Woot! Here we are with a chance to make a fresh start....brush the cobwebs off your old listings and your old mindsets and let's go! We're a group of eBay sellers who enjoy talking about our great finds, good sales, and life in general. We welcome newbies and lurkers, and promise we don't bite!
THIS IS THE SECOND QUARTER THREAD AS WE'VE ALREADY GOTTEN TO 700 ON THE ORIGINAL THREAD! GLAD TO SEE YOU HERE!
Here are our best ideas, culled from years of selling experience:
1) LIST IN A VARIETY OF FORMATS - Try some regular auctions, auctions with Buy it Now, Fixed Price, and Fixed Price with Best Offer---try some with free shipping too. Not only will you get a better idea what works for YOU, but you'll offer buyers a variety of buying options.
2) OPTIMIZE YOUR LISTINGS – By using the free Terapeak Keyword app (find it in the Applications tab), practice how to take better photos, change the keywords on your listing titles regularly, change the opening blurb in your store header every now and then, and experiment with price changes UP as well as DOWN! Run Sales on a regular basis with the Markdown Manager and also learn how to set up Promotions on your Store listings for better visibility.
3) DON'T LET YOUR UNSOLD LISTINGS LAY AROUND - Check your My eBay page and click on Unsold...get those relisted ASAP! You've already done all the work, so be sure they're available to buyers. More listings = more bait in the water = more bites. 😄
4) OPEN A STORE - If you are wondering whether you are better off with a BASIC store or a PREMIUM store, figure that if you have over 250 store items, Premium is a better buy....under 250, Basic is....this is at least a rule of thumb to get you started. Stores used to be great places to put items and keep them available year round, but with the fee changes, maybe not so much - sit down and figure it all out.
However, there are at least four really good reasons to have a store.... 1) listing fees are less if you have a store, 2) your items can be separated into categories making it much easier for buyers to shop, 3) you can run Promotions and Markdown Manager sales. They are two different ways to generate sales!, and 4) you can put your store in vacation mode when you need to get away for a bit.
5) DEAL WITH BIDDERS, BUYERS, AND ANNOYING INQUISITIVE POTENTIAL BIDDERS IN A PATIENT AND FRIENDLY WAY - Remember that it's worth money in your pocket and it's good business sense to show respect to all. If you must, write up that snarky reply, laugh at it, then hit delete.
6) KEEP A POSITIVE ATTITUDE! This thread is all about MAKING MONEY, that's for sure, but we feel that being supportive of our Lister Sisters and Brothers helps ALL of us. Drop in and hang out! Venting is allowed, but take it easy on the drama, negative vibes and controversial, off-topic issues such as politics and religion.
and if you go here you can see Bob talking about it:
Thanks, Patty!!
Fortunately, I'd already shut my store when we evacuated up to Ft. Myers, and had 2 auctions with bids. I emailed the bidders then and offered them their choice of retracting their bids or waiting until I could ship. Both said they were fine with waiting, so their packages are sitting at my door waiting for our PO (which was damaged) to reopen. Probably Monday, they said. If not, I'll take the pkgs into Naples.
Did you get power back? My brother in FLaud did, but we're not up yet. Power's on to within about 2 blocks of us. We're managing fine, though, considering what might have been. Hugs to you and everybody else---thanks again for the updates! Beth
I lost power for 18 hours.
I do not have one of my internet providers and the one I ussually use the most since Sept 8th.
I have three internet connections and three different companies... exactly for these reasons .
Glad you are ok 🙂
Thanks, amiga!
JUST GOT OUR POWER BACK 15 MINS AGO! Can start eBaying tomorrow, yay!!
Yea for electricity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😄 😄
And look what happened yesterday:
Yea me! 😄
Congrats on that big feedback plop, Olive!
I've been listing today and will be listing more later---anyone care to join me? Reopened my store!
Beth 🙂
Good morning! Actually going to work in a little bit. We didn’t have power as of yesterday—but we’re going to do what we can and hope the power’s up later.
Wonderful sales, Delta! I just reopened my store yesterday and had a sale overnight, so that’s good too. Get out there and get more of that great inventory!
I’m going to try and list at least a few things every day this week to kick start my sales again.
Hugs to all!
I think it finally IS you! 😄
Great news! The power came on at work about 10 last night, so we powered it up and had a good day of helping people and getting everything back ship-shape. Glad to do it, that's for sure.
B
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