@femmefan1946 wrote:
Good point about finding me, but I have many more items than 50 a month. When they go out and I try to relist or list something else, I get charged. I've tried it. If I'm not making money, I can't afford to rack up fees. Once the 50 are gone, I have to wait until the next month before I can relist or list new items.
If 30 cents for a listing is too much, then it is time to rethink your business plan.
Your total fees (listing, FVF, shipping FVF, and Paypal ) should be less than 20% of what you are taking in.
And don't forget your acquisition costs and your labour. (Here in BC, the minimum wage is 18cents a minute. Are you earning that much?)
You have 50 Free listings on each of your three IDs. At the moment this one has only 22. You could list another 22 and still be under your limit.
And you can get another 50 Free by listing on eBayCANADA. Which does require a bit more thought , particularly about shipping since you have to list in Canadian dollars and use Flat Rate Shipping. Still, on the mindless-illusions ID, your prices are high enough to make using the Global Shipping Program a reasonable choice.
I have seven IDs, not all active, because my product lines are so dissimilar. I do find that the more items I have listed in my Stores, the more sales I make. And it seems that a lot of those sales are at the beginning and the end of the GTC listings (a lot but not all). So I make sure that there is something opening and closing every day of the month.
About your hydro bills. Have you considered adding (more) insulation to your attic and basement?Both are relatively cheap and easy fixes that show a difference immediately. Our fuel bills in Ottawa ON, where 30 above and 30 below are normal tempratures, were less than that in 1920s house.
Thank you for your thoughts, but it's not just about 30 cents. I'm saying that if you lost your job today, would your electric, water, garbage pickup, mortgage, insurance, and car notes stop coming?
They will keep adding up and if you don't have money coming in, you can't pay them. I don't have a job elsewhere. This is my job. It has been since 2001 and I've never had this kind of death of sales until now.
I just learned If my listings keep rolling over after an auction that doesn't sell and I put it back into a fixed price listing, then I get charged twice for the same listing, in the same month. I did not realize that and I was just told that by an ebay team member on the phone. So if I go two or 3 months with no sales, and those listings keep rolling, I'm racking up as much in relisting fees as having a store....but not making any sales to pay for it. Each relist counts towards your 50., so unless you just list them all fixed rate and "good til cancelled" the ones rolling over will take from your 50 and add to your bill.
I also learned that those promotions don't mean squat. Why send a promotion for 50 free listings when you already have 50 free listings? It's not that you are going to get 100 free listings during the promotion period, which I thought. You still only get the one time 50 free, so I say they need to stop clouding my email with offers that don't actually mean anything.
As for this house, no, I can't redo the house. I live in poverty and the roof leaks, so until I can get that fixed, no insulation is going to help and it would probably mold anyway. And I'm my only source of income. That's why this is so important to me to start getting my sales back. What I have made in here went to last month's bills and the month before, but there haven't been enough sales here to even keep up the utility bills like a year ago when I was making $400-500 a month in sales...although most of it did come from Etsy after eBay starting cloaking listings a year or so ago. But they are slow too since they went public.
By the way, my "mom" lives in Ottawa.
No loss then, right? FIrst, my post wasn't even directed at you.
