When I downgraded my store from anchor in June, the fee for 2 category charges went up from 10c to 15c per item per month on COM.
I quit using 2 categories several years ago because it didn't seem to warrant the extra cost, however there were still over 1,000 of them live (remember I have items up to 12 or so years running). Unfortunately I lacked the enthusiasm to do anything quick about it (I absolutely hate "redoing" things) because the items were slowly selling and theoretically solving the problem on their own.
However the 15c each x 1000 per month was beginning to bug me above my enthusiasmlessness enough that I had recently been doing 5 or so "each day" to speed the process up, but this week I had the pleasure of having COVID again and my store is closed with the PO uncertainty so I decided to try to get through them all.
During the journey of "unsecond categorying", I discovered several other things needing fixing:
-old timers here will recall years ago all pictures other than the primary got "lost" for items renewing over a short while, I found about 50 of those and was able to fix up as I keep all my old pictures on flash drives
-stuff in less effective categories that were better to be moved
-stuff who's value has dropped and needed fixing. There were a lot more of these than I expected, and unfortunately NONE where the value should be more now 😪
I'm kinda sad that the store's closed while I updated them, it would have been interesting to see if the large number of price reductions in "old stuff" would've created any small burst in sales of them. It might still when the store reopens, time will tell.
You may recall that I analogize selling costs here as "advertising" expenses from pre internet days of old, so now the 2nd category fixup gives me around $150 worth of "advertising" "play money" to perhaps do some experiments with promoted listings, if required, otherwise it's an extra $150 a month in my pocket.
I'm sure glad to be done, somewhere around 20 hours of VERY VERY boring "work".....
