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08/07/2017 at 6:56 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 322: Don’t Forget To Make Your Own Weekends #21496
Just keep listing and you will! đ
08/07/2017 at 6:54 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 322: Don’t Forget To Make Your Own Weekends #21495I hear you. Verify that with eBay. We kept seeing that in all our documentation, but we never saw anything about requiring Immediate Payment, and they never said anything about that at eBay Open. That caught us off guard this week.
08/07/2017 at 4:54 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 322: Don’t Forget To Make Your Own Weekends #21488Keeping the personal life in order is PARAMOUNT. If you are hating what is going on, you get into a bad spiral very easily. Sticking to the schedule will be the hardest part, but my trick is to not try to cram too much into one day. I am keeping my morning rituals to help me win the day, and then taking 1 major thing to accomplish each day and focusing on that until complete.
FOCUS – Follow One Course Until Successful…
08/07/2017 at 4:51 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 322: Don’t Forget To Make Your Own Weekends #21487Week of 7/30-8/5
Total Items in Store: 1,532
Items Sold: 44
Number of Items Listed This Week: 68
Total Sales: $1,206.08
Cost of Items Sold: $200.04
Highest Item Sold: $57.89 â Levi’s Red Tab Distressed Blue Denim Jean
Competition: Highest Priced Sale: Troy wins the week, Veronica leads for the year 17-13.
Competition: Highest Total Sales: Troy leads the year $23.5k to $18.4kJuly 2017
Items Listed: 143
Items Sold: 210
Total Sales: $6,313.46 â Up 49% vs 2016
Total COGS: $1,076.25
Sell Thru Rate: 14% – Up 40% vs 2016We focused a good amount of time this week on getting some database work done in SixBit, and using that work to set us up for Guaranteed Delivery. So, we needed to get our purchase price for each item in SixBit moved from the Easy Auction Tracker, set each item up with a Shipping Preset and a Payment Preset. Once the Presets are done, we can change our handling time, payment terms, etc. very quickly. We also are using this time to move our Handling time from 1 day to Same Day. When we talked with eBay at the Open, we realized that we are doing things on a Same Day basis anyway, and by moving the time to Same Day, that will also help us in the Guaranteed Delivery search results as well. So we are now Same Day Shipping with a 2pm Mountain Time cutoff.
Also, we found out that for items to be enrolled in Guaranteed Delivery, we have to require Immediate Payment (Cyndi mentioned this as well â Thanks for the heads up Cyndi on the Facebook Group!). We initially thought that you could not have Immediate Payment and Best Offer on the same listing, but we found that we could. So while we are setting up the Payment Preset, we are turning on Immediate Payment (PS – For those that donât know, the Immediate Payment only applies to the full price offer. If they make an offer and you accept, they can pay later, which we donât mind at all.)
To answer your question on how to opt out an item from Guaranteed Delivery, we asked the same thing at eBay Open. If you change your handling time to longer than 1 day, then that item is NOT in the Guaranteed Delivery program. Also Jay & Ryanne, we were told that if you charge a restocking fee, then that item is NOT part of Guaranteed DeliveryâŚ
Unfortunately, another eBay change hit on Wed/Thur this week. I like to have an Auto Accept/Auto Decline at the same price. Suddenly, items were not relisting and we were getting an error message that they could not be the same price. So as we have been doing database work, we are also changing items to be $0.01 different. I wish they had not done this, but Iâm sure there was a reasonâŚ
08/07/2017 at 1:55 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 322: Don’t Forget To Make Your Own Weekends #21477Congrats on the TSR and the listings!
08/07/2017 at 1:10 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 322: Don’t Forget To Make Your Own Weekends #21475Yes, I have seen this as well. Started on Thursday. I will mention this in my blog post with our numbers, but eBay is not accepting the same number for Accept/Decline. I had to change this on all my items in SixBit when we did our database work this week.
08/07/2017 at 11:39 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 322: Don’t Forget To Make Your Own Weekends #21465Good question. I called eBay on that and the rep said they were going to look into the multi-item purchase issue. I have not heard back yet…
08/07/2017 at 11:38 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 322: Don’t Forget To Make Your Own Weekends #21463Just posted my thoughts on the podcast, and now reading the blog and see you guys talking about the policy on eBay AGAINST mystery boxes. Funny how I never even thought of doing that, and then I hear of it TWICE in the same week….
08/07/2017 at 11:36 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 322: Don’t Forget To Make Your Own Weekends #21462Listening to the podcast as I work on our admin tasksâŚ
We agree with taking time when appropriate to avoid burnout. We try very hard to keep Sundays as time away from the business. We work in the garden, hike, spend time with friends, watch football (very soon again!), etc.
Amen on doing this with kids. Takes a LOT of time away from the business. We love them and wouldnât have it any other way, but it does take time from the business. We always say, live your life your way, and own your life and your decisions.
And for Shirts and Suits, we are Team Mannequin. I see that the STR and ASP is higher when on a mannequin (or model, that is the best way when you are high end). Plus Iâm faster than with flat lays. And for jeans, we see a LOT of people that wear the jeansâŚlots of womenâs butts out there in the galleries!!! ď
On the mystery boxes, that is NOT ALLOWED by eBay. You can follow the link below for âChance Listingsâ and it says under Not Allowed : âMystery items where contents aren’t identifiedâ
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/listing-bonus-prize-giveaway-raffle.html
On the scheduled listings, we try to list every day, and we see that when we are gone for long periods without listings, our sales drop off. So when we are going to be gone for a long time (like when we were at eBay Open), we had listings scheduled to list each day so that we kept up new listings each day. Another notch for SixBitâŚ
Wow…hopefully that is the line that sellers stop at and move to eBay.
I use a mannequin as it looks better and is faster for me. I only flat lay for a gallery shot, and that is on a table with a white background. Works for me, and listing is 12 minutes per item.
Agree. We have done this in the past and we have been told by eBay that they will back us up as long as the address change is through eBay messages.
99% of the time, these are legitimate. As the founder of eBay said…”People are generally good”.
Don’t focus on trying to be right 100% of the time. If people show a picture, 99% of the time, it is legitimate.
If you focus on being right 100% of the time, you will drive yourself crazy and you will end up driving buyers away.
That is my take…
Very nice! We may have to stay there sometime!
I would refund and move on. These things happen and are a small percentage of your business…
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