selling

[carreddog03]

I talked before and made changes to my listings, have sold a few items but not much is selling.  Is there any other suggestions you can give me. 

[donsdetour]

Have you looked up your items and seen what they are acualy selling for for other sellers ??

[iart]

Well, I think you're lucky.

Those magazines for sale are not supposed to ship Media Mail. I doubt they can go 1st class. They will have to go Priority and you could lose money on most of them.

You should weigh them and check postal rates. Assume they are going to a zip code the farthest away from you.

[carreddog03]

I have already done that the priority is the best because you get the insurance on 12 magazines.  Which the ones I have can't be replaced.  I have lost 2 sets just sending then in an envelope.

[carreddog03]

Yes and some of the prices I have tried but get laughed at so I did more research and found the prices are have are more reasonable.  I do give them discounts when they show an interest in the item.  But I keep in mind the shipping I am paying. 

[chapeau-noir]

Not sure how well those beanie babies are going to sell - they're kind of a done deal and seems like people are purchasing them just as little stuffed animals rather than for any collecting value save for a few models.  Magazines are tough because you don't have to get very many before they go into priority shipping, particularly those glossy stock ones.  I sold a lot of magazines for a while but stopped just because of that when I ran out of anything that was in any real demand.

My advice would be to keep adding more listings and keep an eye on those beanie baby prices.

[luckythewinner]

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@carreddog03 wrote:

Is there any other suggestions you can give me. 

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I can buy the complete set of 18 McDonald's Beanie Babies still sealed right here on eBay for $20 with shipping included.

You are asking $225 for yours.

[onefootflipper2]

Don't pay up in shipping for insurance on near worthless items that won't pay out. I haven't made a single USPS insurance claim in the last 10 years and I did something like $65,000 in sales last year.

Put magazines in BIG LOTS and use calculated shipping. Fact is it will cost nearly the same to ship 20 of them in one lot as it would a single lot of 5. You can't use media mail on them.

Error beanie babies haven't been worth anything in something like 20 years. All those "sold listings" you see for them at massive prices are people screwing with the people who think they are worth money, they always end up relisted later. If you search instead by lowest price first you will see that there are tons of error beanie babies available for essentially free, with people listing them at shipped prices that will result in them having no money after shipping and fees.

You have to research sold listings for prices.

[soh.maryl]

"But I keep in mind the shipping I am paying."

If you are offering free shipping, but have not built the shipping fee into the item cost, and that's the reason for your problem, maybe you need to take a fresh look at your pricing structure.

BTW, have you sold a lot of Beanies at those levels? 

[cashmeredelight]

sure- make a political change in Nov

[onefootflipper2]

Those expensive, never going to sell beanie babies actually hurt your store, because they will get heavy traffic, but no sales which will lower your overall conversion rate which will lower the overall amount of traffic ebay sends you.

[kensgiftshop]

The Beanie Babies are not worth that much.

I've sold a few of those for $10 to $12 with free shipping and it took awhile.