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I found out that someone had stolen my pics to use for their item because of eBay’s marketing. I was selling a bunch of chandelier crystals and photographed them outside, held up in the sunlight to catch the sparkle. Some joker stole the photos for their own listing. I was like “Dude, that’s my HAND in the photo. My backyard! I can see my flippin’ tattoo in the corner of the frame. What the heck?!” Ugh.
Yes, if you put best offer, people are going to make low-ball offers. If your item is already the lowest price out there, I say *raise* your price to make it competitive with other sellers and then add best offer. Make your bottom line price be what you would have taken previously. The buyer will feel like they got a deal. Buyers aren’t sitting back saying “I want to be fair to this seller”. They want a deal! Their loyalty is to their wallet, not to the seller.
As a buyer, it makes me crazy when a seller lists an item with best offer and then won’t negotiate at all or gives me a huffy lecture on why their item is worth soooo much. Best offer says to me “I am asking $XXX but am willing to take less”. Why get angry when someone offers you less? Yeah, a $1 offer on a $100 item is like “Come on, man”, but it’s not personal. They’re just testing the water because every once in a while someone will accept.
I love it, especially paired with the black patent leather Mary Janes and what I will assume are white ankle socks with a lace ruffle. <3
Avon seemed to corner the market in ugly, faux Colonial and Americana items in the 1970s. My grandmother sold Avon so we had sooooo much of that stuff.
It was just such an ugly decade, lol. Polyester for miles. Everyone looked sweaty and all the photos from the era are poorly lit. So, so bad.
I was 4 in 1976. I had a red, white, and blue outfit made of a very scratchy polyester. People seemed into the bicentenial, especially around the 4th of July. I remember lots of parades and going to see the Liberty Bell. The security guard even let me touch it! I don’t think they let people do that anymore, lol
I dunno that people will want vintage 1976 patriotic themed things as much as they will want general patriotic themed things come 2026. It might spur another interest in vintage Americana and Colonial style items. There was a lot of really ugly faux Colonial crap around in the 70s. That’s right around when Little House on the Prairie became popular, too, and all those fugly prairie style dresses.
I was not a fan of the 1970s aesthetic, can you tell? lol
It might be an old car hood ornament?
Edited to add: check this link. About halfway down is a picture of your item on a site called atticrant.com The ebay listing that went with it is expired and no longer available, unfortunately, but it *was* listed as a hood ornament/radiator cap from 1910. I searched for “Bobby Hood Ornament” and found the picture.
I don’t think it’s a firm number of VEROs that get you kicked off. I think it gets evaluated on a case by case basis. I’ve had several VERO issues over the years, but they’ve all been different types of items in different categories. I suspect, (I have no proof of this), that after you get a VERO, you are on a watch list for awhile, where eBay keeps an eye on you to make sure you aren’t some sort of n’er do well. If you respond appropriately to the VERO and do not list that item, or similar items, again, you eventually fade off their watch list. But…if you end up with another VERO at a later date, the past VERO issues can be taken into consideration. I think this is an issue where eBay is looking at your trend as a seller vs a fixed number.
I would definitely take down the remaining Ford hats you have. It’s not worth poking the bear. Maybe list them on facebook marketplace or another platform that is less picky.
It should just tell the first buyer/offer-maker that the item is out of stock.
I made an offer on an item; the seller counter-offered. While I was considering their counter offer, someone else came along and bought the item. Ebay sent me a message saying “Got away! Sorry you missed out, here’s a similar item”.
Also consider how much time and energy you are willing to put into removing one negative feedback. One negative is unlikely to impact your sales. Most buyers are going to see one random neg. feedback and not let it stop them from buying.
I do empathize with what a bummer it is to see a negative. I got my first neutral feedback in over 3 years recently. Only positives for years, and then boom. 🙁 What a bummer. 🙁
Hobby Lobby is kind of like fast fashion. Trendy, looks kind of interesting at a quick glance, won’t hold up to repeated use.
Also popular here are signs that say “Gather” hung by dining tables. <insert eye roll here>
I’ve actually been to a hoarder house auction, and please trust me: you do NOT want to go to one of these. The part that Hoarders or American Pickers can’t show you is the smell of these places. 30+ years of mildew, mold, rot, and rodent droppings. The smell hangs like a cloud around the property. The sale I went to was a house with several outbuildings on 5 acres and every part of it smelled like rot. That smell stuck with me for days.
At one point, I was wandering through a maze of junk on the property and thought “I am surprised I haven’t passed by a dead something or other by now”, turned my head, and was face to face with a dead, desiccated possum.
The whole event was overwhelming emotionally. You’re standing smack-dab in the middle of someone else’s mental illness and trying to place a monetary value on it. I don’t know how to do that without feeling really unsettled.
I used to watch Hoarders and Pickers with utter fascination and amazement over how people could live like that, and think “Man, I’d love to look around in all that junk!” Now that I’ve done it? No way. Never again. EVER.
Sales probably dropped off because sales usually drop off in the summer. May and June are graduations, Memorial Day, Father’s Day, more graduations, etc. My sales always tank in the summer and then pick up once the kids are back in school.
