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We use Samaritan Ministries, which is similar to MediShare.
Love it, and the cost is much cheaper than anything else we had available.
Glad to make your day! You helped make ours what they are now!
Tina: Mike is right on all his points.
We are at 2200 active listings now, and are moving to 3000 by the end of the year, with 4000 in 2019. Regarding active listings, the good thing is that SixBit is a database. Once the listing information is in there, including photos, then you NEVER lose it.
One check that I do weekly is to make sure that the number of active listings on eBay matches the number of active listings on SixBit. Every once in a while, SixBit will auto-relist something and it doesn’t make it to eBay. No problem. I can find it quickly and resend.
We were like you. We spent so much time relisting that we could see a time sink coming that took away from new listings (and we believe in the sales boost with 30 day vs GTC). SixBit solved that for us.
We LOVE Scheduled listings for free! We are going on a 4 day vacation from Sunday through Wednesday, but we will still have new listings hitting every day through SixBit.
We ship through Shippo, so that all shipping is in one place. eBay and Etsy are automatic on Shippo, and I manually enter TrueGether and Bonanza when they take place so we don’t forget to ship them (like today!).
I log into eBay, but it is to manage Promotions, Promoted Listings, resend invoices, etc. We list through SixBit, and get financial and inventory data there, but still do a lot of reviewing and working the administrative side of the business in eBay.
SixBit does have templates (we have about 30 of them in use now).
Mostly I love the ability to search for items active, sold, etc. in so many ways. How have Brooks Brothers dress shirts sold and for how much? How many Merrell shoes do we have active? Just the ability to quickly see what we have, make changes to listings in bulk, etc. is something we love.
If all your active listings don’t download to SixBit, contact them. You should have Gold Level support for the first month, so they will be on it. Tell them Troy and Veronica say Hi! Especially if you talk with Steve or JC!
Amen to that…
Jay: “If you’re willing to work 60 hrs/wk (!!!!!) for someone else, you can work that much for yourself and keep all the profits.
Someone would need to pay me at least $150k/yr + full benefits + matching 401k + 2.5 weeks paid vacation for me to consider giving them that much of my time. And that probably wouldn’t be enough now that I’m on the other side.”
Amen brother. That was where I was when I left that world. And I was running spreadsheets in my office one night on what our numbers would need to be to live on just eBay. Then I came upon a website called Scavenger Life. And I would close my office door and listen to these podcasts (I started and Episode 1 and listened every day until I was caught up) and it was more confirmation of my numbers. My numbers said I could do it, my wife agreed, and here was this couple in Virginia that was already doing it.
Never been happier…
aperture: Plus, easy to store and ship!
Retro: “I was on call 24/7/365 with no backup. If something went wrong off hours I had to be there”
2 jobs ago, that was me. I changed my ringtone on my phone after I left. I still can’t stand that old ringtone. When I hear it I get flashbacks…
We like to see a 5X return on the purchase cost of the item. However:
1) If we can’t get at LEAST $10 net profit, we don’t do it. So the low end would be buy at $2 and sell at $12. We won’t do buy at $1 and sell for $10, unless it is multi-quantity.
2) We go to 3x or even 2x if the item is yielding high dollar profit. So we have done a buy at $50 to sell for $100 if it is an easy listing in terms of time. We have done buy at $20 and sell at $60.
Mostly we don’t think in terms of a multiple. We look at what we can sell it for, what the purchase price is, and is it worth the time to list and ship.
I would send a message saying you are sorry that they weren’t happy with the item and refund them according to your refund policy. No muss, no fuss.
Good for you Julie! Your view of your job changes immensely when you have a second income stream that you control.
Keep working hard on your plan. You may execute in in 3 months, or the situation may improve. Either way, you are in a better place by working hard on eBay!
We have the same thing but with Shippo. When we started, our Priority shipping was cheaper than eBay, but now they are the same.
We like it since eBay and Etsy are in the same place, and when we get a Bonanza or TrueGether sale, I add it to Shippo. We can also print labels one at a time and then print a manifest at the end to get the SCAN sheet for USPS. Plus, charges are consolidated (we don’t have 10-15 $4 charges hitting the account, just one large charge every time the total is over $100) and we put them on our PayPal card to get 1% cash back.
We use SixBit all the time, and we love it.
The initial setup takes a little bit of work, but it should run fine after that.
Contact SixBit and set up a session with them and they will get it taken care of. They can do a remote session where they control your computer and can see and fix any issues you have. You can also have the tech on the phone with you and they can explain anything they see and you can ask questions directly.
You won’t lose any data at all. When I did the implementation, I actually went back 30 days and pulled in too MUCH data. We haven’t lost anything yet!
Y’all are filling up my book list!
Very cool. I’m used to that. I read a lot of Fred Saberhagen when I lived outside of Albuquerque, and my parents read a lot of Tony Hillerman at the same time.
Books are on my list!
Simplico: Yep, 100% agree. This is where I have to make Stale Inventory Management a bigger part of my process.
Some “stale” items are long tail and just take a while to sell (so as you grow, your long tail items take a bigger % of your overall inventory, while the churn and burners take a smaller %). But if the value is still there, you leave them.
Then there are the items that should have sold fast but didn’t. Is it the listing? The price? The photos? Or was it just a bad buy?
We are culling out about 20 items from our inventory now. Just flat out bad buys…
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