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Hello Jay and Ryanne!
Been listening to you both for some time, and although I don’t usually post here, I would like to offer you some thanks for being so honest and open about your stutter. My husband and I listen to you each week, and have learned so much from you. For this we are so thankful!
I sell full time (ebay, etsy and amazon) and my husband works in law enforcement, he will retire early, next year at age 48. We are still learning all the ins and outs of e-com biz, we try and fail alot! But are hopeful for the future and very happy to hear you both week after week!
In response to the listener who gave you “advice”, I do believe there are people out there who mean well, but cannot see how their words can affect someone. The first part of your podcast made me a little sad that someone felt the “need” to write you about this.
Until I was 30, my own mother told me how “beautiful” I was, but if I just lost weight, I would be gorgeous. I believed that lie. For 30 years…sad but true. Now Im over 40..and guess what? I have a loving husband and family who accept me as I am, but it took a LONG time to get that in my head..that I was ok..just as I was.
Your stutter makes you so unique, and you are brilliant! We love listening to you guys! Thank you again for your courage in sharing and educating. Podcast was great!
All the best,
Alana @ The Violet LemonLoved the video- Those Jeanie Rub massagers are a lifesaver- my chiropractor uses a similar one, newer model of course, but I was lucky enough to find an original one for $3 at the thrift- they thought it was a broken belt sander LOL. For serious deep tissue therapy- they are well worth the price you sold them for!
My Cottage,
You could be right on my math calculations they could absolutely be wrong. I simply took the number of active listings being shown at any moment in time divided by the number of sellers. Thats where the 40 came in. Forums are great places to hear and participate with all kinds of perspectives, ideas and even random thoughts! This was just one of ours. I am not the authority on how ebay works, none of us are.Jay, that sounds awesome. We look forward to hearing that interview.
Whiskey, we believe its 40 items per seller at one time. What we don’t know is how often that algorithm recycles and resets. But we have experienced the “lights on, lights off” effect with sales, as many, many other people report. Its an interesting read for sure, on any of the sites above.
This weeks Scavenger Life podcast talks about removing old listings-I think its safe to say that the 1 Billion items number is correct, perhaps their servers cant handle any more than that, especially when a listing is taking up space with no results.Jay,
I think for us it will be developing our own product. I know all about the PL and WL sellers- that is something we will not do. It is commonplace with every major retailer, their store brands are processed in many of the same facilities that process Green Giant vegetables, for example. Same product, add a little salt, maybe a few end pieces and and re-label it as a store brand. We want to create a product that fills a need in the marketplace, not just re-package something that is already there. It will take some time, but in the end we will have something that is truly ours.Forgot 2 other links were from ebay themselves!
Here you goSo we found several sites simply by just doing a search for terms like how many sellers on ebay 2017, and there were lots of blog type sites, but the ones we found that were most neutral were:
Statista.Com
Bloomberg Business
https://www.quora.com/How-many-sellers-are-on-eBay
The Quora article was based on an AC Nielsen study from 2006, but the writer calculates the compound annual growth rate for Global B2C e commerce, and its a very good read.
Statista.com also has Amazon, Walmart, Etsy stats.
Jay, as far as what we are going to change, I think our main store which is our vintage and collectible store will be our secondary focus. We have already downgraded our store subscription, and have been ending listings and taking them to local auction, where they are actually selling! We may keep around 3-500 listings there.
We have a second store that is..you guessed it..clothing and shoes. Just cant get away from those commodity items, but they are paying the bills! Our main focus at least for the rest of the year will be to bring that store up to par with 3-5000 items. We may try facebook marketplace, we already have the “shop now” link on our facebook for biz page linking to our ebay store. We also are looking into developing our own product or line of products with the help of a SCORE counselor through the small biz administration. We are looking for a US based manufacturer and its tough! As to where to sell those products, it most likely will be our own website, with a few on Amazon and ebay.Thank you, Incompetent Picker for the wealth of info, and taking your time to respond. Our research of that type of chair did not produce any results of any chairs without that distinctive X base. This one does not have that type of base, but you are right about possible veneers. There seems to be some sort of veneer on the seat.
Thanks everyone! I am going to take this out into the bright sunlight tomorrow and really look for marks-there are no nails showing at all, but up near the shoulder on one area is it loose, and there seems to be a strange peg of some sort holding it together. Thanks also for the comment about an antique furniture store, but not really any in my area. Most are just dealers/scavengers like all of us lol- Perhaps I can find a reference book at our library on styles/periods etc. We love selling furniture, but have been mostly selling the mid century period. This is new for us.
We think so. We suppose it is in the style of a Curule Throne Chair, but have no clue as to dating this, or type of wood. Really would love a reference site where we can learn clues to dating etc.
