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Listings not getting enough views/sales. What can I do?

I have 58 items up for sale and barely any of them are getting a lot of views. I have a $1 handling charge to the calculated shipping. I have free shipping for only one item - is that bad? I am wondering if some of these items are better suited for other platforms like Mercari or Amazon? I am also getting some very low-ball offers for a couple items too that I've either countered or declined. I think I've described and took clear enough photos for everything. Since the new set of items posted in October, I only made 6 sales. I promoted a couple of them but no luck. I don't like to do that for all of them because it would cut into the profit. Any help or suggestions would be welcomed if you can take a look at my listings. Thanks in advance.

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Thanks for all the replies. Yeah most of these items are just stuff I no longer use and want to get rid of but I want something from them. I have the lightweight items like the checkbook set to 1 oz but just regular first class mail shipping so that is why it was showing a higher cost. I can see there are cheaper services to offer like First Class Mail letter and First Class Mail Large Envelope though for some reason when I choose First Class Mail Letter it is not showing up as a shipping service after the item is revised. Why is that? I will change the shipping services and reduce the handling fee to 50 cents from a dollar as well as brighten up/rotate some photos and take out some colors of the titles. I was going to remove that frying pan as well. My other worn frying pans by that same model is kinda junkish too and no longer has a non-stick coating.

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25 years ago you could run auctions for that inventory and it would all sell with multiple bids! You could do no wrong! And Priority Mail was $2.99 for up to 2 pounds!  Life was good!

 

The market has changed considerably. Too many venues online, big players who will outsell all your used stuff  with new for less than you can charge for shipping. 

To be on eBay today you need a niche that’s not being served.  Like taking that frying pan and creating a folk art painting in it and selling it as artwork!



Sending America's collectibles where they belong, one auction at a time!

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For your own protection, you should end the listing for the T-Fal pan. It is not in great condition and is well used (the non-stick coating is coming off); if someone buys it based on the title alone without looking at the pictures you are guaranteed to have an INAD claim and with the cost of shipping both ways you will end up in the hole at least $25.

 

It isn't worth listing any item you are making less than $3 on when the cost to ship it is 4-5x as much as the cost of the item. If a buyer returns an item like that, you will be on the hook for shipping both ways and end up with a substantial loss versus a tiny profit potential. And, if you have to buy a box and/or packing materials like peanuts or bubble wrap to ship a low value item (the cost of those things has skyrocketed in the last 3 years), that alone might exceed your profit on the item.

 

The used crock pot is not worth $65 and a similar can be found for $10-20 in thrift stores. Cell phone accessories are a vastly over saturated market. The clothing items are very common and probably not even worth the cost to ship.

 

McDonald's uniforms and uniform items CAN be worth money. Sometimes. You are on the right track there, but those items specifically may not be worth much. Collectibles like that can be a "long tail" item and take a while to sell.

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The gray towel is a pretty bad background. It looks like a very dirty white towel! It's very distracting to me. A good basic background for pics is a white poster board from the dollar store.

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  1. Most of your main photos are sideways, making it difficult for buyers to see your items clearly. Please re-take the photos in landscape orientation.
  2. Some of your prices seem high, especially for used items. For example, a used vinyl checkbook cover for $4.85 might not be appealing to many buyers. Consider researching similar items on eBay and adjusting your prices accordingly.
  3. Your condition descriptions are unclear and sometimes confusing. The T-Fal frying pan described as "GREAT condition" but looking "just a little less than" great is a prime example. Be honest and specific about the condition of your items to avoid disappointing buyers.
  4. Auctions can be a good option for unique or high-demand items, but for more common items like a used vinyl checkbook cover, a fixed price listing might be a better choice.
  5. Did you research similar items on eBay before listing yours? This helps you determine fair pricing and identify potential keywords to include in your listings for better search visibility.
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Hmm... sounds familiar 🤔

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I'd get rid of the frying pan for the simple reason that it can be toxic to use damaged non-stick pans. That stuff just fries up right in your food. It actually should be thrown out - I'm not sure you can even metal recycle it.


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I have already removed the frying pan. It takes a hella long time to revise each listing, add first class mail large envelope, and try to remove the background, then save each removed background photo as well as the brighter/rotated ones to the PC, then label the photo changed in the spreadsheet all so I can list them on other platforms. It is a LOT of work! I just hope after all this the junk just sells to somebody so I can get rid of it and move on. eBay should lower their FVF fees as other platforms are lower. I am not even at the point to looking at reducing the prices yet.

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eBay's prices are about par - I sell on here, Poshmark and Mercari right now.

 

If you put your photos through post (i.e., remove background or lighten or whatever) as you're doing now, after you take them, that takes a lot of the revision work out of things. I sell on three platforms and it takes me minutes to cross-list. It just takes practice.


“The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer.” - Henry Kissinger

"Wherever law ends, tyranny begins" -John Locke
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am I the only one who is gagging from the Little Mermaid doll with matted hair next to the dirty toilet???

Or the black light crime scene ????

Come on!

I wouldn't even want anyone to look at those listings!

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Which is why those have been cropped just now. Anymore complaints lol (besides pricing)? The bathroom is where the brightest light is - that's why they were taken but I guess the toilet seat should have been down.

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Listings not getting enough views/sales. What can I do?

I have the same problem.

I have several items that are not selling.

Im trying to figure out a way to make people buy them.

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Why would it be a waste of space if I have 80 characters to fill and nothing else to put in the title? I would think it would grab attention does it not?

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To answer this question, yes I did research on all completed items and really was trying to pick the second most expensive price. Of course if some items didn't appear as completed then I just figured out what I really wanted for them.

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You know what's funny? The other day I found an Amazon emailed receipt for an iPhone 4S purchased Nov. 22nd, 2013 for $411.77. Before that my first iPhone 4S was around $1k. This white iPhone I got a couple years ago at $40. I should wait at least a few years to buy the new iPhone 15 then.

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