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Wow, I can’t believe it! I shall be resting on my laurels this week, but hopefully not beyond then…
I went thrifting to celebrate my first legitimate win (my other point was due to a missed deadline by the actual highest lister) and after 3 stores and 2.5 hours found exactly 1 item for 75 cents. So, so much for celebrating, my time would have been wiser spent listing…
Amatino, I meant to tell you how beautiful the titty worms look on that belly dancing top! And to say how gorgeous all your dancers are; it’s fantastic to see dancers in all shapes and sizes and realize that one doesn’t have to have a “model body perfect” to be absolutely gorgeous.
Aww, I didn’t see this until you mentioned it over on the listing challenge Amatino. I totally would have been on board. I’ll check the box to be notified in the future and take you up on the challenge next time!
Vintage Lacy, your new venture of putting on an estate sale sounds exactly like something I’d love to do! I love digging through stuff, I don’t mind the filthy junky little thrift stores or hoarder house estate sales. For some reason I always think I’ll get a better deal or find some treasure that was completely overlooked by everyone else…Having first pick is amazing!
So I’m guessing that all of you who just leave all your listings up have bigger stores and are already paying for the listings on eBay with your bigger store subscriptions. I have the basic store so I’m always congnizant of paying listing fees for each listing over my limit of 250. Now that eBay is good til cancelled I’ll have a lot more items automatically relisting every month so I’m thinking about how those 25 cents per listing fees every month (over my listing limit) will add up over time.
Every once in a while something I’ve had listed a long time does sell, but I’m not sure it would be worth paying 25 cents for each listing over my limit over months or possibly years while waiting to see which $5.00 item sells… I think if I had higher $ inventory it’d be worth it, unfortunately I still have LOTS of sewing patterns in my death piles:(
Thanks for letting me know how you all look at it. It makes sense for higher priced items for sure. I need to work on not sourcing anything that I don’t know for sure will sell for at least $10 or more. I’m a sucker for the “it’s only a quarter, I’ll just buy it” when I know it’ll only sell for $5.00. Yup, hobby seller here, rather than smart business owner.
Congratulations Liz on getting all the books listed! Way to go!
Amatino before I post my number for last week I wanted to address your comment: “Vintage Treasures, according to the spreadsheet, you have listed 281 items this year. If you’ve managed to list that many items and STILL be at 230 items, you’re listing good stuff because it’s selling”. This made me think and I figured it out: the reason I haven’t gotten over 230 items is because always did 30 day listings, not good til cancelled. And if things seemed like “duds” I just didn’t relist them, so lots of items were not actually selling, they were just expiring and not being relisted. Unfortunately!
Now that there are no longer 30 day listings I did make it to 253 active listings today. I think this is why people with small stores are up in arms about losing the 30 day listing option, because stuff they wouldn’t relist automatically relists, and they are trying to keep their “free” listings for better stuff that might actually sell.
Anyway I really appreciate your encouragement and hopefully I will be more careful about what I source in the future – knowing that I will have to go through and manually end things that turn out to be duds.
And I listed 40 things last week, see Amatino, your encouragement got me motivated, thank you so much!
I wanted to second what almasty said above: “If I don’t get to it when I have a chance to list it, I might not have another opportunity for a long time, thus bypassing the holiday entirely.”
I was waiting until closer to Easter to list an Easter themed item and I missed listing it in time for Easter. The same for Christmas last year and the year before. So even though I too am wary of listing something off season and paying fees for months and months until it’s more likely to sell, I find I’m missing out entirely because it’s unlisted when the correct season just suddenly sneaks up on me.
I’ve been researching Christmas solds recently and it is true that everything sells all year round regardless of seasonality. I’m going to work on getting up all my Christmas listings this summer.
Thanks Amatino, that felt good! And if I was selling higher priced items, I’d really be in business! Of course judging by this weekend and today I’m not in business at all… Fingers crossed that’s due to tax season!
Yikes Amatino, that’s a lot of pressure! From 8 weeks down to mere days to produce that much intricate work, ouch. Good luck!!!
24 new listings for me. I got a reprieve on trimming the rosebushes due to the snow and cold weather here. So I had time for more listing than I expected. I’m hoping to keep up to this level even though it will be a pretty busy week ahead.
I just don’t know some (all?) of you made it to the number of items listed that you have. I’ve never been able to get above 230 something items. I must be a super slow lister, it takes up most of my free time to list 10 things in a day. Sigh.
Wishing you all a great week!
Awww, so cute! Sharyn, it must be wonderful to have a smiling helper! Although it does seem kind of unfair that the winners get helpers when the losers need the help more – just saying (because I didn’t win).
Amatino did you make that little elf dude? He looks professionally embroidered and sewn but knowing your mad sewing skilz I wouldn’t be surprised if you made him yourself. The only thing that could possibly improve him would be some titty worms.
Eek, that sounds like I’d be putting too much power over my listings in Terapeak’s hands. Thanks for your comments Temudgin.
I have a basic store and it is also free with my basic store yearly subscription. When I went to sign up at the link supplied by amora309 above I got the following screen:
“Grant Application Access: Register With Terapeak
Ready to use Register With Terapeak? Great! To share info about your eBay account and let Register With Terapeak act on your behalf, we need your consent first. Don’t worry: We won’t give the application your eBay password. And if you ever change your mind about consenting to this application, no problem. Just go to My eBay to take care of it.Please be sure to read the Register With Terapeak terms of service and Privacy Policy, because these are the terms and policy that will apply when you use this application. We don’t manage policies set by other companies.
When you agree, you’re letting us share your eBay account data with Register With Terapeak, and you’re letting Register With Terapeak act on your behalf on eBay, as described in their terms of service.”
Since I don’t have time to read the Register With Terapek terms of service and Privacy Policy right now I declined to sign up at this time. Has anyone read this? If so, is there anything in there we should all be aware of before we sign up?
Wow, Sharyn – good job – I’m impressed!!!
Welcome Liz! Wow, 1400 books, you should be giving us all a run for the money if you are almost done listing those already!
Only 19 listings for me, it was a busy week. My plan to do 3 easy to list items each day fell apart on Thursday when I ran out of already photographed easy to list items. So I need to get more stuff photographed this week.
But this week I have to work on gardening (thanks to the previous homeowners who planted 16 rosebushes) so I expect another busy week. I did manage to get 2 of my higher priced items listed today after taking the time to finish the prep work.
Wishing everyone a great week!
Troy, I’ve had a lot of success with offers to watchers on eBay, I would highly recommend trying it!
04/05/2019 at 8:34 am in reply to: Problem Cross Listing..Sold the Same Item to the Same Buyer on Ebay and Etsy #59799As far as I know there are no negative conseqences to cancelling an order on etsy. (Other than the possiblility of negative feedback of course.) I’ve had to cancel a couple of etsy orders in the past and have not received any negative feedback, etsy buyers do seem to be more civil. I think your plan is a good one. I agree on cancelling the etsy order over the eBay one. I know as a buyer I would be very happy with the $10 and the explanation, I would find that solution generous.
The only possible problem I see is that the buyer needs 4 bowls and wouldn’t have bought just 2 if she hadn’t found 2 more to complete the set. Maybe contact the buyer first to make sure she wants just 2 since you only have 2?
I had her close the case and then I refunded her purchase price minus the shipping she paid.
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