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Just did a test and this is an eBay issue. When you click to revise your item ON EBAY, your data is there. It is just not showing to the buyer or when you click on the listing.

I clicked to Revise this on eBay and it STILL doesn’t show up. So that data is there, just not displaying to the buyer…

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We just saw this just now. Checked the PC and no listing description. Ebay opened a ticket on it.

Our rep didn’t say anything about it being a SixBit issue. Did yours?

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@Mike: Sorry that Susan isn’t doing as well. I just sent some prayers for her to get better soon.

Here is the main reason that I keep the -PM and -ET in the SKU field: ease of use each day. When I do the morning reconciliation, I just go to the eBay orders page, and scroll down the SKU of each sale looking for -PM or -ET. When I see on, I have Poshmark or Etsy on the other screen, find the item on that site, and move to “Not for Sale” (Poshmark) or deactivate (Etsy). I do that so that if they don’t pay or we get a return, it is a simple click to move to “For Sale” (Poshmark) or Activate (Etsy). I don’t have to completely do the relist.

Plus, with Etsy we have the SKU on the item so easy to enter into SixBit, and on Poshmark we add the SKU to the bottom of the Item Description. I see that Poshmark now has a SKU field, but for now, quicker to see in the Item Description. Quick and easy.

Just note…Make sure to stay on top of the recon between platforms. Sometimes I have spend a few hours on the weekend finding that Orphan that causes an out of balance. Doing each day keeps the universe of potential items to research small…

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@Mike and Mark: We are (theoretically) still on those platforms. I really don’t think about them, and we get very few sales from them.

Love the diversification. Ebay is now about 85% of our sales, with 10% on Poshmark and 5% on Etsy (though Etsy only really shines in Q4).

Yep, use the “-MC” for Mercari listings and you are set. We do “-PM” for Poshmark and “-ET” for Etsy (no longer duo on Etsy as the sales were too low to justify the $30/mo SixBit fee). Every morning I enter the Poshmark/Etsy sales into SixBit (which removes them from Ebay) and then scroll through the orders on eBay for -PM and -ET sales to manually remove from those sites.

Then I go to Check Listings in eBay and put -PM in the QBE line of the SKU column. It will show all items that are marked in SixBit as being in Poshmark. I make sure the total in SixBit matches the total on Poshmark (Posh Stats). I do the same with -ET to the total listings on Etsy. This makes sure I don’t have something listed somewhere that already sold. I even check the total running listings on eBay with SixBit to make sure everything is submitted.

I did Mercari for a while but had very few sales. I think your stuff will go better there.

Good luck!

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Week of 10/27-11/02
Total Items in Store: 3,271 (Up 17% YOY)
Number of Items Listed: 67
Number of Items Sold: 82 (Down 4% YOY)
(Includes 4 Etsy, 9 Poshmark, 0 Bonanza, 0 TrueGether)
Weekly STR: 11% (Down 2% YOY)

Total Product Sales: $2,406 (Down 7% YOY)
Sales Volume Variance to Prior Year: Down $91
Sales Price Variance to Prior Year: Down $86
Cost of Items Sold: $522
Cost of Labor: $0
Highest Item Sold: $75 – Hugo Boss Suit
Competition: Highest Priced Sale: Troy wins the week and Veronica leads for the year 25-20.

Been a crazy few weeks, with the contract gig going full time, and spending the weekends out of town to go hunting with my youngest son (may be the last time for a few years as he goes to Dallas for Medical School next year).

Sales slowed the last couple of weeks. I have a feeling that the issue with the Item Specifics not being backfilled when they made the change is part of it. I think we will have to start going through our items and bringing them up to date…

As for measurements…always list the item as it is measured. I state that if the tag says 34, but it measures as a 32, I stated that: “Tag Size 34 – Measures as 32”, and all titles and item specifics are as a 32.

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Week of 10/20-10/26
Total Items in Store: 3,278 (Up 17% YOY)
Number of Items Listed: 80
Number of Items Sold: 75 (Down 23% YOY)
(Includes 3 Etsy, 9 Poshmark, 0 Bonanza, 0 TrueGether)
Weekly STR: 10% (Down 5% YOY)

Total Product Sales: $2,259 (Down 31% YOY)
Sales Volume Variance to Prior Year: Down $741
Sales Price Variance to Prior Year: Down $269
Cost of Items Sold: $435
Cost of Labor: $294
Highest Item Sold: $94 – Rock Revival Jeans
Competition: Highest Priced Sale: Veronica wins the week and Veronica leads for the year 25-19.

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Week of 10/13-10/19
Total Items in Store: 3,278 (Up 17% YOY)
Number of Items Listed: 78
Number of Items Sold: 106 (Up 13% YOY)
(Includes 2 Etsy, 10 Poshmark, 0 Bonanza, 0 TrueGether)
Weekly STR: 14% (Down 1% YOY)

Total Product Sales: $3,332 (Up 15% YOY)
Sales Volume Variance to Prior Year: Up $370
Sales Price Variance to Prior Year: Up $60
Cost of Items Sold: $686
Cost of Labor: $0
Highest Item Sold: $125 – Lucchese Boots
Competition: Highest Priced Sale: Veronica wins the week and Veronica leads for the year 24-19.

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It was a temp contract, about 24 hours per week, but things are changing on it and it will probably be full time for a few months, then it will end. After that, it should go back to part time.

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Week of 09/29-10/05
Total Items in Store: 3,312 (Up 24% YOY)
Number of Items Listed: 91
Number of Items Sold: 104 (Up 5% YOY)
(Includes 2 Etsy, 15 Poshmark, 0 Bonanza, 0 TrueGether)
Weekly STR: 13% (Down 2% YOY)

Total Product Sales: $2,974 (Up 3% YOY)
Sales Volume Variance to Prior Year: Up $146
Sales Price Variance to Prior Year: Down $58
Cost of Items Sold: $576
Cost of Labor: $229
Highest Item Sold: $70 – Vintage Polish Doll
Competition: Highest Priced Sale: Veronica wins the week and Veronica leads for the year 23-18.

Clothing
# Listed: 1,853
# Sold: 72
STR: 16%
ASP: $26.55

Shoes
# Listed: 876
# Sold: 22
STR: 11%
ASP: $30.70

Hard Goods
# Listed: 583
# Sold: 10
STR: 7%
ASP: $38.80

EBay
# Listed: 3,312
# Sold: 87
STR: 11%
ASP: $26.79

Etsy
# Listed: 212
# Sold: 2
STR: 4%
ASP: $44.36

Poshmark
# Listed: 915
# Sold: 15
STR: 7%
ASP: $37.00

Going to be some changes in our lives. I picked up a new accounting gig late last week, and it looks like it may become full time. Going to have to change our ebay business around to accommodate. Lots of changes in our world these days…

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@SEAM: Nice sales, especially on the Shell Cordovans. We can never find any!!!

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Your calculation is correct for a Weekly STR. I use a Monthly STR each week.

Since I calculate STR for each week as well as for each month, I want to keep them on the same basis (monthly). If I didn’t, I would have a 2.9% STR for the week, but a 12% – 13% for the month, so I have to figure out how the weekly STR translates to a monthly STR…just too confusing.

So I take the weekly STR and calculate what that week would look like if it was for a full month.

(96/7*30)/3353 – 12%

Translated, we had 96 sales for the week. Divide by 7 to get a daily rate of sales, then project that daily rate for 30 days (1 month), then divide by inventory.

PS – I just saw I had a typo in my post. Our weekly STR was 12%, not 15%

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@Campmocs: Welcome! Your chosen line of sales (clothes) is definitely not for the faint of heart. Getting tough out there!

Glad our talks about numbers helped out. Your STR looks about right to ours, though your ASP is a bit low. I’m guessing more shirts/shorts/etc. in your store?

Troy

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Week of 09/22-09/28
Total Items in Store: 3,353 (Up 24% YOY)
Number of Items Listed: 52
Number of Items Sold: 96 (Up 3% YOY)
(Includes 2 Etsy, 8 Poshmark, 0 Bonanza, 0 TrueGether)
Weekly STR: 15% (Down 2% YOY)

Total Product Sales: $2,701 (Up 8% YOY)
Sales Volume Variance to Prior Year: Up $81
Sales Price Variance to Prior Year: Up $114
Cost of Items Sold: $526
Cost of Labor: $0
Highest Item Sold: $60 – Calvin Klein Sport Coat
Competition: Highest Priced Sale: Troy wins the week and Veronica leads for the year 22-18.

Clothing
# Listed: 1,892
# Sold: 65
STR: 15%
ASP: $25.74

Shoes
# Listed: 878
# Sold: 21
STR: 10%
ASP: $33.39

Hard Goods
# Listed: 583
# Sold: 10
STR: 7%
ASP: $32.71

EBay
# Listed: 3,353
# Sold: 86
STR: 11%
ASP: $27.10

Etsy
# Listed: 214
# Sold: 2
STR: 4%
ASP: $18.94

Poshmark
# Listed: 925
# Sold: 8
STR: 4%
ASP: $41.63

Low listing week since the photographer was gone, and we spent some time on other projects as well as getting the clothing studio back into operation (and I’m out of practice!). But 2 items already sold, so it was worth it to have going again.

Store keeps humming…

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Week of 09/15-09/21
Total Items in Store: 3,338 (Up 24% YOY)
Number of Items Listed: 112
Number of Items Sold: 105 (Up 18% YOY)
(Includes 3 Etsy, 17 Poshmark, 3 Bonanza, 0 TrueGether)
Weekly STR: 13% (Down 1% YOY)

Total Product Sales: $3,289 (Up 41% YOY)
Sales Volume Variance to Prior Year: Up $420
Sales Price Variance to Prior Year: Up $529
Cost of Items Sold: $549
Cost of Labor: $240
Highest Item Sold: $225 – Hugo Boss Tuxedo
Competition: Highest Priced Sale: Troy wins the week and Veronica leads for the year 22-17.

Clothing
# Listed: 1,890
# Sold: 65
STR: 15%
ASP: $32.19

Shoes
# Listed: 875
# Sold: 28
STR: 14%
ASP: $33.02

Hard Goods
# Listed: 573
# Sold: 12
STR: 9%
ASP: $22.67

EBay
# Listed: 3,338
# Sold: 85
STR: 11%
ASP: $29.83

Etsy
# Listed: 212
# Sold: 3
STR: 6%
ASP: $26.56

Poshmark
# Listed: 901
# Sold: 17
STR: 8%
ASP: $39.65

Not much to really report, except staying busy and trying to work as much as possible. Our photographer is on vacation this week, so I’m going to be back to taking my own photographs this week. I know, “cry me a river”, but it will be interesting to see how my numbers look doing it all this week…

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@Mark: It will only import the Ebay listings to the Ebay tab of each item. If you had Etsy listings, it would import those to the Etsy tab of that item.

So no, it won’t automatically populate both for you all at once. You will have to do things one at a time. Not an issue really, since you have to touch each one to add the Etsy specific data anyway.

But, this is how you can do what you want (or, said better, the way Veronica and I would do it).

Import all your eBay listings into SixBit. This will create new Items in SixBit, with the eBay tab filled out from the import. In the QBE line of your items, you type “vintage” above the Product Description field. This will limit the listings shown to only those with vintage in the title.

From that list, click into the item. Click on the Etsy tab for that item. It should pre-populate the Item Description and many other pieces from the Ebay tab (there is a setting for this, so make sure it is on. Mike would be good for the details on that). Then finish the Etsy specific data like Tags.

Once done, submit those items to Etsy.

So, you will have to spend about 2-3 minutes on each item to get it ready for submission to Etsy. Because the two platforms have some different fields, you will always have this issue, but SixBit makes it easy.

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