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There is definitely money to be had there. I sold one of those knee scooters for folks with a lower leg cast on ebay. I bought it for $50 and sold it for $150+shipping. It was a massive pain to pack though, but for $100 profit I make concessions.
12/07/2018 at 9:42 am in reply to: WARNING: Classic shipping screen is giving incorrect higher shipping #52870Ah well I hope it is fixed then. I did not ship anymore last night or this morning – had to focus on kids and house as wife had a migraine. I’ll be shipping a ton tonight to make up the ground.
The worst one I had yesterday was a USPS package that was $7.85 in the new system and $28 in the classic system!
12/07/2018 at 8:11 am in reply to: Serendipity. Aka How An Accident in Packing Turns Into Christmas Wrapping. #52860The only thing ebay tape sticks to: itself.
That’s the other happy accident that made this possible.
Blame thiefs for the marker and/or difficult to remove price labels. There is a TON of shoplifting in thrift stores. I’ve talked to the managers at all the local stores about it.
12/06/2018 at 1:00 pm in reply to: WARNING: Classic shipping screen is giving incorrect higher shipping #52806I’ve had that happen before – buyer tried to say I was a cheat. Ebay creates more Customer service problems than they solve.
12/06/2018 at 6:57 am in reply to: WARNING: Classic shipping screen is giving incorrect higher shipping #52778Oh lord… it is all screwed up. I just shipped a pair of 3lb shoes. Buyer paid a little over $13. New shipping showed cost of $12 something – an unusual number I’ve never seen before.
Classic shipping was…$7.68It’s all screwed up. Be careful and check both shippinig screens
I got an email from Bonanza in which they would raise my traffic for $30. I thought to myself: how’s about you raise my traffic for free and make way more than $30 in final value fees?
12/05/2018 at 1:23 pm in reply to: Sellers Aren't the Only Ones Getting Fed Up With Goodwill Pricing! ;) #52737They know exactly what they are doing. Thrift stores are becoming MUCH more sophisticated. They keep raising the prices and yet the stuff keeps flying off the shelves. If it wasn’t working I assure you they would adjust back down.
12/05/2018 at 8:14 am in reply to: USPS – The Post Office will be closed on Wednesday, December 5th #52679The irony here is that the majority of my amazon package are delivered by FedEx and UPS – two companies who DO have profitability in mind.
So again, is amazon the real problem with USPS, or is it extremely USPS’s bloated administration and overhead.
I was distraught the first time I was let go from a job. I had a young child and another on the way. My severance was crap, but luckily I had worked a TON of overtime the previous year so my unemployment pay was good. We had to use food stamps and WIC. I forgot who I was a person/professional. It took 6 months to get another job, and I was ready to walk away from engineering and become a teacher.
One might say I “Lost” myself during this layoff. I’m lucky my marriage survived.
It was a tremendous sigh of relief when I was let go from the next job. I so badly wanted to leave that job, but the pay was excellent. Safety was being neglected at my site, which was a chemical plant with multiple high hazard processes. I was surrounded by high concentration Formaldehyde and High Pressure CO all day and was on call 24/7. My supervisor literally said “you don’t seem too upset about this”. I had a new job secured within 2 months (would have been much sooner but HR was SLLOOOOWWWW). I took off an extra month before starting and took a nice vacation with family. I also started my ebay business. Also, my severance package was AWESOME! I collected 2 paychecks for the first several months at my new place.
One might say that I “found” myself during that layoff. I had the best summer of my adult life. Lots of quality time with my family.
If I ever get let go from my current job, I will be soooo pumped! This job is it for me. I don’t think I’ll ever go back to working for another company.
My day job does not define me in the least anymore. I don’t hold punches. I tell my boss what I really think. Everyone knows I have a backup plan. I put in my 40 hours and leave and make it clear I have no desire to give away “my” time.
Some days I can’t wait to get my pink slip, other days I think how I’m getting paid very well to sit around for another 8 hours and get to do whatever I want with a parachute at the end. The biggest challenge is accepting the transition, and coming up with a solid plan. I’ve done that, and now I just need to execute it when the time comes.
This. This every single day. I’ve been building this plan every day and having this mental debate every day now for more than 3 years.
And may that postal employee be without a job soon. Man…what a crap thing to say…
12/04/2018 at 9:16 am in reply to: Promoted listings experiment RESULTS: Reducing all promoted listings to 1% rate #52630Mostly one offs.
12/03/2018 at 9:11 pm in reply to: Promoted listings experiment RESULTS: Reducing all promoted listings to 1% rate #52614I’ve always followed my promoted listings. Promoted Sales have always been extremely consistent, which was why I started to suspect it was a complete rip off.
It’s the real deal Andy data doesn’t support this idea of a taper off at all.
Items in Store 1078
Items Sold 23
Total Sales $983.25
COGS $83.00
Total Profit $900.25
Average profit $39.14
Average sales price $42.75
New Listings 29I had two big returns that I had to refund this week that sucked – a $100 item and a $175 item. Ouch.
This is a week where my final numbers surprised me. I almost cracked $1000 again. C’mon ebay, you couldn’t get me one more $30 sale??I had an unpaid item that relisted this week. I tried all the tricks that have been discussed on here lately to try and get a buyer to pay. They had made an $80 offer on a $100 item. In the end the case closed and was relisted without a peep from that dead beat buyer. And guess what – the item sold for full price BIN within hours of being relisted.
Moral of the story – don’t sweat non paying buyers. They suck, but everything sells eventually.
Here’s to hoping next week rebounds for J&R, and that the necklace buyer pays!
12/03/2018 at 9:53 am in reply to: Promoted listings experiment RESULTS: Reducing all promoted listings to 1% rate #52570So here is my final update for this test. To recap, I turned Promoted listings down to 1% across the board on Nov 1st. I had intended to do the entire month, but the drop off was so drastic that I decided to do a split month example.
On November 16th I turned promoted listings back up to trending rates.
Here are the results:November 1-15 (1% PL rate) Vs. November 16-30 (trending rates)
November 1-15 total impressions:77398
November 1-15 clicks:489
November 1-15 Sales: 3November 16-30 total impressions: 311650
November 16-30 clicks: 3378
November 16-30 Sales: 29As you can see, the results are night and day.
In just 15 days with trending rates back I sold 29 items for $929.63 and paid $66.37 in PL fees.
I sold many older items – some high dollar items. 10 of the 29 sales were Buy It Now. I do believe promoted listings does help bring in impulse buyers, and trending rates for darn sure brings eyeballs to the products.
I’ll state it again – I am not my target buyer.
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