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+1!
Like how my boys clean their rooms…don’t open any doors or drawers… 🙂
With so little room, you don’t have a lot of options. After you fill up to the point you can take it (how much of a hoarder do you want to look like), you can only:
1) Focus on small items with enough profit to be worth your time
2) Focus and price your items to increase velocity
3) Look for affordable outside storage.We are approaching that level now on the pipeline. I have three closets full (including my older son’s closet while he is away in college) of items to list, so I have throttled down my purchasing until I list. The filing cabinets are great and dense for storing shirts and jeans that are listed, but we are looking at shoe racks now that we have expanded that inventory. I am holding out renting a storage unit for any (listed) inventory until the last possible moment! Hard goods are great, but slower STR and take up more room.
Agree. We don’t completely forget, and have moved our Attend to a periodic basis. Once every 2-3 months, we can look at our older items and see if they are getting traffic. We may have needed better keywords, better pricing, etc. We know we make mistakes sometimes…
I listened to the podcast while driving to my contract gig this morning. Normally I come in on Tuesdays, but since one of my lights in the studio broke on Saturday, and the new ones will arrive today, I decided to work the contract gig today, so I can be ready to list again tomorrow.
Regarding Team List it & Forget It vs. Team List it & Attend It, we are Team Attend It, but I would say there are three types. Team Forget IT, Team Attend It, and Team Hyperseller. The Hyperseller is continuously looking to be on the first page of search, and doing whatever they can to get there and maintain it. We met a seller at eBay Open that sells iPhone cases (I laughed so hard when he said that, since I have heard J&R talk about those so much), and he has one person that FULL TIME does nothing but reprice and tweak his eBay listings to stay on the first page. I know some others that look to be on the first page that much, and that to me is a Hyperseller. If you are selling multiquantity (like hundreds of the same), then spending this time makes sense to increase velocity, but if you are selling single quantity, then the ROI on this time spent is not worth it (Unless you are Chris Lynn from 10KontheBay selling the $10k Apple shoes. If you haven’t heard of this, you should look at it. Amazing find!)
We became Team Attend It because for many of our commodity type items (clothing especially), we would see that if we didn’t update the listing after 60 days, we would not get any views or watchers, but when we changed the gallery photo, changed price, etc., we would get views again. This has become too much of at time suck at 1,500 items, which is why we went to SixBit. It can Auto Relist the items for us (gaining the bump on 30 day items on the first and last 24 hours), plus we can now sort our listings by create date and resend them as NEW listings in bulk. Keeps the velocity up but saves the time.
I still believe in Team Attend IT, as our STR dropped way too low when we went Team Forget It, but now it is about growing a larger inventory (either in # of items or $ Value) while maintaining that STR. We want to avoid having items that we worked to get listed, but NOBODY is seeing.
If you list it…but nobody is seeing it…is it really listed?
Agree. We rarely go to estate sales unless it is their 50% off day…
We found a foam head for caps and hats. Hobby Lobby may have them as well.
08/09/2017 at 9:56 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 322: Don’t Forget To Make Your Own Weekends #21598Agreed. Something I’m looking for as well. We spent time this week with SixBit to ensure that all our listings will qualify, so it would be nice to have confirmation. I will see what I can find out.
08/09/2017 at 9:33 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 322: Don’t Forget To Make Your Own Weekends #21595I can agree to that. Veronica brought that up today, that maybe this increases the number of full price sales we have. Time will tell. We will still ship and process the same way everyday…
08/09/2017 at 5:03 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 322: Don’t Forget To Make Your Own Weekends #21586Yeah, that second part caught me off guard in the webinar. I would rather that the Guaranteed Delivery was available based on when they pay, regardless of if it was Best Offer or not.
08/09/2017 at 2:59 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 322: Don’t Forget To Make Your Own Weekends #21583Jay & Ryanne, you should catch the replay of the Guaranteed Delivery webinar. I listed out all the specifics as I understood them (including no Restocking Fee), and Griff and Greg read through them.
Regarding the Restocking Fee, it appears that you CAN have a restocking fee, just not if they are returning the item for late delivery. Again, I would double check that, but it appears that you CAN have a restocking fee on the item, but you have to waive that if they want to return the item for late delivery.
08/09/2017 at 11:00 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 322: Don’t Forget To Make Your Own Weekends #21574Just a heads up that there is a webinar on eBay Guaranteed Delivery today at 11am Pacific Time. Go to ebay.com/webinars to sign up.
08/08/2017 at 6:54 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 322: Don’t Forget To Make Your Own Weekends #21553Good to hear. Keep up the positive progress!
08/08/2017 at 3:40 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 322: Don’t Forget To Make Your Own Weekends #21547We use this calendar, and it is only for if you put Same Day shipping on an item. So if you are shipping with 1-day or longer for handling time, this calendar won’t matter. We just moved to Same Day handling, so that we can gain an extra day when eBay is calculating Guaranteed Delivery time.
To manage this, go to Seller Account \ Site Preferences \ Shipping Preferences \ Order cut off time for same business day handling. From there, you are setting the cutoff time for each business day (M-F, and they may add Saturday later as many sellers ship on that day like we do) that if the item is paid for before that time, it will ship on that day.
So we have 2pm Mountain Time as our cutoff, as our post office picks up at our house no earlier than 2:30. So we start our shipping process around 1pm (earlier or later depending on what and how much we have to ship) so that we are ready to print labels at 2pm. At 2:01 or so, we print the labels and put the packages out for pickup.
This was essentially the process we were using all the time anyway, and we confirmed with eBay that if the buyer pays after our cutoff time, then it does not have to be shipped until the next day.
08/07/2017 at 10:17 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 322: Don’t Forget To Make Your Own Weekends #21513Yep. Sometimes people would want on Wed/Thurs but want to pay on Friday when they got paid.
08/07/2017 at 7:24 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 322: Don’t Forget To Make Your Own Weekends #21499We don’t have one set up yet, but are planning to have one set up in the next 4 weeks. We will let everyone know when we do!
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