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@downunder-61 wrote:"going from account to account would annoy me"
I have always had 3 profiles - Seller / Buyer and posting on the boards which is this one.
I use four different browsers, one for each ID - three selling, 1 purchasing. But I've been selling since '97 and started out with just one account. The four browsers trick allows me to know which ID I'm in based on which browser I'm using. It also lets me see the different behaviors of the site that are browser-based.
-Bob.
@wastingtime101 wrote:Use one account until you build up your selling account. You have 6 items for sale and 4 out of the 6 are in a similar category. See where you are a year from now then reevaluate.
Totally agree with this - keeping track of multiple selling IDs can be more of a hassle if you're not already comfortable with the process of listing, selling, shipping. Take the time to learn the basics, then move on to the next level.
I manage three selling IDs because my eCommerce software makes most of what I do to inventory, list, sell, ship a whole lot easier. For example, for this ID, where I'm selling collectable elongated coins, my listing template means I only need the picture (they only have image on one side, generally), and a brief description. And even those descriptions can be pre-stored as 'snippets', so I only have to pull the right snippet out of the list and the description is done. Everything else - price, categories, Item Specifics, etc - is all defined in the template.
But then I've been doing this since before "the Internet" became a thing, selling via BBS systems (think AOL but smaller, locally owned, internationally connected). And I've been writing business software since '79... you tend to learn a lot of interesting things just by listening to your clients. 🙂 My four accounts were created years apart, generally based on a specific need, and only when I had hundreds of unit of inventory to sell. My elongates, at this time, have a backlog over 5000 coins, and 90% of them are unique. Having a streamlined inventory > listing > selling > shipping system in place is not just helpful, it's almost required.
-Bob.
