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07/24/2017 at 11:33 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 320: Spinning Plates, Keeping It All Going #20728
Loaded SixBit on July 7. I tried WonderLister, but it just didn’t seem to flow for me. I liked the flow and tools of SixBit better. Like Coke vs. Pepsi…
The main driver was the customization features of the listing screen, and the auto relist feature. We can still list on 30 day listings, to get the first and last 24 hour boost. Plus, you can force any relists to be NEW to eBay (it blows away any previous sales history…especially the bad ones).
Our cost is $70/month, as we went higher, but the savings on no longer relisting, but still keeping a higher STR with the auto relist was worth it.
07/24/2017 at 11:23 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 320: Spinning Plates, Keeping It All Going #20726Thanks Simon, that could be huge. I have my laptop with me (as I always do when I travel), and that is my backup plan. Just in case anything happens with SixBit, I can fix it from my laptop with a remote connection.
Much appreciated!
Glad to help fellow Trash Elves!!!
Good news is you don’t pay all at once. You still pay monthly, you are just signing up for a full year…
07/24/2017 at 6:28 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 320: Spinning Plates, Keeping It All Going #20700FYI on something related to our space…
We are essentially middlemen in our space, so we should think about the products we provide to the market, and our service to our customers, and make sure that markets other than Amazon stay relevant in buyers minds…
Here is my math.
For $60/month (we pay for the yearly subscription), we get 1000 listings per month.
For the Anchor store, the yearly subscription is $300/month, difference of $240.
$240 @ .10/listing is 2,400 listings ABOVE the 1,000 free.
So when we hit 3,400 listings per month (between new listings and relist fees), we will be break even for the Anchor store, and we can look to move up.
07/24/2017 at 4:35 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 320: Spinning Plates, Keeping It All Going #20689So, funny (and interesting) story today. We are on the road in Vegas for eBay Open, and we are using SixBit to manage our listings while we are away. We scheduled (on SixBit) new listings to hit eBay every day while we are gone (to keep eBay knowing that we are putting new listings daily), as well as having SixBit automatically relist any items that fall off (30 day listings or auctions). Any item that is “unsold” and still has a positive inventory quantity will get relisted as a new listing.
Well, we had a listing pulled down for a DEA violation (as in Drug Enforcement Agency). We had a glass blown hookah that was for sale, that they said was no bueno, and so eBay pulled it down.
Well, the SixBit database did it’s job…and automatically relisted it!
I’m sure you all know how that can be a bad thing. eBay pulls it, tells you it is a bad item, and if you relist it, they can suspend you for a week.
We were lucky that our youngest son was home, and I walked him through how to change the database to stop the auto relisting, and then he pulled it down for us.
So…now I need to look at some of those options for remote access to your computer from the road. Mike in Atlanta, I may need your thoughts on this. I know you mentioned some options before, but I need to get that side going.
I may fix the barn door after the cow has come home…but she don’t get out twice!!! ๐
Yeah, we got the reverse. Buyer left negative feedback, but the text said. “Perfect”. That was it.
eBay said to send the buyer a feedback reversal form, we did, the buyer said that they would change, but they never did.
We have given up trying to stay perfect. We work to keep it perfect, and call eBay or buyers when we think it should be changed, but we haven’t been at 100% for a long time, usually 99.6% or better. I don’t lose sleep over it anymore. Just work at doing the right things, at the right time, for the right reason.
Congratulations!
We switched when the math made sense. So I download the detail on our monthly invoice, so that I can separate out the shipping cost (for FedEx) from the listing fees. I also add up the total cost of listing (the store subscription at our current level, plus the extra listing fees for going over 1,000 listings for the month). When we start paying more a month for those two costs than the Anchor store cost, then I will switch to the Anchor Store.
I did the same analysis when we moved from Basic to Premium. When the total subscription fee and listing fee was more than the cost for a Premium subscription, we moved up.
07/24/2017 at 4:08 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 320: Spinning Plates, Keeping It All Going #20684Agree. And BrianB, I agree with your third point, and that is my main motivation, having more people understand what it is like to run your own business. No, it is not for everyone, and only those that can handle the swings and now how to develop a business should do it. But I would love for a larger part of the population to understand that business owners put their own heart, soul, blood, sweat, tears, money, and hours into their businesses.
I have worked for large corporations as well as small businesses, and I have had to hire lots of people at an entry level. It drove me nuts when some would see the perspective of some when it came to the business. Some were there to punch the clock and get paid, do the minimum work in their hours, and complain that the boss was just some fat cat (in their eyes), that was rich and stealing money from them. These people had no skin in the success or failure in the business, they saw it as the boss “owed them a job, benefits, and pay, whether they work hard or not”.
They never see the money the boss invested in the business, the hours they put in late at night, on weekends, the sacrifices that they made to keep employees working and getting paid. No, not every owner is like that, but it is the vast majority from my experience.
Ok, rant over… ๐
07/24/2017 at 3:02 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 320: Spinning Plates, Keeping It All Going #20682Yep! We want rural, space for Garden and Inventory, within 3 hours to source, and a reliable daily shipping service at the house.
07/24/2017 at 10:28 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 320: Spinning Plates, Keeping It All Going #20671Great podcast this week. Sounds like the weeks we sometimes have when I’m working my accounting consulting gig, Veronica is cranking on eBay, and the garden is producing. Feels great!
We won’t have numbers this week, as we are on the road now in Vegas for eBay Open. We did have some great days last week, so I know the week was the best it has been in a while.
We found a few different places that we liked that we could move in to, so now it is choosing the RIGHT place. We can get more land in some areas, but that comes with an extra hour each way when we go sourcing, plus the mail doesn’t come out to the house, so we would have to drive into town every day to drop off the shipping. Some other places are much closer, and prettier, but not as much land, so we have some thinking to do.
We were selected to be part of eBay Guaranteed Delivery, so let us know if any of you have been selected as well. We will talk with some eBay reps this week at Open and share what we find out.
07/24/2017 at 10:18 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 320: Spinning Plates, Keeping It All Going #20670Totally agree Jay. Imagine the increase in knowledge we would have if he majority ran a business rather than just being an employee…
07/21/2017 at 9:17 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 319: Being Adults, Making Decisions #20597Thanks a bunch!
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