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Rita just told me that eBay actually CALLED her and wanted to talk about helping with sales or something. She said she couldn’t talk and the rep asked if she could email us. That’s when we got the email above.
Kind of weird that eBay called us.
Here’s the 2nd part of the email which I think clarifies:
“Increase your holiday visibility.
During the busiest sales time of the year, buyers are filtering for eBay Guaranteed Delivery. When you offer same-day handling, the delivery promise to buyers becomes shorter, and your listings are more likely to show up when they click the “Guaranteed 3 day delivery” toggle. For step-by-step guidance on how to update your handling time, watch our video.”About the 3 day guaranteed shipping…
Ours is showing as 4 days as well. I think if we changed to same day handling instead of 1 day handling, we would show up as guaranteed 3 day delivery.
eBay sent us an email that sort of said this. The email was sent after we called to close a case:
“Thanks for speaking with me. As we discussed, you have the opportunity to increase the visibility your listings get with eBay Guaranteed Delivery by offering same-day handling.”
Total Items in Store: 2025
Items Sold: 46
Cost of Items Sold: $68
Total Sales: $1739
Highest Price Sold: $105.76 (Redwing Boots)
Average Price Sold: $37.80
Returns: 1
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $8
Number of items listed this week: 47Very good and consistent week. Strong sales.
Congrats Ryanne and Jay on selling that Santa!!
But change this week for us too. Sales up almost 150%.
Total Items in Store: 2000
Items Sold: 29
Cost of Items Sold: $22
Total Sales: $1078
Highest Price Sold: $123 (7 packs of small Harry Potter Legos)
Average Price Sold: $37
Returns: 2
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $50
Number of items listed this week: 50Slowest week in as long as I can remember. Oh wait, it was last year first week of November! Not a good week for some reason. But we are already several hundred dollars above last week and it’s only Wednesday.
Total Items in Store: 1978
Items Sold: 14
Cost of Items Sold: $15
Total Sales: $442.30
Highest Price Sold: $83.93 (Pyrex bowls)
Average Price Sold: $31.57
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $50
Number of items listed this week: 50Total Items in Store: 1884
Items Sold: 28
Cost of Items Sold: $17.50
Total Sales: $897.12
Highest Price Sold: $77.20 (90s Tommy Hilfiger Button up shirt)
Average Price Sold: $32.04
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $3
Number of items listed this week: 32Sales have been picking up. Listings down for us this week as we had a lot of stuff going on.
Total Items in Store: 1,620
Items Sold: 23
Cost of Items Sold: $8
Total Sales: $705.47
Highest Price Sold: $96 (Vintage Mexican Full Circle Skirt)
Average Price Sold: $30.65
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $9
Number of items listed this week: 20 (spent the week doing a side job painting a house. That “choose work that pays a lot and you wanna do” thing)Total Items in Store: 1,578
Items Sold: 22
Cost of Items Sold: $20.75
Total Sales: $686.21
Highest Price Sold: $82.20 (Big Smith vtg Jean jacket)
Average Price Sold: $31.19
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $35
Number of items listed this week: 22 (spent the week on vacation in Smoky Mountains)First time we have vacationed since starting this eBay store full time. Out handling time at 5 days. Got back Thursday and listed some and sent out the items that sold while we were gone. Noticed no decline in sales!
Side hustle….sounds weird. Anything other than eBay I call a “side gig”.
Total Items in Store: 1,450
Items Sold: 31
Cost of Items Sold: $36.10
Total Sales: $1400.68
Highest Price Sold: $500.00 (1962 Painted Portrait of a Woman, cost $5 from Estate Sale)
Average Price Sold: $45.16
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $92
Number of items listed this week: 41 (I was working a side gig at a Buddhist Monastery most of the week)We sell the same way, Jay and Ryanne. Unique items (generally). Hand picked. Wait for the right buyer. Example….this week we sold an oil painted portrait of a random women from 1962 which we got from an estate sale for $5. It sold for $500. Odd thing is, it was only listed a month. Prices it high with make offer because I liked it on our wall! The person didn’t make an offer, just bought it.
Wonder why people don’t make offers? This was a newer ebayer who maybe didn’t understand. Anyway, I wouldn’t have taken much less because it was so lovely.
Total Items in Store: 1,400
Items Sold: 22
Cost of Items Sold: $62
Total Sales: $747.86
Highest Price Sold: $83 (Aldo Boots, cost $2)
Average Price Sold: $33.99
Returns: 1
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $35
Number of items listed this week: 61Stomach flu prevented more listing and scavenging than I would have liked.
The site now says “Unfortunately, eBay has decided to shut down the service.
We would love to hear your feedback about any other tools you would like to see on your website. Contact Us.”I liked to use the service when buyers backed out of an offer, but mostly just for fun. I’ve see. Some weird stuff. But also have seen when the Buyer has found a similar item for cheaper. Not that it did me any good. I still cancelled the transaction.
