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My wife will definitely have to pull the orders since basically every storage bin and rack is over the weight restriction. I’ll go nuts if I don’t stay at least somewhat productive. So I have set myself up for lots of armchair listing for the next couple weeks, followed by some easier items I can do at my standing stations.
Spoke too soon. Had some complications this morning and wound up at the ER for a few hours. Ugh.
Thanks, Troy
I have some storekeeping I’ve been putting off for quite a while, so this will be the perfect time…once I’m a little less medicated.
One is finally switching and setting up my business policies.
The other is an international shipping issue I’ve discovered with Canada. FYI, I have special Canada rates added to all my listings, but recently realized that if the Canada rate is not first on the list of international shipping options, Canadian buyers can’t see them on the mobile app. They can’t actualy see the options until after they commit to buy. A few buyers have asked about it and I’ve walked them through it. Some have backed out because they weren’t convinced I was telling the truth. But just imagine the scores of buyers who never speak up and just walk away when they only see the overseas rates. Not sure if setting up my business policies will correct this organically, we’ll see…that would be nice.
Wes
Whelp. I made it through day 1. Out of the 4 surgeries I’ve had over the years, this was by far the most painful. I feel much better today already, but that might just be the meds finally catching up to the pain.
I Was able to get about 300-350 items photographed over the last 2 weeks to help myself take it easy for the next month. Soooo many tasks in this biz require lifting or pulling 10 lbs or more. My wife will have to pull the majority of the orders for me for a while. I may even train her a little on shipping while we are at it.
Week March 10-16, 2019
Items in store: 3467 Listings for 5595 Items
Items Sold: 76 Transactions for 81 Items
Gross Sales: $5262
Highest Price Sold: $550, LVC Leather Jacket
Lowest Price Sold: $7.00 (necktie)
Average Price Sold: $64.96
Cost of Goods Sold $310 Plus consignment
Number of items listed this week: 52 Listings for 278 items
$$ spent on new inventory this week $4602
Repeat Customers: 10Amazon
Items Sold 6
Gross Sales $73.36
Cost of Good Sold $3I didn’t list too much this week, was working double on photos to try to get a large stockpile ready for my 4-6 week recovery. Surgery is this Thursday, and I hope to have about 400 items photographed by then. (215 or so done already). We’ll see, I have a huge list of other projects to wrap up as well before I go under.
Sales started to get a little spotty this week, not horrible, but definitely a noticeable difference, especially with the big inventory expenditure and February’s consignment payout went out on the 15th ($3600), which left the week up-side-down.
I use promoted listings as well, on almost everything beyond a certain listing date. Newly listed items don’t get promoted until at least 30 days, sometimes 60 depending on my sales/discount/promotions schedule. I just do a flat 8% across the board. I average about $300/month for ad fees, minus the $55 credit.
First Class shipping….you can also purchase First Class for up to 16oz using Fitshipper, if ebay is not working correctly for you.
This was my first car. ’72 Chevy C10 Shortbed “Fish Truck”
I really want this truck back, and someday I may track down the owner to try an buy it. I still haven’t completely forgiven my dad for selling it when I wasn’t around. It needed a new motor, and back then you could score a crate motor for about $500.He sold it for $250, gasp. SMH
Another note on the returning customers. You can also see some limited data on new/returning customers on the “reports” tab of your paypal page, and can sort by 7, 30, 60, 90 and Current Year.
I wanna play too….
EDIT: Wait….how do you add the pics again? lol
Our ’68 Camaro. When my wife was a kid, this was their daily driver. Please ignore the oil spots on the driveway, the mail truck has destroyed it…..but on the bright side if they keep it up, the whole thing will be black soon.
Two things to mention as a word of caution about Web Interpret….
It’s not compatible with the Global Shipping Program, you need to turn that off and ship directly if you want to participate in the Web interpret service.
It’s rather easy to earn an account suspension by accidental violation of the differing rules on the international ebay sites, as they will interpret anything you have listed, whether it’s ok to list on a foreign site or not. That’s a little risky and scary. I got nailed with a 3 day listing freeze for a firefighters coat that was apparently illegal to list in France. Had a buddy that got his account closed for a full month for some international Vero/branding issues selling sunglasses. Proceed with caution.
Week March 3-9, 2019
Items Sold: 101 Transactions for 109 Items
Gross Sales: $7197
Highest Price Sold: $550, 1850s Thomas Kelly Lithograph
Lowest Price Sold: $4.99 (Pair of Shoe laces)
Average Price Sold: $66.03
Cost of Goods Sold $452
Number of items listed this week: 76 ListingsAmazon
Items Sold 4
Gross Sales $87.79
Cost of Good Sold $8Repeat customers: I typically see about 10% of my weekly sales from repeat buyers (8-12 customers per week), according to godaddy. Not enough to live on, but it certainly helps.
I put “thank you” business cards in every package that goes out, and have for years. A few years back I had a set printed with a QR code on the back linked to an eBay promo for 10% off any purchase. I sent out 5000 of them and never saw a single sale from it……but that might just be because people don’t scan QR codes.
Week Feb 24-March 2, 2019
Items Sold: 84 Items
Gross Sales: $5484
Highest Price Sold: $199, Levis Kurt Cobain Jeans
Lowest Price Sold: $4.99 (Pair of Shoe laces)
Average Price Sold: $65.28
Number of items listed this week: 142 ListingsWay late on these numbers. This weeks has been so hectic, I’ve forgotten all the highlights from last week. lol
I go in for surgery on the 21st, and then will have at least 4 weeks of recovery time with restrictions. Ugh
Still here….just have been having a crazy week. Will post numbers hopefully later today.
Gotta go see a surgeon about a hernia first. Ugh. Hopefully they can fix it quickly so I can get on with the recovery. It’s been slowing me down for a few weeks.
Correct. I know of a few people who incurred the extra 4% fvf 2-3 days ago. They each reported SNAD returns in the 1.8%-2.4% range, most of which were opened incorrectly by buyers as not as described for remorse reasons like fit, or color, didn’t read description etc. None have been able to appeal the decision.
This is troubling as I spoke to a few separate reps last fall that assured me that this would be appealable. I currently am not in the danger zone, but how quickly that can change with a few returns. I currently have 11 SNAD returns, 10 of which would be considered remorse reasons by any sensible rep. If I had 5 or 6 more it would cause me to be penalized 4% extra FVF (an increase of roughly $800-1000/month)
