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ChristineR – how interesting that you get this repeating peak pattern. Thanks for sharing!
03/11/2017 at 12:11 am in reply to: HELMUT LANG trivia. Any fashion label people here know the answer? #14238no problem at all!
Somehow it’s often easier to find the answer to somebody else’s question instead of my own.🙂
03/10/2017 at 11:18 pm in reply to: HELMUT LANG trivia. Any fashion label people here know the answer? #14235“anyone one of you fashionistas know when helmut lang produced from china???”
Someone on a discussion thread in 2008 says that most HL clothing was made in China, presumably at that point in time.
http://www.styleforum.net/t/91197/helmut-lang-winter-coat-worth-900And the following 2014 article says that they still do produce most of their stuff in China.
5 Myths About the Fashion IndustrySo it doesn’t sound like some sort of special marketing deal to me, but rather just part of their standard practice since he sold the label / left the company in 06/07.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/fashion/02HELMUT.htmlI just googled “helmut lang made in china”
cool!
Thanks for that, Jay. I agree with you that the angry sellers do exist on the eBay forums, and I agree with your opinion about them. I guess I just *thought* you sometimes used the term “conspiracy theorist” in other contexts relating to non-angry (but perhaps sometimes complaining or overthinking) sellers on here, and that bothered me. But I may have misheard or misinterpreted. And with my CFS brain fog issues, it’s altogether possible that I just made it up!
Anyway, I’m off to pack and ship and then list more. Although it is useful to do some wondering & hypothesizing about low or high sales from time to time, it’s most important to just list, as you and Ryanne always say. If not for the ABL indoctrination I have happily gotten from SL, I think I might have easily gotten stuck in a deep rut of wondering and complaining about the mysteries of sales patterns, to the detriment of actually making money.
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re: “singling out their store for punishment” – to me that’s exactly the same thing as saying “I don’t get as many views/sales when I’m not listing or otherwise interacting with my store.” In other words, you get punished for not listing. That is not necessarily a bad or evil thing on ebay’s part. I can see how it would make sense for eBay to reward sellers who are actively investing in their stores. Just like it makes sense for them to reward those with better feedback, fewer defects, fewer late shipments, etc (which is the same as punishing the others). The only difference is that they don’t explicitly advertise listing activity as a search rank criterion, so we’re left to wonder.
So what’s my point here? I’m just trying to say that I don’t see what’s so horrible about wondering why one’s sales are down and thinking that one of the possible reasons might be that eBay’s search engine is de-ranking your items b/c of some not-explicitly-advertised criterion that you would be happy to improve upon if you could be certain what it was. It doesn’t automatically make you some sort of negative paranoid angry conspiracy theorist.
thanks pikapopblog!
03/07/2017 at 11:32 pm in reply to: What does it mean when a shoe width is marked E/C or M/W? #14041No problem. I’m happy to be able to give back a little something after all the valuable info and advice I’ve gotten from SL over the past year.
Good luck with the Hanover shoes!
03/07/2017 at 3:11 pm in reply to: Missed it by thhhaaatttt much! (missed out on sourcing opportunity) #14012Oh, I hear you on this! There’s one tiny hospital thrift shop I go to that sometimes has really high end things (eg bench made in england men’s dress shoes). I always go to the mens shoe section as soon as I come in (it’s pretty small), but once in a while they’ll put something out a few minutes after someone has brought something in. One time I lucked out seeing someone bringing in a donation of a big comforter that looked promising, and they brought it out onto the floor a few minutes later and it was a king-size ralph lauren comforter for $30 that I sold for $125! But about a month ago I was distracted and trying on some clothes to buy for myself, and I didn’t notice that someone had brought in a donation and it got put out. It was a pair of perfect condition Church’s mens dress shoes for $20!!! But this other guy (who didn’t seem like a reseller) snagged them. I obsessed about this miss that entire day!!!! Sigh.
Yes – default to the first of the two values to use in item specifics, since that’s the ball of the foot width, which also happens to be the larger of the two. But I put both in the title and description so that people looking for a combination last can find it.
Thanks everyone for the super helpful info!
ooh, ooh! I know this one!
Took me some time to figure this out about a month ago. I had forgotten that someone had asked this question here before that.
These shoes have been made with something called a “combination last”. Basically it means that the heel is a different/narrower width than the ball of the foot.
http://www.styleforum.net/t/192201/shoe-geeks-what-is-a-combination-last
Thanks for sharing your data and thoughts!
At this point I think I probably need to take a break from the theories (b/c they are making my head hurt) and get back to listing. But it is really cool to see other people’s actual data. I’m very glad that eBay added this functionality to Seller Hub.I have been religiously filling it out until quite recently. I stopped partly b/c the thing about how it doesn’t pre-fill the field for international sales annoys me, but mostly b/c I think that highlighting “made in china” hurts the sale rather than helps it. So now I only fill it in when I feel it adds to the listing in some way – like when a handbag is made in France, say. Also, I *think* that if you put the country name in the field, then it’s automatically a keyword that you don’t have to put into the title, which leaves more room for other keywords. Not sure about this, though – still have to test some more.
Ooh – I love your flat graph – thanks for sharing! Anybody else?
FWIW, there is more than one kind of conspiracy theorist, Jay 🙂
The first kind are the angry, capital-C Conspiracy theorists who think eBay is evil and out to screw them. I belong the second group, the capital-T conspiracy Theorists, always trying to figure out the secret algorithm in the black box and what contortions to go through to get around it. We’re not angry, but rather just worried/anxious (when sales are down) and maybe sometimes over-think things instead of just listing.🙂
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