eBay

sakic92710 · ‎11-28-2019

It's a big holiday in the US so, I guess that means no one in the US can buy anything on eBay NOR anyone in any other country like Canada (my home). Most weeks are depressing but, this one is 5x worse. So, this is my thanks for eBay. LOL Good luck to us all. 🙂

sakic92710 · ‎11-29-2019

I was simply stating a fact. I wasn't blaming anyone. NUMEROUS times, I get questions asked of me when the answer is right there.

moldy5 · ‎11-29-2019

So did I. Did a lot of whining a few days ago about having only 7 sales for Nov. Then in past 2 days the buyers went crazy & today my sales are at 29. Wow. Changed nothing with my listing. Just a lot of grumbling. Very thankful but wish I knew what the secret was to get these buyers to buy from us.

inhawaii · ‎11-29-2019

My Thanksgiving sales were good! I was up all night packing orders.

Black Friday not so good. Only 1 sale so far ... but still hoping,

Move On Up - Curtis Mayfield

inhawaii · ‎11-29-2019

I buy a bunch of those cheap ponchos when they go on sale and keep them in my glove box. When it rains, i hand them out to strangers. They love it ... and good karma for me. 😃

Move On Up - Curtis Mayfield

kateinthe26th · ‎11-29-2019

@pink.fish.rule wrote:
@chapeau-noir wrote:
@richard1rst wrote:
Hate to burst your bubble but I had quite a few sales today.
I had my normal number of sales, too (more than I expected, considering I've barely been listing).

This a strange, sort of sometimey time of year. When people realise that it's the same old krap being sold EVERYWHERE on those big Black Friday sales, they'll come here afterwards and look for the good stuff.
And that most of the BF "deals" are actually 'special buy ins' and not discounts on the actual stuff that was already in store.

We have noticed that too, stopped going to Black Friday sales a few years ago. Today however we nipped into Mennards as we needed Drano and wanted to look at bathroom tile & plank flooring and i noticed their Black Friday 'deals' were the usual brought in stuff of slippers, yoga pants, dog beds, salt lamps, gloves, hats, fleecy blankies, robes, kids toys..

meh, boring.

Their usual stock is pushed well out of the way to leave space for this circus, Walmart was doing the same but we managed to grab the gallon of milk we went in for and avoid the chaos.

lex-talon · ‎11-29-2019

I had a few sales just before Thanksgiving. Maybe eBay will come up with a commercial about cyber Monday.

coolections · ‎11-29-2019

@sakic92710 wrote:
Being told to drop prices means nothing when I give the BIN option. People already offer 50% or less.

You where given a great suggestion of instead of doubling the asking price compared to other sellers and adding best offer, instead just drop the price 50% and skip the best offer. Also most all your items are not NRMT-MT and buyers can see that for themselves in the pictures. My guess is they automatically hit the back button because of the discrepancy.

mr_lincoln · ‎11-29-2019

@kateinthe26th wrote:
@pink.fish.rule wrote:
@chapeau-noir wrote:
@richard1rst wrote:
Hate to burst your bubble but I had quite a few sales today.
I had my normal number of sales, too (more than I expected, considering I've barely been listing).

This a strange, sort of sometimey time of year. When people realise that it's the same old krap being sold EVERYWHERE on those big Black Friday sales, they'll come here afterwards and look for the good stuff.
And that most of the BF "deals" are actually 'special buy ins' and not discounts on the actual stuff that was already in store.
We have noticed that too, stopped going to Black Friday sales a few years ago. Today however we nipped into Mennards as we needed Drano and wanted to look at bathroom tile & plank flooring and i noticed their Black Friday 'deals' were the usual brought in stuff of slippers, yoga pants, dog beds, salt lamps, gloves, hats, fleecy blankies, robes, kids toys..
meh, boring.
Their usual stock is pushed well out of the way to leave space for this circus, Walmart was doing the same but we managed to grab the gallon of milk we went in for and avoid the chaos.

Have never shopped on Black Friday ... not once ... I guess for me its about finding the right gift and paying for it ... the money is secondary if it's the right gift for the right person and found any time of the year really but usually in the Fall. Probably save just as much doing it that way opposed to driving around all day on Black Friday ... less stress too.

Regards,
Mr. Lincoln - Community Mentor

sakic92710 · ‎11-29-2019

Time to stop with the falsehood that my prices are double of other sellers.

sakic92710 · ‎11-29-2019

Secondly - if items are NOT near mint to mint, I do not falsely claim them to be. I'm certain you don't pay attention to feedback but, my description rating is a perfect 5.0. From the feedback, it shows most of my sales do go with BIN. Why should I remove that option??

eleanor*rigby · ‎11-29-2019

@sakic92710 wrote:
From the feedback, it shows most of my sales do go with BIN.

I think you may have meant Best Offer, not BIN.

chapeau-noir · ‎11-29-2019

OK, now don't get mad, but I had to look up "NRMT-MT" because it looked like some kind of serial number to me - I'm pretty experienced - I wonder if it means anything to the average buyer? IAC, I've been selling for over 20 years and I'll tell you - what I do now is quite a bit different than what I did even two years ago. Some selling practices need regular revisiting. If it helps at all - listings have a quality sore (it's pretty much universal) - keyword rich descriptions and good photos raise that quality score.

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sakic92710 · ‎11-30-2019

I mean OBO not BIN in my last rely.

pink.fish.rule · ‎11-30-2019

@kateinthe26th wrote:
@pink.fish.rule wrote:
@chapeau-noir wrote:
@richard1rst wrote:
Hate to burst your bubble but I had quite a few sales today.
I had my normal number of sales, too (more than I expected, considering I've barely been listing).

This a strange, sort of sometimey time of year. When people realise that it's the same old krap being sold EVERYWHERE on those big Black Friday sales, they'll come here afterwards and look for the good stuff.
And that most of the BF "deals" are actually 'special buy ins' and not discounts on the actual stuff that was already in store.
We have noticed that too, stopped going to Black Friday sales a few years ago. Today however we nipped into Mennards as we needed Drano and wanted to look at bathroom tile & plank flooring and i noticed their Black Friday 'deals' were the usual brought in stuff of slippers, yoga pants, dog beds, salt lamps, gloves, hats, fleecy blankies, robes, kids toys..
meh, boring.
Their usual stock is pushed well out of the way to leave space for this circus, Walmart was doing the same but we managed to grab the gallon of milk we went in for and avoid the chaos.

Yep I was at WM early TG (before the sales started) and they had huge pallets of shrink wrapped "deals" all over the store.

I prefer the Christmas sales when they discount the actual stock & brands.

pink.fish.rule · ‎11-30-2019

@mr_lincoln wrote:
Have never shopped on Black Friday ... not once ... I guess for me its about finding the right gift and paying for it ... the money is secondary if it's the right gift for the right person and found any time of the year really but usually in the Fall. Probably save just as much doing it that way opposed to driving around all day on Black Friday ... less stress too.

Same here. Shop all year round - by the time Christmas rolls around my closet is already stuffed with presents for the season lol