Simply-the-best-for-you Volunteer Community Mentor
It's BTS, my least fave 3-4 weeks of the year, historically my lowest sales every year, for IDK how long. Pay attention to @chapeau-noir post, your titles need a LOT of work, you are wasting a TON of valuable space. Your titles should be ALL keywords, no fluff. ONLY keywords. So before you put anything in the title, as yourself if anyone searches for it. No words like "pre owned" "good condition", "3/4 lgth sleeves", "white mop buttons", etc. Those are all wasted space. Look at her titles, look at my titles. Also, really important, size should be in the first 53 characters, b/c that's all that transfers to outside search engines. You already know that many of your brands are not popular (sorry) & you may want to consider a low limit. $4 or BO? Why bother? Cheap stuff attracts bottom feeders.
While I understand that you can only do what your time allows, respectfully, 1 new item a day is not nearly enough to keep the algorithm happy. Many aim for 5-10/day, lots of sellers do 100/day. I'm a slow lister, so I'll never do 100/day, but I'm just telling you so you know what your competition does.
In regards to your photos, they are mixed. Some are fine, others are dark, some are at too far a distance. You seem to get good results with that blue background. I would work on lightening up your photos, whether that be in pre or post-production.
Lastly, I personally see no issue with blocking of the buyers who don't have a payment method on file. 99% of my buyers who buy multiples, the sytem doesn't combine anyway & I do it manually by refunding the excess of my combined shipping rules. At least for my business, there is not even a slight impediment to keeping those switches on & in fact, I plan to use them while Ebay hopefully rolls it out to all buyers. FWIW, I have buy 3 & get FS and 75% of my customers who buy 3 or more can't even figure out how to use the Shopping Cart. It's just a non-issue & will save you trouble in the long run to keep those boxes checked. Your brands have an even older demo than mine, they don't know how to properly do combined shipping & frankly eBay does not make it easy & it doesn't work with Calc shipping anyway (I think that was the hold up, I can't remember, it's been years since I tried to make it work).
@chapeau-noir wrote:I do about 4-5 listings a day - that feels pretty minimum to me. When I was full time I did 10 listings a day.
@chapeau-noir Yeah, I shoot for 5 a day too. I know you're a slow lister too, but I didn't wanna say that cuz someone could think I was shading you 😉 I often skip days or don't get 'em done, but with my level of listings, I can skate by for awhile. OP can't really skate by as much with so few listings. I know you've lowered your number of listings too, but you have a long-term established clientele & repeats.
Also, right now, it isn't mattering even if I do the 5/day b/c I have been doing it & we're still stuck in the end of summer doldrums. I put up a bit of Fall, but with the 106 temps in ORD & MSP, I'm thinking I was premature.
@chapeau-noir wrote:Where the slow-down comes for me is having to move furniture to be able to take photos and then struggling to find places to store the stuff after it's listed. The listing itself doesn't take me long. I'm really cramped for space. When I was full time I had between 500 and 600 listings and it was overwhelming due simply to no room to store the stuff - I was so glad to finally be able to go to part-time.
@chapeau-noir My apologies, I thought you were one who admitted you were a slow lister. I do remember you talking about having to move furniture, etc. Ofc, that's cuz you live in a place with 1 month of sunshine LOL. I've been lucky enough that all my trips (many of them) to your general region have always been in September 😃
