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I’ve talked with a few buyers who I sent offers to. I do NOT check the counter offers button on sent offers.
Sending an offer blocks me from editing the listing. It also blocks the buyer from making any offers directly on the listing. I assumed that checking the box wouldn’t allow them to respond directly to the offer with a counter. I thought they would still be able to go to the original listing and send an offer.Keep that in mind when using this feature.
Items in Store 1565
Items Sold 35
Total Sales $1,188.00
COGS $78.00
Total Profit $1,110.00
Average profit $31.71
Average sales price $33.94
New Listings 72I just compared my January year over year numbers. I have 50% more active listings and my average sales (after adjusting for an anomaly $2k sale last year) have doubled. My average items sold in a week went from 25 to 42.
Boy I sure hope this trend continues!
I see no end in sight to my escalated listing pace. My only issue is getting new listings into my inventory system. I wish it was warmer with more sunlight so I could spend more time in my storage shed. I’ve never ran power to the shed so when I go out there in the dark I use the flashlight on my phone and I freeze my butt off if the temps are in the 30’s.Not much time left – March (and more daylight) is just around the corner. I have big plans for the spring!
I listen to podcasts that I want to pay attention to during my commute and during my walks.
When I working or listing, I listen to music.
I’ve tried listening to podcasts while working and I either quit working to listen, or I get absorbed by my work and go a long stretch without hearing a word that was said on the podcast.My go-to non scavenger podcasts are “How Did This Get Made”, and “The Tim Ferriss Show”.
Shipping is what it is. Good buyers understand.
Bad buyers complain about everything and won’t be happy no matter what you do.If you get a message from a buyer whining about the shipping price, just reply that your shipping is based on actual dimensions and weight – that is just what the shipping company charges now.
Then don’t engage anymore on the subject. Odds are they weren’t gonna actually buy it anyways.
Shouldn’t be hard to shut it down if their INAD claim is simply that it was not working.
This is ebay we’re talking about…don’t go bringing that simple logic up in here!
Ebay does not close ANY INAD cases. Period. Last time I tried the CSR told me “We aren’t in the business of trying to determine the intentions of the buyer. If they open an INAD, then it is not as described. Period”.
Pork rinds, melted butter, and flavacol. Mix it up in sealed container. That satisfies my salty/crunchy occasional craving, but it’s very rare.
I was a huge popcorn eater before. Now I can go to the movies and eat….nothing.I eat chocolate every day!
95% Lindt dark chocolate – it’s basically a health food.
I cap off almost every day with 4 squares of that with some peanut butter.Once you cut out pretty much all sugar, it’s amazing how sweet 95% dark chocolate can be.
Yes, keto, intermittent fasting, and lots of walking. I haven’t stepped one foot in a gym – just walk during my breaks at work.
It’s amazing how fundamentally wrong most main stream information about Keto and fasting is. For a person like me who was metabolically unhealthy, it is permanently life changing.
Items in Store 1528
Items Sold 44
Total Sales $1,248.00
COGS $103.00
Total Profit $1,145.00
Average profit $26.02
Average sales price $28.36
New Listings 79The $1k+ train is still on the tracks baby! I was worried going into the weekend but ended up with over $600 in sales on the weekend.
Nothing else of importance happened this week scavenger wise.
I did officially hit 100lbs lost this week! At the beginning of June I weighed 345, and now I weigh 245. My all time high a few years ago was 352. It’s weird, because even though I weigh 245 I fit the size clothes I wore in high school at 185-190. People tell me I look more like 200lbs and are shocked when I tell them I’m 245. Last night my wife showed me a picture of myself from about 8 months ago. Sheesh! That guy looked extremely uncomfortable in his skin.
Next month we go on a trip to meet a goal I’ve been looking forward to for a LONG time – we’re going to Universal Studios and I’m going to ride the harry potter rides! We went 4.5 years ago and I had to take the walk of shame from the loading point on one, and failed the test rig on the other. I did not ride many rides on that trip…
This time imma ride ALL the rides!
That trip will be funded courtesy of my ebay business that I have grown with the help and encouragement of this group. Thanks to everyone here for being awesome.Whoah, you have ALOT going on!
The fact you are still where you are with your store is amazing.Yeah it seems odd that they’ve dropped support so soon. They supported XP for YEARS!
I run Linux on the computers my kids use. I use a build called Zorin OS. I have an install thumb drive set up so it is stupid easy to set up a new computer.It is GREAT for a basic computer to do internet and basic word processing. My eyes start to glaze over if I have to figure out how to use the command line stuff.
Yeah I looked at mine in Godaddy and it did not zero out. It is showing a net positive. I have not dug into it deep yet to determine why.
You can make it so that people who have unpaid item strikes cannot buy your items. That’s your main recourse as a seller.
I just made an offer on Mercari and their communication to buyers is lightyears ahead of ebay.
They made it very clear that my offer was binding and that I would be charged immediately if the seller accepted.All buyers really want is clear communication – ebay SUCKS at this. So many recurring issues would be eliminated if ebay did their end of the business better.
I wear this shirt on the weekends when I am out scavenging:
If we have any more kids maybe I can look into registering my family as a charitable organization. Lol…its for the kids!
The transaction fee is not the problem. Noone would have a problem with paypal keeping the transaction fee on a cancelled sale. That is 30 cents.
The problem is that now they are also keeping the final value fee (2.9% of the whole transaction)as well. That is bullcrap and a dirty cash grab by them.
So if someone buys a $2000 item from you and then immediately cancels due to a mistake, you would be out $58 – not just 30 cents.
Imagine if ebay kept the final value fee even when the transaction never officially took place. That is plain wrong.
