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Interesting conversation. I got the “You used a Regional B, but paid for a Regional A” adjustment. I thought it was weird that I could make such a dumb mistake. I’ll have to decide if it’s worth my time to call.
The only other adjustment I’ve had was in my favor (I overpaid a dollar or two apparently). n
Thanks for the interesting podcast this week.
Here are my numbers:
Total Items in Store: 2962
Items Sold: 38
Total Sales: $918
Cost of Items Sold: $96
Average Price Sold: $24.17
Average Cost of Item: $2.55
Highest Price Item Sold: $79.95 2 sales at this price i) Sony Handycam DCR-HC32 and ii) Bose Wave Model AWR1-1W
Number of items listed this week: 28
YTD Sales: $15868
YTD sales compared to this time last year: +1%
Average age of items in store (in days since listing): 382
Average number of days between listing and selling this week: 226
Median age of sales (in days, between listing and selling): 96
Sell-through rate (for the week): 1.28%
Hats sold this week: 28 (73% of sales) worth $521.72 (56% of sales $)The week on eBay was solid. Nothing much to say about it.
My wife and I have a division of responsibilities with the business. That obviously eliminates most of the potential conflicts. My wife does most of the listing/photography for our hat listings. I manage all other parts of the business.
Hope everyone has a great week!
Interesting conversation about comparing weeks. I think we all agree that there are big unexplainable changes in eBay sales from week to week so comparing this week to last week doesn’t seem to provide much value. I find the same thing is true with comparing this week to the same week last year. There’s a lot of variability. Comparing the sales from a whole month this year to the same month last year is probably more useful to smooth out the weekly ups and downs.
However, for me, comparing the YTD number with the YTD total from this time last year seems to provide the most useful figure to see how things are going. I’m currently within 1% of where I was this time last year so I can predict that I’ll probably end up pretty close to the same total sales as last year unless there are major changes in my life or in eBay. Neither of which I’m expecting.
Thanks for the podcast this week. Monday wasn’t the same without you. I checked the forums several times on Monday wondering where you were.
Here are my numbers for last week
Total Items in Store: 2972
Items Sold: 44
Total Sales: $1151
Cost of Items Sold: $148
Average Price Sold: $26.15
Average Cost of Item: $3.37
Highest Price Item Sold: $119.95 Suzuki QChord QC1
Number of items listed this week: 90
YTD Sales: $14949
YTD sales compared to this time last year: +1%
Average age of items in store (in days since listing): 377
Average number of days between listing and selling this week: 183
Median age of sales (in days, between listing and selling): 96
Sell-through rate (for the week): 1.48%
Hats sold this week: 26 (59% of sales) worth $493.61 (42% of sales $)I had a very good week last week. I suspect this week will end up being much quieter but we’ll see.
I didn’t see anything in the Seller Update that impacts me in any way. Maybe that’s a good thing and I should be grateful.
Your comments about the in-between work and YouTube are spot on. Nobody shows the hours/days that have to be put into listing stuff. That’s definitely the hard work.
Hope everyone has a great week!
Thanks for the show R&J.
Here are my numbers for the week:
Total Items in Store: 2926
Items Sold: 35
Total Sales: $754
Cost of Items Sold: $96
Average Price Sold: $21.54
Average Cost of Item: $2.76
Highest Price Item Sold: $84.96 Bounty Hunter TR550-D Vintage Metal Detector Coin Finder w/ 6″ Coil – TESTED
Number of items listed this week: 59
YTD Sales: $13798
YTD sales compared to this time last year: -3%
Average age of items in store (in days since listing): 387
Average number of days between listing and selling this week: 185
Median age of sales (in days, between listing and selling): 113
Sell-through rate (for the week): 1.2%
Hats sold this week: 21 (60% of sales) worth $381.06 (50% of sales $)Sales were about on par with last year (15% up with 25% more items than this time last year).
I visited a great family-run estate sale on Saturday. I was the first person to find a small table of good cameras priced at $5 – 10 each so I filled a bag. I also picked up an armful of hats and a computer so it was one of my best scores in a while.
I just noticed my seller limits on the seller dashboard. I presume “B” is for billion. This is certainly a lofty goal:
Hope everyone has a great week!
I’m excited for you :- going full time on eBay. I hope you’ll give us updates on your progress and what challenges arise.
That’s fun to hear that you have connections in my company. I saw photos of booths at couple of different conferences on / around IPO day so some of those must have been from the conference you were at. I’ve worked here just over 3 years. In the tech world that’s considered a a fairly long time though I’m not a very early employee. I was granted a very generous number of options (as it turns out). I’ve had options at 4 previous employers and none of those amounted to anything so I considered these options to be valueless up until a month or two ago when I heard about the IPO. Anything I make from my stock is just an unexpected bonus.
Thanks for the podcast. It was good to have you back to make my Monday-morning commute a little less painful.
My numbers for the week:
Total Items in Store: 2902
Items Sold: 47
Total Sales: $982
Cost of Items Sold: $150
Average Price Sold: $20.89
Average Cost of Item: $3.19
Highest Price Item Sold: $95 Midwest Aero-Star 0.40 RC Model Airplane Kit
Number of items listed this week: 89
YTD Sales: $13044
YTD sales compared to this time last year: -4%
Average age of items in store (in days since listing): 379
Average number of days between listing and selling this week: 236
Median age of sales (in days, between listing and selling): 191
Sell-through rate (for the week): 1.62%
Hats sold this week: 29 (61% of sales) worth $508.67 (51% of sales $)I took a day off work last week and focused mainly on eBay which helped boost my number of listings for the week. Sales were plentiful but mainly cheaper items which kept the sales $ down.
As I mentioned last week, the company I worked for ended up going public on the New York Stock Exchange last Thursday. It was a great day and gave my financial situation a boost – but to the theme of the podcast – I won’t consider that disposable income. I’ll treat that with care like the rest of my income.
Hope everyone has a great week!
As far as I know, Managed Payments don’t yet work with GSP either. That’s a deal-breaker for me.
I’m late to the party but here are my numbers for the week:
Total Items in Store: 2860
Items Sold: 35
Total Sales: $752
Cost of Items Sold: $93
Average Price Sold: $21.47
Average Cost of Item: $2.66
Highest Price Item Sold: $49.95 Entex 1/16 Scale Model Kit 1913 Model T Van
Number of items listed this week: 73
YTD Sales: $12063
YTD sales compared to this time last year: -5%
Average age of items in store (in days since listing): 372
Average number of days between listing and selling this week: 212
Median age of sales (in days, between listing and selling): 162
Sell-through rate (for the week): 1.22%
Hats sold this week: 22 (62% of sales) worth $385.19 (51% of sales $)This was a pretty typical week, sales-wise. I didn’t have any high value sales so that kept my overall number lower than it’s been recently. No complaints though.
I’m still lagging slightly behind last year. I’m putting as much time as I have available into my ebay biz so I don’t see things changing much unless I try and source different items online.
The company I work at for my day job is having their IPO tomorrow so that’s pretty exciting. I’ve been there several years and I got a lot of cheaply-priced options when I joined. We’re all supposed to try and be in the office by 6:15am (pacific time) to see the opening bell being rung at the New York Stock Exchange by my company.
I haven’t had a chance to listened to the show yet but here are my numbers:
Total Items in Store: 2822
Items Sold: 39
Total Sales: $1003
Cost of Items Sold: $105
Average Price Sold: $25.72
Average Cost of Item: $2.71
Highest Price Item Sold: $99.95 Go Video Recorder Burner DVD VCR MP3 Combo Player
Number of items listed this week: 63
YTD Sales: $11291
YTD sales compared to this time last year: -6%
Average age of items in store (in days since listing): 376
Average number of days between listing and selling this week: 210
Median age of sales (in days, between listing and selling): 117
Sell-through rate (for the week): 1.38%
Hats sold this week: 28 (71% of sales) worth $491.75 (49% of sales $)Sales were pretty good for me. As usual it was busy early in the week and got quiet on the weekend.
My sales for the month of March were just ahead of this time last year which was good since I was below in February.
Nothing very interesting to report this week other than I reinstalled the Android ebay app and got a different version to the one I had previously. Apparently I agree to be a beta tester at some point and I think I was seeing a new version of the photos management/uploading functionality. It was much faster but it was a little buggy. I think I have the regular version of the app again now.
@SilverFoxFinds – yes, if the item doesn’t sell and it’s renewed next month it will count against 1000 free listings. So, if you have 1070 listings and nothing sells and you don’t end any you will get charged $7 (70 * 10c) If you list 10 new items today and nothing sells for a month you’ll end up paying $8 (80 x 10c) in insertion fees by this time next month.
I’m in the middle of the store donut hole. I have 2700 listings and currenlty pay $170/month in extra insertion fees each month which is kinda depressing. Not sure why it feels better to pay store fees than insertion fees but it does.
That was an interesting update @SpartyQ
In regard to the impact of not listing, I think there’s enough anecdotal evidence out there to strongly suggest a correlation between listing and sales. eBay likes stores with activity. When you list new items you’ll get activity from people looking at (and hopefully buying) some of those items. When eBay sees this activity it seems to give your whole store a bump and you’re likely to see some sales of your older items too.
Hi R&J – thanks for the podcast!
Here are my numbers for the week:
Total Items in Store: 2798
Items Sold: 28
Total Sales: $754
Cost of Items Sold: $76
Average Price Sold: $26.92
Average Cost of Item: $2.73
Highest Price Item Sold: $144.95 Pioneer PL-117D Fully Automatic Vintage Stereo Turntable
Number of items listed this week: 67
YTD Sales: $10288
YTD sales compared to this time last year: -6%
Average age of items in store (in days since listing): 367
Average number of days between listing and selling this week: 248
Median age of sales (in days, between listing and selling): 140
Sell-through rate (for the week): 1%
Hats sold this week: 21 (75% of sales) worth $367.17 (48% of sales $)Another weird change in sales activity in my store. From 46 sales last week to 28 sales this week for no particular reason. My average sale value was pretty close to last week even though it felt like I sold more high-value things last week. (My total sales $ fell from $1278 last week to $754 this week). I’m still perfectly happy with my overall sales though I’d love more weeks like last week if the eBay gods obliged.
I’m old enough to have seen several boom bust cycles. My very first stock purchase was the day after Black Monday in 1987 when the stock market tumbled around the world. I rode the dot com boom and bust and was forced to freelance when the San Francisco tech sector all but dried up and I grinded through years of a soul-sucking job at an insurance company through the 2008 recession years. While the stock market could take a tumble I dont feel any building pressure for a major economic collapse right now. I hope I’m right especially a I’m hopefully less than 18 months away from a planned early retirement.
Wishing every a profitable week on eBay!
I had the same experience as Sharyn. A few weeks ago the Fedex labels started coming out like regular USPS-sized labels. I don’t know if the feature is in beta and perhaps not visible to everyone.
There is a workaround that I still use for international (not GSP) labels. This would work for half-page Fedex labels too if you’re still seeing them. When the label appears on the screen, click the link to open the label window then download and open the label in adobe reader, use the edit / “take a snapshot” command to select the area you want to print and then when you print it will just print the selected area. (You’ll probably have to correct the label size and possible switch between portrait and landscape in the print dialog windwos)
