Shari’s Sourcing Insights
I have been selling on eBay for my full time income since 2006. Since I need to make enough to pay all the bills, I need to make sure I have enough merchandise, including high end inventory to earn enough for all the bills each month. In the beginning, I was getting enough to list to keep me listing full time, but it wasn’t bringing in enough money. I needed to improve my sell through rate on the items I was listing as well as my profit margin. I realized that I needed to source for more profitable items and start turning down the items that would sit for months or even years or had a low profit margin. In order to have enough good items to sell, I needed to source more so I could turn down the low profit items and select only the profitable items. My accountant…
Good news and bad news at the eBay Spring Seller Update.
eBay shared some not so good news at the Spring Seller Update. eBay will now be charging a Promoted Listing fee for any item you are using Promoted Listings for if a buyer was brought into your store from any of your items listed with Promoted Listings within a 30 day period. They also shared some good news about International shipping: eBay’s New International Shipping handles International returns so you don’t have to. Now this covers sales up to $2,500! eBay is rolling out their new eBay International shipping gradually to groups of sellers over time. I am now included in their new international shipping. I’m very excited not to have to worry about returns. We talk about eBay International Shipping, eBay’s unfortunate changes to how they charge for Promoted Listings, the Spring Update and other news on our Selling on eBay Radio Show. You can listen here: https://sellsellsell.online/ I…