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Setting up your listing to take offers is easy. You set your price higher than what you want to take and then click the button right below it “Best Offer Increase your chances of selling by allowing buyers to negotiate a price.”
If you are asking about the email saying “the seller is taking offers on this item”, you don’t need to do anything. eBay generates it internally. I believe that anyone can set up their account so that they don’t get these types of emails; however, if they don’t specifically do anything, then eBay sends out emails based on their activity.
Great podcast. I do not have an inventory system in place, but I don’t think that I will be expanding much at this point. I think I’m at my limit in my current storage area in my basement. I’ll put it off for now, but I’m listening and absorbing what I can.
My week was good, but the weekend was slow. Only one $10 sale on Saturday (huh?).
Week of Nov 17 – 23
* Total Items in Store: 1535 eBay, 35 Etsy
* Items Sold: 16 eBay; 1 Etsy
* Cost of Items Sold: $47.50 + $0 Commission
* Total Sales: $338.84 eBay; $66 Etsy
* Highest Price Sold: $89 Ford Break-out-box from the 1980s
* Average Price Sold: $23.80
* Returns: 0
* Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $34
* Number of items listed this week: 26Amatino, somewhere in a previous post, I think that you mentioned that you have a rather small house (less than 1000 sq ft?). If you have been storing that much stuff, I can see how that would pull you down.
I’m currently reorganizing my basement because the business has expanded to take up more and more. I have to keep some stuff on our first floor because I don’t have a good sorting area downstairs. My plan is to move some workout equipment upstairs and then I’ll have more space. I also have to reign in my sourcing. I had two large purchases in September that have made the storage situation more unreasonable.
I think that we both need to come up with a solution where our business stays some distance away from our personal space. For me, that is my basement. I think you’ve mentioned that you have a storage area somewhere on your property and then you have your work area within the house.
Anyway, I listed 26 items last week. Lots of cleaning, testing, and/or researching kept me from too quick a pace. Also, I seem to be a bit distracted with other stuff.
Cost-wise, eBay Send is more expensive, but it still includes shipping to Kentucky or wherever their “partners” are located, right? From what I understand, they still check that the item is unbroken, they guarantee shipping to the international location, etc. That adds value, mostly to the seller, but also to the buyer. Perhaps those few dollars are worth it to use the program.
The interesting thing is if whether the GSP and Send will exist side by side or if the GSP will go away.
If you are clicking on items while you are still logged into your account, then eBay knows who you are. The software sends the email based on how the seller has the listing setup. I get messages about open to offers, a reduction in price, or no longer available find something similar.
Vintage clothing is sized differently than clothes today, at least for women’s. Since Americans are getting bigger, the manufacturers changed the sizes so that the number is now smaller than what it used to be. What was a size 10 is now an 8 and so on. The best way to deal with it is to list as many measurements as you can.
You can also google up a size measurement chart and figure out the modern size and add that to the listing. “Vintage size 10, Modern size 8”. Just remember that you are measuring the clothing, but the person would be smaller. So, a 36″ waist measured on pants might be a person with a 35″ waist.
If you do wash them, just be careful. Either hand wash or use the delicate cycle on the washing machine, and then let them air dry. Or consider dry cleaning for something really delicate.
If you can go back and get the tracking numbers, then go ahead and put them in. But, if you’ve thrown out the paperwork, then just let it go. Once you get consistent with shipping, your rating will even out.
The only way to get the tracking if you didn’t keep the paperwork would be to ask the buyer, and I wouldn’t bother. You could open a can of worms.
So, if I have this correctly, you did sell this coat to David, but he used the wrong account to contact you? Since the PO Box he had for you hasn’t been used for a year, then he bought it from you that long ago? If so, that would be well beyond any reasonable return period, and you really don’t have to worry about it.
Yes, he is obviously very confused, or he is trying to get you to agree to accept his return even though it would be unreasonable to accept it. Maybe.
11/22/2019 at 7:04 pm in reply to: What Sells On eBay: Boomboxes, Jean jacket, Sound Shaper EQ, Christmas ornaments #70945Wasn’t there a post recently in the forum about superstitions? Like touching something that’s been in your store for years, and then it finally sells? Your second boombox sale seemed to follow that trend.
I paid about $1.50 for this really nice suede coat in an auction lot, around the beginning of the year. I had lots of interest in it, but the actual sale took awhile. Sold for $34.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/183758507682I kept hearing about an estate sale on Facebook, and they extended it out several times. I finally went on the last day, which was a Tuesday. They had some free items in the yard, and I picked out these shot glasses because they looked pretty cool. Apparently, they are, and I sold the three for $18.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/184009183901A friend of my parents gave me this Hartmann suit luggage to sell. He had bought it in the early 90s, but never used it. It sold for $100.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/183900300422I bring this patch up only because the forum here helped me figure it out. It is an army patch from the WWII timeframe. Sold for $10. Paid very little, maybe a quarter.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/183695491445A few weeks ago, I decided to list some of my whiskey pitchers on Etsy since I had so many. I listed my items with free shipping. However, the buyer paid shipping because it was an international sale. It sold for $33, and then I saved $10 by using Pirate Ship. I paid about a quarter.
https://www.etsy.com/transaction/1733647312eBay counts 50 per month, and it depends on where in the month it renews. So, if a listing renews and you delete it after that, it counts for that month. Your new listing will also count for that month. So, both will count for that month, but the new listing will only count for future months.
If you delete a listing before it renews for the month, then it won’t count.
One way to do this is to filter your active listings by the column “Time Left”. Then, look at the ones about to expire, and delete the ones that you are not interested in selling any more. Then put up your new listings until you get to 50. Or, go ahead and list the extra listings over 50 and pay the $0.25 per. If you feel that you will continue to list on eBay for the year, consider paying for a starter store.
Actually, no. I have had buyers complain about shipping, but not on these auctions. Maybe just a coincidence.
I actually don’t sell the majority of these items. I started with over 40, and I’m down to 38. Come April, I might still be over 30.
Since I have over 1500 items in a 1000 item store, then I’m paying over $50 to list those extra things. The 40 or so I no longer have as fixed priced is $4 I’m not paying per month. That can add up. Win win, I think.
I agree with Jay, the cost was there. However, she probably didn’t look closely. People don’t really read through the descriptions much.
I also do what you are doing. I take inventory I’ve had for a long time with little interest and put it on perpetual 7-day auctions until a date I set for giving it away (currently April 2020). Yes, I sell at pretty low prices, even $3 in a few cases, but I’ve already taken the photos and I make at least the purchase price back, usually more. I also save the (very small, I know) expense of listing them each month. I make sure that I chose categories (such as collectable) so that I don’t get charged for the auctions.
There was an issue recently with clothes and item specifics. After the glitch, eBay stated that the issue should not affect placement of your items. However, you should go and fix any issues just in case.
Yes, the bulk editor is when you select more than one listing and click edit.
I can see “Invalid / missing product identifiers” under growth in the seller hub.
Whether you fix it on your iPad or on the computer, it will only help potential buyers find your item.
You can always make an offer, run a short sale, adjust descriptions or prices, etc. to help the probability to make a sale (or, at least to feel like you are doing something constructive). I think you need a store subscription to do some of these things.
The particularly frustrating thing about this is that a buyer can open a case with their credit card company for up to a year, and you have to show that the item was delivered.
If you remember, this happened to me at the beginning of the year. Someone opened a not delivered case right after the six month mark, which is when the post office drops the tracking information. I had to submit a Freedom of Information request to the post office in order to get tracking.
Even with that info, the credit card company decided in favor of their client. I called PayPal, and they refunded me as a courtesy. Perhaps if I had waited to get the tracking information in my first response to the issue, I might have been successful. The lady at PayPal figured that the credit card company probably didn’t look to see if there was updated information.
Anyway, this doesn’t seem to be the case for you, but here is the link to how to get tracking after it has been dropped, just in case you need it:
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