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Just 22 new listings for me. I still haven’t gotten back into the swing of listing daily since being out of town weeks ago. Last week I was doing well until I got my second booster on Friday – then didn’t feel great (or like listing) over the weekend.
So (even though I’m already behind on listings for this week) I’m definitely going to make my listing goal on my next post. Wishing the same for everyone else!
Only 9 listings for me.
In my original post last Sunday (which disappeared) I stated that I’d be out of town for one day during that week and for half of this last posting week. So I knew my listing numbers would be lower for two consecutive weeks.
I did think I’d have more listings for this post but social obligations and resting up from traveling brought me way off my 5 listings per day goal. I’m hoping to get back to my usual listing game this week. Fingers crossed!
Wishing everyone a productive week ahead!
My challenge #11 was “Do trials of List Perfectly and other listing services to see if I want to use one permanently”.
My issues with not completing any of the monthly challenges are 1: Like Julie B, I only do things I want to do when I want to do them. 2: Ideas I quickly thought up to be ready to start the challenge may no longer apply. And 3: I’m a world class procastinator who can only manage one day at a time.
Problems 1 and 3 are surmountable with discipline as Julie pointed out, although I haven’t managed to do so yet – lol!
But problem 2 is a real problem. My challenge this month no longer makes any sense for me to work on. Like Vintage Lacy, I may be moving soon and with home downsizing my eBay store will have to become a niche store. Ebay is the only platform I’ll need to be on as I won’t be expanding my sales.
Darn, I only listed 20 items last week. I’m going out of town later this week but I’m still hoping to do better than 20 listings for this week.
Congrats on the high ticket sale Amatino, that’s fantastic! And congrats to Julie also, your ornament sale is an eBay sellers dream come true. Finding something no one else picks up at an estate sale that’s worth so much is reseller Nirvana!
Wishing everyone a good week!
Sharyn congrats to you also on finishing up your challenge for April. Your banner looks fantastic and your store description is wonderful as well. A job well done and very inspiring!
35 new listings for me last week.
Congrats to Vintage Lacy on taking Amatino’s nudge and running with it. Unfortunately for me the nudge was just another missed opportunity – lol.
Make it a great week everyone!
35 new listings for me last week. I’m chugging along at my current self-imposed pace of 5 new listings per day.
I had 2 instances of good customer service paying off. 2 people said they would purchase if I made changes to my listings. One wanted me to combine 2 listings into one with a discount and one wanted me to take one item out of a listing (they already owned one of the items included in the listing) and discount the listing price.
It is extra work to rephotograph and change listing descriptions but I ended up with two sales on Easter Sunday by doing so. And I would have had a zero sales day yesterday without those 2 sales.
Wishing everyone a productive week!
Just 31 new listings for me last week. And I totally failed on my March challenge, I didn’t even attempt it.
Wishing everyone a great week ahead!
I just wanted to chime in on the lost packages in Memphis comments.
I had a first class mail package that arrived at the Memphis hub on March 12th and never made it out. My buyer was super patient and understanding, she said there’d been a rash of lost mail/packages in that part of the country around that time frame.
USPS just closed my lost package request without resolution and I refunded my buyer.
42 new listings for me last week. I started the week listing a lot but then I got distracted watching more fires near my home. Pretty unnerving, but at least these fires didn’t spread like the huge fire disaster we had here on December 30th.
Wishing everyone a wonderful week!
Ouch, only 7 new listings for me last week. I wasn’t feeling well after traveling. It turned out to be nothing of note though and I’m fine now. But it really hurt my listing progress last week.
I expect to have as many listings done today as I did all of last week so this week should be much better.
I want to debunk my own hypothesis about listing every day that I posed on 3/7 when I wrote: “In the last 2 weeks I had one day in both weeks that I didn’t list anything. The day after listing nothing in both those weeks I had a zero sales day. A zero sales day is very rare for me so I thought that was interesting. I’ve always believed that listing every day is really important to eBay’s algorithm, perhaps this confirms that belief?”
I didn’t list for 4 days last week and I had good sales all week with sales every day. So much for the hypothesis that you need to list every day to satisfy the eBay algorithm!
33 new listings for me. I’m pretty pleased I managed that many as I’ve just returned from a long weekend trip.
I worked ahead and scheduled listings to go live on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It was the first time I’ve ever managed to do that. I can’t say it helped my sales much though. It was pretty slow for me while my store was on time away.
Wishing everyone a great week and safe travels to Amatino!
31 new listings for me.
I had an experience on eBay that I thought I’d mention. I try to put up 5 new listings every day, seven days a week. I sell (on average) just under 4 items per day, seven days a week.
In the last 2 weeks I had one day in both weeks that I didn’t list anything. The day after listing nothing in both those weeks I had a zero sales day.
A zero sales day is very rare for me so I thought that was interesting. I’ve always believed that listing every day is really important to eBay’s algorithm, perhaps this confirms that belief?
Wishing everyone a great week – and keep listing!
