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My challenge last month was “My Choice”. Does it count to say my choice was not to do a challenge? LOL.
Unfortunately so far I’ve been unable to find my #10 challenge. I know I have another “My Choice” left but I also have something else so I’ll need to find it.
Wow Julie, I’m impressed, good for you!!!
Only 6 listings for me. I had a great visit with my sister though and I’m determined to list more this week.
Wishing everyone a productive week!
32 new listings for me. Not as many as I’d planned or hoped for but a lot more than I’ve been accomplishing lately – I’ll take it!
I seem to be back on track; I’m feeling well and I have a better attitude. Fingers crossed the listing continues! That being said, my sister will be visiting me this week so I may not get as many listings up as I’d like. But it’s so worth it to see her.
Wishing everyone a wonderful week!
Only 9 listings for me.
It took me a week to figure out I had a sinus infection. Now that I have the right OTC meds I’m finally feeling better. But as usual for me by the 4th quarter I’m kind of tired of eBay. My listing numbers reflect that.
Wishing everyone a great week!
Sharyn – I’ve had 4 shots so far. It would be five but the first one was Johnson & Johnson which was one shot instead of 2. The last was the booster made for the variants. Our friends left for vacation before the variant shot was available so I feel lucky on the timing of our trip.
Zero listings for me last week 🙁
I was hoping to get started listing on eBay today but jet lag and not sleeping (until last night) have taken a toll. I’m doing everything around the house today that I didn’t accomplish due to fatigue over the weekend.
It appears that I picked up an ear infection during our trip. I only catch something once a decade or so though, so I’m still feeling fortunate. Covid in France spiked while we were there but we’d had boosters 2 weeks before we left on vacation. Both my husband and I are currently testing negative. Our friends who were vacationing at the same time as we were (but in Switzerland, Spain and Portugal) both caught Covid there. It ruined their trip, so again I’m feeling super fortunate.
Wishing everyone a healthy and productive week!
Zero listings for me last week but I just get back last night from my two week vacation. We had a great time visiting Provance and Paris in France and Bruges, Belgium.
I put my eBay store on time away and averaged one sale a day during the two weeks I was gone. Not great, but better than no sales at all, and I appreciated the simplicity of implementing time away – one of the clear eBay improvements since I started selling on eBay decades ago. I’m trying to get all 15 orders out today so I can start next week with a clean eBay slate.
My number 5 challenge is “my choice”. I finally hit the first of the “my choice” challenge picks! I’m hopeful that I’ll do something with that and break my streak of zero challenges met this year.
Only 5 listings for me last week. I’ve been trying to get ready to go out of the country on vacation and that’s taken up most of my free time. I need to look into how to put my store on vacation as well.
Wishing everyone a wonderful week!
Sharyn, they were exsisting listings that I ended to sell similar but I accidentally deleted the ended listings before I did the sell similar with them. They are gone forever.
Vintage Lacy – I forgot to say that I also watched your YouTube videos, I found them directly on YouTube under your channel name. Very cool! I’m super sorry to hear about your Dad’s situation but it’s wonderful that he has you doing whatever it takes to keep him safe.
25 new listings for me. I was on track for 5 per day all last week but then I got another Covid booster on Friday and that knocked me out for the weekend. So much better than actually getting Covid, I’m so sorry to hear you caught it Julie B. I hope you feel better ASAP.
While I was feeling the effects of the vaccine I accidentally deleted 30 of my listings. Oops. But I’m using that mistake as a kick in the pants to do an inventory of my listed items, which is years overdue. I’m guessing that work will cut down my listing numbers this week…
Wishing everyone a great week!
I have one store and I do get some repeat customers. I believe this is because despite previously listing almost anything, I am now heavily into the craft/sewing niche. I’m guessing my repeat customers are followers of my store who buy again when they get an email from eBay showcasing my new listings.
That being said, having other weird items that are not in my niche (I still have a lot of those types of items listed) never seems to stop niche buyers from shopping my store. I agree with Craig Rex that “mostly eBay is still the unglamorous work: list a pile of items, wait a few days for one to sell, a few weeks for another sale, and a few months or years for another.” It seems to be more about waiting for the right buyer for each listing rather than exactly what your store contains as a whole.
I’ve found that listing every day is the trick to better sales, along with the obvious: good photos, good feedback, good customer service, good prices. I believe having just one store is favorable to the algorithm: listing more in one store each day rather than listing less per store in multiple stores is the optimal way to insure the eBay algorithm is in your favor.
I listed 17 items this week. Since I was preoccupied with getting ready for and having houseguests until they left on Friday, I felt 17 wasn’t bad. I’m hoping for higher numbers this week though.
Vintage Lacy: I’d love to watch your You Tube picking adventures, please share your channel!
Wishing everyone a great week!
My #8 challenge is to get rid of all my unlisted sewing patterns, either by listing, donating or throwing them away.
Since a large part of my eBay business is sewing patterns this is a big task. Luckily I’ve gotten a jump on this challenge due to downsizing and moving, so this might be a challenge I can actually complete! However, I’m going on vacation in less than 3 weeks so I won’t have the entire month to accomplish it. Fingers crossed!
34 new listings for me. I finally finished putting everything away in my new house on Thursday and I’m so relieved to be finished.
Our old house sold in 6 days so now I need to get every last thing moved out of there. We also have house guests arriving tomorrow but after they leave I’m hoping to resume life as normal.
Wishing everyone a wonderful and profitable week!
