ebay store owner's: how it is going?

RipublicaninMass · August 10, 2007 1:19AM

What is seling, what is not, what are the fees like, how big of an inventory? I think I would run auctions to drive people to the store. I have a few partial graded sets I might put up. Player set type stuff, and random memorabilila items. Many are sayign buy in the summer sell in the winter.....???

Wondo · August 10, 2007 2:36AM

Ted,

Weird stuff is selling well but sporadically - of course that is mostly what I have in my store.

CDsNuts · August 10, 2007 2:52AM

It's going well, thanks for asking.

PasadenaMudSlide · August 10, 2007 2:57AM

Closed my "store" a few days ago.

Lots of junk nobody wanted!

eyebone · August 10, 2007 3:06AM

Only difficulty is attracting potential bidders. As you say, run regular low $ auctions in order to "advertise" the items in your store and hopefully attract some traffic that way.

Eyebone

envoy98 · August 10, 2007 3:15AM

I've sold a few things. Just opened my store this month. The $16 / month fee sucks and the 10% final value fee blows but listing for a nickel or a dime is tough to beat. I now know why store prices are so much higher than regular auction prices.

I am going to be listing some HOF cards on ebay via normal auction to drive attention to my store. Hopefully that pans out. I'll probably do that this weekend. Crap...I can't, I leave for Tahoe next weekend... ok, well in two weeks, I'm going to do that. For sure.

SDavid · August 10, 2007 3:17AM

anybody quitting their day job?

OSClabs · August 10, 2007 4:32AM

I'm in the process of building my inventory for my store. In my short experience with my store...

a. I get many counter offers
b. I'm getting more questions/messages than sales.

Danny

Leiascards · August 10, 2007 4:53AM

I am starting to add a bunch of cards to my store. I find it great for selling cards under 5.00. I usually list cards that probaly will not sell in a normal auction but are sought after. All items also get a Make Best Offer and usually I accept any reasonable offer. I would rather have the cash than the card just sitting there collecting dust.

JasP24 · August 10, 2007 4:55AM

I've done pretty well. Just over $2,500 in total sales since I started the store a couple months ago, and that isn't counting cards that I sold offline. My typical inventory is 30-50 cards, nothing major...The positives are mainly toward the high end stuff where I can list a card like a PSA 10 1975 Topps Cliff Harris RC for $2,700 BIN and it only costs $.11. Since this isn't a card I am particularly trying to sell, but rather just fielding offers its a nice way to get the word out.

For the cheaper stuff, its not that big of a plus, but its nice to have everything listed and ready and when the time comes to run some auctions you just transfer the items from store to auction.

Jason

ebay store owner's: how it is going?

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