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Absolutely cancel. I’ve had to do this twice because there is an issue in the app where it doesn’t recognize the last number press before you hit send. Both buyers were understanding.
regarding eBay policy, you are allowed to withdraw an offer if you made a mistake. If the buyer accepts before you withdraw, you can’t help that.
Just cancel it and either choose “buyer asked to cancel” or “problem with buyers address”.
Yeah, $300 a month is a hard pill to swallow for quickbooks basic. I may be able to get away without a bookkeeping service and just run the final year transaction report from ebay and then my credit card for everything else.
The main reason I used godaddy was because ebay only gave us 90 days of data. That limitation is gone with managed payments.
I’m gonna try it with my 2021 taxes and see how they compare.
You can call them and ask yourself. They are openly telling people who call that they will be ending the service but do not have an end date yet.
What didn’t sync well for you? I’d basically want to sync all the eBay stuff, PayPal transactions to get my shipping costs, and a single credit card. If all those work then Waze would probably work for me.
Multiple people called godaddy and the csr’s confirmed it.
https://m.facebook.com/groups/BOSS.BusinessforOnlineSellingSuccess/permalink/1998369787031108/?m_entstream_source=group&anchor_composer=false&ref=m_notif¬if_t=group_commentI live at the border of two different regional goodwill chains. Both regions prices have been swinging WILDLY the last year. There have been days I’ve laughed out loud in the store and walked out with nothing, then 2 weeks later I come in and prices are rock bottom.
bottom line that I live by though – cogs is meaningless if the margin is good. Would I like to pay $1 or less for everything? Yes! Is that realistic in my area? Nope. I just paid $30 for a OEM car radio that I would normally have paid $3 for at a yard sale or even the same goodwill just a few months ago. I bought it because I know I can sell it for $150+ , usually to a used car dealer. A retail business would kill to get margins like that.
I cringe every time I fill in the “country of origin” part of item specifics. I always figure the only thing that can come of it is eBay blanket removing listings.
Items in Store 1763
Items Sold 25
Total Sales $567.00
COGS $96.00
Total Profit $471.00
Average profit $18.84
Average sales price $22.68
New Listings 55
Items scavenged 42
Listing 2022 weekly Avg 58
Sourcing Allotment 12Ugh, this is not a good trend! Still hoping it’s the usual March downturn. People are out enjoying the start of spring and not buying junk on ebay. I listed a bunch of shorts yesterday in hopes people are looking for spring clothes.
I’m selling a decent amount of items, but it’s only low dollar stuff. I picked up a bunch of Stephen King and Anne Rice Hardcover 1st edition books in great condition at the local goodwill. I guess they decided to stop scanning and pulling all the valuable books.
It’s sad seeing this group slowly die. Less and less people post numbers each week. I’ll keep posting because it is good accountability for myself. Hopefully others will too.
Sadly 100+ buyers are absentee and I’m getting all the sub $20 buyers. I’m still thankful because if it wasn’t for those I’d have a REALLY bad week!
nunbers in the morning.
Last night I presented this schedule to my wife and she asked if I could set her up an area out there to do her vinyl crafting while I’m doing my work. She struggles to find time to do her crafts (AKA “fun” work), and setting aside time on the same schedule would let her have some adulting time away from the kids and let us chit chat while working.
Good thing I’m getting my area cleaned up so I can make this happen! I already have a countertop area with lighting setup that I originally planned on using for shipping but abandoned. I guess it is hers now.
Mice can get in pretty much anywhere. I get them in my garage in the winter regularly. I keep glue traps and resusable plastic trap door traps in the corner they tend to navigate. I catch mice voles and shrews pretty regularly since I started using traps.
Yes, it was madness figuring out things when I switched in the middle of the year to MP. It was further compounded because my AmEx business card started feeding all kinds of bogus category info to godaddy.
My big issue was that ebay once you are on MP, ebay doesn’t send alot of critical info to godaddy that lets you reconcile the two datasets.
I ended up looking at the data completely separately in two spreadsheets and figured it out.
Now I use MP to reconcile my COGS and godaddy to handle all my other expenses including ebay fees. I try my best to reconcile my income between godaddy, ebay MP, and 1099, but they never exactly match by amount or line item and I have no clue why.
March has always been terrible for me, especially second week.
This week is REALLY bad. So far I’ve only sold 9 items with an ASP of $19.
I hope this is just the usual March slowdown I experience but at a higher bottom than previous years. I’m up 43% year over year total sales but still trending down based on 2022 performance.
I’m not quite ready to get all doom/gloom on current world affairs in relation to ebay.
In hours, that kind of store would require 15-25 hours a week. I’d like to keep my time to 10-15 hours and hire my kids for 5-10 hours.
I got into commodity clothes when the local goodwill chain had a 99 cent tag sale. When that went away, my cloths buying dropped to almost nil.
I tend to only buy unique clothes now with a good sell through rate. I’m not paying $5 an item for generic clothing. I don’t wanna play that game. I was willing when it was a $1 though.so the current space I take up is about as big as I want to get. I want my eBay room clean and efficient with space to process new inventory. I want my two storage spaces to be as efficient as possible.
I can list everything I have in the backlog over the next year on my own. Then I want to reach that “reseller Nirvana” point and maintain what I have. So basically, source 30-40 items average a week, list 30-40 items average a week, and sell 30-40 items a week. I can do that myself part time no problem.
I know buying 30-40 items a week will be absolutely no problem and won’t take any more time really. I don’t buy that many now by choice.I already have all the infrastructure I need so no more spending for that size business. I just hire my kids to do some things to spend less time myself, but I can do it all myself.
