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Please choose the poll response that is closest to your answer.
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I sell a lot of "bread and butter" items in my store and list the "flashier" stuff for auction.
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Such relative terms...
I was once told that "excellent sales" was $212.50
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Originally Posted by FiberGuy
Such relative terms...
I was once told that "excellent sales" was $212.50
It is relative, but it's relative to your costs and expectations. Someone else might say that "excellent" is $3.5billion and anything less is subpar.
What are your costs, how much time do you spend at it, what is your markup...?
If you spend 3 hours a week and have a cost of goods of $10 then $212.50 is excellent.
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Bottom line is I want more money for my efforts and product. The competition on ebay is overwhelming in my category.
Half com.. pfffffffffffffftt
ecommerce site coming.... forget ebay except for auction traps.
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I'm managing - but next change could do me in who knows.
Just found out today that eBay UK is using a different pricing methodology in Shops than US is for stores. If it switched over in the US, I may have to shut down more departments because of the increases in fees it would cause
I just can't keep up anymore I think... I want to make it work, but eBay seems to be working against me these days.
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Well, our sales fluctuated. When we first started, Store sales were awesome. Then they were sort of mixed, then Fixed Price just took a boom and we were making a killing. Then things sort of died in the FP area, and Store was slow, then our store died. When we saw the post suggesting that sellers go on "Vacation" to get their items reindexed, I gave it a try and it worked, but our profits, sales, effort and hassles from stupid customers didn't make selling very desireable on eBay for the time being, and the price increase was icing on the cake.
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I have been doing OK...not great. That is my own fault because I haven't actually listed anything new in the store or at auction this summer.
However, I'm pretty sure I won't be able to keep up after the increase. In my area it takes hundreds of listings to sell a few (actually at least 1000 just to get noticed). I sell 2 or 3 a day if I don't run any auctions.
But, I do believe Ebay is planning on eliminating stores altogether in the not so distant future. Or pricing the listing format so high it won't be a feasible option for many.
Auctions don't work well for me so I'm exploring other avenues.
Of course, I could always just list everything for a penny and then ask $5 for shipping and I'd probably do fine both in store and in the core listings. That sems to be the way the most successful sellers are operating these days. (sorry, but I'm starting to get a little bitter over the whole mess and I'm afraid it's starting to show).
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Bobby, our Ebay store is doing pretty damn good - We point to the exact same item in our Store when listing an auction. We use the software that auto increases the auction days ( SAGE ) and actually hope that the auction doesn't sell until the last 12 hours - that way we can get the full affect of using the auction item to drive customers to our Stores. What is rather interesting is that the customers, who generally buy from us from the Store side, spend more, a heck of a lot more on the Store items – which is the best reason to drive them there from the auction listings.
Only thing I can figure is that the store items are grouped in Store Categories which we are very, very careful about added new items to and customers will buy related items. Email me if you need help with this
How goes the FB league, man I really, really miss it once the season starts. I need to have a life and quite working so damn much
Paul
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Personally, I'm very happy with my store sales. Even through the normally-slower summer, they've stayed strong. Most of my items are higher dollar, and I don't have a lot stocked in there, but stuff moves pretty consistently. I find that folks who buy from my store tend to buy several items at a time. My prices are a little above what the items normally bring at auction, so the fees are offset, and I never have to worry about something selling way under value. Since I deal in vintage items, many of the things I sell are not regularly available on eBay, so people doing searches for those items tend to bring them up without the need to "advertise" by running auctions.
The main effect that the fee increase is having is that I'm not going to be listing a lot of the lower dollar items that people bought along with their auction or other store purchases, because they don't sell fast enough through the store to merit that. I'm going to have to figure something else out for those.
Paul~ The league is going well, we have moved to some new software this year and it seems to be a lot more for about the same money. Looks like a great season ahead!