eBay

ony_chine · ‎07-15-2021

I am feeling the impact of eBay allowing more free listing. Maybe, I might closed my store and just be selling based on free listing. Who else is having this challenge? eBay takes subscription fee from me every month for no justifiable reason , clothing people please reply.

ony_chine · ‎07-16-2021

Your reply sounds great on paper, there's a limit for everything. It is not always true that the more you list/display items, the more you sell/gain, there are many factors involved. You got to remember the law of diminishing returns, if you over list items , you will see a downward curve because there are too many of such item on display, who does that hurt? My answer is the seller, its not gonna hurt the platform providers at all because they got many subscribers. Also the more you sell based on the more you list, does not mean you are making gains. If I'm listing 100 items every month and making $50/month, it is not the same as listing 1000 items and making $50/month. eBay should create a balance in her strategies such that as eBay is progressing, her sellers will be progressing too.

ony_chine · ‎07-16-2021

Listing in clothing is more demanding than listing in any category and its obvious because of many factors. I appreciate your reply but I will prefer a reply from someone presently selling in clothing. I have seen what you sell which shows that you can never understand my perspective.

nuclearomen · ‎07-16-2021

@ony_chine wrote:
Your reply sounds great on paper, there's a limit for everything. It is not always true that the more you list/display items, the more you sell/gain, there are many factors involved. You got to remember the law of diminishing returns, if you over list items , you will see a downward curve because there are too many of such item on display, who does that hurt? My answer is the seller, its not gonna hurt the platform providers at all because they got many subscribers. Also the more you sell based on the more you list, does not mean you are making gains. If I'm listing 100 items every month and making $50/month, it is not the same as listing 1000 items and making $50/month. eBay should create a balance in her strategies such that as eBay is progressing, her sellers will be progressing too.

It's not just great on paper, it's FACT: The more you list the more you sell. Not just because you have more inventory being offered, there are factors your not understanding, such as your placements in ebay search, your metrics, how your promoted listings perform and appear on google... the more inventory the more buyers will save you as a seller and likely return (provided the service you supplied was good).

If you listing 100 items a month and only making $50 then you need to rethink your inventory, prices, etc... figures like that spell doom for business' - the market (all markets) are tough selling online and right now especially. Your selling a lot of pre-owned shoes and many in Mens, a lot of them at new retail prices, look at the competition your facing and you will see why your only making $50 a month. Clothing / Shoes are a hard sell on ebay, tons of competition and that completion is fierce - the difference of $2 will make or break a sale. I may not sell clothing (and for many great reasons) but I know how to sell and look at things in a profit perspective. Likely tell me the same as you told @farmalljr , but every experienced seller will tell you what I have.

The great truth is there isn't one
And it only gets worse since that conclusion...
...There is something about the rigid posture of a proper, authentic blind
As if extended arms reached to pass his blindness onto others.

farmalljr · ‎07-16-2021

While on some level, what you say is true. eBay messing with item specifics and screwing around with categories, has not done sellers any favors. The blame however is shared. It's not all on eBay. You are putting very little to no effort into working your store. If you don't list and work your listings, you aren't going to get sales. Period. You can point the finger at whoever you want, but this is a business. You are doing the equivalent to turning on the open sign and paying the rent. You are not sweeping the floors, stocking the shelves or doing anything else to make people (search algorithm) come into your store.

It's been long known, that eBay rewards activity. You expect to list a few things and have money raining from heaven. Doesn't work that way. With 300 items that have low demand, you should feel good you have had the few sales you DID have. All I ever see you do, is complain and you never accept any responsibility in the misgivings of your sales. If you want to make sales, then you are going to have to WORK for it. You are not "owed" anything by eBay or buyers. You have the exact same opportunity to make money here as anyone else. It's up to you IF you are willing to put in the work and effort. You can see now, how your goofing off and whining, all it has rewarded you.

There are no short cuts or ways that require little to no effort, to be successful here. The effort you expend and the knowledge you have, correlate directly with the success you EARN.

OR you can stand around flapping your lips how this is all eBay's fault, like you have been. Those that are much more successful then you, already have it figured out. They learn to work with what they are given (you know, within eBay's terms), and don't have time to cry and point fingers. They know that does no good and leads to being a failure.

farmalljr · ‎07-16-2021

The point to OP seems to be missing is, there is NO consistency in their own listing habits.

If you are not willing to list EVERY day, you are not going to get sales. Pick a number, 5 - 10 -15, whatever you can consistently do EVERY single day. Do that for a month and get back with us.

There are sellers, who I know for a fact, that list 170+ items a day. They sell 10K a week, in clothing (USED!) and ANYONE else can do the same. Their profit (after all costs) is 50%.

Again, how successful you want to be, correlates DIRECTLY with the effort you put into this.

I'm at the point, I'm done trying to tell you anything. You have posted several threads, all cry fests, about how your sales suck, sales are in the tank, eBay is holding YOU back, bla bla bla. You have to take personal responsibility in this. Dismiss me all you want because I don't sell clothes. I don't sell clothes because of the labor requirements and all the item specifics required to sell them. I sell collectables, that I have little money into most of the time, are super easy and fast to list, and do not have a "season". Nothing wrong with selling clothes or shoes, IF that is what you like. I prefer collectables, for many different reasons.

Your complaining has gone beyond irritating, and has become tiresome. If you aren't willing to put in the effort to do the work, much less listen to sellers who make more sales then you do, then no one can help you. You may as well just hang it up. At this point, it's just whining. Whining never made anyone successful. Whining never fixed anything either.

It's a simple fact, there are MANY successful sellers on eBay. The "secret" is no secret. It takes work. Work that many people are too lazy or incapable of the effort. We can't keep sugar coating it or be any more plain. But the OP sure seems to keep making excuses and tossing around straw man arguments.

Those that can, DO. Those that don't, whine.

div_style · ‎07-16-2021

Not slow everywhere. 27 packages going out today here.

List more, sell more. Goodwill that other, uh, stuff.

Feeling sleepy? There's an app for that.

ony_chine · ‎07-17-2021

This is the most irritating post I have ever gotten on this community and it shows a lot of ignorance in terms business accruement and comportment. Who begged @farmalljr to be replying to my threads, why cant you take your feeble fingers and unexposed mentality to somewhere else, instead of typing some irritable thrash on this thread. So if something is going wrong I should keep mum and now this coward @farmalljr is insinuating that I'm always complaining, if you used to disrespecting sellers, you had met your waterloo today. Do you feel my posts are to run down eBay or to help eBay grow? Its to help eBay grow, but ignorant people will not understand because of lack exposure in business. Please don't reply to my threads again if you don't understand courtesy.

ony_chine · ‎07-17-2021

I'm happy for you, share your secret with me. Are you in clothing category?

ony_chine · ‎07-17-2021

Its just great on paper because demand & supply play major role in a market space, over supply will extinguish the interest of buyers. If the demand and supply of an item are balanced, the item continues to sell. If the demand is more than supply of an item, faster sales of the item. If the supply is more than the demand, there will be significant drop in sales or no sale depending on the magnitude of the difference between demand and supply. Its important that while eBay is looking at making more money from her platform, she also looks at maintaining the parameters of demand and supply.

johnrj1226 · ‎07-17-2021

When you willfully signed up for a store subscription eBay did not promise you a "Rose Garden" just some extra benefits. You are free to opt out of your agreement with eBay but you may incur additional early termination fees depending on when your yearly subscription ends.

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nuclearomen · ‎07-17-2021

@ony_chine wrote:
Its just great on paper because demand & supply play major role in a market space, over supply will extinguish the interest of buyers. If the demand and supply of an item are balanced, the item continues to sell. If the demand is more than supply of an item, faster sales of the item. If the supply is more than the demand, there will be significant drop in sales or no sale depending on the magnitude of the difference between demand and supply. Its important that while eBay is looking at making more money from her platform, she also looks at maintaining the parameters of demand and supply.

👀- your way over thinking things and jumping to ideas and conclusions that you have not so much experience in.
* Do you believe that the large sellers in the category of clothing and/or shoes have been successful by holding back inventory and not listing as much as they can as often as they can as competitive as they can?
* Do you believe that supply and demand is depicted by how little inventory you have and list and how little you know and understand about the platform your listing with?
* Do you believe that demand for the product your selling (used clothes / shoes - mostly mens shoes btw) justifies your asking prices at retail new costs + charging shipping + offering no returns + Writing near nothing in the items description for buyer to obtain the most minimal and useless of information is going to not only get you sales but compete with the 30,000+ other sellers in your category selling the same things and having better deals/better listings?
* Do you believe that those listings are going prompt ebay's system to gain you a higher placement in search above your competitors?

If so then I simply say your never going to get anywhere on ebay.

The great truth is there isn't one
And it only gets worse since that conclusion...
...There is something about the rigid posture of a proper, authentic blind
As if extended arms reached to pass his blindness onto others.

soh.maryl · ‎07-17-2021

Perhaps you did not realize that ANYONE can reply to ANY post at ANY time here.

Their reply does not have to agree with your statement. And the fact that it offers a different viewpoint doesn't mean you have the right to insult them.

Again, when you opened your store, it seems you may have had different expectations of the benefits it would provide. Guaranteed sales is not one of them, nor does eBay ever imply that it is.

Why not just cancel your store and be done with it?