulted from it (no way to know for sure). What groups are you using? I’ve been using a couple ebay seller type groups, but wonder if I should be using category specific type groups?
LOL! Yep, it isn’t that people aren’t buying. It’s WHAT they are buying this time of year. Only a small percentage will look at my stuff and say “Gee, that would be a swell gift for Bob!”
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