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I signed up and they immediately put me in the beta ready to link ebay, etsy, posh, and mercari.
They have a video that shows how to get everything set up and start listing.It appears you create your basic listing including photos right on Vendoo, then it creates indiviually modified templates for each site for you to edit.
While it may be my work internet service acting up, loading the signup form took FOREVER.
Now I tried linking my ebay store and it is also taking forever.
No other site I am going to acts like this.So I can’t actively try out their service yet. I may try again this evening.
For me to ever do any cross listing I have one big condition: They must have a built in ability to add white bars to all of my photos to make them square. I simply refuse to photograph in square format UNLESS the square format is complementary to the subject matter. Square makes ZERO sense for clothing and shoes. I don’t understand why Posh uses it! I have asked their Customer service if they would consider changing their default from “crop” on non-square photos to “add white space” and they said no. Ebay does it with color matched bars automatically. Why can’t they?
This is one of the many reasons I absolutely don’t use Smart post. It is terrible in every way.
You’re doing everything right.
At some point you are going to need to determine how much time is worth investing. You may be better off refunding customer and washing your hands and chalk it up to lesson learned.Walmart sells them. They are made by a company called Arcade 1Up.
They are pretty neat little machines. I was quite impressed with their 4 player Ninja Turtles machine they featured this holiday season.The bose subs sell very well on ebay if you are willing to ship it. I’ve sold two. They sell very fast.
Amex has charge card options, but they are limited. No, this is not a charge card.
Actually my sales died once I had most of those listings up. Ebay is a weird beast…
Weekends typically suck for me. Monday-Thursday are my biggest selling days.I listed a mannequin for sale. A female mannequin AND I had a sports bra on it in the photos. They flagged it. I appealed and even pointed out the sports bra in the appeal. They denied my appeal.
Oh my gosh, what a nightmare!!!
This is the scary thing about online sales. My entire store could be shut down with the press of a button and it would be entirely out of my control.Emulators have been around a LOOOONNNGG time now and if anything it makes the 2nd hand market hotter.
I used to be big into repairing/collecting pinball machines. I real nice app came out for iphones/tablets that emulated real pinball machines quite well. That app made the real pinball machine market blow up. Everything doubled/tripled in value. Tons of new pinball manufacturers were going into business selling direct to consumers. Pinball collecting went from niche/cheap to being a rich man’s game.
Basically, the emulator is cool and all but the real thing is better. Same with Ninendo. People get all excited when they realize they can play every game ever made on their computer. Then eventually they get the urge to acquire the real thing.
Yes a business Credit card.
It is an Am Ex and from what I have read, Am Ex does not hold you liable for fraudulent charges.Items in Store 1518
Items Sold 44
Total Sales $1,778.00
COGS $148.00
Total Profit $1,630.00
Average profit $37.05
Average sales price $40.41
New Listings 167Yes you read that right – 167 new listings! I was home taking care of wife and all 5 kids for 3 days this week. They slept alot so I got plenty of extra time doing ebay in the down time. Needless to say, New Years was quite uneventful.
Sales were amazing this week and I was really hoping to net a $2k+ week… but then the weekend happened. Crap sales on the weekend. Boo!!! Hopefully all of that listing pays off this week.
In other news, I got a new business credit card and have switched to using Pirateship exclusively for all USPS shipping and paying with said credit card. The card I chose gives me bonus rewards points for shipping purchases and I can confirm Pirateship is categorized as shipping in rewards. I’ll earn 2 extra hotel night stays this year just off my shipping costs. Woot!!!
I did run into a hiccup though – this card is an Am Ex and Goodwill does not take Am Ex. Doh! I think for a workaround I’m going to purchase a prepaid visa with my rewards card and use that at Goodwill.
I’m not setting any specific goals right now, but I am VERY focused listing as much as possible and limiting my inventory purchases. I want to start killing my death piles and turn them into profit generating inventory.
So managed payments will save me a whopping…. 5 cents on transaction fee and .2% on the processing fee?
I’ll stay on the pass-wagon until they force me. My GSP sales add up to way more than that potential savings of about $150.Odds are buyers can still access your items directly through a google search.
Facebook ABSOLUTELY has listing standards. I have had numerous listings pulled down due to bogus “prohibited item” violations.
Last week they tried to pull down my listing for an old Nintendo system because it was soliciting “adult services”. What?!? On the bright side it was the first appeal that has went in my favor.There are two ways to offer free shipping:
1. Create your specific calculated shipping profile as usual and just click the “free shipping” button.
This shows the buyer exactly what service they will be receiving and their expected delivery date.2. Change the shipping type from “calculated” to “flat”. Once you have chosen flat shipping cost from the dropdown menu, you get access to generic shipping methods of “economy”, “standard”, and “expeditied”. The shipping time ranges on each of these are broad and will affect the anticipated delivery date shown to the buyer. This will allow you the greatest leeway to chose the shipping method of your choice.
I do both as needed. If the item is obviously a first class item, I just leave it on first class. If I know it will ship in a padded flat rate mailer, I leave it on priority. If it could fall into dimensional weight I will chose flat cost “standard” delivery and ship either parcel, priority, or Fed Ex – whichever is cheaper for me depending on the buyers address. If the prices are within a few cents, I’ll always upgrade to priority over parcel. It’s worth it for the insurance and makes for a happier customer.
