results of repricing

[keziak]

I've been chipping away at it by sorting by start date and working my way down the list. My listings only date to Spring of this year. They are books and media with few exceptions. Well, the results scream reasons why I don't get the volume of sales I'd like.  I'm having to delete most of them for reasons or sharply reduce the price based on the competition. 

[lakefor94]

@keziak 

I went thru the same exercise in the ~August timeframe with 1400 listings. Took the better part of ~3 weeks and 80 or 90 hours to place most of my listings at the top of the "lowest price search". 

Pricing to sell sure beats having all those items taking up valuable storage space for months and years on end.

Facing the facts that some will never sell and recycling or trashing them helps tremendously as well.

Older listings I have are still moving out the door on a weekly basis because they are priced right. Pricing is key on items that are sellable. 

Best of luck in your endeavor. 

[keziak]

A while ago I went through and deleted everything I listed prior to this year. My husband the expert (hmm) says get rid of anything over 6 months and my investigations into the issue tend to bear him out.  The other day I did get a sale on one I listed in February I think it was, due to lowering the price significantly.

[lakefor94]

Yes, pricing is king. I will say that I am still selling items that have been listed for 1 to 8 years.

Though I am selling in mainly computer networking and other commercial type categories. 

Books are completely out of my realm. 

[dirk12955]

On a side note,   I sent out offers to my watchers earlier this week.    The result was 

pretty spectacular for a change.

I pick and choose older listings,  Listings with a lot of competition,  Listings 

where I have a quantity of items.

Also,  Sometimes raising a price can generate some interest.   I had a stamp set 

that was getting regular (Almost daily)  sales.   I bumped the price up 25%  and the sales 

haven't slowed down at all.

[kabilab]

A few months back, I read a suggestion that when selling similar, to also slightly change the price. As I usually subscribe to the concept it is better to try and fail than to wonder "what if," I decided to implement that idea. I have been pleasantly surprised with the results. I sold stock that had languished for many months without a single view.

[luckythewinner]

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@keziak wrote:

I've been chipping away at it by sorting by start date and working my way down the list. My listings only date to Spring of this year. They are books and media with few exceptions. Well, the results scream reasons why I don't get the volume of sales I'd like.  I'm having to delete most of them for reasons or sharply reduce the price based on the competition. 

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On a venue where listing items is essentially free, and taking pictures and creating listings represents an investment, I rarely delete a listing - especially if it is less than a year old. Once I have made that investment, it costs me almost nothing in time or effort to keep it listed.

[keziak]

What it costs me is precious storage space. If it's unlikely to sell it needs to make room.

[keziak]

I don't have a large list of "eligible for offers" so I can keep up with it easily. I make sales from offers, once in a while a counter-offer. If not way too low I will consider it. 

What is a mystery to me is, I see a statistic for how many of my items are being watched. But my "eligible for offers" list is much smaller. There must be something I don't get.

[brightlightbookseller]

We keep things for a year or so, although we have some older items now just because purging older items took a back seat to other things.  After that, we can be pretty sure they're not going to sell (we'll have already lowered the price multiple times by then, using sales rather than having to recheck prices and lower them manually).  I think it's working out fairly well for us.

[keziak]

exceptions are always possible t hough. Recently I sold a book that surprised me; I would have expected it to languish and ultimately get removed.  I find it hard to predict what will sell, even when studying available and sold copies.  The newish trend for me is that sell-through on auctions has been way down. Maybe more competition leading up to Christmas? Unknown.