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Yep, it’s pretty much a live auction with some QVCesqueness to it. I usually have 25-30 lots of postcards and I flip through each card and then do a 30 second auction on what I just showed. There is a live chat going on that people can interact on / ask questions. I’ll answer any questions live. Buyers have to pay by credit card and it is immediately charged. A notice will pop up showing if payment was successful or failed. I’ve not had any returns and there are no returns for buyers remorse only if I grossly misrepresent stuff. But, since I show every postcard the buyer will receive, I don’t see that ever being a problems. Their fees total about 11-12%. You don’t get money in your account until after the item is delivered. Pop in tomorrow night and watch how it goes.https://whatnot.com/live/78de7afc-9d4b-4b7b-b850-abc50d02aa0d this is the show link
Hey Jay, just stopping by. I’ve been on WhatNot for about a month now. https://whatnot.com/user/popeyespostcards It’s been a game changer for me to sell bulk lots of postcards. I’ve been doing shows every Tuesday and Saturdays that last for 3-4 hours and just started doing lunchtime quick 30-45 minute shows on Thursdays. I’ve been averaging about $650 an hour. Some shows have been better than others. But I should reach about $18k in sales for the month of May after my show on Tuesday. That’s 3 months of ebay sales in 1 month. These are postcards and ephemera that have been in my backstock for years that I will never get around to listing individually on ebay. I think my small, but dedicated, youtube following has really helped my sales. It’s not for everyone and I’ve seen sellers really struggle to sell anything. But, I’ve been having a blast.
Probably several 100 copies of each card. Unknown number of unique cards, but many 1,000’s. I hope to have the majority of them listed within a few years. Normally, I can do 100-200 listings a day when I set my mind to it. These, probably between 50-100 a day. I’ll know better once I get started.
There most likely are several hundred copies of the same card. I only have to do 1 listing per card and will have hundreds of extra copies. Pretty much list it once and forget it. There are several thousand different cards (and 100’s of copies of each). Since I wasn’t expecting to make this purchase, I have to put some infrastructure in place and have purchased extra shelving racks and storage boxes. I’ll probably see a few years of significant growth, but I’m sure there will be some diminishing demand for them. Like my other postcards, some of these could sit for years until a buyer comes along.
Impulsively deleted them in a moment of rage. About 200 were lost. I found about 40 spread out over several files in a few computers.
Thanks, that’s good to know. Hopefully, the same thing happens to postcards.
I’m sending offers once or twice a day. 10% off offers on postcards that have been listed less than a month and 20-25% off older cards. I need to go through and add best offer to about 1/3 of my listings.
I very rarely use mark down manager.
I’m cautiously pessimistic about ebay getting rid of 100 +/- subcategories under postcards and condensing to only two: Topographical and Non-Topographical. Hopefully there is an automatic transfer of subcategory information into item specifics, which I’m sure we’ll now have to add. If not, it’s going to take me more than a month to fix/update 30,000 listings. I guess postcards couldn’t dodge the bullet forever.
Both. Seeing overall sales growth on old cards, but new postcards I’m listing are selling the same day. It’s been said over and over, but you have to be listing something new all of the time.
Jay, I’ll probably do another end/relist around black friday/beginning of December. In the mean time, I’ll be a listing fool too. Trying to add another 2-3,000 in the next 2 months. I’ll be over 30,000 by the end of today.
It’s been 2 weeks since I did the end & relist. I’m posting up to date pics of the impression, views, and solds charts.
I’m not smart enough to understand what any of this means, but my organic impressions are double what they were when I had everything under a 5% promoted listings campaign. I think I still have one item that is being promoted.
Page views (below image) are still much higher than when they were being promoted. It’s interesting that “external site views” are so much higher after the end/relist than during the promoted campaign. I thought having promoted listings was supposed to greatly increase external site views. Do they get “stale” too? Again, I’m not smart enough to understand the huge increase after the end and relist and not being promoted anymore.
Solds are still going strong, but I am seeing some slow days again.
On your listings page under My Ebay, on of the columns available to sort by is “start date” Even though your listings are renewed every 30 days, you’ll see when you first listed them by start date.
🙂 thanks. Four hours. Might have been quicker if ebay processing didn’t hang up every so often.
I very rarely make any changes. but I always find errors usually the wrong or missing picture for the item, etc
I used the “end listings” under the “actions” drop down on the listings page. Unfortunately, only 200 at a time, which is why it too so long. I didn’t end 200 at a time and then immediately relist those 200, I ended all of the 28,000 listings first and then relisted them.
