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I’d be very curious to see your numbers if you did an end/relist on your store.
Thank you for the content & information you’ve shared over the past years.
I’m still working on it. I’m 8 days into it, 10-12 hours a day. I still have about 15,000 cards left. I first “cherry pick” out the cards I’ll be listing within the next few months. That, so far, is about 6,000 cards. The rest go into shoebox sized totes and labeled with generally what kind of cards/places are in the box. Those non-cherry picked cards will eventually end up in my show $.25 boxes, in my antique booth boxes, or blown out in large lots, months, but most likely years from now.
Jay, I’ve always seen this sales boost when I end/relist. It’ll last 3-4 days and then level out. I used to do it monthly when it would only take an hour or so. Now that I have almost 30,000 listings, and it takes over 4 hours to complete, I’ll do it about once a quarter. One thing I have to remember is that I also had a nice protracted sales increase by constantly listing (and using the promotion). Adding 100 +/- listings a day — everyday– definitely helped the bottom line too. Last weekend I bought about 60,000-70,000 postcards at an auction and processing them has taken up all of my time this past week, so I did the end/relist process to ensure I had a nice sales increase to pay for what I spent at the auction and also make up for not listing any new cards.
The one thing you can see in the chart is when I did the end/relist, the 5% promoted listings campaign ended. When the listings were ended, the campaign on those listings was also ended because there are all “new” listings.
I had never done a huge promoted listings campaign like this before. They were usually only 500 to 1000 items, never 28,000 listings. But, I have always seen the end/relist sales spike.
I had an epiphany while listening to your podcast: I’m dead inside, that’s why I like the monotony of selling postcards. 🙂
I removed about 30 users from my blocked list. I kept them on the paper list I keep and marked them “reinstated.”
Maybe people finally realized postcards are just stupid little pieces of paper 🙂
It’s the summer doldrums made worse by the pent up need to get out of the house and do anything somewhere else. This week is back to normal averaging about $200 a day.
You want slow sales? How about over 28,500 items on ebay and on Monday, July 12 I sold 4 postcards for a total of $27.46. Gross sales for the week: $687. Slowest week in almost 2 years. I was thinking of opening a small brick & mortar shop, but I’m going to wait and see how I do at a live postcard show coming up on August 7 in Havre de Grace, MD.
I asked ebay for business how this case was possible. This was their response:
Thank you John! Unsure as to why the buyer had the capability to open a case, however, great news is this item doesn’t qualify for our eBay Money Back Guarantee. This is because the item was not paid for, and the claim was opened outside the eligibility window. We won’t be taking any action. The buyer’s request will automatically close in 21 business days. They may close it earlier and the claim won’t count against your seller performance.
