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2000 gross on sub 500 item store – You’re doing great!
Keep on keepin on!
Leather has many legitimate uses and is usually actually used for those purposes.
Furs can be very useful as well, but it is more regularly associated with the “status symbol” fur coats that harvest animals having no business being used as furs.
I venture a guess as to this is why you are conflicted.
Me personally, I always find it quite ironic when I sell a pair of VEGAN shoes on ebay. The person buying them is so proud of their activism of not wearing leather that they are blinded to the environmental damage the production of all the plastics and synthetics used in the shoes does to the environment said animal lives in.
Once she has a couple racks inventoried, start training her to ship items that have the custom SKU only. Then she don’t need to waste time learning how you all store things. Her efficiency will be very high as “thinking” is taken out of the equation.
I tell you, your plan is going to cost you time (and money) in the long run. She’ll be slow. She’ll forget bits n pieces of how the system works. She’ll need to ask you questions constantly. There will be things she can’t find.
It seems like you are putting the cart before the horse. You already have the shipping resource, so why not just pay her to build your inventory system before training her to ship. If all your stuff is already on shelves or in tubs just create a numbers system to label tubs/shelves and have her start adding custom SKU’s to all the items.
I built my inventory system one tote at a time over time. You can have concurrent systems.
This is…disturbing.
I checked my own store and I was not able to reproduce this issue. My identical or similar listings all seemed to have the same trending rate.You are in Texas so this is likely a historical building in your state. It looks like a courthouse so I searched image results based on that.
I did find one that is very, very similar: Tom Green County Courthouse.So you might stay on this track. I really think this is a courthouse somewhere.
A reverse image search came up bumpkus.
Here’s another resource you could peruse: http://courthousehistory.com/gallery/states/texasIn the end, even if you do find out what building it is it is still only worth $10-20. Don’t spend too much time on it!
What is up with ebay and them wanting to automatically change things for sellers lately? That is messed up!
The 9 year old is VERY money savvy. Like, scary savvy. He outsmarted his older sister and manipulated an auction with play money when he was 4 years old so he could win all the auctions by bidding her up on one item until her money was low and he had enough to win all the rest. She bawled and cried and he laughed maniacally.
A couple weeks ago I didn’t have dollar bills so I asked to borrow one of his so the little ones could ride the merry-go-round at the mall. He loaned me a dollar, but set up interest terms. He enforced them to the T. When I finally paid up a couple days later he said “ok, everything seems to be in order here”. Where did he get that?!?
My wife and I joke that he’s going to grow up to be the prototypical sleazy bank owner bad guy like in movies. Well at least he’ll be successful!
I might need to start calling him Alex P. Keaton.
Items in Store 1259
Items Sold 15
Total Sales $614.00
COGS $38.00
Total Profit $576.00
Average profit $38.40
Average sales price $40.93
New Listings 55September is looking to be very soft for me, which is disappointing. This week was scary dead until yesterday – I had $402 in sales on Sunday. $235 of that was a single item.
The $235 item was a musical instrument called an Omnichord. I picked it up 2 weeks ago at a yard sale for $3. Sold it to a buyer in Sweden.
My kids are really becoming interested in ebay work so they can make money. My 12 year old is doing excellent with photos. Now my 9 year old sees her making cold hard cash so he wants in too! He is learning how to clean shoes.
With all this new help I want to push this fall to hit 2000 active listings. Once we hit our groove we should be able to put out 100 listings a week.
I see this as a positive. They do need a new CEO and they do need to sell off those assets. Use that capital to invest in new growth acquisitions and to speed up the improvement of their main site.
So I checked this out compared to Fed Ex for me for an item shipping from WV to Los Angeles CA.
For an 18x12x6 or 12x12x12 box (deemed XL by UPS) the break point is 17 lb. Anything 16 lb or less in that box would still be cheaper via Fed Ex.The price difference would have to be significant for me to go through the effort of creating a label on UPS and then logging the info on ebay. I don’t ship many 50lb things that can fit in a 12x12x12 box, but if I ever do this will definitely be worth checking out.
So now let’s check my more common items for west coast shipping – large boxes. Typically for me this would be a 12x12x6 box at a weight of 5-10lb. The break point on this rate is 13 lb. 12 and under is a better deal with FedEx.
Oh and one last note, that box you used in the original post was oversize for what you can ship in the simple rate program. Odds are high they are going to hit your buyer up for a COD charge.
In my experience they absolutely check those dimensions like a hawk. One of the reasons I avoid UPS like the plague. They lied about the dimensions on one of my packages and tried to charge my customer. I called their bullcrap and won.Once upon a time I sold a stereo that had a volume control issue. I refunded the buyer, and then told him that if he got some electrical contact cleaner and sprayed it in there that it would likely fix it. He did that and then sent me a check in the mail for the original amount.
Stand up people in this world rule. There needs to be more of them.
I like the idea Jay has of asking him to buy from you in the future.
I had a good post about data, but wordpress keeps flagging it as a 403 error and I don’t know why.
Long story short, I’ve always been around half of my sales through promoted listings. Nothing has changed so folks are still seeing and buying my normal listings.
It is very easy to pull your total sales for a date range and also pull your promoted listings for the same range. I recommend everyone do this every once in a while to gauge how many of your sales are from PL.
I use bright white marine vinyl from the craft store. I actually had a huge roll of it from a bulk photography purchase a while back. I just cut off a new piece and was good as new. It lasted a LONG time before I decided to replace it.
Very durable and is easy to clean. Eventually it gets dings and stains though.
