To Open an E-Bay Store or Not ??
thedutymon
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Good day,
After much deliberation, hand wringing, debate with myself, and arguments with me, I have decided to possibly open an E-Bay Store. To understand my hesitation one must understand I never got back into collecting cards back in the late 90's to make any money, but soon realized that if I was to aquire the stuff I really wanted I needed to at least offset some of the out of pocket expenses.
So in 1997 I started selling as well as buying on E-bay. 2800 Feedbacks later, over 5000 auctions, over 5,000 cards submitted to PSA, ect. ect. I am at the point where this little side hobby deal is taking way to much time. Yesterday is a prime example and maybe more of a worse case scenario but still happens quite often.
Sunday
1. Scanning cards to put in next couple of hundred auctions 2.5 hours
2. Packaging, doing order Submission forms for 3 different submissions, one 14 pack pack Sub, one modern special 37 card, and one 100 card vintage bulk. All told 2.5 hours
3. Packaging up auction wins for buyers from last three days been out of town, 27 packages 2 hours
4. Opening, checking in, sorting, storing by predetermined type of card, total 7 packages 1.5 hours
5. Cruising E-bay to look for stuff to buy and listing 50+ Auctions 3 hours
So yesterday I spent a total of 11.5 hours on cards. If the wife and two boys weren't at Boy Scout camp for the week I would have never had the time.
So my question for you all who have done the store thing is, how much will having the store save on the above items. Granted I rarely get a whole day to work on cards like this. And is opening a Store the right move? I currently list about 75-125 items per week. I bring in average $200-$700 per week. It really varys that much depending on what I have to sell. I send on average 30-50 packages per week. I currently don't use Turbo lister because one time a long time ago, when I checked into it, I did not want all my auctions ending at the same time.
So any advice from you guy's who operate stores would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Neil
After much deliberation, hand wringing, debate with myself, and arguments with me, I have decided to possibly open an E-Bay Store. To understand my hesitation one must understand I never got back into collecting cards back in the late 90's to make any money, but soon realized that if I was to aquire the stuff I really wanted I needed to at least offset some of the out of pocket expenses.
So in 1997 I started selling as well as buying on E-bay. 2800 Feedbacks later, over 5000 auctions, over 5,000 cards submitted to PSA, ect. ect. I am at the point where this little side hobby deal is taking way to much time. Yesterday is a prime example and maybe more of a worse case scenario but still happens quite often.
Sunday
1. Scanning cards to put in next couple of hundred auctions 2.5 hours
2. Packaging, doing order Submission forms for 3 different submissions, one 14 pack pack Sub, one modern special 37 card, and one 100 card vintage bulk. All told 2.5 hours
3. Packaging up auction wins for buyers from last three days been out of town, 27 packages 2 hours
4. Opening, checking in, sorting, storing by predetermined type of card, total 7 packages 1.5 hours
5. Cruising E-bay to look for stuff to buy and listing 50+ Auctions 3 hours
So yesterday I spent a total of 11.5 hours on cards. If the wife and two boys weren't at Boy Scout camp for the week I would have never had the time.
So my question for you all who have done the store thing is, how much will having the store save on the above items. Granted I rarely get a whole day to work on cards like this. And is opening a Store the right move? I currently list about 75-125 items per week. I bring in average $200-$700 per week. It really varys that much depending on what I have to sell. I send on average 30-50 packages per week. I currently don't use Turbo lister because one time a long time ago, when I checked into it, I did not want all my auctions ending at the same time.
So any advice from you guy's who operate stores would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Neil
Actually Collect Non Sport, but am just so full of myself I post all over the place !!!!!!!
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Good luck.