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I find Amazon being later than promised on more and more orders.
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I’m waiting on a birthday gift form my grandson who will be 10 tomorrow. The package was promised for today but no show. If it gets here tomorrow I’m fine, but I don’t like to have to wonder about it. PawPaw is supposed to spoil the grandkids, not disappoint them.I don’t keep track, but I pretty sure this is happening on at least 10% of my orders from Amazon. I sell on Amazon myself but ship my own orders instead of FBA. I would be at risk of suspension if I had that high of a late delivery metric.
</rant>You might already know this, but if not, you can change preferences to display seller feedback in the search results list. Sometimes a visual filter is good enough.
When I send back a translated response I also include the English I used as source, so I can read it later if needed.
I’ve seen a few of those but not often and none recently.
https://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidsLogin&item=221561896463&rt=nc&_trksid=p2471758.m4903
I sold one of these in the past week. There have been 8 sales since the item was listed on Sep 28, 2014, but those are old enough not to show up on the page sold history. Ii looked back at my sales records and the last previous sale was Feb 22, 2019.
So, this is just 1 old item sold, I don’t want to take a lot of time searching for more examples but they do occur.
I know for sure the old listings still sell, but I don’t see any way to verify or quantify that.
Since I always include those over 16 items in send offer, I suppose that could account for some increase now that we can do that, but the old ones were selling before we could do that. Same for Promoted Listings, while that may have changed the frequency of old items selling, we have always sold a few.
We have many items that are unique enough that there may not be many valid search results.
Not to mention that some sales may come directly from a Google or other search engine and aren’t affected by eBay manipulation of search results.
So, yes, old (over 16) items sell but there is no way for me to know where they were showing in search results for the buyer at time of sale.
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Old Dad.
That is a very funny ending, for sure. Did she gloat just a little bit?
The old listings will sell occasionally. I have seen a little action when I relist old items, but nothing huge. I definitely get more sales-boost spending my time listing new products.
My old listings don’t look as good as my newer ones, I’m sure the new simplified look I’m using sells better. Then there is the situation with newer item specifics. I find that some old listings have dropped basic item specifics such as brand somewhere along the way. I’m selling on eBay Motors, so changes that happen on the eBay main site aren’t always carried over and Vice Versa.
Do you think there is a possible downside of losing watchers when ending and listing new?
Maybe I only notice the incidents that have a negative effect on sellers, but I don’t ever recall an eBay glitch where they were giving us more money than they should.
You should be able to get that information from PayPal reports, it might require a business account though.
I have in the past ended and relisted old items, but I have so many listings (~3000) and usually have a bunch of new stuff waiting to list, that I rarely have time I want to spend on relisting. As a rough guess, about half of my listings have the over 16-month flag. The oldest listings also don’t have the same simple appearance I’m using now and which I would like to update and a few other current tweaks.
I’ve been thinking about hiring somebody on a short term basis just to end and relist, but they need to be smart enough to figure out most of the new item specifics base on the old listing without constantly asking. I wouldn’t want them trying to update the description, photos, etc., I think that would be too much to expect.
I’m something of a procrastinator on things that don’t absolutely have to be done right now, pretty much a life long bad habit that isn’t likely to change much at my age, lol.
10/31/2019 at 1:31 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 434: Do You Have A Business Destiny? #69857
This is a small portion of my “warehouse” which was previously a restaurant. I wanted to point out the cardboard bin boxes on the foreground shelf. I use those to shelf small lightweight items that would otherwise be constantly falling over. They are fairly cheap and come flat so they take up little space unassembled. They are available with lower or higher sides.
What is showing in this pic is about 1/4th of the total storage space, plus I have a separate room for shipping and for products not listed yet. I don’t recall the total square feet, 3000 as a rough estimate, probably more. One advantage of living in a small (1100 pop.) midwest town, I only pay $250 a month for this building.
10/31/2019 at 12:59 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 434: Do You Have A Business Destiny? #69856“We’ve sometimes relisted multiple quantity items and accidentally posted more quantity than we had.”
I’m not sure if you know this, but some here may not. If you use Sell similar as a shortcut to relisting (then end the old listing), for multi-quantity listings if you have sold some the quantity on the relist will revert to the original quantity, unless you specifically change the quantity during the relist. A “gotcha” that is easy to miss and then wonder later why the item oversold.
A man walks into a bar and says…
Ouch!
Used to be, when I was younger, I only saw old farmers wearing this kind of coat (and bibs), my sons’ grandpa wore these. I think they have become popular again, but not for farmers.
This coat is different in several ways from what I recall. On the old ones the side pockets were square and open at the top, and there was an open breast pocket on both sides. The straight open sleeves and length of the jacket look about right though.
I think most major brands use a logo patch and a content/care label inside (isn’t that required now?). If I was going to guess this is probably an import but I’m no expert, just strolling down memory lane.
I’m glad I don’t sell clothes, I’m sure some love it though.
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