Regards,
@odditiesandantiquities1 wrote:
@timemachine777 wrote:We've done that. The board archives are littered with them. The reason your sick of seeing slow sales threads are because they tend to get posted a lot by sellers that don't hang out on the boards. So you end up seeing daily clusters of them. I see sellers that are doing 100 sales a week post slow sale threads. That's just the way it is.
I was stunned to get 10 sales in five days from June28th - July 4th. Holy smokes. It's been almost like the old days, but I can't tell you what I've done differently except to add a few auctions and change a few prices.
Sometimes you don't have to do anything at all, and selling resumes. I once ran a test on one of my test accounts, and I posted about 400 listings. They struggled for the first 3 to 4 months with only a few sales a month. I never added new inventory, nor made any changes. I just kept doing the relists...250 BIN and the rest in auction format.
I think it was the 5th and 6th month that sales suddenly out of no where shot up, and I was doing about 25 sales a month and then it gradually declined again. I think it was about a year before I made any changes, and that didn't produce a pop, nor did adding new listings. Eventually it got back up to about 25 sales a month on its own.
Here's a good one...Last year, at this time I shut down my store on another account that I had 400 listings on. 3 months in a row I did 3 sales. Just enough to pay my store fees each month. The sales were always clustered right before my Paypal account was debited for fees. So I just let the listings end each day an didn't relist them.
eBay actually calls me after the account is inactive for a week. They are offering me a store promo, if I start selling again. I turn the guy down, and told him that I was only selling enough too make my store fees over the past 3 months. He guaranteed me that if I did the promo, that I would get more sales.
I was game. I could afford the store fees normally, even if I got zero sales. So why not do the promo just to see how that same inventory was suddenly going to start selling, just by simply relisting it.
I start relisting everything about 10 listings a day. My views gradually increase like normal as I add more and more relists everyday. I'm not doing anything different than before. I start getting sales, and for the next 2 months they ramp up, and once the store promo ended, the sales dropped again. I ended up keeping the store closed this time. I did get my sales like he promised though.
Here's the charts for that activity.
@chichille77 wrote:Hello everyone,
This thread is getting a bit heated. Please remember that it’s fine to disagree with others, but
discussion should always remain courteous and respectful.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Thank you for that reminder.
Mr. L
@siayan wrote:
@mr_lincoln wrote:-Cast Iron pots - skillets
-Vintage model kits planes and cars
-Silverplate flatware - Sterling if you can get it cheap OR, like I've found a few times, several pieces of Sterling mixed in with Silvperlate once they get cleaned up is a real bonus
-Cereal premiums (toys)
-Vintage games if complete (these are pay the light bill type sales but move consistently over time)
Good ones. Cast Iron has gone crazy the last few months. I did well with models I purchased, esp. the high end ones. The idea is to know different things so there is more of a chance of not having competition when buying. I usually do well at auctions but the last Estate sales did me right. If they have all good stuff the 50% day is best for me. This is a change from the past where I only went to estate sales to waste time.
Then you will get a kick out of this one ... I am watching a local online estate Auction and they have some Sterling Silver lots ... so yours truly was hoping to maybe "scoop" some deals and resell for some nice profit ... errrnt ... I put up some bids (the Max bid column) ... needless to say, some serious Buyers are competing ... and actually, right now it is the same bidder winning all three Sterling lots!!!!
