How about we hear an eBay success story?

[sakic92710]

By this, I mean, we hear from a seller who makes $500-600+ a week, steadily and, they do not have 3-4 employees plus 25,000 listings or a closet full of iPhones.  lol  A seller who works completely alone.  I have been on eBay since 2001.  I have had successful weeks, on occasion.  I've had a day where I sold over $2000.  Now??  Hard pressed to make $100 a week.  There is a local shop where I can pick up 5 tasty chicken fingers & a large coleslaw.  My sales this week could not cover the cost of buying this meal.  Please do not consider yourself a success if you had 14 sales in 3 weeks & 'earned' $700.  🙂    I'm talking about $2000+ a month; every month.  Good luck to us all.   PS - It is not the economy causing such a drastic drop in sales.  Low income people do not make that many purchases to affect eBay like this.  They can shove their PL blackmail.  I pay enough of a % out of my sales AND give away free money on a % of my shipping cost where eBay offers ZERO services for that %.

[simply-the-best-for-you]

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@coolections wrote:

I doubt a common seller such as yourself would ever have a complete success story you speak of. Sales come and go and it would be completely ridiculous to think anyone can have a consistent $500 a week paycheck without thousands of listings and a helper. Those that have real jobs outside Ebay are the only ones who should even expect such a thing.

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Are you being sarcastic or serious?  Several people in here, have stated that we do exactly what you're saying can't be done.  Week in & week out, all by ourselves without an outside job or any help.  

[onefootflipper]

I am one person in a wheelchair, I have zero help and thousands of listings. 

[stainlessenginecovers]

400 repeat never ending listings since 2011

I work 14 hrs a week (2 hr avg per day)

2021:

$143k Gross ($131k here)

$137k after Refunds/Cancel

$97k Net

$1400 week after tax ($100 per hour)

[domin-tomas]

Those were the good ole days making $2000.00 a month. I haven't done that in a few years now and I had less inventory to boot. Now I'm lucky to make $500.00 a month.

[laststopgeneralstore]

Thats the dream right their man! Good for you! I hope you are enjoying that free time that you have by doing whatever the F you want lol.

[silverstatetreasureboxes]

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@kath.layn wrote:

Thank you! “ I have an English degree!  Lots of us here on eBay.

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There is??? 😆 🤣 Where? Are they hiding somewhere??

You did have a lovely post, btw.

[duncanvr]

I do $5000 a month every month and am a sole trader. I have people send me stock though as I am niched right down, the rest I do myself. I have had $2000 days to and a month of $17,000 but I work at a slower pace now so I don't burn out. You got to have fun to right? @sakic92710 

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

@simply-the-best-for-you   Thanks.  I am looking at lowering my rates somewhat, but also reducing the number of items I do as PL. I figure there is still some benefit if I take a more targeted approach. We'll see....

[dbfolks166mt]

     Looking at the niche items you sell I can understand the volume of items you probably go through although I will have to say Australia must have some very cheap international shipping given you offer free shipping to the U.S.. Between the postage cost and the eBay fees not sure how you are netting a profit. I have no idea what your tax system is in Australia or if you even have to pay income tax on your ecommerce sales. 

[dbfolks166mt]

     Given your parameters I am sorry to say I cannot offer up a success story. Even though I have been on eBay a long time I just don't have the kind of volume or the $ sales you are talking about but I have a lot of fun. 

[simply-the-best-for-you]

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@my-cottage-books-and-antiques wrote:

@simply-the-best-for-you   Thanks.  I am looking at lowering my rates somewhat, but also reducing the number of items I do as PL. I figure there is still some benefit if I take a more targeted approach. We'll see....

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That approach did not work for me.  Early on, I tried various things that involved targeting specific items & PL's only did the trick for me once I included everything or almost everything.  Of course YMMV, but if you don't have success, just keep this in mind.  Let us know how you fare. 

[my-cottage-books-and-antiques]

@simply-the-best-for-you  I will keep that in mind, thanks.  I sell a fairly wide variety, so it might work well or it might be a mistake. Time will tell. I'll post my conclusions after I've done some experimenting.

[vintagecraze50]

Holy moly Girl, you sure git ‘eR done on here. LOL!

[vintagecraze50]

Approx 10 grand a month in sales, sometimes more sometimes less. Big sales Christmas time and it makes up for the others times where it is slow. This has been fairly consistent for us for the past at least 4 years or more. We started to add more inventory especially after the pandemic surge. We hope that the economy issues get better for continued progress. Our inventory is expensive to obtain so the rate of return is around 20 percent. Ebay fees and Fed ex postage eats up all the rest.

[natoman777]

My wife and I sell.  We store all items in our large basement.  We source our own inventory going to various thrift/outlet type stores.  We make $600-$1000 a week on eBay, and about the same on primarily one other platform.  My wife does it full time and I am part time and in charge of shipping which averages between 15-30 packages daily across 3-4 platforms counting eBay.  It is hard work, but the blessing is that sales happen when we are not working, like this week. 

We have been on eBay since 1999, but got serious about selling around 2012 or so, and real serious in 2016