Coming back from time away.
JFYI It takes ebay's plumbers 2 days to turn your spigot back on.
Came back from time away on Sunday.
Water started dripping today.
*Your results may vary.
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JFYI It takes ebay's plumbers 2 days to turn your spigot back on.
Came back from time away on Sunday.
Water started dripping today.
*Your results may vary.
christworks
·9 months agoI do not want to steal @inhawaii 's thread, but I said I would come back after I reopened.
I had a soft reopening at Noon eastern yesterday. I did not do any end/relisting as I was finishing up the last bit of inventory and working on a new banner and marketing store video. I had no sales on Friday. I had one sale this morning and another this afternoon. I have no sales running. One item sold on promotion and the other did not. It took less than 24 hours for me to get my first sale, and two sales within 28 hours of reopening.
I do plan to do a full store reset tonight, ending and relisting everything. I'm also dropping all promotions/ads as I change to a new marketing strategy.
I have purged around 70 cost prohibitive or junk items from my store. That feels so good.
inhawaii
OP9 months agoI wish you a happy and profitable re-opening!
grand-and-glorious-purpose
·9 months agoInstead of time away this year I set my handling time to 10 days and then 9 days and so on.
I did not have any of that slow roll.
I did have people asking why their items hadn't shipped on days 1 through 9.
"Your item is scheduled to ship on time. Did you need me to delay shipping?"
🙄
meme6253
·9 months agoWelcome back, Take it easy & do not over exert yourself!
mikhirs
·9 months agoGlad you are doing better!
mtgraves7984
·9 months agoThanks, @inhawaii. Now I've got Tony Orlando and Dawn stuck up in my head. 😑
"Knock three times
On the ceiling if you want me
Mmm, hmm, twice on the pipe
If the answer is no."
🎶 🎶 🎶
buyselljack2016
·9 months agoMy results have varied.
Sometimes slow for the drip to start.
One time I had a sale within minutes.
keziak
·9 months agoI've had similar experiences. The last few times I went "on vacation" I allowed sales to maybe forestall the lag time. Here's to a great January! As they say, it's all about having what people want to buy. For me at the moment it's books about magic. I have regulars buying some book as soon as I get them listed.
christworks
·9 months agoGlad you are back! I hope this is the last hospital visit for you.
What I do is end all or most of my listings, then relist them. If I can remember I'll come back and repost my results once I reopen later this week.
sin-n-dex
·9 months agoDo you go through your inventory and make sure you still have the item?
Sometimes I pull a bunch of stuff down (so I can raise prices and put it back up in a few weeks). I generally check that I have the item before reposting, just in case something got pulled down for a different reason and that item is gone, I don't accidentally relist something I don't have anymore.
C.
christworks
·9 months agoI am doing inventory now. I closed the day after Christmas to take a "vacation" for a week, then I started on inventory a few days ago. I'm doing a small rest of my garage layout as I transition to sorting unlisted inventory into categories to make it easier when I am using AI to list things. Before I kept stuff I bought at once in a box together until I was ready to list it. I had to move some things around to make room for that sorting. Because of our cold weather and sometimes snow in the winter, there are no yard sales and very few estate sales, so I do not source as much from about early November to April. I keep a back stock of things to get me by 4 or 5 months so I am not only relying on thrift stores and wholesale bin stores.
Now I am going through all listed inventory to ensure I have the item, and that what should be listed it actually listed. I'm also pulling old stuff (2-3 years) that is not getting views or isn't cost-effective. By the time I'm done I will have pulled around 50-60 inefficient items. I think it is a healthy practice to do that. Otherwise, you become a hoarder or a storage unit, not a reseller.
I am hoping to have all of this done by Thursday night, so I can reopen Friday and won't have to ship until Monday.
gloryglorygifts
·9 months agoWelcome back! Now that the spigot is turned back on (in the words of Carly Simon) Let the river run.....
mcdougle4248
·9 months ago@inhawaii
Welcome back!
gone.c-33
·9 months agoWelcome back!
jdbelt1960
·9 months agoI must comment I ate SPAM here on the East Coast but a "Collectors Edition". That is creative LoL!
jdbelt1960
·9 months agoGlad you are feeling better and back in business.
12345jamesstamps
·9 months agoWelcome back.
ten_o_nine
·9 months agoGood thing you live in the USA.
https://youtube.com/shorts/aLMdqbo44Mo?si=8iW45NiYCVykz_CM
sin-n-dex
·9 months agoThat was pretty funny.
Was there really a 10 year wait to buy a car then? I was too young and don't live in the US... so I kinda have no idea.
C.
lakefor94
·9 months agoNo 10 year wait.
His joke delivery was always great.
ten_o_nine
·9 months ago@sin-n-dex
Yes, Ronald Reagan's joke about the 10-year waiting list for a car in the Soviet Union was largely based on the reality of the time.
While 10 years was sometimes at the higher end of the spectrum, long wait times were a defining feature of the Soviet consumer experience.
Reality of Car Ownership in the USSR
Waiting Periods: Average wait times for a new car were roughly six to seven years during the 1970s and 1980s, though they could reach 10 years or more depending on the specific model and the buyer's status.
Advance Payment: As mentioned in Reagan's joke, buyers typically had to pay for the vehicle in full, in advance, and then wait years for delivery.
Limited Availability: In the 1980s, only about one in seven families owned an automobile. By 1985, there were only approximately 45 cars per 1,000 people, a fraction of the ownership rate in the United States.
Exceptions and Quotas: High-ranking Communist Party members, distinguished employees, and those with "valuable" professions (like certain scientists) received priority quotas and could often skip or shorten the wait.
grann-4629
·9 months agoThe wait is still happening. Still can't get a delivery date for some newer RAV4's. My bro damaged the front end of his newer Audi ... still drivable, just cosmetic damage. The parts needed to fix it still need to be manufactured. It's already been over 4 months with no expected delivery date.
tobaccocardyahoo
·9 months agoKnock three times on the pipe ...
dhbookds
·9 months agoGlad to hear your back........!!!!! Get to work!
chapeau-noir
·9 months agoBang on the faucet with a crescent wrench.
grann-4629
·9 months agoBang on the faucet with a crescent wrench.
I use one of those along with a 14" screwdriver for fixing my tv and other delicate electronics. When the faucets leak, I guess I could call Jamie, but maybe Mario just this one time.
chapeau-noir
·9 months agoYou can fix those pesky Allen bolts by selecting a wrench 1-2mm larger and pounding it in with a hammer.
lakefor94
·9 months ago@inhawaii
Glad you are back in action, be careful with that foot.
Just suppose it took longer than 2 days and you had to call ebay, who do you ask for to go check the plumbing?
grann-4629
·9 months agoMario, of course.
Welcome back pal 😎
bashort
·9 months agowhat i have done in the past is do a bulk edit on every listing without actually changing anything to try to get it going again. Not really sure if that helped or not
le-5262
·9 months ago*takes notes*