eBay; 30 day vs Good Till Canceled

MeteoriteGuy

I always run things good till canceled. It is easier.

However, I always thought it would be best to run things every 30 days, and then wait a couple days between relist. Say, if you waiting 3 days, each time, you would in effect save 10%, which in the long run, would be more then the profit on the likelyhood of sales in that period.

So if, instead of 10%, I in the end save 5%, because of a missed sale or two, off the listing fee, and since I am running about 850 right now.....I could have saved a little over $4.00! Not enough to mess with or build a program to do such...but numbers look good?

MeteoriteGuy

Thinking more, guess I should use the percent of listings savings (10%) of the overall number (850), and then take that number by the insertion fee (85 x $0.05), to come up with listing fee savings ($4.25), but I need to subtract, average sale price ($32.10), by the percent of sale through in same period (12%), = $3.85 lost in sales?

So $0.40 savings on 850 listings? Maybe?


Edit to add:

I guess, it might be good to do this....only in your lower sell through items. If for example, I could figure out the 10% worst sell-through items, and just do that to them. Manually relist them.