What is Selling well for you now?

[saulsogallery1927]

Just want to know what is working for people now? Or is this slump really across the board on all antique items?  

[mg152]

Nothing

[luckythewinner]

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@saulsogallery1927 wrote:

Just want to know what is working for people now? 

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• Quality classic rock, punk, progressive vinyl records 
• Rare or one-of-a-kind 60s - 90s rock music memorabilia

[18704d]

When you have time, you should look at this thread on the same subject:

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/The-time-to-sell-your-antiques-and-collectibles-might-be-NOW/t...

Lynn

[jason_incognito]

here's the thing.

eBay has become stagnant. It used to be that you could check back after just a couple hours and you'd see new stuff. 

When so many things sold, there were always new things coming up.

I watch a number of searches and in months there's nothing new. In one it's the same 30ish listings over and over. When one falls off the 30 days and ends, it gets relisted in a day or 2. Others  are on an endless loop of GTC......

As an example there's a pitcher for $300. It has never in the 20 years I've watched this search sold even close to that. It's at best $100, $125. I've seen it sell for $40 before. But it keeps going, at the same price. I think if I had to guess it's been listed 3 years......

But I come along and list a piece that I have extra and guess what? It sells on day 1. 

There's a pattern of dishes that I wanted to liquidate. There are around 800 listings. I scanned them and stuff aint selling well. One or 2 sales to a page in completed. I'm almost sold out. Seriously, I've sold almost all of it. I listed it to sell and had things that aren't listed. There aren't alot of luncheon plates listed. I listed them and they sold fast. Others I listed sets of 8 of a piece and people jumped. Everybody has the stuff listed as singles or weird numbered lots. People want easy and one buy and they have everything they need? Yes, please. But people keep trucking along with the individual listing, wanting full price plus a huge cost for shipping. Stop and realize that people need 8 of those plates and when they buy them one at a time that can be $100 for shipping. My listing that has $25 for shipping and then $40 for 8 plates gets jumped on. The listing for $9.99 each sits there. 

I am watching for a certain vintage Star Wars toy. There are literally 100s on here. All in various states of destruction and missing pieces......

Someone comes along and lists it in good condition and suddenly it sells fast or gets tons of bids.....

[jason_incognito]

I would also add.....

I watch a pattern of Noritake. I have watched for well over a year. If you check completed, there will be no sales. 

But look at what pieces are listed, look at what quantities are listed. 

If someone came along alnd listed a set of 8 soup bowls I'd bet they wouldn't last a week. List 4 salad plates, 3 saucers and a creamer? Good luck with that.

The coffee pot is listed, but it is listed at $200. What if I list it for $75?

People buy wine glasses. People do not look for the oyster cocktail glasses.

Be smart about how you list things.

With clothes I know there are alot of people who list all over the place, but some of the most successful are the ones that list their old stuff, where everything they have listed is roughly the same size. A buyer can add stuff to an order. Instead of sorting through tons of listings that don't matter to them, have them sort through page after page of similar stuff. Maybe if you at least kept the same aesthetic? I'd rather scroll through things that I like than scroll page after page of ugly to see one here or there that I like. 

If you sell books or media stay with a genre?

[nowthatsjustducky]

Sadly, mostly sailboat fuel and post holes these past couple months for some reason.

Sales were strong and constant with a little bit of everything since late 2015, then all at once a sudden slowdown and standstill hits.  No idea what happened there.

[siayan]

About 30% of what I list sells well, the rest I am stuck with. Fortunatly the 30% carries the load. My listing are an open book.

[castlemagicmemories]

Jason, you have some valid points here.  Price does drive sales.

But I wonder if the search default of Best Match figures into this as well.  New Ebayers, infrequent ones, or those who shop by phone, possibly, may not change that search to something else, like newly listed or ending soonest (which used to be the default search)

So when they search for whatever, the same listing frequently is at the top of the page.  It looks stagnant then.  Buyer thinks nothing new is listed frequently and bails because it doesn't reflect the variety or the fact that new listings show up minute to minute.

[jason_incognito]

I truly believe I am on a wave right now. I sold a few things, then sold more.... eBay sees my sales rate is high so I get better visibility.

Better visibility means more people buy more stuff and on and on. 

I know the wave will die sometime soon.  I have led back a few new listings until after the holiday to see if that can help with the wave.

You gotta sell stuff to be seen. You gotta have new stuff to be seen. 

Ya gotta play the game and hopefully I can someday figure out the rules.

[jason_incognito]

I've gone into the weeds on some categories and the overall quality of the listing has gone way down. 

So much of the good stuff doesn't get listed because dealers know they can't get the prices they should and have moved on. 

Just in something like Fostoria American there used to be so much good stuff, but now it seems it's all listings for 3 saucers that have a $20 shipping cost or whitehall pieces listed as Fostoria.

Serious buyers see this and move on, so that this place is lacking serious dealers and the serious collectors. No wonder stuff sits so long.

[ozarkjoe]

Anything obscure and specialized sells well and for a good price but I must wait it out for months or years for a sale.   So, it can't be about steam locomoties but rather a book about the mining company trains in Nevade in the 1890's.    Ideally for a book it is out of print and few copies are available online.  I don't really sell coins to often but I see intense bidding activity for the quality high grade coins.

[divwido]

Signed Art Glass Perfume Bottles, Magic The Gathering Cards (only the ones that are perfect with no damage), Expensive Home Decor sold cheap.

[divwido]

The words Prominent Owner-they mean NOTHING.  Unless it is someone everyone knows-then you are wasting valuable space.

And don't price something at a thousand dollars without telling me more about it.

And live auction is wrong wrong wrong.

[jason_incognito]

ebay weighs the words in a title. wonderful amazing mid century lamp will place lower than......

mid century lamp.