06-10-2015 03:40 PM
I am just starting to organize and have put postcards into grouping, and posting a few from my parents collections,but I do not seem to get much traffic in my listings, please any advice on listing would be appreciated. I did have luck with old ford mercury cards, but they are all gone...
06-10-2015 08:41 PM
Here is what has worked for me:
Hope all of the above proves helpful.
John
06-12-2015 09:29 AM
Hello postcard collectors .
I'm not a seller but you ever heard anything about selling your eBay items on Facebook.
You can probably go to Facebook and watch a few videos on connecting your ad are your eBay store to your Facebook page.
If it was me I wouldn't use my personal Facebook page but start a new Facebook page .
I don't know how this would work but it's worth looking into.
Garylk50
That's it to next time
06-12-2015 10:43 AM
I think the above poster's comments about postmarks are important. Many people collect postmarks, such as postmarks from post offices that no longer exist or railroad postmarks (they would do the mail processing on the train). I would recommend lookng at the SOLD auctions also to see if copies of your cards have been sold recently - can give you a price range to start. If the card has value, it most likely be bid up. If you have a chrome, state it is a chrome and not a Real Photo (becuase it is not a real photo).
When searching, for me, its about the topic or location. There are people who will copy the entire wikipedia text about a location into their auction listing which is ridiculous. I believe ebay has specific rules about how you can claim the age of the card. Don't get discouraged! There are a lot of cards that are just of no interest to anyone anymore.
06-17-2015 01:09 PM
If you want to see how online postcard selling should work, check out delcampe dot net. The site loads up quickly and doesn't jerk all over the screen. The settings stick - so it doesn't revert back to "Best Choice" every other search. The host doesn't hen peck its users at every turn trying to scrape up more revenue for the 1%.
I'm getting tired of dealing with ebay. First, there is very little new material showing up. 80% is all the same **bleep** being recycled month after month. How many years will you list a card for $40 that regularly sells for $5, clogging up the searches.
Second, the search is working really poorly now. When the page loads up, the pieces twitch all over the place. Just as when it seems to be done, andI click on something, it jerks and the lick hits something else. Most of these pieces are useless ads from ebay trying to get me to buy some stupid bracelet or purse. Eery other time I search, it changes form New to the absurd Best Choice, which I assume are listings that pay a fee to be first in the search results. ts the only expanation, other than the Best Choice is just stupidest piece of software ever.
All these little annoyances total up. All these little annoyances are new and additional. Ebay will efficiencize itself out of existence.
06-17-2015 08:38 PM
I very much agree with testa69og's latest comments about delcampe. For the last month I have been busily swtiching over current stock and new listings from ebay to delcampe so that you will now find hardly any listings by me on ebay. What I especially love at delcampe, in addition to what testa69og already stated, is that their forum is chock full of information on postcards, especially on the French-language postcard forum (I understand French as a second language). There is a contributor, for example, who is a real expert on automobiles and other vehicles - both old and new. It has helped me list a number of cards where I was unsure of what vehicles were shown on the cards. There are other experts there who are able to translate cards in other languages, history experts, etc. I have been experimenting with them on a tiny scale for a couple of years and finally decided this past month to make a wholesale switch.