@monstertoybox wrote:
It’s easy to lose your sense of humor in this situation, when you’re financially hurt by what is happening and others just like to make fun of it like it doesn’t really matter.
Miss, Mrs, or Mr. monstertoybox
I didn't make fun of you. I actually gave you quite a professional response and evaluated your chart from a traders point of view using fundamental possibilities in my direct response to your post.
You ignored that. But then seem to jump to the conversation that I was having with someone else who was using their sense of humor, for which I responded in like to that poster Then you took it personally, and responded to a post of mine, that I didn't even make to you.
Where's the button to cure that problem. I'm not trying to hurt you... I gave you a response on the level of your post and graph that was in context to your post. You should have responded to that. But no. You had to jump in and find the worst on a humorous post between me and someone else.
You're trying to find the worst about ebay too, you're tyring to find the worst about me, and anyone else who doesn't agree with you. That emotional business. You know what happens to day-traders when they start trading on emotions.... they loose money. You know what happens to persons in business when they address their business with emotions rather than a sound business mind... they start loosing money, then blame it on seeing things that aren't there.
I can swim with the sharks, and give you advice on how to do the same. But I still have a sense of humor. And I'm not going to loose it so you can justify a ghost bot that isn't there and not read what's in the reasonable words that people are trying to tell you, both at their face value and what's between them.
I just don't play those games anymore. So let me be who I am, and if you don't like what I have to say, scroll past it. If you want to say something about what I said... don't complain about my response, because before I put them out for others to read, I put my best forward first, before I settle down for a pipe and a little humor once in a while.
Laugh a little... it was funny. Truth... is funny. If someone isn't giving you a little funny in their response... well then they just might be telling you what you want to hear, rather than the truth of what you might need to listen too.
There's a whole lot more analysis that I could go into on your toy store. I have a very successful toy store as one of my shops. Before you put your store on vacation. I did a rough analysis of some of your listings. You need to do a lot more research on your price margins. Because 40% of the toys you had listed before you went on vacation sell in my river store for 1/4 of the price AND free shipping. It was total coincidence. I had no idea who you were or you me before I came here to visit on my 6 month stent.
Let's start with the ThinkWay Minions Figures and the Minions Duplo's. WallMart couldn't even liquidate them for $1. I know. When I purchase a crate of them at an LA auction house last year for fractions of a penny each, they still had the $1 yellow markdown tag from originally about $9. Most ebay sellers here have been selling them for under $7. I know that because the drop shippers used to take my river listings and list them here at a markup. Then they have them here also for under $4 what's left. I probably have less than 20 left now, and I'll liquidate them in this store probably not until next Christmas. That's what I do. I go into warehouse with other cheap hustlers, and even bid against the 99 cent stores here in stinky LA, hustling last years junk, at fractions of a penny, by purchasing liquidations by weight, not pieces. When guys like us flood ebay and the river with last years kmart fall aparts, your traffic, is going to go down. Same with the Minions Duplos… they weren't a very good seller. I have boxes of them left still also. Your trying to sell these toys for $20 - $30 plus shipping. There's an analysis. Now, if and when ebay throttles my listings to the back of the line, yes, on best match you might sell one or two for those inflated prices. So you will make $10 - $15 selling a couple at those prices. But I all ready made a $1000 selling off a crate of them for $5 - $6. And there's only so much demand.
So I'm the big bad Fox Books now and you're the little shop around the corner. You know what you do? "You go to the mattresses." Same as I have to, when I get stuff I can't sell for the price I want at the speed I want, I take a loss, get some cash back and then go put it into something else I can sell that will move quicker.
I don't cry about it and try to find some algorithmic reason to blame it on ebay. People that do that.... honestly.... just probably shouldn't be in business, or take a month off, toughen up, and come back with a shark bite and drill into your business model.
So that I don't just pick on you. Let's look at "Mr. I sell car parts to repair 20 - 30 year old clunkers." That guy was probably doing great from 2008 - 2016 when dealerships were down to their lowest numbers selling new cars. But places like car max and garage repair and sell shops were making a killing repairing older cars because that's what people do during recessions. AutoZone was booming, opening stores all over the place to meet that demand. But... This is the Trump economy now... like him or hate... if you're in the market for a car, you can afford to buy a new one, your not fixing the old one. Auto Zones are hurting, taking a big hit in that stock too. So yeah, id expect that guys traffic and sales to drop more than dramatically. And, the stuff he is selling, there's so much of it out there now, he's not going to have the traffic, the daily hits, or closed sales he had a few years ago, it's a flooded market for that scrap metal.
But what's he doing. He's in the same boat you are, looking for a reason why it's ebay fault, heading out to the sunset whiners boat.
I am no dummy Mrs. That's why I'm wealthy. But, I do loose patience trying to help people sometimes that just want to hear what agrees with their sulking, rather that listen to others trying to give them an alternate point of view. You probably just skimmed right over those my words though about your chart. They didn't align with your thoughts. But you had NO problem picking up on little humor time I was having with someone else and thinking it was ok to try and give me beating over a little funny that you had to take personally. I tried to give you some great analysis to look at the first time. Now I've give you some other data that maybe you can make some sense of.
It's not personal... it's business.
Still as always, you are an ebay seller on a platform I love to sell on. I hope you do great, and I hope ebay does even better. Because without ebay, doing their thing... we couldn't do ours. You just have to find your angle and work on it without so much emotion.
I don't even let my kids cry to me about trying to make it in business. I'm certainly not going to be a codependent in you crying to me about it either.
Best of luck to you. And I really mean that. The more successful everyone is, the more successful EVERYONE is!
