There's no way to compete with the Chinese eBay sellers.

[collectablejeff]

Good luck if your trying to sell a coat or any of the many other items that the Asian eBay sellers have flooded the market with. Great if your out looking to buy. Not so if you're selling.

[femmefan1946 · Accepted solution]

Yes.

Used clothing is a tough market, and Canada Post prices being what they are, it is just as hard to compete with US sellers of used clothing as it is with Chinese sellers of new.

The only things I can think of (and I haven't sold clothing, so take this with a kilo of salt) are:

• Your sports clothing is going to be genuine, not a Chinese knockoff. (Even if it is made in China.) How can you show this? Saying it is genuine won't work. Can you say where it was originally purchased? "From the Oilers' Gift Shop at the Saddledome", perhaps?
• Chinese clothing is cut small. You give measurements, perhaps emphasizing them more? Do you have a model to show them on a Western body?
• You offer Free Shipping. That's good, but have you looked at your items on a mobile device? It may be that your titles are showing the FREE SHIPPING to the exclusion of an actual description of what you are selling. Leave it in the title, but put it at the end not hte beginning, perhaps?

That fur coat would be a Ladies Small, I think, with a 38" bust and allowing for winter clothing beneath. That could go in the title, since you have actual measurements in the description.

[mr.elmwood · Accepted solution]

Presentation of clothes looks a lot better on a mannequin, dress form, etc.

I compete, a little, with Chinese sellers. Cheap buyers you do not want anyway. Many buyers want real and original. Play to that crowd.

I just bought a toner cartridge for my printer. Bought it from BestBuy, online, so it is real and not that knock-off **bleep** filling eBay.