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Hello All,
Amatino you may have jinxed me with your well-meaning “Well done, VT! Looks like you’re going to take the baton next week! Fingers crossed you’ll be on a roll for the rest of the year.” Or more likely I jinxed myself by saying I had my listing mojo back – LOL!
Honestly I did okay with 56 new listings last week, but that was with 3 days of zero listing. On Monday night we had to rush our 19.5 year old cat to the emergency vet. By Tuesday afternoon our bill there was more than I make on eBay in a month. Ouch. Anyway our cat is at home and seems to be doing well now (for a 19.5 year old cat) but I spent 3 days coaxing him to eat, to take his medicine and worrying instead of listing. The news wasn’t great from the vet but most cats don’t live to his age so it’s not surprising. But it’s still difficult news since he’s our baby… We are feeling very grateful to still have him with us for now.
Anyway, I cancelled my vacation that was going to start today so I’ll be getting more listing done this week than I would have, so there’s that!
Wishing everyone a great week!
A few weeks ago I had a customer who thought I was trying to make up for the discount I offered her by collecting sales tax from her. She was very upset about it.
I explained that many states are now requiring sales tax be collected on internet sales. She said that she had never paid internet sales tax before and I countered that most likely her state had just recently adopted internet sales tax collection. I asked if she had purchased anything else on the internet that day and NOT paid sales tax. Even when I explained that eBay collected and remitted the sales tax, not the seller, and told her that the seller never sees the sales tax money she believed that I was just using “sales tax” as a way to get more money out of her for my item. She cancelled the sale.
I’m probably lucky she cancelled though, she seemed like a very hard to please buyer.
I’ve never been much of a clothing seller so I don’t have many clothes to go through but I have SO MANY CRAFT ITEMS!!! 77 more went in the donate bag today. So I’m at a total of 98 out the door so far.
Hello All!
I managed 28 new listings last week, but more importantly, I finally got my listing mojo back. Between yesterday and today I’ve created 37 new listings. Fingers crossed my mojo doesn’t go back into hiding.
Wishing everyone a great week ahead!
Donations to the thrift store and the garbage & recycling bins going quite well here. I got rid of 21 death pile items last week.
I’m a contender for the WWYT, but my excuse for that is SEWING PATTERNS! I have tons of them and most of my 21 discards this week were patterns. Just getting rid of my incomplete patterns added up pretty fast. Once I start adding in the not worth selling (even in a lot) complete patterns who knows? Sadly, this competition is one in which I could really excel 🙂
Amatino, I’m so happy to hear you are feeling better! I know you are out again this week for any challenges due to tax prep but I wanted to check in anyway. I’m good with my pledge to list more than I sourced again last week with 7 items purchased and 25 items listed.
My challenge for myself this week will be to sort thru the death pile and donate 20 items that are either too cheap or too complicated to bother listing.
Amatino, I hope you are doing okay! I’m sending you positive thoughts and wishes for the best outcome possible.
I did 25 listings last week. Expecting to do less listing this week, I’ll be busy with non-eBay stuff.
Wishing everyone a good week!
So even though I only managed 15 listings it was 9 more listed than purchased last week. So far so good!
Hope your tax returns are progressing!I managed 15 listings. I thought it would be a light listing week for me and it was. The positive is those 15 were all death pile items which always take me longer to list. So I’m feeling good about that!
Good job Sharon, 20 with family in town is great! And good luck Amatino with getting everything accomplished!
Wishing everyone a great week!
I might have missed something but I wasn’t concerned about the ad blocker thing. It’s only 2% effective.
What I have learned is that it’s no longer true that if you promote your items they show up twice in search; one time organically and one time as a promoted listing. Now the listing will only show up once, whether it is promoted or not. What I was buying was double exposure for my item by adding the promotion. Now the listing will only show up once in search even if you are promoting your listing.
According to eBay: If your promoted listing shows up higher in search than your organic listing would have then your organic listing disappears from search. Conversely if your organic listing shows up higher in search than your promoted listing would have then the promoted listing disappears from search.
Logically (although as we know this was not 100%) promoted listings should show up higher in search than organic listings, which would cause your organic listings to disappear and only the promoted listing to show up in search. That means if you use promoted listings on all your listings basically none of your items have any chance sell without you paying the promotion fee – simply because your organic listings no longer show in search.
They have the same thing in Ohio called “Price Drop”. I saw it on a Youtube video from Pudgy Picker. She didn’t mention anything about any fighting over the items but I don’t think she’s ever gone on the first day.
Thanks for your response Retro Treasures WV!
Because mine are lower priced items I don’t add best offer until the item has remained unsold for some time. Possibly my problem is more one of having patience (not my strong point) and just waiting it out until the item sells as priced. I guess by adding best offer I am inviting people to make offers. Just because I wouldn’t offer 33% on an item that is already the lowest priced on eBay doesn’t mean other people won’t. What’s the saying? “If you don’t ask, you won’t get”?
I don’t use the automatic decline option because I do sometimes take offers that I consider low-ball, like you say: depending on how long the item’s been for sale, my mood and how my sales are that day.
Just had an offer I consider reasonable though, 20% off my lowest on eBay price and that item is now sold. So things are looking up!
Thanks Old Dad, the full moon explains it!
I usually make counteroffers, but occasionally it’s all I can do to just decline the low-ball offer instead of making a counter with a snarky comment like: “I’m sorry, I didn’t notice this item was on fire when I listed it.”
Okay hopefully my rant is over!
