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My middle-schooler at the time (2005ish) asked me to take him to the Salvation Army to look for jeans. He wanted skinny jeans and, at the time, that meant buying women’s jeans even though he was a guy. That was the first time I stepped into a thrift store and I never looked back. At the time, I was a garage sale person and selling old books on Ebay. My aha moment that there were places I could shop all year round.
I could be wrong (it’s happened once or twice), but I don’t think Terapeak gives several years of individual sold listings data like Worthpoint does. I think it’s more general data and trends.
I’d probably do as almasty suggested.
I have someone contacting me about once a week giving me a sob story about wanting reduced shipping on some wallpaper I have listed. She’s waiting for her disability check, my wallpaper is the only thing that will bring some joy to her life, yada, yada, yada. I’ve responded twice telling her that it’s heavy and I can’t absorb the shipping cost.
Last message included several photos of themed items in her house that would go along with my wallpaper. Sheesh! I didn’t respond to that one.
I don’t worry about it. Over 10 years, I’ve had probably 4-5 people ask me if something sold when it disappeared and I just sent them a link to the new listing. Also, I’m pretty sure that most of my inventory isn’t something that people would watch for months before deciding to purchase. Once in awhile if something has a good number of watchers 7-10 and I decide to drop the price for the next 30 days, I’ll do a relist instead of a sell similar.
Add me to the list of fans, Steve. The winter/summer editing was great. You can add Cinematographer to your resume. Thanks for the entertainment week after week.
Yay for Inkfrog! Just got an email that they’ve already developed a “GTC Watchdog” tool which will allow me to choose to end a GTC listing automatically. Bump in the road smoothed.
Just checked and they do. Guess I’ll manually end and relist on the 29th day or something.
Jay, the relisting boost isn’t a major concern for me. I know I can still tend my listings, but it’s much easier to tend when you have a few ending each day than when 200 are rolling over at one time. Also, as I mentioned earlier, I don’t want my Promoted Listings campaigns to go on for eternity. I like to make a decision every 30 days on whether to drop the promotion for awhile and lower the price instead or adjust the promotion percentage, etc. By assigning a new item number, the prior promotion automatically ends.
I use Inkfrog and it’s pretty easy to keep track of what’s ended through their site. As far as I know, I’ve never missed a relist. I purposely hold out-of-season or holiday items aside in libraries over there, though. For instance, I give the Christmas stuff one more relist after Christmas and then I won’t launch again until November 1. Same with heavy coats and sweaters. When one of those items ends, I hold to relist until August or September. Not worth it to me to pay for a larger store to stock inventory that has a low likelihood of selling for 75% of the year. Just the way I operate.
I realize I can still manually end the GTC and tend and relist, but it’ll be a PITA to track. Maybe Inkfrog has a way to show me GTC listings that are about to renew. Have never looked into it since I’ve never done GTC. If so, that’d be a big help.
My guess is that there will be.
I know the GTC thing isn’t an issue to most here but, on the surface, it is to me (150-250 listings) and I think it will be looked upon as a negative for a number of other small store sellers.
My sense is that they slipped it in among all the positives with this interim update because they didn’t want to add it to the noise that may come with other changes in the Spring Update.
The sky is falling, the sky is falling….
As always, I’m sure we’ll all adapt to whatever they throw at us.
As far as Promoted Listings go, unless you track and cancel the campaigns, the PL will be attached to the listing forever. With the 30 days relists, the PL campaign ends when the listing does. If I list as new (sell similar), the PL campaign doesn’t automatically follow. I like to pick and choose the timing of my Promoted Listings. I often don’t promote during the first 30 days or if things are off-season.
As a tender of the garden, I’m not at all happy about the mandatory GTC. My take on the impetus? They want to keep the promoted listings fee. If the clicks are GTC, Ebay makes more money.
http://thefederalist.com/2017/11/17/red-states-tax-takers-blue-states-tax-makers/
As appears to be the case with most issues these days, unless you’re doing exhaustive research with your own methodology, you can find data to support both sides of an argument. Didn’t mean to hijack earlier, just wanted to note that despite being negatively impacted by it, not everyone in a high SALT state takes a dim view of the limitation.
I’m in one of those “rich” blue states As far as I’m concerned, the pressure should be on our states to lower the ridiculous taxes rather than on lower-tax states to continue subsidizing federal tax bills. Even though I’m going to end up paying more taxes, I support the SALT limitation.
