@inhawaii wrote:
@laststopgeneralstore wrote:
816 actvie, 1988 Sold.
Changed a lot of things this year which has resulted in making more money on eBay than I've ever had in the past almost 4 years now. If you look at the stores of the people that come on here and complain about sales being slow and eBay being dead, they almost always are selling items people don't want combined with have horribly low sell thru rates combined with being priced way to high and having horrible overall listings. It has never failed. Or course your going to have slow sales when you sell items that have 5000 listed and 150 sold and your priced to high, don't accept returns, bash buyers in your feedback, put all this random stipulations that have no merit in your description etc etc etc... It's very comical for sure.
I would love to copy and paste this to all the "ebay sucks", "pay to play", "search engine broke" and "slow sales" posts. 😉
Congrats!
Keep up the good work!
Congrats looks like you all found what works for the site - Used old wrinkled shirts and bags of peanuts that you got a dollar or two invested in and couldnt car less about the Money Back Guarantee - The real question you need to be asking is, how much money do you actually make at the end of the year after all expenses are deducted and ALL YOUR TIME is considered - how much are you paying yourself an hour...
When I was doing my best selling here back in 2005-2012, I had mainly $100 to $5,000 items that I wouldnt ever consider posting on here ever again(still have a HUGE collection of the same). I made the most of my time here selling with nice 6 figure bottom line figures. With the current amount they want in fees, I dont see how it is feasible for anyone to make a decent living selling $10-$20 items, even if you do own them for $1 - especially considering how long it takes to source/list/sell/communicate/ship/account/etc and especially when you consider that after ALL that, old Uncle Sam will want about 20% of that bottom line figure.
I always put pencil to paper to make sure I am using my time wisely and rather than continue building a business on a site that, in my opinion, its managers can not manage it to its betterment, I took a part time supervisor job with UPS. Work about 20 hrs a week - Have full medical insurance and dont have to pay $500 a month for that anymore - put over 30k in a 401k in a less than 3 years - My bills are paid and I dont have to fret about whats the next crazy move a company is going to make to put the next hurt on my business - So live it up while you can...
Moral: If I am going to use my time, my valuable time, the most valuable thing I have, Its sure not gonna be used to pad someone else's pocket, especially a corporation who doesn't have an ounce of respect for what I do or how hard I work...
