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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!
10/22/2019 at 11:48 am in reply to: Ebay / Xerox VeRO-d me and I need some insight and advice? HELP!!! #69431Yeah 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.
If you pay early there is no more deduction at the end of the month. I started paying after the invoice was finalized the last two months to get in the habit in prep for managed payments.
I’m going to move to paying shipping and fees on a business credit card soon.
I’m still confused as to why they stripped away the size type for shoes. Many shoes have up to 4 different sizes in them. It’s kinda important to know which one. There is US mens, US womens, US Big Kids, US Toddlers, EU, UK, JAP, CM….
Now we just have “Size” with no reference to which one. This does not seem well thought out at all.
Clothing can be the same way.
Back to the original idea of this thread. I’m conflicted as to whether I should start revising. I’ve resisted so far. They claimed in their update last night that they will roll out their fix to copy over the info on Wednesday once they are done “testing”. Excuse me if I choke on their use of the word “testing”. I didn’t think they knew what that word is!
To my knowledge the Custom SKU has never been erased. I’ve been using it for almost 4 years and there hasn’t been a single issue. The fear is that with their dismal track record, it is just a matter of time ebay screws it up.
You could put the SKU in the listing as well, but if you change the location of the item you would have to update the SKU and the description.
One other comment/recommendation, you need to randomize your inventory as much as possible.
When I first started in shoes I did what you guys did – I kept dark mens shoes with other dark mens shoes, etc. Ugh…that sucked to deal with when pulling items to ship. They’re all black and they all look the same! Same story on jeans.Your clothing should be completely intermingled and sectioned off to where you have to consider 20 items at the most by inventory number/location. If you go to bin B1 that is full of 20 pieces of clothes to find a pair of jeans, then at most you only have 2-3 pair of jeans to consider in that bin. It makes life sooooo much easier.
I typically keep shoes together and clothes together. I don’t like combining clothes with other things as it is not efficient space wise. With shoes, ever bin has an assortment of large boots, normal size shoes, and small heels & flats. If I list two very similar items, I will make sure they go in different bins so I won’t ever pull the wrong item when one sells.
YAY J&R are going to do inventory!!
For bin labels, I use 4×6 shipping labels and print the Bin label in the biggest font that will fit.
TO manage the data entry for bin location, I do it in a batch form. I will list a bunch of items, and then at some point I will take the bin out to storage and start putting them in labeled bins. I bring my laptop with me and enter the bin number as I am putting the item in the bin. There is no mistake this way.
If I have condensed a bin, I will bring that bin into my listing area and load it with completed listed items. Either way, the item gets the Bin number as I am physically putting the item in the bin.
I only do this process once a week or so. If an item sells and it does not have a bin location in the custom label, then I know that item is in the unmarked bin at my listing area.
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Items in Store 1240
Items Sold 12
Total Sales $342.00
COGS $31.00
Total Profit $311.00
Average profit $25.92
Average sales price $28.50
New Listings 30What is there to say about ebay technical team right now that hasn’t already been said? Things are still not right. The new item specifics…wow…I pity any new seller entering the game. I can’t imagine how overwhelming that must feel to be a new seller and be presented with all of that worthless crap!
A new seller could try to navigate all that BS…or go over to Posh and be done in 30 seconds with their listing.I’m doubly pissed this week because my sales are down.
Oh and did anyone else notice that they improved how labels print? I actually do like it that a popup immediately comes on screen. It is a bit faster. My concern is what did they break when implementing this new change?
My SKU system is just to assign a bin to an item. That is incompatible with Sixbit. They want unique SKU’s for each item. I spent Thanksgiving week last year trying to move to Sixbit. It did not work out at all – lots of errors and my total listing numbers did not match.
Maybe someday I’ll try again but I wasn’t too happy in general.
Correct. The exception is storage space though. Let’s say you use the closet in the room for inventory storage and you also set up a rack on one wall to hold bins. You could count the square footage of the actual storage space – it does not have to be a dedicated space.
Not to pile on or anything…but do yourself a favor – do NOT look at your account summary right now. It is all messed up and showing balances much higher than you actually owe.
Watch this video. The guy gives a video presentation of the scale of the issue. Oh wow this is very, very BAD. The whole search engine is bonked.
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