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Hello Twins!
I had zero new listings for the week. I was out of town for 4 days and then recovering from being out of town for four days 🙂 I had a great time, it’s always wonderful to get away to the: hotel, shopping, eating out, drinking beer and spending time with my sister life!
Hope everyone has a wonderful week ahead!
Hi All!
Posting super early because I’m leaving town until Tuesday night, and I know I’ll forget to post on Monday.
13 new listings for me. I suddenly realized that the listings that I’m paying for with my store subscription would go unused unless I stepped it up a bit… I did have a few pretty good days of sales, with sales for 9 straight days. Is it looking up for everyone else? Did 4th quarter finally kick in with only 1 month left to go?Wishing everyone a great week!
Hello All!
6 new listings for me. I’m still sewing and I’m also working on a jigsaw puzzle so I’ve been putting more effort into having fun instead of listing. The plus is that while I’m unmotivated to list I’m also unmotivated to buy inventory, thank goodness!
Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
I noticed that until I printed out mailing labels for all my orders awaiting shipment my offers to watchers didn’t repopulate. I wonder if that’s a thing or just a coincidence?
Once I printed the labels (like Retro Treasures WV reported) the items that popped up for me to send offers to watchers on ARE some of the same items I’d already sent offers on. And I have no idea if I sent offers twice to the same watcher or not. No matter how many watchers I have it seems to send the offer to only 1 watcher on each item. I couldn’t remember what price I offered on the first go round – yikes, I think I’ll look pretty dumb if I just sent the same watcher a higher offer 2 days after sending a lower offer 🙁 I’m hoping eBay is just allowing me to now send a offer to another watcher, but I think I only had one watcher on one of the items I sent 2 offers on… I like the concept but I hope it’s been thought through before it was offered!
Hi Twins!
We’re all really twins now, that’s great! Itemsfromthesouth: you may beat me even though you entered so late in the game – I am at zero new listings again this week. But I’m okay with it, I had a busy week and I just didn’t find the time to list. I sold some stuff anyway and I’m good with that.
Amatino, the video is fabulous, thanks! You deserve first place for sure, those lighted costumes are wonderful and make lighted floats look old school and dull in comparison.
It’s so cool to see all those sewing machines! Our stories have some parallels perhaps: My husband started out as a vacuum cleaner repairman at age 18. When I got $3,000 from my Mom to start college we instead spent it on opening a store selling and repairing small home appliances. My husband made that store into a much bigger business by selling appliances on the internet (he started that before most people knew what the internet was) and we sold the business 27 years later and retired in our late 40s.
But he didn’t sell sewing machines – much to my dismay! It’s interesting that in some parts of the USA sewing machines are sold in stores along with other appliances (usually vacuum cleaners), but other parts of the US have stores that JUST sell sewing machines. Where we lived sewing machines had their own separate stores. Okay probably boring to non-sewers, sorry!
Wishing everyone a great week – Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you millionairedojo for bringing this update to my attention! I see that have it and I just sent an offer this morning, got a lower offer back on the item, and met in the middle ($55.00) with my counter. So I sold the item for $15 less than it was originally listed for. I’d had it listed for months, and I have quite a few similar items still to list so I’m happy it sold!
For everyone who hasn’t seen it, here is the info which I found under Seller Hub Updates for Active Listings on ebay at https://community.ebay.com/t5/Announcements/Seller-Hub-Updates-for-Active-Listings/ba-p/29158673
“Make Offers to Watchers:
Sellers have reached out to us asking for the ability to make offers to Watchers, AKA potential buyers who are watching their items. We heard you, and we’re making it happen. With this new feature, you’ll have another tool to help close potential sales.
Like our other new feature, we’re testing this one out with a small group of sellers to ensure a great experience for everyone involved. If testing goes well, we plan to make this feature available to all sellers in the coming months.
If you are in our test group, here’s how to try this new feature. Select Offer to Watchers on your active listings page to see your eligible listings. Don’t forget to check each page of your active listings to see which ones are eligible. After you make an offer, you’ll see Offer sent next to the listing. We’ve also ensured that there are checks in place so buyers aren’t overwhelmed with multiple offers from different sellers.
We’re excited to roll out these new features with the goal of continuing to make the selling experience more efficient and effective. If you have any feedback, we’d love to hear it.
Click here to share.
Thank you,
The eBay Selling Team”I guess I should start reading the ebay updates as I had no idea that I had this option available until I read millionairedojo’s post.
Hello Fellow Challengers!
I have zero new listings to report but my mood is much improved; thank goodness!
Amatino, I concur with you 100% on your statement: “after I took the pressure off myself, getting sales in was an exciting update, rather than a stressful concern” – this was completely true for me this week. I had $30 more in sales this week than I had for the week of October 21st, which was the week I listed 46 things. So this week it was a pleasant surprise to get sales. I expected zero sales because I put zero work in. I don’t have a large store (less than 200 items) so I don’t expect it to keep paying off without constant effort on my part. I did get the urge to list towards the end of the week but we had a long weekend trip out of town and I ran out of time for listing before we left. I’ll see if I get the urge again this week but I do have a pretty busy week ahead so it may be zero again for me for this week.
Amatino, I’ll stick to the listing challenge, I’d have no chance against you on the sewing front, you must be a super accomplished and fast sewist! I’m a pretty pokey seamstress, but I love the creativity of it.
Lastly, thank you for all the kind words Amatino, VintageLacy and ChristineR: you really boosted my spririts!
Wishing you all a wonderful week!
Thank you Amatino for all the work you’ve put in for thinking up, organizing, promoting, keeping track of and compiling the numbers for this challenge! Your effort has helped me to push myself to list and I appreciate that immensely! That being said I’m sour on eBay at the moment and have decided to take a serious break from it. Hopefully I’ll get back to it since I still have a lot of stuff to sell… But it’s always just been a hobby for me and I’ve cycled back to sewing again which I’m finding a lot more creative and fun at the moment:)
ChristineR: great idea! I am all for just having a death pile support group thread for next year where Amatino would not have to do any extra work keeping the numbers for us.
So since I started my complete break from eBay on October 30th I only have 4 new listings to report this week. I anticipate lots of zeros for the rest of the year, but that’s okay. Life’s too short to spend time doing things that aren’t enjoyable!
Hello All!
I listed 46 items – so I met my personal challenge of listing more items each week in October. Sadly my sales have not reflected the effort, it’s been very rollercoaster with multiple days of zero sales. I’m glad that my October personal challenge is over since I find it difficult to keep listing with such poor sales. I’m actually experiencing monthly sales totals that are about the same as my weekly sales totals were back in July. Sigh.
Also for those of you who sell on etsy: how are your sales there? Mine are absymal. I’ve pretty much given up on selling on etsy.
I have been listing a lot of Christmas stuff on eBay, hopefully it’s just too early for that stuff to sell and things will pick up. Fingers crossed!Hoping you all are having better results for your efforts and great sales!
Hello All and Welcome bingbong! It’s great to have more people participating!
I had 33 new listings for the week. I’m keeping up with my “more new listings every week in October” personal challenge so far. Things are finally back to normal after moving house for me. And eBay is heading towards more normal for me too. I’ve had sales every day for the last eleven days. But no great shakes, tiny $ amounts, and absolutely nothing like it was for me in July before the house change. But I’m still plugging along, hoping for better.
Amatino you knocked it right out of the park – CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Vintage Lacy, I’m really looking forward to seeing the drone footage, how cool!
What great cat photos, she’s a gorgeous kitty! Cats always love a warm spot so I’m not surprised she’s in the light box…
Wishing you all great sales this week!
Hello Everyone!
I posted 26 new listings last week and things are finally starting to look up, thank goodness. I’ve had eBay sales for the last 4 days in a row.
My goal is to have a higher # of new listings each week for the foreseeable future, fingers crossed that I meet that goal at least for the month of October…
ChristineR how was your couples birthday weekend celebration? I’m super envious that you’ve just turned 50, I’ll be leaving that decade in December 🙁
Wishing you all a profitable and productive week!
Hey Scavengers!
Like Amatino last week, I broke the new listing drought – finally! I did 12 new listings last week.
My new routine went great for 3 days and then fell apart, but I’m going to keep working at it since it really helped while it lasted.
Not listing anything new for the last month has affected my sales in the worst way! I’ve had zero sales for the last 3 days and so far nothing today either, which will be day 4 if nothing sells again today. Ouch!
Wishing everyone a wonderful week!
Hi to all the Scavenger Twins (or triplets) and welcome Molly from Itemsfromthesouth!
I’m sad to report that I’m at 0 listings again for this Monday. I’m going to stop jinxing myself and not write here that I hope to report more than zero next week…
This week I’ll just work towards improving my productivity with blocks of time carved out for doing different things. We’ll see if that works or not!
Wishing everyone a great week!
Oops, I totally forgot to report my new listings last Monday, but Amatino you guessed right, I had zero. Amatino I hope you are feeling much better now. I wouldn’t wish shingles on my worst enemy, and I consider you all friends 🙂
It’s another zero for me for this Monday. The good news is that we’ve moved into the new house; I’ve made really good progress with unpacking and setting up the place, and we absolutely love it!
I’m hoping that next Monday I’ll have more than zero new listings to report, and that I’ll have found time to catch up with the thread posts.
Hoping you are all doing well and wishing everyone a productive week!
