Using this time to revise some listings, WDYD?

[musicyouneed]

I have heard enough about the postal strike so trying to change the subject and put the time to good use.  Nothing I can do or say will change what happens with the mail.  

I know that a lot of you, including myself have ended listings, put their stores on vacation etc. Please answer as if there wasn't a possible shutdown. 

1.  How many listings can we have in draft format?  Can I revise and have 1000 in draft format on .ca and 1000 on .com or is there a limit?

2.  I currently have a 2 day handling time and was thinking of extending that to 3 days, do you see a problem with that?

3.  Do you offer combined shipping, does anyone ever take advantage of it?  What is your offer, is it to only Canada or US or what?

4.  Are most of you listings on .ca or .com or a combination of both?

5.  The free listing in Canadian dollars was extended to July 19, if the PO is still on strike do you think ebay.ca may extend it or will July 19 be it?

Thanks for your advice. 

[recped]

1 - I have no idea, I haven't listed directly on eBay since 2001, you could use TurboLister to create your listings, I don't think there is any limit. You can also schedule listings far in the future and just keep revising further forward. Cancel them before they list and there is no scheduling fee. (no idea if there is a limit the scheduled listings).

2 - No, none whatsoever.

3 - Yes and Yes, on average I charge about one third the shipping for additional items (if single item is $6 each additional would be $2). There is some variations depending on the quirks of costs such as Expedited within Canada where I can send 2 or 3 items and be looking at the same minimum charge for ,75kg. Basically I charge a small enough amount to encourage multiple item purchases but as high as I think I can get away with, The actual difference in my shipping cost probably ranks third (I am always trying to include as big a "handling: fee as possible while maintaining competitive pricing. Fortunately a lot of sellers pay more for shipping than I do.

4 - All on .ca because of the shipping caps for Media on .com, I originally started listing on .ca because there was a period where Canadian registered sellers were getting listing promos that were only valid on .ca, if not for those I would have never listed on .ca, the caps made the move total and permanent.

5 - Hard to say. If they don't extend it I would expect another widespread one not too long after the strike/lockout is over. There's a whole bunch of different promos in the US at the moment, free listings, penny listings, fvf discounts, fvf monthly caps....too many to keep track of but as always some sellers get most of them and some sellers get none of them. One thing for sure it puts the April/May "promos are over" theory to rest.

[femmefan1946]

1.  How many listings can we have in draft format?  Can I revise and have 1000 in draft format on .ca and 1000 on .com or is there a limit?

I'm a tecnodolt and manually change all my listings when necessary. Sorry, no opinions.

2.  I currently have a 2 day handling time and was thinking of extending that to 3 days, do you see a problem with that?

What problem to you expect this to help?

At the moment, with the labour disruption imminent, I am posting three times a day. Partly because there are postboxes convenient to my house with 9am, 3pm and 5pm pickups.

3.  Do you offer combined shipping, does anyone ever take advantage of it?  What is your offer, is it to only Canada or US or what?

I rarely get multiple sales and use Free Shipping. Usually there is no saving to pass on.

I do offer Free Shipping to both Canada and the USA when I use that promotion.

4.  Are most of you listings on .ca or .com or a combination of both?

Both. DH prefers to post to dotCOM as the site best understood by 'international' customers. That is, if a Norwegian finds our listing he sees the price in his own currency and in USD, and is familiar with USD.

Like recped, I listed mostly on dotCA because of the stupid shipping cap on dotCOM media sales. But since moving to Free Shipping for most of my paperbacks, I have been putting the lightweight books mostly on dotCOM.

If it needs Parcel rates, dotCA.

5.  The free listing in Canadian dollars was extended to July 19, if the PO is still on strike do you think ebay.ca may extend it or will July 19 be it?

My crystal ball has been playing reruns of I Dream of Jeannie for a few weeks now.

[ypdc_dennis]

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@musicyouneed wrote:

1.  How many listings can we have in draft format?  Can I revise and have 1000 in draft format on .ca and 1000 on .com or is there a limit?

2.  I currently have a 2 day handling time and was thinking of extending that to 3 days, do you see a problem with that?

3.  Do you offer combined shipping, does anyone ever take advantage of it?  What is your offer, is it to only Canada or US or what?

4.  Are most of you listings on .ca or .com or a combination of both?

5.  The free listing in Canadian dollars was extended to July 19, if the PO is still on strike do you think ebay.ca may extend it or will July 19 be it?

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1. I seen (on one of the conversion threads) someone mention they'd run into a draft limit of 4100. Don't know if that's true -- I've never had more than 20 drafts, the rest have all waited in the Unsold section (for up to 60 days).

2. Looks like 3 day handling is still in the green zone. eBay, from September 2012: "longer than 3-day handling times will be clearly indicated on the Item page, so buyers can see which items may take longer to ship."

3, Very rare to have someone take advantage of my offer of combined shipping. In part, I suspect, because the buyer has to contact me first to get a quote. Most of my stuff is too variable to have automatic combined shipping setup.

4. I list on both. And as a non-store (at the moment) I go where the free listings are. Flat rate is either site. Where calculated shipping works best then the listing is on .CA

Last time I checked: .COM tended to be either American or Aussie sales. My .CA sales are about 35% Canada, 30% USA, 15% Aussie and 20% rest of the world.

5. I expect another free listing July 19 for .CA, in part because the conversion to CA$ listings is not yet complete and to kickstart selling using Canada Post again.

My current sales for the last 6 days on the bay and the river are zero -- with about 700 listings still active on both -- so a kickstart would be welcome.

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