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but all I want to do is respond, “What’s the absolute most you will pay for this item?
i did that once. The lady told me I was rude. Lol.
eventually it won’t bother you. Just stay the course. I can tell you that if someone asks me that they never get the best price than if they just outright negotiated. They’re likely not going to buy anyways.
You need to sign up for this STAT!
https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/listing-and-marketing/ebay-partner-network.html
you don’t pay final value fees when you drive the traffic with your own affiliate link.
I saw that being talked about on a facebook group. They should show back up eventually.
I ordered a box of them on 1/4 and they were delivered yesterday.
I’ve laid them flat and measured for a ballpark estimate (if possible). I’ve also ran masking tape around the inside rim, pulled it off and measured it flat.
Quote from article:
Phone lines have been so overwhelmed that the IRS was only able to answer about 10% of calls last filing season, Bloomberg reported. And as of mid-November 2021, the agency still had a backlog of about 8.6 million returns to process. Normally, the IRS would start a new filing season with a backlog of less than 1 million returns.
Yeah, I don’t think they’re too worried about small time online sellers at the moment…
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/delays-tax-return-processing-expected-122455827.html
Thanks!
There are days I feel almost completely normal and there are days I feel like crap still. For instance, last night I felt exceptionally exhausted and short of breath. I had to put back on my oxygen for a while at bedtime because my oxygen level dipped slightly.
1-2 times a week I get like that. For my day job I am allowed to work from home if I am not feeling 100%. Today was one of those days.
How much time do you spend pulling/packing/shipping that many sales? Do you have like a designated shipping block of time each day?
Shipping 150 items a week is a lot!
This pile I got at a storage unit sale for next to nothing. 80’s and early 90’s pop rock and some early 90’s gangsta rap.
I crank through them pretty quick using a barcode scanner.
I scan the barcode, see how many are available and at roughly what price. Then I sort by price to see if there are any super high priced anomalies to check for anything that makes some more valuable than others. Then I check solds to see what the 90 day sell-through rate is. If there are solds but it is less than 50%, I will price competively.
If STR is 100% or better, I price at the high end with best offer as long as my condition is good.
If there is no sales history or listings, I will check terapeak in case it is rare.
If there are plenty of listings at low prices and no sales at all in 90 days I don’t even bother listing it. Out of all the cassettes I processed yesterday there were 5 I did not list. I’ll probably just redonate since I don’t do many cassettes. If I did alot more, I would lot up the undesirables to sell.
I pick the best worded title sold listing and use sell similar so the title is done as well as most item specifics tp speed things up. I’ll adjust title as necessary when listing if it needs improvement.
Here’s my listing pricing info:
14 total tapes listed:
Average listing price: 12.22
Total list price: 171
Lowest price: $4.99
Highest price: 34.99
I do not offer free shipping and I always put my shipping in as 12 ounces so I can cover my fees with the discount and lower actual shipping weight.
Usually a buyer will pay around $5.80 shipping and my actual shipping cost will be around $3.50.
Creating the listing takes about 30 seconds once I’m in my flow. Same for photos. Then the time to upload the photos is 30-45 seconds each due to loading times (I wish there was a way to batch upload photos to speed this up!)
So really $12 per 2 minute listing isn’t too bad even though they are low dollar listings.
Side note: I sold a Montel Jordan tape once he started showing up in Shaq’s insurance commercials. I knew that tape would sell once I started seeing them. This is how we do it! Lol!
Items in Store 1543
Items Sold 32
Total Sales $1,513.00
COGS $120.00
Total Profit $1,393.00
Average profit $43.53
Average sales price $47.28
New Listings 54
Items scavenged 3
Listing weekly Avg 49
Sourcing Allotment 235 $100+ sales in a week can really make a difference! The highlight was a copy of quickbooks 2013 I sold for $250. People REALLY don’t want to pay for the monthly subscription model they use now.
I crushed my 40 item listing goal – had to do a bunch of photos myself to reach it as my daughter decided she would rather build stuff in minecraft with her siblings all weekend. It could be worse – at least she is a 14 year old that actually likes spending time with her younger siblings!
I photographed 23 items last night and it only took me 15 minutes once I found a groove. Alot of them were cassette tapes which only took me about 30 seconds each.
This is why I pay my daughter per item. Occasionally I will show her how fast I can photograph the same items she is doing to show how much quicker she can go and thus, how much higher her hourly rate will be. I want to encourage her to be efficient with her time rather than punching a clock for a job.
Then once I finished the photographing I chilled in the hot tub and uploaded all the photos to ebay. So I leave it to you, dear readers – is it really work if you are relaxing in a hot tub and choose to play the “game” of uploading photos instead of playing a random time waster game on the phone?
So last week my calculated sourcing limit was 17 items. I did go to the local goodwill yesterday while out n about just to look for high dollar items. I bought 2 pair of nikes that should sell for close to $100 each and a new in box lazer tag set I’ll sell for $50-75. I’ll get all 3 listed 1st thing today and then back to listing other things from my ample unlisted inventory. This week my sourcing limit is 23 items because I listed more and didn’t source much. Like last week I don’t really plan on sourcing at all so I won’t use it all.
I already have 25 listings awaiting photos for this week so I have an early jump on my 40 new listings.
Have a great week everyone!
Yeah all the eBay stuff still
comes through to godaddy fine with the exception of item descriptions or item numbers. I use the eBay transactions reports to double check everything and to link actual items to everything.
i also use the transactions report to do my COGS.
godaddy on the PayPal side is a mess. I get a BUNCH of duplicate info without any reference on PayPal. I basically toss all PayPal transactions in the trash on godaddy.
my Amex cardautocategorizes and feeds that info to godaddy and it is really, really WRONG!
I have to go through every single expense and reassign categories.last year it was a nightmare. This year it was pretty straight forward and didn’t take long at all since I was organized with receipts and was on managed payments all year.
If you have been on managed payments all year you can get all the data for the year by doing a transactions report.
you’ll get all of your sales, shipping paid by buyer, eBay fees, etc.
it’s under payments you can get it all, not under reports.
I’m pretty sure the only thing regarding taxes that hit my godaddy account was the fees on the taxes.
When PayPal was still involved it got really messy but now it’s pretty streamlined.
The transaction reporting goes back to when you started managed payments. The traditional report system only goes back 90 days.
The ones I’ve saw use a dual action balloon pump. I have several of those as my wife is a balloon artist. Could probably use a small electric pump which I’ll also experiment with.
The videos I’ve seen you cut to length what you want, use a binder clip on one end and pump from the other. Once it is full it self-seals both ends.
