03-18-2025 02:20 PM - edited 03-18-2025 02:21 PM
03-20-2025 06:41 AM - edited 03-20-2025 06:41 AM
So our oldest listing according to eBay is about 1 year 5 months, but I just checked our records (because we've ended and relisted that item, sometimes with tweaks), and we originally listed it back in March 2020, so almost exactly 5 years of selling that book. We just somehow ended up with a large number of sealed copies of it, which is rare since we're a used bookstore and usually get just one copy of anything, but it's been sporadically selling all along. We have 7 copies left of the 39 I count in our records, so it's been a slow burn.
03-20-2025 07:29 AM
My oldest listing is from Jan. 24 2024
03-20-2025 07:35 AM
Oldest thing for me is about 2-3 months. I'm cleaning out stuff dumped on me by relatives and too much of my own stuff that collected over the years. If something doesn't sell within a few months, it goes to charity. I'm expecting to be done for the most part by the end of this year. I've got so much else to do with my time. My motto is buy it now because it may not even get listed a second time.
03-20-2025 07:37 AM
ugh more patient then me. I don't want stuff I don't need sitting around anymore! 😄
07-13-2025 12:20 PM
June 15,2009. I started selling this in 2006, and sold around 1500 over the next few years. Permanent listing were not even an option til 2009, so you wont find any much older than this. I still have it up as i still sell a couple of these a year, but have sold over 2,000 total
07-13-2025 12:33 PM
Oh, and i dont get the sellers that seem to have so much time to keep ending/relisting items. Between shipping 1,500 orders a year and trying to get to the thousands of items i havnt yet listed, anything already listed is ignored. 95% of what i list is sold in 4-5 years, so i dont even worry about stuff until its been listed for 2-3 years, or afyer 6 months stumble over it and think "why hasnt this sold yet, when others are selling for 20% more?" , and put another photo or something. Ive been doing this for 25 years