Today we visited one of our favorite charity shops which is situated just outside Andover. We ended up breaking our personal best of £86 spent in a single visit to one charity shop. We got some excellent items, top ladies fashion, football shirt,shoes,board games,ceramics and quite a lot of cuddly toys. This should keep us busy for a little while.
We had a nice Facebook pick up today, £10 for a bundle of 10 mens clothing items, 4 went into the bin as they were damaged but we managed to list the rest for over £100. We are pricing a little high but everything has the best offer option so we will see how they go before adjusting the price in a couple of weeks if we need to.
Lots of packing today, we have been a little too relaxed over the Bank Holiday weekend and let the packing pile up a bit, all done now though.
The best thing about doing what we do for a living is the free time it gives us. Ady worked for over 30 years for the same company before he quit a couple of years ago and has enjoyed dropping everything when he wants to spend an afternoon at the local golf course. His golfing partner is also a full time reseller so the golf course conversation is always sprinkled with moans about dodgy ebay buyers and the like.
We had a quiet day yesterday with only 4 sales which was a little dissapointing.
One sale we had was this great little pin badge from the 1960s, it was a badge from the British holiday company Butlins. We picked up a job lot of 12 metal pin badges from an auction last year for around £20 and out of that bundle we have only 2 left in stock. A good profit was had there so badges are always worth checking out if the price is low enough.
We also spent a bit of time yesterday ending and relisting 10 items or so. The results from this are still looking promising, although we had a low sale day the seller traffic graph shows a 38% increase on the figures from last month.
There has been a debate online for a couple of years on the subject of ending listings and relisting / sell similar to boost them in the eBay best match algorithm. I thought i would do an experiment with our shop this month as we have quite a lot of stale listings. We used to sell 90% toys but in the couple of years since we went full time we have spent more time going to the auction houses and picking up collectibles and ceramics. These kind of items may sell for more money but they can sit around for a long time.
So a few days ago i decided to end 10 items that were reaching the end of their 30 day cycle and use the sell similar link instead of the relist option. I also messed around with the items title and reduced the price by a few pence to see if that made a difference. I have been doing 10 items per day every day since.
It works, we sold some items that had been listed for over a year within a couple of hours. It seems that doing the sell similar technique does boost the item in the search rankings. Looking at my traffic report on the eBay seller hub this morning that our page impression increased by 35% when compared to last months figures.
I would love to know other eBay sellers thoughts on this.
We had a nice little sale today on Facebook marketplace. This old set of sony speakers had been sat around the house for months just gathering dust. We listed them on Ebay and had a couple of watchers but no bites so we thought we'd try Facebook. We have not listed many item on there before but this is something that i think may be worth looking into. We had them on the site for just a couple of days before they sold for £30. No ebay fees, no struggling to get them packed...much easier.
