Minimum order amount

[rmv5555]

Why does ebay not allow sellers to set a minimum order amount?  It's so dumb that I have to fill these small orders for 99 cents.   They should let set a minimum order amount so that I don't have to deal with these small orders that don't make me any money or even lose money.  Their customer service said to add a shipping fee.  This would work in theory but would destroy your search impressions.  When is this company going to start to do ANYTHING that makes sense

[johnrj1226]

No one is  holding  you captive - it is what you make it within the policy and procedures of  eBay's User Agreement.  You  don't need to pay one thing not even a "Yankee Dime" if YOU DON"T SELL one thing.  You picked the products to sell - trading cards sellers have been around since Hector was a pup and tons of competition out there.  A successful fisherman/woman don't go fishing where all the other fisher persons are.  eBay did not promise you a rose garden

[rmv5555]

eBay sucks

[aproudparent2010]

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@rmv5555 wrote:

you don't understand what I'm doing and that's ok

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I kind of do and kind of don't understand.

I see you have a $5 off 10 items coupon. Let's say I win 10 items on bid at 50 cents each does that mean my order is completely free?

[aproudparent2010]

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@rmv5555 wrote:

Why does ebay not allow sellers to set a minimum order amount?  It's so dumb that I have to fill these small orders for 99 cents.   They should let set a minimum order amount so that I don't have to deal with these small orders that don't make me any money or even lose money.  Their customer service said to add a shipping fee.  This would work in theory but would destroy your search impressions.  When is this company going to start to do ANYTHING that makes sense

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It sucks to you because you are selling cheap little items. On the other hand I am happy as a clam with my sales......

[albertabrightalberta]

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@rmv5555 wrote:

im just going to close up and move on

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Don't forget to end those 8500+ active listings before you move on! 

[albertabrightalberta]

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@rmv5555 wrote:

I have thousands of 99 cent items.  The best way to sell them would be to list individually and let the collector pick out exactly what they want.  But that backfires for me unless they use a coupon on buy multiple.  If they let me set a minimum order amount it'd solve all that.  Buyers would get exactly what they wanted and I wouldn't waste time on  small orders

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Wouldn't variation listings accomplish what you're wanting to do? Buyer picks from multiple items in ONE LISTING. They can pick and choose.

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/listings/creating-managing-listings/multiquantity-listings-listing...

 

[albertabrightalberta]

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@rmv5555 wrote:

eBay sucks

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@rmv5555 wrote:

eBay sucks

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Says the person (in more than 1 post) who has over 8500 listings. 

[onefootflipper1]

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@albertabrightalberta wrote:

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@rmv5555 wrote:

I have thousands of 99 cent items.  The best way to sell them would be to list individually and let the collector pick out exactly what they want.  But that backfires for me unless they use a coupon on buy multiple.  If they let me set a minimum order amount it'd solve all that.  Buyers would get exactly what they wanted and I wouldn't waste time on  small orders

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Wouldn't variation listings accomplish what you're wanting to do? Buyer picks from multiple items in ONE LISTING. They can pick and choose.

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/listings/creating-managing-listings/multiquantity-listings-listing...

 

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It still doesn't work.

If you ever want to plow 2 solid days of work into creating a listing that will get $8 worth of sales and is very hard to update then make one of those variation listings with every single card in the set like some sellers do. 

Experienced customers hate variation listings because almost invariably the item you want is out of stock, the item you want is overpriced, or the listing is seeded with a very cheap garbage item in order to show a lower price in the price range.  Eventually you just stop clicking on them.

[onefootflipper1]

The entire 99 cent card market is based on two faulty ideas.

The first is card stores that feel like they need to put every aspect of their business online, including the junk box. 

The second is just the unwillingness to change as the world changes. 

If you did it right you used to be able to have 40 cents left over from that 99 cents shipped trading card (buying bulk stamps below face value, paypal microtransactions account, etc), and that 40 cents was worth twice as much as it is today.  And Timmy working at the card store could manage it all during dead periods when he wasn't going to be doing anything anyway and his $6 an hour salary was otherwise doing nothing.

However over the years the selling price never changed, while the cost to sell at that price continually increased. To the point where it is today where every 99 cent order is a minimum of a 31 cent dead loss, which is only counting for ebay fees, postage and 15 cents for supplies and cost of good. Totally ignoring any other overhead the business has, much less any labor cost. That doesn't work anymore. In the physical card store in which that nickel box brings in browsers who might buy other things (most often supplies), but that effect just doesn't work on ebay. 

[rmv5555 · Accepted solution]

It does suck.  I had 17k last week.  And by end of next mont have 0 on this stupid platform

[rmv5555]

No those are dumb af and take a million years to make.  

[rmv5555]

Variation listings suck even more.  I’d still have to make a million and the software don’t 300 an hour like individual 

[rmv5555]

Going to marketplace and whatnot.  Done giving this idiot company any of my money

[reallynicestamps]

I agree.

When we had a B&M shop, we had a table near the door of Big Box'o'Fun lots priced between $10 and $250.
Nothing of great value, just a box from shoe box to banker's box,with the odds and ends from recently purchased estates after the value had been stripped.

There were usually about 20on the table, and we sold between two and ten every day.

But.

They were the junk and commons, no pretense at anything else.

We had no money in them since we paid for other parts of the estate.

Sometimes if a box had been on the table too long, we dumped the contents into another box.

We also had an old guy who would  make up "nickel books " for us, putting single stamps into stockbooks that customers could choose from. He was a volunteer, btw, and we liked his company. Even there, we eventually had to raise the price from nickel books to dime books because our overhead rose.  He volunteered with us for years until he died.

[rmv5555]

I could do that.  No one would ever see the listings though probably.  Keep them up for a month and if I don’t get any hits I’ll just add them to the upcoming fire