eBay

sunshine2426 · ‎03-31-2007

Good Morning great Power Seller's 🙂

I'd just like to know how everyone's month of March went compared to last year's.I closed my store and my sales tripled. What is that all about???

I'm curious is it because I closed my store or sales for everyone in general are up?

tea_past_times · ‎03-31-2007

March Sales = $2200:-)
March Ebay Fees = $378:-(

paultheriault · ‎03-31-2007

We'll I been on ebay for a while just opened my store end of feburary. my Sales this month
Quantity: 56 Amount: C $9,631.22
$700 in Fees

I find the fees a little high. and the fact sometime ebay removes some of my listings on digital cameras if the shipping is over $29 dollars for circumvention of ebays fees. I live in Cape Breton Nova Scotia. The Most expensive way to ship anything not even air freight here.

sunshine2426 · ‎03-31-2007

I feel all I do is pay fee's 😞

paultheriault · ‎03-31-2007

yeah store inventory at 10% final value fee is high.. i didnt realize this before i signed up for this.

orbitdrop.ont_01 · ‎03-31-2007

I think most people just offset the 10% of FV in stores by increasing their prices by 20%... I'm not sure of the math there but when you compare store prices with average auction prices you see store values quite a bit high... and I'm just as guilty as the next. I guess it's the price eBay feels is fair for 30 days exposure.

As for March sales... I beat January and February combined.

paultheriault · ‎03-31-2007

Yeah true but you do get to list alot more product for cheap with a store. if you can get people to your store to actually buy the product... but im pleased with my sales.

sunshine2426 · ‎03-31-2007

Yes, if you can get people to go in the store. I found at the beginning when ebay advertised our store items sales were up but since they stopped i found sales dropped, even though i listed lots at auction it was never the same.

I will never open a store again unless they do what they used to, which i doubt.

orbitdrop.ont_01 · ‎03-31-2007

I also find specialized items are geared more towards stores. My fixed price store inventory of Swarovski pieces sell better than they used to at auction prices and the costs have gone way down.

Auction Example:

Swarovski Piece
- $2.80 insertion
- $4.99 Reserve (first listing)
- $16.86 FVF (second listing - sold)
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$24.65 Cost to sell the piece for $501.00

Store Example:

Same Swarovski Piece
- $0.06 insertion
- $27.30 FVF
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$27.36 - Cost to sell (item sold on the store for $580)

Had I got the $580 as an auction, it would have cost $25.66 to do so. I find the Swarovski buyers like to sit on the fence and wait to see how many times they can make you drop your price when relisting. With the store there are no surprises... what you see is what you get. I actually get higher prices on the store than what my local Costco charges from their Swarovski display.

Also I've been selling Networking equipment that is targeted to a very specific buyer. 7 day exposure just doesn't cut it when you sell something like a Cisco CDDI/MLT-3 Translator.