Everything is crap

[retrogames10000]

Everyone treats me like a whipping post -

Going to enjoy raising my prices 5% soon to cover the forever surcharge I am about to experience as a person who sells Japanese games.  

The customers treat me like crap, I am losing money to eBay.

Then we come here to gripe about it - then the people here treats everyone like crap.

That's my rant - 

You are the problem

[retrogames10000]

I just wanted to release some negativity my friends.

I also sell much less than 2% of my inventory per month, since most of my numbers are incredibly small items like $2 game cases.. like I sold 20 today, so tomorrow I will have 20 additional sales - but just one box went out.

Still learning, less than a year on the job

[retrogames10000]

And I guess in some ways, yes of course, 98% of my eBay customers are treating me very kindly.
But I guess my brain is not wired to remember these as much.

I do remember all the times people have taken advantage of me and lied outright, so yes it is something I must develop thicker skin I guess

[reallynicestamps]

Once I hit 10,000 listings I expect I will have more time to tweak listings and prices,

The horse normally goes in FRONT of the cart.

It's not a "tweak" to tell the customer what he is getting.

You have 82 keystrokes for your title.

"Japanese" is eight. "In Japanese" is eleven. "Japanese Version" is sixteen.

That Home Alone game has punctuation that is not Searchable. There's three more keystrokes if you needed them. And yes, it should be apparent that the picture shows Japanese writing, but Buyers Don't Read ™.

[meme6253]

I Agree at times the people here can really get mean, & It is uncalled for & should never happen!

[retrogames10000]

You know what's interesting about the Home Alone game, is that is the only game I have in Japanese that someone from Japan has tried to buy from me, therefore I raised the price.

Also, regardless if the punctuation is searchable - if you type in almost any game code for the games that I list in Google, my eBay store is usually within the top 10 results.  Something is working, some things not

[stainlessenginecovers]

You started a thread about this a week or so ago and were told you NEEDED to put JAPANESE MACHINES only.

As long as you Do NOT do that; you will continue to have returns. 

Get enough returns and you will go from the current 6% penalty to NOT being able to sell here at all.

MANY here are 'fellow members' and MANY here told you that then, and then again in this thread. 

[retrogames10000]

meh eBay wouldn't ban me - you people are haters

When all you do is spend money and eBay and reliably list 30 items a day in good faith forever and try your best, it is what it is

I have noticed that my Japanese suppliers often maintain a second storefront - people truly like to leave negative feedback to people in Japan, most of these guys are the most professional people I've seen and will never maintain above a 97%.

Maybe when I get close to the limit I need to pull out another idea eh

[onefootflipper1]

Here is the basic metric that you need to judge yourself from.

The word "Famicom" in the "Video Games" category has a 20 month sell through rate on Ebay. I chose Famicom as the search string as that is the easiest thing to search that is going to be almost all Japanese market cartridges.

That means that the AVERAGE seller of such items moves the item in 20 months, and easy math makes that 5 percent of their stock per month.

If you aren't at least matching the average sell through rate in your specialty then you are doing something wrong. 

I believe the sell through rate on Japanese Gameboy carts could easily be better than Famicom and Super Famicom carts as you can play them on an unmodified system without an adapter.

[johnrj1226]

Been that way since hector was a pup.

[onefootflipper1]

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@stainlessenginecovers wrote:

You started a thread about this a week or so ago and were told you NEEDED to put JAPANESE MACHINES only.

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You usually don't need a Japanese console to play the Japanese game, it is just that the resulting game is going to be in Japanese regardless of which console you have.

Gameboys will just play Japanese games with no modifications.

Nintendo's need an adaptor.

On the Super Nintendo you have to break a plastic pin off inside the console.

Sega Genesis needs some minor mods for foreign games.

[stainlessenginecovers]

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@retrogames10000 wrote:

meh eBay wouldn't ban me - you people are haters

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That's what ALL the 'banned' people thought. 

[jerseyboymusic]

Sorry, man... wish you were around 20 years ago when I still had my SNES... I LOVED getting Super Famicom games. Do people even know you have to break those 2 tabs out of the cartridge slot of an SNES to get those cartridges to fit in?

[retrogames10000]

Well, I source 100% of my inventory as a buyer on eBay

so therefore I expect to have a lower sell thru than the average market.

[retrogames10000]

I also spent something like 75000 last year so to cut me off over 10 returns would be borderline idiotic

[retrogames10000]

You know these suppliers are really pushing for me to take the business off of eBay, and I tried it once or twice.

The real problem with that is that they would have to get the order right more than 10 times in a row to make the math better than the eBay money back guarantee.  Therefore I do appreciate the eBay buying experience although I have almost been burned recently by someone but really in all the orders this year has gone off pretty well without a fuss.

My strategy is to get this stuff IMPORTED to the west before international problems happen next year, and also plan to must sit on some for 5 years to see price appreciation may rise to my minimum sales price.

It is what it is.  I laughed the other day when someone tried to get me to buy 1000 games so he wouldn't have to be my competitor.  LOL who am I competing with my 5 sales a day