E Bay shop

peter_the_piper · 13 February 2006 at 8:16AM

I'm just dipping my feet into the e-bay shop market but I cannot see how to offer items for sale at the £0.05 price and also to get the 30 day listing from within the shop.
Any directions would be of help.
Peter

six_2 · 13 February 2006 at 8:26AM

peter_the_piper wrote:

I'm just dipping my feet into the e-bay shop market but I cannot see how to offer items for sale at the £0.05 price and also to get the 30 day listing from within the shop.
Any directions would be of help.
Peter

are you listing by turbo lister? if so you can easily change the listing duration there - you can also download all your previous listings and change the listing format.
otherwise when you click the 'sell' button you can pick from: auction style listing, buy it now listing, shop format listing. then there is a scroll box where you can pick from 30days / 90 days / good till gone.
the 5p listing is without gallery or any other features an items priced - 0.01p and .99p

Hope this helps

peter_the_piper · 13 February 2006 at 8:47AM

Exactly what I needed to know. Thanks a lot.
P.S. If I read it correctly I need to keep at least 1 item in normal listing for the shop to stay open and visible and with the cheap fees.
Peter

Deepaktailor · 13 February 2006 at 11:20AM

Are the ebay shops listing fees cheaper ? is it only 5p per item ?

peter_the_piper · 13 February 2006 at 12:15PM

Yes, £6.00 per mth plus 5p listing. You've got to sell quite a lot to make it worthwhile. In my case I hope to sell a lot at a low price while they're in season and then cancel. At the moment you get one month free.

Deepaktailor · 13 February 2006 at 1:46PM

thanks for info, but is it 5p for every listing ?

or just the inventory listings ?

peter_the_piper · 13 February 2006 at 5:15PM

Not sure yet, assume inventory listings, other ones are at normal prices AFAIK.

quester · 13 February 2006 at 5:48PM

Hi Deepaktailor,
Hope this helps :-)

http://pages.ebay.ie/storefronts/shopsinfo/

The insertion fee covers any quantity of items with a single listing, whether you list 1 or 1,000 of the same item. The insertion fees vary based on the duration of your listing, not on quantity.

HOLsale · 14 February 2006 at 12:51AM

Deepaktailor wrote:

thanks for info, but is it 5p for every listing ?

or just the inventory listings ?

all items in your shop are buy it nows

you pay 5p per listing for 1 item or 99 items, doesn't matter (they have to be the same though! or nearly the same for example i was selling 6 lego flags, i noted that the colours may vary from the photo so that was ok, they weren't all exactly alike but they were all sets of 6 lego flags)

you only pay 5p for gallery listing as well and this looks nice when the person comes into your shop

the price is actually going DOWN to 3p this month though the final value fees are going up

if you sell a lot of items, particularly if you sell a lot of the SAME items then it's well worth the £6 fee plus you can send out newsletters to anyone that signs up and do all sorts of neat things to promote your business

if you list an AUCTION (or a buy it now for 10days or less ie not in your shop) then you pay normal fees

they are now starting to include shop listings in searches (didn't before unless there just wasn't anything else) however these are at the end of the searches this will help drive people into your store BUT what you really need is to point out in your listings that you have more stuff in your store and provide a link to the appropriate page in your store, very easy to do

do a steady amount of auctions to keep driving people in... i save my best items for auctions or bin's (on auction) so i can get people looking then they filter into my store and impulse buy ;-)

Deepaktailor · 14 February 2006 at 9:14AM

thanks for info, really helped

HOLsale · 14 February 2006 at 11:08AM

Deepaktailor wrote:

thanks for info, really helped

you're more than welcome

i would recommend a shop if you sell at least 20 items per month, lower than that and you might now break even

it's a great way of listing stuff then forgetting about it til it's sold. because it's so much cheaper than a normal listing you can sell off items that you normally wouldn't bother with

also you won't find yourself struggling to list every last item you have for sale on 5p listing days anymore either

personally i only list on those days now if i'd already to post thingst that week... i find the market gets flooded on those days... with a store you at least get a steady trickle, even without trying often times

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