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Are you using the garage for parking cars also?
If your garage has 10 ft ceiling, many do, you can make a hanging shelf over the hood area of the car, still leaving enough space to walk under it. I’ve had to do that in the garage in my last house, not for inventory but just for “stuff”.
Personal Opinion:
I think stuffing a title full of keywords to the point it really makes no sense to read is bad. If I can’t glance at the title and tell what is being sold I just move on. I may be wrong but I think putting those same extra words in custom item specifics does just as well as far as search results go.
Titles can definitely be too short though, “Man’s shirt” is not going to sell well.
In general, I believe titles should be as short as what is needed to let shoppers know it is something they might want to look at closer. Displays in a retail store are generally intended to catch the shopper eye so they will walk over and look closer, I think titles are the same general concept.
My 2¢
From a different sales model point of view, I sell primarily new old stock auto parts and often I get multiples of the same part. I run about 3000 listings and ship 300-400 orders per month. Sounds like 10%, but since I have over 32,000 individual items in stock it’s more like 1%.
Regardless of sales model, the important thing is making enough money to justify the costs and time spent
Time is running out, don’t miss the extra freebies if you have an eBay store!
I guess the Scrabble Deluxe didn’t make the video. Is that the one with a rotating game board? Those are nice so each player can look at the layout without throwing their neck out. I actually made a turntable for my cheap edition using a cake decorating turntable.
If you have good til canceled items you want to suspend for up to 3 months, eBay has an out-of-stock option that could work, although you still pat the listing fees during that time. This is more intended for a situation where you have multi-quantity items that you might run out of before you can get more in, but it might work for you with good til canceled items. This also maintains any search ranking the listing might have.
I did the same thing years ago with 1 size of box. My local post office took them off my hands but I don’t know if that was just a favor or official. You might ask them.
I’m not sure we have heard the whole story on this yet, “Or the rest of the story”.
I can get this from ShippingEasy if I need it, but I don’t want it. Here’s a stripped down sample:
For those of you that might remember I don’t charge shipping, only for contental US, this was Puerto Rico.
I don’t know unless you can somehow do it with the shipping options, or tell them in the listing to request no box and then edit the invoiced shipping.
I still have plenty of everything I use, skipped Q4 2019, and haven’t used my Q2 2020 allowance yet. So much of my stuff ships in the 2 smallest poly bags, or padded poly bags, or USPS flat rate options. Those eBay supplies I use are relatively cheap and more than I need.
Thanks for the tip. I should clean up my old bike that’s been sitting in the garage, air up the tires, etc. I haven’t ridden it in a couple of years, never did really like it much either.
Happy Birthday, kid, I just turned 71 yesterday. Life is good, I’m healthy, active, and pretty much physically fit. Oh, if I could be 47 again and know what I know now… (lol).
It’s all relative, my mother is 96 and still going strong.
Bill
