eBay

lookng2015 · ‎01-25-2018

You get an ASQ on a widget (or 2) you've had listed forever and are squirreled away at the back of the furthest reaches of your eBay room (think like behind 5 stacks of boxes 10 high) so you lug and haul and dig them out. answer the question then wait......and wait.......and wait.

Finally you put them back (because you've done this before way too many times and had them sitting within easy packing reach for months).

And THEN they buy them................

Oh well - a sale's a sale.

"If a product doesn't sell, raise the price" - Reese Palley
"If it sold FAST, it was priced too low" - also Reese Palley

castlemagicmemories · ‎01-25-2018

Seems like this could come under Murphy's Law...anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

It would have been better if it came under, If you build it, they will come!

Hope it sells soon. Sorry that happened. Maybe the potential buyer is mulling it over.

Good Luck!

nawlinsron2 · ‎01-25-2018

Better a sale than a cricket afterwards...my sale-to-cricket ratio is about 1/550

lookng2015 · ‎01-25-2018

That was the point......it DID sell - AFTER I put it back where it had been lol

Maybe whoever's in charge of this stuff felt I needed the exercise?

"If a product doesn't sell, raise the price" - Reese Palley
"If it sold FAST, it was priced too low" - also Reese Palley

sharingtheland · ‎01-25-2018

Here's a good one: Sold something today (with a buyer question about condition after purchasing - oh yay) that I had already allocated to the GW pile in the garage.

Luckily my, like, real smart shipping department remembered he carried it out there the other day during one of my cleaning/organizing fits of rage.

Sherry

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gramophone-georg · ‎01-25-2018

@lookng2015 wrote:
You get an ASQ on a widget (or 2) you've had listed forever and are squirreled away at the back of the furthest reaches of your eBay room (think like behind 5 stacks of boxes 10 high) so you lug and haul and dig them out. answer the question then wait......and wait.......and wait.

Finally you put them back (because you've done this before way too many times and had them sitting within easy packing reach for months).

And THEN they buy them................

Oh well - a sale's a sale.

If you REALLY want to sell something- bury it. That's the rule. Thought you knew!

In my retail upper management days, I'd instruct managers to put slow moving merchandise on an end cap and have employees working on it, making access just a little difficult, and make the employees act harried. Inevitably, you generated interest. Managers rolled their eyes at this but if I was in their store I'd force the issue and make it a game. Worked every time.

Chaos is NOT an "industry standard".

lintbrush* · ‎01-25-2018

I usually have that happen when I move a long-tail to the back of the closet because it's been in my face too long - not when it's already there.

All shelf sitters need to be touch from time to time. It generates sales.

lookng2015 · ‎01-25-2018

Oh I agree with the "I touched it and it sold" theory that used to be espoused on the PSB. In fact sometimes just THINKING about an item could generate a sale LOL

"If a product doesn't sell, raise the price" - Reese Palley
"If it sold FAST, it was priced too low" - also Reese Palley

buyselljack2016 · ‎01-25-2018

@lintbrush* wrote:
I usually have that happen when I move a long-tail to the back of the closet because it's been in my face too long - not when it's already there.

All shelf sitters need to be touch from time to time. It generates sales.

Too cold in the garage to do that right. I will have to add that to my "to do" list for a warmer day:)

penguins_dont_fly · ‎01-25-2018

@lookng2015 wrote:
You get an ASQ on a widget (or 2) you've had listed forever and are squirreled away at the back of the furthest reaches of your eBay room (think like behind 5 stacks of boxes 10 high) so you lug and haul and dig them out. answer the question then wait......and wait.......and wait.

Finally you put them back (because you've done this before way too many times and had them sitting within easy packing reach for months).

And THEN they buy them................

Oh well - a sale's a sale.

Yep --- happened yesterday/today as a matter of fact LOL

Got a question to break a 10 piece set up .. she only wanted 2.

I've been thinking about breaking it into 5 sets of 2 anyway, since it hadnt sold ... so I asked her to give me a while to redo the listing.

Pulled the items out of the back (behind and under) and retook the pics to show 2 instead of 10 ... reworded and repriced.

Messaged her to tell her it was done yesterday afternoon.

Left the 2 sitting on the shipping station, because, you know ... she WANTED them.

I needed the space this morning .. and since she hadn't purchased yet, put them away.

Got the cha-ching! and a happy thank you message about an hour ago ... LOL

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Buying and Selling since 2013

nawlinsron2 · ‎01-25-2018

That's the crazy part...they ask a question that infers they're ready to buy RIGHT NOW, you answer IMMEDIATELY...and they wait 24 hours to buy.
My expectation level is so tamped down...

buyselljack2016 · ‎01-25-2018

@buyselljack2016 wrote:
@lintbrush* wrote:
I usually have that happen when I move a long-tail to the back of the closet because it's been in my face too long - not when it's already there.

All shelf sitters need to be touch from time to time. It generates sales.
Too cold in the garage to do that right. I will have to add that to my "to do" list for a warmer day:)

I have one sitting inside right now. I think I will move it when I go out for the mail.

April fools day will mark the second anniversary of my ownership. It spent a while sitting with no action as it is a large item needing some work to pack. It has been boxed/weighed/listed on eBay for many months.

My price is very reasonable as the purchase was made on a 50% off day so I can let it go below what I might otherwise expect to get, but no takers.

It has been on my "to do" list to get this one moved, but also needed, was to rearrange where it was headed. I will forego the rearange, and just move to see if that works.

I already know that putting things in a box, and then putting other things on top of it so it can not be found will generate a sale. That worked last year. I was not able to locate it a week later after I had purchase another (lucky to find one) to replace it. I thought that I had thrown it away after looking at it for a couple of years. Now that I know where it is, once again, it will not sell.

lovemypommy · ‎01-25-2018

It's happened a time or 2 to me, however 9 times out of 10 when a question is asked there isn't a sale afterwards, lol. I used to get excited when I'd see a question pop up, but as I said before it usually doesn't translate into a sale, so my enthusiasm for questions has plummeted (although of course I answer all in a timely and polite manner). Maybe I should start putting items in hard-to-reach places so they will sell!

The situation I appreciate is when you get a question from someone asking for a discount (especially annoying when there is no BO in the listing) and then another customer swoops in and buys it for the price you were asking!