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09/08/2017 at 1:12 am in reply to: More Common Mens L/S Button Shirts That Do Well on EBAY (VIDEO) #22650
4XL Harley! I LIVE for finding stuff like that! Nice job finding that one!
09/06/2017 at 12:05 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 325: New Rental Done, Now Hopping On A Plane! #22588jamie, very cool! Whereabouts is this?
09/06/2017 at 12:02 am in reply to: More Common Mens L/S Button Shirts That Do Well on EBAY (VIDEO) #22587A good summary, thanks for posting that! Others? Harley Davidson springs to mind. Some that might not be so “common”, but might turn up, and can be good: Ben Sherman, Robert Graham, Thomas Pink.
dylan,
I think CS is right. Are you doing a bulk relist? It will sometimes who you the fees that WOULD be charged if you didn’t have free ones, but once you actually DO the relist, it shows you zero fees have been charged.We buy items for us all the time. I bought a slide scanner for five bucks the other day. The missus loves kitchen gadgets, so we’re always buying choppers and dicers and what not. Most of my wardrobe is purchased while sourcing. Hmmm, the monitor I’m looking at right now, best one I’ve ever owned (which isn’t saying much admittedly LOL)….$20 at a yard sale. Desk chair I’m sitting on. The list of what we pay for retail for is probably smaller than the list of what we buy when sourcing. Some more stuff: Books, We are both big readers, and always buying used books. Tools. Lots of my tools have been bought at yard sales, thrifts etc.
09/03/2017 at 12:40 am in reply to: What you don't want to hear at your favorite Thrift Store #22487Jay, I don’t think Goodwill is a franchise. It is a national non-profit that is divided into regions, each region has their own management and policies (at least to some extent, I’m sure some things are dictated at the national level).
To get back to the threads title, stuff I don’t want to hear at my local thrift (or yard sale, etc):
clerk, as I pay for a really great item—“Oh, you’re buying THAT? …I didn’t know there was one left….someone was here yesterday and must have bought a few dozen of them…I guess she missed that one!”I’ve heard that sort of thing way too often! LOL
08/29/2017 at 3:04 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 324: A Day In The Life Of A Scavenger VIDEO! #22329Agree with Jay. I have a thrift shop right behind my house, but to get to the other one closest to me, I drive about 15 miles. One way. Not a lot of traffic usually, but Amish buggies and farm equipment can slow you down pretty quickly….as can slowing down just to see the sites, like an escaped pig the other day LOL
So, the kind of driving Jay is describing is pretty much the norm for a lot of us living in the country or small towns.
Google has been talking about this for quite some time. If you look up at the address bar on this page you will will probably see the URL begins with https — that is a “secure” page. It used to be that https was found mostly on log in pages, bank sites, etc. Ordinary pages have a URL that begins with http (without the “s”).
Google’s browser, Chrome, wants the web to be more secure. So as of a certain date, pages with http only will be labelled insecure by Google. The fact is, the page might be fine, no danger at all, but if it isn’t https, it is going to worry people because they’ll see Google’s message. So, many, many sites are making sure all their pages meet the requirements for https, not just http.
That’s what ebay is doing. I think ebay has already done it for ebay’s own pages. But for a seller’s listing page, well, depending on what the seller has in his description, the page may or may not be https compliant. So ebay is trying to ensure that all pages (including our listing pages) are compliant with https protocols. Which makes sense. I don’t want a buyer opening my listing page to see a note from Google that the page is insecure.
So, I’m going to make whatever changes I need to make to comply.
Others will probably disagree, but I’d probably do a buyer cancel, refund his money, and send him a note saying you have no replacements available. And just let him keep the glasses.
08/18/2017 at 10:27 pm in reply to: A store subscription level between Premium and Anchor (may even 2) #21972This has been suggested to ebay on numerous occasions. The last ebay response I saw (before the last seller release) was of the “there are no plans to do so” variety. Why? I don’t know. But don’t get your hopes up that ebay will suddenly reverse course. It’s possible, but not likely.
About tending listings….can’t remember where I saw this, I think one of the videos from ebay open…but as I remember, ebay said something like 90% of all purchases are made from a listing on the first page of search results. So, it might not be imperative to be at the very top of the page, but it obviously is important to be on the first page. Thing is, for a lot of what we sell, if the buyer has been specific enough with his search, there often is only one page of search results…
So I’m mostly a list it and forget it type, but willing to make changes, run promotions etc…If I sold mostly new commodity type stuff, then yes, I’d tend my listings more carefully.
08/10/2017 at 4:14 pm in reply to: "Everything" picker in CT, looking to network to crack the cassini code #21635you might want to look at this site: https://title-builder.com/
08/10/2017 at 12:43 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 322: Don’t Forget To Make Your Own Weekends #21628Jay, Yes, that’s pretty much the whole point actually. There will be a filter so a buyer can see which items will arrive within four, three, two or one day (depending on the time frame the buyer cares about). Of course, if a seller hasn’t opted into the program, his items won’t show up in the filter. My guess is, filter usage will increase the closer we get to holidays like Halloween and Christmas, and sellers who aren’t in the filter will likely be at a competitive disadvantage. Which is why I’ll opt in as soon as they move me from the waiting list.
08/10/2017 at 10:22 am in reply to: "Everything" picker in CT, looking to network to crack the cassini code #21618You are correct about the Watch Lists. Some sellers actually try to game the system by having multiple IDs and watching their own items. So an item with no interest may have five watchers—all of them the seller himself. But the more watchers, the better the search placement, and the more likely someone else will watch, because many people assume if a listing has a bunch of watchers, it must be good LOL
This tactic may help with search placement, but whether that translates into conversions probably still depends on how desirable the item is.
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