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I use this and it does work very well!
Thanks Joe, I will do that right now. You are right.
Mike, thank you so much, that is amazingly helpful. I really appreciate your help on this. It’s too bad that the seller there does not say how he knows that the size makes a difference but I will have to take his word for it and make sure my listing has all the info so people can make their own decision. Thank you again for taking the time to help me with this.
04/09/2018 at 8:42 am in reply to: White background recommended? Required for Google Shopping? #37388I don’t know much about Google but if you do a search on a specific item you can see if only white backgrounds show up. I just did it and I saw some without a white background.
04/08/2018 at 6:06 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 355: We Catch Up w/ Mark Tew, Not Your Dad’s CPA #37362Thank you 1,000,000 x for the podcast. I have been fretting about this tax issue for a while. This has helped me feel a lot more confident moving forward.
I ran the treasury of our small nonprofit for many years and I am somewhat familiar with accounting so I had a little head start. Now I just need to learn more about how retail sales go but this podcast was enormously helpful.
Thank you!
I don’t know the answer but I can tell you that the data on “views” is not accurate. If you view your own item 20 times, I believe it records the 20 times you viewed your own item. It does not seem to me to be counting unique (same person) views. So if a person was to go back and forth to look at your item several times, each time is a “view.”
Additionally, I personally have not seen that “watchers” matter much either. I have been doing Ebay seven months but Jay has dinged it into my head that these two statistics (view and watchers) don’t mount to a hill of beans — and, while I still get some sort of satisfaction from seeing what is being watched, more often than not someone purchases something completely unexpected that was not even being watched.
I do believe that “watchers” tend to “click watch and forget about it” because they only desire the item but are not seriously interested. While those that are seriously interested just make the purchase as soon as they find what they are looking for.
Hope this helps.
When I first started listening to SL podcasts I heard a tip that I think is great: ask for the price of an item from a distance. I think the person giving the tip had additional advice about this technique but that was my take away. Don’t hold on to it and ask for a price. Asking from a distance (from the item) makes you appear a little disinterested, like it is not a must have for you. I like that tip a lot.
I also discovered for myself that I can get free stuff if I pay the asking price for some items.
Example: Yesterday I was a yard sale, from a distance I asked the price of three items I was interested in. The prices were OK, not amazing but decent. I then pointed to a wood box that I wanted and asked if I take all the items that I asked about, can I get the box for free. They had no problem with that.
I paid 9.00 for everything, listed all the items (4 of them) and the box sold overnight for $45.00. Honestly that was a surprise to me, but a nice one!
Here is the box if you want to see it: https://www.ebay.com/itm/162986920941?ViewItem=&item=162986920941
Being on the extreme left coast, we don’t do “free” shipping on anything over first class and even then I only do free shipping on first class for higher priced items.
We have found that we are much more competitive WITHOUT free shipping by using calculated shipping for items that are collectible but not unique.
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I sold a an empty wine box, which another seller is selling for 78.00 free shipping. He has a lot of these boxes and I have one.
I am on the West Coast, to do “free” shipping, I have to consider that a buyer might be on the extreme East Coast and factor that in to the price. That raises my price for ALL buyers regardless of location and I cannot easily compete with that other seller.
I priced my box at 46.00 plus shipping and figured that a lucky buyer on the West Coast will get a better deal or an East Coast buyer will get about the same deal as buying from the other seller.
The box sold within a few hours of listing to a buyer about 20 miles from me. He got a great deal and I got the price I wanted.
Bonus: I got the box for free at a yard sale.
Ditto, I finally got up the nerve to turn it on and…. nothing. It won’t turn on, getting the same error message. Called Ebay, they suggested I change my store from “individual” to “business”. I did not even know about that until they told me. I made the change and waited the recommended amount of time to recheck and again, nothing. I have been getting that error message for a week now. I will have to call them again.
Amazing! My only 2 cents is pay her by the hat, not the hour. That way she is learning to work for herself and keep herself motivated.
Inglewood, when I hear Canada and size 17 feet together, all I can think of is Giant MacAskill! I saw his tiny house and his large bed. (c:
To back up your point, all of the sudden we are getting a lot of buyers from Canada and they totally don’t mind the shipping fees — at least the ones that actually purchased from us.
However, I will have to disagree with you about size and shape. I shipped this item to Canada just a couple of weeks ago: https://www.ebay.com/itm/162908601491 (paid about 4.00 for it)
I made several larges item sales that were completely worth it though I 100% agree they were horrible to pack!
Would anyone like to throw in their two cents on these two listings?
Vintage sales tips booklets for what I think is an insurance salesman…
https://www.ebay.com/itm/162979366252
https://www.ebay.com/itm/162979364338
I was having a hard time with key word and comparisons so finally settled on what you see.
How would you do it better?
ChristineR, yes I agree, church sales and yard sales are the best. I only have one local thrift store that I frequent and have gotten a few good things there. But I will try again those mega thrift stores and see how that goes, just to make sure I don’t get stuck with an old opinion that might not be true today.
Good job! Very nicely done and photoed. My listing has not sold yet, but I am collecting more stuff and will update the listing if still not sold when I am ready to upgrade it.
Thanks Joe, we have about 5 HUGE thrift stores close to down town, all fairly close together — definitely not a fun place to go and I always found the prices too high. But it’s been a while since I was there and now with a better eye, I might have more luck. When I get a chance, I will go down there.
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