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I watch a lot of Youtubers and read many of the forums and it seems like everyone else is doing just fine. My sales are in the toilet. I made 7k in March (i usually make 5k-ish) and now my sales are really slow.
I know, I know…I have been doing this for some time and have seen the sales dip like this before, but when you have 1,000+ items in your store and go 2 days without a sale it’s kinda scary. Especially since my wife and I bought a second car on the back of last month’s sales.
It’ll pick up, it always does but sheesh…$800/wk for a full time seller is frustrating.
Still beats flipping burgers though…Most of the times I find that the $1 offers are asking for your lowest price. Just counter with a decent price.
This has happened to me a lot. Mostly in quiet thrift stores or in line at the post office, but the worst is definitely at yards sales trying to negotiate.
That’s why I changed the “ca-ching” to another sound. It took a while to get used to but now it can go off anytime, anyplace and it just sounds like a phone.
And yes, I still get the same warm fuzzies when the new sounds go off as I did with the ca-ching.
Same here. I switched everything to 30 days about 4 months ago. I have 1000+ items and it started to get very frustrating to relist multi items a day. I know it’s fairly simple to do, but I didn’t see an increase in sales. It’s not worth the hassle in my opinion. If I feel like listings are starting to get “stale” I’ll end 100 or so and relist them all at once.
How much will the sale price increase if you repair them? If you spend $30 to fix them and you will then make $50 more than you should. They will probably sell faster as well.
If they won’t sell for much more than it cost to fix them, let the buyer get them fixed. Just explain it needs repair in the title and description.
It’s all relative, but that’s not “WAY” too low. It sucks. May even ruin your week, but ship it out. We make a living doing this to people. It happens. It could be a lot worse. You could sell something for thousands less than it’s worth. You just learned a valuable lesson and it only cost as much as a community college course. It’ll come back to you ten fold because of this.
I feel the same way about negatives and defects. However, I fight each one tooth and nail. I only get one or two a year. You said you recieved two in a week. No big deal like you said, but what if you get two more weeks like that? 6 negatives might effect sales. Then it may be too late to fight them.
Luckily ebay makes it very easy to sell internationally. Use the Global Shipping Program. It handles all of the complicated stuff for you. You ship it to the ebay warehouse and they ship it to the customer and handle customs etc.
If you do not sell internationally at all, you will miss out on sales in the long run.
You’ll get there. It took me a while to understand that what we do isn’t normal to anyone else. Including my wife. I used to get unbelievably frustrated with her for not “getting it” or seeing the potential, but I guess it is a weird thing if you’re not in it.
One thing I did was forward my “item sold” emails to her email. So she could get a cha ching of sorts. She would see them and ask “what is that” or “someone paid that much?” Sort of a dinner conversation starter.
As far as being a stay at home dad I’d like to make a snarky little comment about how much work it is (and it is) or you’re the lucky one. But I’m extremely lucky and eBay is to thank in part.
Stay at home father of twins here. They are two now but man it was extremely hard to find a moment to work on eBay. Slow and steady.
My wife was also uninterested in my little hobby. She still hasn’t fully come around but knows it’s my job and it is as important as hers is. She treats it that way now.
Sometimes I list consistently and things sell. Sometimes I list consistently and they don’t. I don’t think any one has a definitive answer to this.
It’s one of those ebay theories that can’t hurt though. If you list everday, that’s more items for sale. It’s just a way that we feel like we have any kind of control when it’s slow.
In your case, just do what works with your schedule,
It sounds like the belts have dry rotted. They are made of rubber and deteriorate over time. That would be my guess.
I usually use a box for first class and priority boxes for heavier ones. They have a “by weight box” that works good. If it’s heavier or larger they have a medium flare rate box in two sizes.
As for a poly bag. In theory it’ll be fine for standard everday puzzles, but some of the more collectable ones I would use a box.
I would get them for $20. Pins tend to be long tail. Especially run of the mill pins like these, but I sell a surprising amount of pins. Of course Disney pins and Pontiac Service pins do very well but even the cheap Chinese ones seem to move in bundles.
