[geeks] ebay

[kevin at pipeline.com]

Listing fees are significantly lower in the store vs auctions (average $0.06
vs $1.60 or so), although Final Value fees are higher with store sales.

General practice is to list most of your stuff in the store and then run a few
auctions to get people to the store.  Generally, an eBay keyword search (how
70+% of eBay users shop) will not return results from items listed in an eBay
store, only the words in a running auctions main title.  The closer i get to
the actual move, the more auctions i will run, but a lot of stuff will simply
be tossed or given away as it is more work to pack/ship/handle a $10 or less
items than it is worth.  If you're selling the same $10 item over and over
again, you can make things vastly more efficient and worth wile, but if you do
as i am now, and just selling anything you happen to pick up in the house,
each item has to be handled differently and it becomes more trouble than it's
worth.  I did a lot of that type of stuff originally to get my feedback rating
up and to help learn the ropes.  At this point, i'm tired of packing boxes for
a profit of $6.  I actually got pissed last night when someone bought a video
card from my store.  I was packing up boxes and thought i had just finished
with the last one when all of the sudden this "Item Awaiting Shipping" showed
up in my list, just as i was about to turn off may laptop :)

There are actually several items listed in my store where the prices are, in
my opinion, higher than they are worth, but people actually do pay it oddly
enough.



-----Original Message-----
>From: John Francini <francini at mac.com>
>Sent: Aug 16, 2007 1:34 PM
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] ebay
>
>So I have to ask: -- why is so much of your stuff on your eBay store
>listed as "Buy It Now" rather than real auctions?  If you're trying
>to get rid of this stuff, then shouldn't you be willing to accept
>whatever price the market puts on them?
>
>j
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> I'll be moving from the US to Japan by October 2007 and most of my
>> possessions MUST BE SOLD, as it is too costly to ship them to the
>> other side if the planet :)
>>
>> So keep checking the KRM eBay Store between now and mid-late
>> September and you might come up on some pretty nice bargains on all
>> kinds of different stuff.
>>
>> The KRM eBay Store!
>> http://stores.ebay.com/krm-corner-
>> store_W0QQcolZ4QQdirZ1QQfsubZQ2d999QQftidZ2QQtZkm
>>
>>
>> Kevin R. Marshall   :   kevin at pipeline.com   :   305-801-5748
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I'll be moving from the US to Japan by October 2007 and most of my possessions
MUST BE SOLD, as it is too costly to ship them to the other side if the planet
:)

So keep checking the KRM eBay Store between now and mid-late September and you
might come up on some pretty nice bargains on all kinds of different stuff.

The KRM eBay Store!
http://stores.ebay.com/krm-corner-store_W0QQcolZ4QQdirZ1QQfsubZQ2d999QQftidZ2
QQtZkm


Kevin R. Marshall   :   kevin at pipeline.com   :   305-801-5748