Sales

[sports_cards_galaxy]

Any suggestions to increase sales please. 

[vintage-camerastuff]

List more than 3 items.  Try another 1,000 more.  That should help increase sales.

[sports_cards_galaxy]

I had 250 listings, every time I go over that I get charged insertion fees.  Second even with those listings I get ZERO sales. Not sure what to do and why Noone wants to help me or guide me. It's not fair. 

[theteamsetguy]

Lower your shipping fee of over $5.00 for a single card. It costs nowhere near $5.00 to ship a single card. A lot of your items can be shipped with eBay standard envelope for less than $1.00.

[tthodgepodge]

You might be aiming too high on your starting auction price.  Check Comps.  I just looked up comps on that Mike Trout you posted and there are PSA 9s and 10s going for not much more than what you're asking for a PSA 8

[femmefan1946]

You seem to be doing well with quite high priced cards.

I could suggest that you don't need to use expensively tracked services for cheap cards. One of your (few) listings is $12.99 with $21.38 shipping to me here in Canada.

Have you considered Cookie Jar Insurance?

That just means putting a few pennies aside from each sale as a self-insurance premium in case a problem arises.

Cookie Jar Insurance also covers problems that are not covered by postal insurance, like late delivery which has led to an eBay refund claim, or the day when you put a soccer card into the package instead of a hockey card. Because one day you will.

And as others will say, you can't sell what you don't list.

At the moment I see only three items listed.

In addition to Best Match, there are other Searches.

Best Match is the default, but I suspect that Lowest Price+ Shipping is next most popular.

You seem to have chosen to ignore that market, and I respect that. There are a lot of people scrabbling for those dimes and that gets to be a race to the bottom.

The Newest Listed and About toClose are probably neck and neck- or even used by the same buyers.

Which Search do you think your customers use?

[femmefan1946]

You get 250 Free Listings without a Store.

You can get more "free" listings by subscribing to a Store, but the fee is charged monthly whether you list 10 or 200 or 1000 items.

A subscription just lowers that 35c fee to 2.5c or less if you go over 1000.

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/fees-credits-invoices/store-selling-fees?id=4809

Note that you get both auction and Fixed Price listings. I tend to ignore the auctions, since buyers don't like them much.

What buyers do like is Best Offer.

And you can set parameters, acceptable and not acceptable, which will automate most of those Offers so that you only see those which are either possible or immediate acceptance.

Others get a polite refusal. At least, I assume it's polite because buyers will make several BO to find your sweet spot.

Selling internationally is also useful.

And you are using both of those last two options.

Consider not using the GSP for low value cards going to Canada. Do you really need to track a $10 item? USPS is both fast and secure. And again Cookie Jar Insurance.

[sudapriy_0]

hello,

@sports_cards_galaxy 

There are many suggestions that can be made to increase your sales
* When you are listing, set the title using a small keyword
* Insert very clear picture
* Provide clear details of the item being sold

If you want to know more information contact eBay academy you will learn a lot.

https://academy.ebay.com/student/catalog?locale=en

thank you😊

[inhawaii]

Nice to see someone from SL giving advice for a change.   😃

[sudapriy_0]

@inhawaii 

Nice to hear that from you, we are all here to trade so it's nice to be able to pass on what I know to someone else.😍

thank you!

[ckimodog]

@sudapriy_0 

What are you selling?

[spark-chaser1]

In Hawaii....

I agree.

... And the best thing is, that most of the active SL sellers who post here know what they are talking about, to boot.

In most of my interactions and transactions with SL sellers, I've found them to be very kind, generous, efficient, great communicators and have great seller-to-buyer business acumen.

These sellers are good, because they have to be TWICE or THREE times as good to compete with their fellow citizen sellers in the international market. We are lucky here, we can be lousy sellers yet still succeed, without hardly trying.

Unfortunately, most people only see the thousands of "why my card not work" one-off mystery postings where the OPs never return, and paint all SLs with the same brush.

There are sellers here in the US that could use some coaching and advice from some of the better SL sellers.

👍