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Now I’m picturing Jay responding to a homeowner saying “Don’t worry sir, I’m a professional!”. Lol!
The pirate ship scan sheet will only include the items you purchased on pirate ship.
That is likely the difference then. I suppose it could just be a drop due to the duplicates no longer showing up, but I had a 35% drop in average sales that coincided with the drop in impressions. My impressions have stabilized and coincidentally my sales are returning. Yay.
I’m considering doing another experiment in dropping promoted listings. I did this before but I quit after two weeks because it had a huge effect on my sales.
Yes, it is ridiculous that you have to hand over your source contact info along with your invoice.
Might as well say “Please undercut me!”I understand why they are doing what they are doing, but again…they shouldn’t be a direct competitor. That is a serious conflict of interest.
Sears closed here recently. I was looking at those and wondering how much weight they hold. I’m far too committed to more conventional shelving at this point.
It seems like your sales have taken a nose-dive since September like mine have.
Have you taken a look at your traffic metrics? I started a post here with a snapshot of my impression data but noone else checked theirs.
You may want to take a look at yours. In my case, my traffic dropped 25% starting on Sept 1st, which I believe is when the promoted listings changes took effect. My sales dropped over 30% in step with this traffic drop.This one falls in the pro/con list of doing free shipping. If you had done free shipping and raised the price to $160, you could have insured it for $160 and got the whole amount back.
Flipside, if a buyer returns because they just didn’t like it then you eat the shipping.
They are missing a CRITICAL piece of the puzzle for this dumb service metric: How do you as a seller HANDLE these cases? In my opinion, if you make the buyer whole in a timely manner it should never be counted against you. If they want to punish the bad actors then they should go after those that don’t have good customer service.
But hey, if they handle this logically then they make less money. It’s almost like they are financially motivated to not be fair…hmmmm….Me personally, I don’t get many false INAD’s. I don’t offer free shipping and I don’t refund original shipping on standard returns. I’m currently even with my peers.
Items in Store 1261
Items Sold 20
Total Sales $716.00
COGS $74.00
Total Profit $642.00
Average profit $32.10
Average sales price $35.80
New Listings 41Sales did rebound from my terrible week last week, but still very erratic. I had zero sales or offers yesterday. It’s feast or famine it seems.
Listing on ebay now is so messed up now. They’ve completely destroyed item specifics. I am seeing small unannounced changes on the site almost every day and that terrifies me to think what they are messing up without being aware of it. Apparently there are pay issues with managed payments to where people aren’t getting their pay outs on time. Saw that on ebay for business. So glad I’m not involved in that mess too.
On a positive note, I spot checked my shirts and it looks like they have mapped the size to the required field. Shoes are still blank.
Scavenger wise, yesterday was the last day for our local Sears. Another retailer bites the dust! I was able to score a big pile of new in box refrigerator water filters, a riding lawnmower bagger attachment thing, and a bunch of high end built in microwave trim kits.
a year ago our mall was so successful that they were literally kicking out stores to make room for new businesses that were willing to pay more rent. Now there are almost 20 empty store fronts and a HUGE anchor store is now gone too. My how quickly things change in the retail apocalypse.
Through years of experience, I just “know” how big and how heavy the box will be so I can estimate with 100% confidence. When I list I accept that getting a buyer on the west coast will be unlikely due to shipping cost, but east coast buyers will be able to get the item shipped super cheap. Nothing I can do about high cross country shipping so I don’t sweat it.
Then you get international buyers that happily pay well over $100 in shipping charges and don’t bat an eye. Those are the best buyers!
Yeah this is a future concern for me and ebay. I sold on Amazon for about a year. When I started I could list pretty much anything. By the end lots more categories had become gated and many brand names were restricted. I occasionally scan items on clearance to see if amazon is an option for a quick flip. Most of the time items are restricted now.
What happens when ebay caves and start restricting the sale outright of many things? Business could be altered very quickly.
Her life would be much easier if she assigned bin numbers to her totes and racks on top of what she already has. I lol’ed when she couldn’t find the pink dish. I gasped in horror when she opened the door to the room completely filled with uninventoried listed items. Her system may work for her, but it is not a great system anyone should model off of.
