How is it possible to have 54 pairs of jeans with not 1 view in a week? Can you say shadow ban?

[nimsse0]

Something is going on. Why do we have to pay to have our things for sale on ebay but ebay will not allow anyone to see them? Should I go strictly with Poshmark and Mercari. They seem to be a lot more up to date with the selling thing.

[inhawaii]

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@nimsse0 wrote:

Something is going on. Why do we have to pay to have our things for sale on ebay but ebay will not allow anyone to see them? Should I go strictly with Poshmark and Mercari. They seem to be a lot more up to date with the selling thing.

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I can see all your jeans just fine.

I'm sure everyone else can too.

Don't get mad at ebay because nobody wants to BUY them.

[chapeau-noir]

Jeans as a market is not only supersaturated here, but everywhere else, even for your extremely low prices. Also, you have sizes that are tough sales due to over-production in size-runs, unless they are the up-to-the-minute gottahaves.  Store buyers I've talked to say they're stuck with a lot of small sizes at end of season because they're so over-produced, and size 8 is the most produced size. Even thrifts are packed with jeans in these sizes.

Your other items are doing well with a great selection, but you may find your jeans go more slowly. Having dimensions in the title is a good idea in this case because your jeans are going to come up amongst many, many pages of search returns and this helps browsers to sort more quickly.

[yuzuha]

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@chapeau-noir wrote:

Store buyers I've talked to say they're stuck with a lot of small sizes at end of season because they're so over-produced, and size 8 is the most produced size. Even thrifts are packed with jeans in these sizes.

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LOL I question that, because I wear a very small size and I always have trouble finding my size in stores. I can find anything from 10 on up easily, but if you wear a size that's smaller than that? Forget it, those will be gone.

[chapeau-noir]

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@yuzuha wrote:

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@chapeau-noir wrote:

Store buyers I've talked to say they're stuck with a lot of small sizes at end of season because they're so over-produced, and size 8 is the most produced size. Even thrifts are packed with jeans in these sizes.

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LOL I question that, because I wear a very small size and I always have trouble finding my size in stores. I can find anything from 10 on up easily, but if you wear a size that's smaller than that? Forget it, those will be gone.

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Sizes at both ends of the scale are not produced as much as middle sizing - so size 00, 0 and 2, for instance, for mass market brands do not have very big size runs, which may be what you're running in to. Small sizes 4/6 are produced more, 8 even more, then it starts dropping off. Larger sizes, particularly 12 and 14, fall off the cliff - some high end companies won't even produce them anymore, citing that they 'hurt the brand' - I'm a 10/12 and fall into this category and everything is always just picked over.  One buyer I was talking to wore a size 14 and said she struggles to find styles she likes. The buyers I've chatted with all buy for larger stores so I can't speak to boutique stuff or mart. Then it depends on what stores stock.

ETA: Most of the stuff I see on sales racks are sizes 4 through about 8 or 10 but as for industry sizing, I can only relate what buyers have told me, though I do seem to see that pattern and it's nothing new.

[bamorris]

Personally, I'd delete the following brands from your inventory. It's just not worth the effort.

Hollister
Michael Kors
American Eagle
Abercrombie Fitch
Universal Thread
Old Navy
Nat Nast
Aeropostale

I'd also change your pricing model to include a price for the item and a separate price for the shipping. I've been doing 8.95 for shipping (flat rate to everyone) on denim over 1LB.

Here's why.... When you include "Free Shipping" you end up with a final sale price lower than you would have pricing out the shipping separate. I'm not sure if it's psychological or what, but I just found that I wasn't able to get what I wanted out of my listings doing the Free Shipping thing.

Let's say you sell a pair of 501s for 17.99 free shipping. You pay 7.40 for a flat rate envelope which leaves you a little over 10 dollars after shipping. Then eBay fees... so you get what? 7 or 6 dollars?

Or you list the 501s for 16.99 with 8.95 flat rate priority shipping.

Your descriptions also don't have enough key word descriptors. Think "medium wash" "stone wash" "light wash" and words like jeans and denim both in the item title. Delete any punctuation including apostrophes in your descriptions.

E.g.

Levis 501 Mens Medium Wash Blue Jeans Denim 34x32 Stone Button Fly.....

I always try to remove paint stains using acetone on Levi jeans. It depends on the paint but sometimes it works to remove or reduce the spot. Some paint stains can be made to look better if you are good with a nail file. I use the file on a pair of toe nail clippers to remove some paint splatter on jeans. 

YMMV.

[soh.maryl]

Not sure why you believe eBay "will not allow anyone to see them".  You have279 listings, 54 of which are women's jeans, all of which I can see perfectly well.  

Maybe the problem is that there are over one million listings for women's jeans.  

[bamorris]

Maybe better to put together a BOLO list.

Not all inclusive, but just what I've had luck with.

Levis
Adranio Goldschmied (haven't sold any yet)
prAna
Carhartt
Ariat (especially FR)
Citizens of Humanity (I don't think I've sold any yet)
Madewell (aren't selling very well for me)
Lucky (haven't been that lucky yet)