Thats not how every seller works or how every niche works. If youre deling with 40-50 year old new old stock specific parts you have stuff people want right away but stuff that someone really wants the right buyer needs to find. Regardless you have stuff that is incredibly rare no matter what discipline and if you have history with it and know it , you know its crazy valuable. Then some sellers find some, were still talking maybe only 3 on ebay and theyre not even ripe yet in my disipline meaning they will be worth much more in 5 years so no hurry.
People think there is one way to sell and there is not. They can all be correct but when something like drop shipping takes all of the air out of the room or 1 million polo shirts, there is way more supply than demand. I bought a bike from a retired professor of economics years ago, his original racing bike from the 50's and still have it. he questioned me about my store and we got intoa discussion for few weeks about it and he said if he were still teaching, he would use us an example of an outlier. Someone who doesnt follow the rules of modern commerce completey but who completely follows the rules of supply and demand. I have it, noone else does, I list it high. Its ultra rare. Then 2 people find one or list one and follow right behind you on price, you can raise your price as there s will sell and there may not be another for 2 years. Or in most cases, theres will be sans box or missing something but at at price it sells for creating a shelf. The longer you hold it, the more you need to get as you have capital wrapped up for along time. Most people dont understand this stuff becasue they dont sell things that fluctuate in value.
I will frequently be the only person with somethoing or the only one with good pictures and descriptions, then someone finds a box of them from the 1970's. They have no idea about how to sell so proceed to put something that has hovered around $60 for years for $12 and sell off 50 of them to people who dont need them but theyre so cheap, then resellers up the price. Completely crushing that market and satisfying demand for a long while but you can still sell yours by waiyting, certainly not going to drop price to compete with them as you may have paid more for it and you know due to supply and demand there will be lessa nd less in years to come. So ebay doesnt make fvf on $12 but eventually on $85. Selling rare high end stuff can be like investing in stocks. The thing is noone really needs the stuff, its not food, so there is no harm in waiting for someone to pay for all of your hard wpork locating, procuring and finding. You should be able to move the price up and down as you wish. maybe lower it for a week whn you feel like upping sales before vacation or whatever your reasoning.
having to pick a perfect price when your listing 100 things a day immediatly shoudlnt have to be a thing. Sometimes, you have amuch rarer version realized later and raise the price. Sometimes, you find 10 more yourself and it brings your cost per item down. There are many reasons this shouldnt be a thing for all sellers. We do over 400k a year for years and were going to probably hit 600k this year and have repeat customers going back years.
This isnt aimed at you ian negative way or anything but Ive seen that same sentimment and I think people dont realize there are so many legit ways to sell based on what youre selling and all can be valid when they dont mess up the platform. Someone with 100,000 dropship items I think has no care about cs and theyre not really providing a great service if its just a race to to copete with other platforms. I could be wrong and definately not across the board.
Some of us een have an almost no pollution business model and should be able to charge what we charge. Reused packing and old out of production stuff. This stuff should be lauded by ebay, not punished. Im actually getting to the point, where my store is large enough and inventory deep enough that I was going to start dropping a lot of things as its getting old and turn a bunch back into cash. the last thing you want to do is give stuff away when noone seeing your stuff anyway. Zero packages today for the first time in years.
I wouldnt tell anyone their way is the wrong way unless they arent making any sales, short on this here crazy chaos. if changing prices daily works, then so be it, no harm in it.
