@keziak wrote:According to the Seller Hub I am down over 15% from last year. I need to add more books with better sales history. Right now I am spending more time researching my unsolds more carefully on ebay and I'm having to discard a lot of books. This is depressing because my incoming inventory stream is getting weaker as sources dry up.
I would never EVER recommend online sales to a young person. It was more doable 10 or more years ago but now it's just hard and it's not just me but other sellers I know. I sell media and the market for CDs and DVDs has largely collapsed, and ebooks take a bite from books. I would say it's an ambitious part-time income or low-end full-time income which is OK for me because my husband covers the major family expenses from his lawyer income. I feel like all I do is save enough money to pay taxes.
If something doesn't sell, it doesn't sell. Get rid of it.
I've found I need to be more choosy about what I put on Ebay. Putting everything up and letting it ride is going to hurt more than help. Of course, that means that out of any given parts lot that comes through my door, fewer parts are going to make it into my store. That means two things: I'm going to have a lot more extraneous **bleep** to deal with, and I have to be more aggressive about finding parts and paying more for them when I do.
Currently, I spend the majority of my time tracking down stuff to sell, both in my Ebay parts store and my other retail ecommerce stores. It's important, because without good stuff to sell, you won't sell.
I don't know what a badger airbrush is, but I feel sorry for that poor little thing! castlemagic -
LOL !!! I bet he works his tail off too 
