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Love your numbers Seam Store! You are at the level we want to get to, so I will love following you and seeing that it is possible. 15% STR is nice as well. You are obviously picking quality items that get a solid ASP. Very nice!
Ryanne, I would contact InkFrog and see if there is a way to download in bulk. Then you could have all your photos on your computer that you control (again, that is my thought for risk management). You could even ask EBAY if you can download in bulk.
Ryanne, do you have your photos in your own drive anywhere? If not, maybe crossposting would be a reason to start. Makes things easier, and if you use Chrome Remote Desktop, you could still access them from anywhere…
So, for me, I am using SixBit to help with that process. I have the photos in one folder that SixBit accesses for upload. Each listing has a unique number, and each photo for that listing is the listing # – 001, 002. So Listing 1234 in SixBit has photos 1234-001, 1234-002, etc. I pull up the listing in SixBit, get the SixBit number, then I can quickly find the photos for that listing on our hard drive. Uploading takes like 5 seconds.
The rest is copy and paste. Now I’m doing Poshmark and Mercari crossposting for that listing at the same time, so crossposting to 2 other platforms in 90 seconds.
PS-then on the SKU for the EBay listing, I add -PM and/or -MC for each crossposted platform. Then I know when something sells on eBay which platforms to make inactive. I don’t delete from that platform until about 30 days after the sale (in case of a return, I don’t have to redo the listing again).
12/19/2018 at 7:36 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 390: Building a Business to Build a Life #53669I do feel like a millionaire. I live across from a grade school and can drink coffee in bed while the “car drop off” line snakes around the block at 7:30 am. We make our “Plan of the Day” over breakfast and aren’t running out the door. I don’t like to think of my life choices being justified by an hourly wage. My current bills are paid, our future expenses are planned out and investments made, so we shall enjoy life without regrets.
I loved reading that…
I think the new sites are definitely brining in new blood, especially the younger crowd, but I think there is some loss by eBay to these sites as they grow.
12/19/2018 at 7:21 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 390: Building a Business to Build a Life #53667Wow…that is an amazing ASP for shirts! Are those mostly new or pre-owned?
12/18/2018 at 4:06 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 390: Building a Business to Build a Life #53651Wow…very impressed and very jealous…
Ok, so inside baseball on the men’s clothing game (since we are pretty focused there too)…
Have you seen a price drop on men’s preowned shirts in the past 12-18 months? We have seen a decent drop on the prices that we used to get, enough that some brands and some items I’m passing on now as the profit margin isn’t there anymore. Wondering if you have seen that as well.
12/18/2018 at 3:40 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 390: Building a Business to Build a Life #53646Very nice. You are at the level we are looking to move to. 100+ listings but with higher ASP. So not creating a sweatshop, but generating a higher net profit per transaction.
How do you store so many of your items (you have double the inventory we do)? Hanging on racks? Just loose in bins? Already stored for shipment? And is it all stored at your house or do you have an outside storage location?
12/18/2018 at 3:03 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 390: Building a Business to Build a Life #53644Amen on all that!
How many listings do you usually list each week? 100+?
12/18/2018 at 1:51 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 390: Building a Business to Build a Life #53635What are the promotion tools on Mercari? I don’t see anything (unless you are talking about linking them with outside areas like Pinterest, Twitter, etc…)
Interesting…
Yeah, all these other sites still pale to eBay. This is why we do everything on eBay, and then crosspost to others when we think it will help velocity. I think PoshMark will have legs with clothes, but I think they need to stop the “sharing” side, as serious sellers can’t spend time to do that task.
12/18/2018 at 11:42 am in reply to: Want to know what an Etsy or eBay Best Offer sold for? You can! #53624Thanks. I’ll have to check that out…
12/18/2018 at 11:37 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 390: Building a Business to Build a Life #53623I agree Christine! Thanks for the push…
Now, to just get the sales to start… 🙂
Granted, I’m starting with the highest priced items, so the sales will take longer, but still…
12/18/2018 at 11:36 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 390: Building a Business to Build a Life #53622For me, I guess it is all in how you look at the metric. I routinely “clock in” and “clock out” when I’m doing tasks, but it is only so that I can get good data on how long it is taking to perform the task. Then I see if I’m happy with how efficient I am at the task, and if I can improve it.
Plus, by knowing how long it takes me to do a task, I can get an idea of how long it will take someone else to do it (employee). Then I can judge what the cost will be if/when I hire out that task.
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