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11/01/2019 at 9:22 am in reply to: USPS Doing a Study on the Cost Effectiveness of Continuing to Provide Free Boxes #69908
They really do need to lock down free priority supplies to people with USPS accounts and some proof of use of the supplies. They should also go behind the counter at the post office.
Fed Ex won’t give you free supplies unless they see you are actually using them.
You won’t find that on ebay. Inexplicably, they don’t provide more than 90 days of data to sellers. Oh the data is there alright, they just don’t give it to you.
If you sign up for godaddy bookkeeping and link your account, you can get several YEARS worth of ebay data. That’s what most people do.
10/30/2019 at 11:15 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 434: Do You Have A Business Destiny? #69785Anyone care to chime in on their sales volume using this simple export rate vs GSP?
I don’t know the number right off my head, but I’d estimate I have 20-30 GSP sales a year.If I could change to this simple export rate and greatly increase my international sales it would seem to be very much worth the effort.
Now I’m picturing Jay responding to a homeowner saying “Don’t worry sir, I’m a professional!”. Lol!
Stuff like this…just ridiculous.
The pirate ship scan sheet will only include the items you purchased on pirate ship.
10/29/2019 at 9:30 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 434: Do You Have A Business Destiny? #69718That 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.
10/28/2019 at 3:09 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 434: Do You Have A Business Destiny? #69697Yes, 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.
10/28/2019 at 3:04 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 434: Do You Have A Business Destiny? #69696Do you use promoted listings? If so, how do you use it?
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.
10/28/2019 at 1:01 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 434: Do You Have A Business Destiny? #69689It 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.10/28/2019 at 12:55 pm in reply to: ONE pane of glass broke – expensive shipping – what do I do? Please help! #69686This 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.
10/28/2019 at 10:50 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 434: Do You Have A Business Destiny? #69661They 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.
10/28/2019 at 8:48 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 434: Do You Have A Business Destiny? #69650Items 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.
Mine’s easy. I just tell them I have 5 kids.
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