So lets see if I can get a peek into the future, and see what eBay will be pushing in the Boot Camp.

[timemachine777]

In no special order:

Use Seller Hub data to determine your growth potential, Shipping: 1 day handling time, Guaranteed 3 day delivery, 30-60 day free returns, Free shipping, Labels, GSP, Use eBay-branded packing mat., Expedited shipping.

Make sure the buyer is always happy. Best offer, eBay store, use eBay pricing suggestions, Use mark down manager, use eBay Promotions, Buy ad campaigns, use Cross promotions. Use social media to send people to eBay. 

Use all the characters in the titles with focus on keywords, Add a description that describes the item as if you have no photos, data, use professional photos and add 12 photos. Also use catalog stock photos.

Use Seller Hub data to monitor and revise your listings and adjust them as recommend by eBay.

Does anybody else have some insight to add.

[timemachine777]

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@tunicaslotwrote:

Seems many here don't understand growth in commerce. They also seem to forget that as most of us age - we need fewer things because we require very little.

Those of us in our 50's, 60's, 70's - are looking towards retirement or have retired. We are sellig our collectibles, clothing we've long outgrown, things the kids left behind when they moved out ect.. I will still buy books, toys for my pets and of course groceries. Gifting has become smaller as everyone has everything - it's easier to give cash or gift cards - due to this - focus has to be on what the up and coming members of society are interested in and their buying habits to make anyplace more appealable.

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Tell that one to my wife and she'll laugh, as she redecorates our entire house every year. 

[bubbleman2010]

A simple review of ebays managed valet sellers should give you a clue. They only accept ducks in a barrel merchandise all of its auctioned off priced at ebays suggested price 5,000 auctions running 198 have bids 1% STR is the best they can muster using all the ebay bells and whistles...

[timemachine777]

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@coolectionswrote:

@tunicaslot

Very true. Who would want to pay for a poliroid picture of a fireman for $72. Heck I would sell it at a garage sale for $1. The older you get the more worthless that kind of stuff becomes.

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And I would buy every one you had. Do you even know what you were looking at? That's a Rare 1800's Cabinet Card photo of a NY Fireman in uniform with his family. I've gotten over a 100.00 for some of my Firemen photos. BTW...Polaroid didn't exist in the 1800's. 

[timemachine777]

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@d-k_treasureswrote:

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@timemachine777wrote:

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@sockmonkeydavewrote:

@timemachine777

Get off my lawn, kids these days, got no respect for their elders.

ebay has no clue what age or group we are in.

I could buy a baby gift for someone in their 20's

Or Depends for my 90 year old mother in law.

Or a fishing lure for my brother in law

And dang it, stop showing me little black dresses.

But these data points mean nothing.

They are random hits on the map.

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Every time you mention little black dress, eBay's dumb AI is going to flood you with them. Earlier today I mentioned "make up" and "video games" in my GenZ post and when I went to the main search search page via the above eBay logo link, I was greeted by loads of listings for them and other items related to words I used in other posts over the past few days.

Hey eBay, I'm not interested in buying any of these things that I type about in my posts, and Sock Monkey doesn't want to buy any little black dresses. 

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The sad thing is this is what gets shoved down your throat.

I always search for cast iron toys or banks. If I go into a listing, and click on sellers other items, toys and hobbies never even come up first on the sidebar, even though 90% of my searches are in that category. I always have to click to see all categories. 

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That drives a lot people around here nuts.

[lookng2015]

Silly question = )

Just imo anyway

[bubbleman2010]

Its just hard for merchandise to override the this place sucks consumer mentality that ebays spent years building....

[tunicaslot]

Please quit paging me to threads as I have stated my piece and don't care to keep going back and forth with people. Your page doesn't even involve me as I stated people can price however they want but have to realize that they may have to wait for a while to find a buyer.

I'm not here to argue with people I'll say my piece and move on as there are many other threads that interest me - not those that go on pages and pages with nothing but arguing. 

[lemarcheaupuces]

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@timemachine777wrote:

In no special order:

Use Seller Hub data to determine your growth potential, Shipping: 1 day handling time, Guaranteed 3 day delivery, 30-60 day free returns, Free shipping, Labels, GSP, Use eBay-branded packing mat., Expedited shipping.

Make sure the buyer is always happy. Best offer, eBay store, use eBay pricing suggestions, Use mark down manager, use eBay Promotions, Buy ad campaigns, use Cross promotions. Use social media to send people to eBay. 

Use all the characters in the titles with focus on keywords, Add a description that describes the item as if you have no photos, data, use professional photos and add 12 photos. Also use catalog stock photos.

Use Seller Hub data to monitor and revise your listings and adjust them as recommend by eBay.

Does anybody else have some insight to add.

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Such a course might b useful for a novice. 

Then again selling online (not just ebay) is not that complicated

It is about,

supply, demand and of course price.

give buyers something they want at a decent price and it will sell.

simple as that...

[timemachine777]

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@lemarcheaupuceswrote:

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@timemachine777wrote:

In no special order:

Use Seller Hub data to determine your growth potential, Shipping: 1 day handling time, Guaranteed 3 day delivery, 30-60 day free returns, Free shipping, Labels, GSP, Use eBay-branded packing mat., Expedited shipping.

Make sure the buyer is always happy. Best offer, eBay store, use eBay pricing suggestions, Use mark down manager, use eBay Promotions, Buy ad campaigns, use Cross promotions. Use social media to send people to eBay. 

Use all the characters in the titles with focus on keywords, Add a description that describes the item as if you have no photos, data, use professional photos and add 12 photos. Also use catalog stock photos.

Use Seller Hub data to monitor and revise your listings and adjust them as recommend by eBay.

Does anybody else have some insight to add.

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Such a course might b useful for a novice. 

Then again selling online (not just ebay) is not that complicated

It is about,

supply, demand and of course price.

give buyers something they want at a decent price and it will sell.

simple as that...

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But eBay loves complicated.

[d-k_treasures]

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@tunicaslotwrote:

Please quit paging me to threads as I have stated my piece and don't care to keep going back and forth with people. Your page doesn't even involve me as I stated people can price however they want but have to realize that they may have to wait for a while to find a buyer.

I'm not here to argue with people I'll say my piece and move on as there are many other threads that interest me - not those that go on pages and pages with nothing but arguing. 

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Blame Lithium. They are the ones who are sending out the notifications. 

@The only way to stop it is to remove the @ sign in front of everyones name.

We even get them to ourselves.

[timemachine777]

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@d-k_treasureswrote:

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@tunicaslotwrote:

Please quit paging me to threads as I have stated my piece and don't care to keep going back and forth with people. Your page doesn't even involve me as I stated people can price however they want but have to realize that they may have to wait for a while to find a buyer.

I'm not here to argue with people I'll say my piece and move on as there are many other threads that interest me - not those that go on pages and pages with nothing but arguing. 

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Blame Lithium. They are the ones who are sending out the notifications. 

@The only way to stop it is to remove the @ sign in front of everyones name.

We even get them to ourselves.

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I've only been on here for a few weeks, since they started doing that, and I figured that one out the first day after I posted. 

[timemachine777]

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@bubbleman2010wrote:

Its just hard for merchandise to override the this place sucks consumer mentality that ebays spent years building....

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You would think eBay would have had an issue with that a long time ago, and would have tried to correct it through eBay/member non-groupthink. 

[bubbleman2010]

It can't be corrected because we sellers are here our fellow sellers as well as ebay due to greed are the ones that caused the stigma to attach. Over my lifetime I've had to business partner up with crackheads and drunks in order to get to where I wanted to go and I look at ebay as no different I use them to get to my end game...

[timemachine777]

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@bubbleman2010wrote:

It can't be corrected because we sellers are here our fellow sellers as well as ebay due to greed are the ones that caused the stigma to attach. Over my lifetime I've had to business partner up with crackheads and drunks in order to get to where I wanted to go and I look at ebay as no different I use them to get to my end game...

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Why them, and not exclude them in your business advancements?

[bubbleman2010]

They were needed to advance my business didn't like it much,but in the real world of business you have to sometimes partner with folks you just don't like.... The crackheads mother and father own 3,000 storage units partnering with him got me into the business of buying storage units in the late 1980s when no one else was paying attention. When they sold out 3 years later partnership came to a end and time for me to move along...