Tips for selling?

[bluemountain_99]

Hey guys I’m a new seller, I have 3 sales and about 70 products, I try to list daily so it’s growing slowly, I get views and watchers but it’s been a week with no bites. I’m just curious if it’s something I’m doing or can do to help, I think it’s good stuff, fair prices, shipping is figured out well, I try to use all 80 characters in the titles and take the best pictures I know how to take.. any advice? 

[soh.maryl]

Post on 03/24/25 at 7:36AM.   Guess I mentally inserted the word "free".  Sorry for my mistake. 

[mtgraves7984]

@bluemountain_99 

Regarding the shipment to Miami, it may have gone to a freight forwarder who will get it to your International buyer.

And I'd not reach out to the customer... lots of buyers use freight forwarders. You'll hear if they don't get it... trust me.

[aproudparent2010]

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@bluemountain_99 wrote:

I offer returns on clothing and not like boxed toy items I kinda figured that you knew what you were getting. But ya I can’t qualify change to returns on those also I just kinda seen others not doing it so followed suit. I suppose but I have not problem with it, thanks for the advice

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When you choose No Returns that can cause a buyer to choose a false reason to force a return and have you pay for the return shipping OR makes a buyer just go instantly to negative feedback without contacting you.

[aproudparent2010]

When you choose No Returns that can cause a buyer to choose a false reason to force a return and have you pay for the return shipping OR makes a buyer just go instantly to negative feedback without contacting you.

[tobaccocardyahoo]

@bluemountain_99 

You are selling a group of items which looks like these are things you own and do not wish to any more.

Nothing wrong with that, but this means that all of the headwinds which apply to online sellers apply to you and you have little history and no repeat buyers to rely on.

People have to be feeling comfortable buying, and buying from YOU. Consumer Confidence is in the toilet. You have little history.

This does not mean that you should give up, but it does mean that you should lower your short term expectations and continue to list but expect a slow build up in your sales.

There are a lot of people who would like some income from selling on Ebay, and a lot of sellers who have a history who come to this forum singing their songs of woe because their sales are dropping. Many of those sellers have similar assortments of merchandise to yours.

Good luck

[ittybitnot]

@bluemountain_99 

So long as you know what to do for buyers that don't pay, you may wish to consider turning these off:  

https://www.ebay.com/bmgt/buyerrequirements

Buyer Rules:

*Require buyers to provide a payment method before they place a bid.

*Require buyers to provide a payment method before they make an offer.

Click submit or save.

They are eBay's ultimate combines shipping killers.  When buyer's see that they have to put up a payment source in order to make you an offer or bid, they refuse to participate especially if they want more than one of your items.  They are billed  separately at full shipping cost for each listing, and eBay limits the payment options the buyer can use.  

If you don't want to combine shipping, send a corrected invoice, and encourage multiple purchases by the same buyer, buy all means keep those settings eBay gave you with the default to YES.  You will get paid faster should you get a sale, but by limiting your buyer pool you will likely get paid LESS.  

Good luck selling! 

[bluemountain_99]

That makes sense, thank you

[bluemountain_99]

Ya totally, since this thread I’ve had like 4 sales which was awesome and a boost of morale, I went shopping for the store today to hype inventory and watch a few YouTube videos from this fella Justin whom I think gives pretty solid advice, I’m pretty excited however I am reading about the irs lowering the bracket to $600 for resellers which is insane and now I’m questioning everything. Hah 

[ssforza]

Hi, just thought I'd hit research on a few of your listings just to see what I can see -

The "Portmeirion" quiche dish: Quite simply nobody is buying them. I took out the "botanical" describer and just search for Portmeiron quiche dishes and found *one* that sold.. back in 2023.

Tarzan Laserdisc Set: Might be priced too high to move. The few that have sold recently have been mostly for around $20 *including* shipping.

JK Rowling Book: Tons for sale, nobody is buying them. The only one that sold in the last 90 days was a signed copy.

"Toms" sunglasses: Most of the ones selling are selling for less than $20 shipped. There are others listed that are cheaper than yours, so although these don't seem to be priced badly people who shop  for price first (which is most of them) have several choices before they get to yours.

Alicia Tormey Mug: Again, several listed, the only one that sold recently was for $10 less than yours when accounting for shipping.

Fuggler Plush: Title says "New in Box," primary photo shows it not in a box. Lots of people who would be interested probably pass right there.

So, yeah - spend a whole bunch of time with the Research tool, it'll show you stuff like what might need to be price adjusted if you want it to move, as well as what is likely going to sit forever until that one in a million customer finally shows up to buy it.