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For old items, sometimes I send 50-60% off offers.
“Becoming a thrifter and selling on EBay has so changed me, and in some ways really isolated me. I love that this forum provides a place to connect with other people with similar interests.”
Well said.
New states added, not new concept.
Good to know it’s not just me. Not to be super-complainy (but I am), but I wish there was an easier way to message buyers who have submitted an offer. As far as I could tell, there was no “send buyer a message” option when I haven’t accepted the offer. You have to get the item id# in order to send them a message. I guess there are worse problems to have than this. ๐
No I did not send offers on these items before setting vacation mode. Also, I set the vacation mode where my store is really OFF – ie, you can’t make any purchases at all. If you click on “buy it now” you will get a message telling you that you can’t buy the item right now. But you can still make an offer apparently. I tested it out myself as a buyer under a different ebay id. So this issue has nothing to do with handling time or offers sent by me. I really want to try out accepting an offer to find out what happens, but it’s not worth the risk.
well, actually, if I sent an offer from my other account, and then accepted from my seller account, if it did really go through, I could always have myself the buyer cancel the order w/o negatively affecting my seller metrics. If I decide to do this, I’ll report back with what happens.
This style is called a “satchel”, so definitely use that as a keyword and item specifics. Or if you have “satchel” in item specifics, you might use the space in the title for “2 Handle”.
They don’t link to their site. They create ebay listings for their items just like other sellers.
This is one option (stick on temp paper shades):
https://tinyurl.com/y4d3b43vWhat’s cheaper and not as nice but worked for me as a temporary measure (a few months) are the huge white post-it easel sheets. Not sure if this is the right size but you get the idea:
https://www.staples.com/Post-it-Tabletop-Easel-Pad-20-x-23-Unruled-Plain-White-EA-563R/product_42889309/11/2019 at 8:05 pm in reply to: Bicentennial items for the Sestercentennial: Long Tail to the extreme? #67682“If you doubt me, try to find a US quarter with a 1975 date on it.”
Could you clarify what you’re trying to get at here? The US Mint says that no quarters were made with the date 1975 printed on it, so that’s why you won’t find one:
https://www.usmint.gov/coins/coin-medal-programs/circulating-coins/george-washington-bicentennial-quarterAt one point during those years in the late seventies, my family saved all the bicentennial quarters we came across and stored them in this one special drawer. We probably got up to $40 or $50 face value. But then my parents must have decided a few years later that they hadn’t appreciated as quickly as we had hoped (or at all), so we just used them up. I see you can now get those bicentennial quarters on ebay for 2-4 times face value on average. That’s about a 1-3% annual rate of return, so not a great investment. But maybe their value will spike as 2026 approaches as you say? It will be interesting to see. Note: I’m talking here only about circulated (used) coins.
We also used to collect these bicentennial paper plates that my dad would get from work (???) with various early American government/revolution scenes pictured on them. That’s where I learned about Patrick Henry and “Give me liberty or give me death”. We ended up with several of that particular design. ๐
I also remember being taken to a bi-centennial re-enactment of the Battle of Princeton, which unfortunately took place on January 3rd. It was mobbed and freezing and I didn’t really see anything. That’s all I remember. Oh, and I think we got some of those stamp things – I forget what they’re called – these small plain postcards with a special stamp on it that has been postmarked on that exact day – I guess 1/3/77? First day issue or something? Maybe I’ll have to dig those up and find them before 2025 in case they’ll be worth something.
If you feel a texture of the paint sticking up from the canvas, for example at the uppermost white/grey shading on the first photo, then it’s not a print. Prints are completely smooth.
I’m no expert, though.
Ebay’s native search doesn’t show an entire year b/c it only searches sold listings that still have valid URLs on ebay.com. After a while, sold items disappear and you can’t get to them anymore, and ebay doesn’t seem to archive them. Terapeak must be regularly crawling ebay’s sold listings and storing data about them including 1 photo, but not the entire listing. So, Terapeak has a longer history, but has less info about each listing. Ebay’s native search has a shorter history, but with more info on each listing. I doubt that they are going to invest in the expensive project of merging these two implementations to provide the best of both worlds via one UI. But I would be very happy to be surprised.
I find it very useful for pricing items to have a year’s worth of data (of course more would be great, too). When I’m pricing a heavy coat or a Christmas item in August, there just aren’t that many data points in the June/July/August data that ebay gives by default. For example, in July I purchased a vintage Christmas item that I thought might sell for $40 or so. When I looked it up on ebay, it looked like this item did indeed sell in that range in the past 3 months. Then I checked terapeak, and found that last fall this item sold for several hundred dollars! And so then I listed it high and got several hundred for it within a few days of listing.
It’s Kaybrooke one word (the “b” is not capitalized). There are 6 Kaybrooke items listed on ebay.
09/07/2019 at 4:39 pm in reply to: Not Accepting Returns, 2 day Shipping, How Long Can It Last ? #67516Have you considered offering returns, just not free ones?
thanks for the tip!
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