I have a very large amount of items I will be selling in the next month or two. Before I endure the convoluted verbiage of ebay, does anyone have experience with creating an eBay store, and what are the pros and cons of doing so?
I have a very large amount of items I will be selling in the next month or two. Before I endure the convoluted verbiage of ebay, does anyone have experience with creating an eBay store, and what are the pros and cons of doing so?
I've sold a lot on eBay. Why not just list it as standard? You still have to upload all the info.
I haven't sold a ton on eBay, but when I last did a little looking into it, I got the impression a store would be best for the eBayer selling big quantities, multiples of the same, and/or over a long time. Like someone who buys in bulk and resells singles, or manufacturers who use eBay as a retail channel. For the folks like me cleaning out small total volume of random leftovers, all different from each other and different today from what I might sell next spring, it didn't seem to offer an advantage.
I'm always open to correction if things have changed or if I jumped to the wrong conclusion while wading through the zillions of eBay options and parameters.
Well this is what I'm trying to find out, so thanks guys. I have a mixture of single and large quantities of items. I've always just listed items the normal way, but in this case I started to wonder what the reasons would be to have a store. Hopefully more people will chime in.
From my past experience with glassware and estate sale style items, take pictures and measurements from every single possible angle. Ebay seems to be VERY anti-seller these days, and will issue refunds at the drop of a hat regardless if you authorize them or not, so you wind up minus money AND items.
Years ago, 8-10, I had a store up and it was great. As long as the monthly costs of running the store weren't higher than if you just did standard listings, it was almost autopilot easy, and for weirder items it was considerably cheaper than relisting all the time.
Whether my experience has turned into the norm or just a fluke of random terrible buyers, I'm not sure, but I've been donating more stuff than selling because it turned into such a headache.
I had a store for a couple years, closed it and sell the regular way now. Like most things you need to be realistic about how much you're really going to do. It's all about money. Will a store save you in fees? The type of items, price points, quantities, shipping costs, and frequency of sales will all have an impact.
When you say a large amount of items are you talking about 50 unique items or 500? The items you have in large quantities will be sold individually or in "lots". As an example I had about 400 similar items I sold on Ebay last week as a lot in one listing. Are we talking about $10.00 items or $5,000.00 items?
Are you sure these are items worth putting on Ebay? Many aren't due to the fees and shipping hassles involved.
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