My stuff is not selling!!!!

redballoon_2

i agree. sign up to paypal

soolin

highguyuk wrote:

Sorry to buck the trend - but I'm doing great!

Never sold so many items. I am able to put my prices up because the items are selling even at the slightly higher price. I did buy alot of stock to sell in the last couple of months ... so it is a good job it's selling!

However - my stuff is brand new and I use BIN 95% of the time ...

I listed some high end stuff on Thursday to take account of the 10p days. I put them up as BIN with immediate payment required and sold 11 out of the 15 things listed in the first 48 hours.

I guess BIN looks attractive to impulse buyers and the immediate payment required was brilliant for me as it means I could post the stuff immediately and be done with the whole transaction. Like you though all my stuff was brand new, but some of the items I had put up a little high just to speculate really, only 10p to lose if it didn't sell, so I was well chuffed. Considering it was mostly speculative stuff, it was one of my better weekends in a long while.

Going back to the OP, some of the books you have listed are very poor sellers, look at completed listings and see how many have remained unsold in the past 30 days. I sell a lot of books but list only a very few on ebay as some titles will never sell on there. I research all my books, putting 99.9 % up on Amazon, cheaper ones on greenmet as well and maybe the odd 8-10 or so a week on ebay. I would expect to sell approx 75% of my books at the first attempt on ebay, not through luck, but purely because I know they have sold in the past, or similar themes, authors or titles usually go well. The few minutes of research does pay off with books.

Soo

highguyuk

soolin wrote:

I listed some high end stuff on Thursday to take account of the 10p days. I put them up as BIN with immediate payment required and sold 11 out of the 15 things listed in the first 48 hours.

I guess BIN looks attractive to impulse buyers and the immediate payment required was brilliant for me as it means I could post the stuff immediately and be done with the whole transaction. Like you though all my stuff was brand new, but some of the items I had put up a little high just to speculate really, only 10p to lose if it didn't sell, so I was well chuffed. Considering it was mostly speculative stuff, it was one of my better weekends in a long while.

Going back to the OP, some of the books you have listed are very poor sellers, look at completed listings and see how many have remained unsold in the past 30 days. I sell a lot of books but list only a very few on ebay as some titles will never sell on there. I research all my books, putting 99.9 % up on Amazon, cheaper ones on greenmet as well and maybe the odd 8-10 or so a week on ebay. I would expect to sell approx 75% of my books at the first attempt on ebay, not through luck, but purely because I know they have sold in the past, or similar themes, authors or titles usually go well. The few minutes of research does pay off with books.

Soo

I really like the idea of payment in one go so I could post immediately, but I still like giving customers the option of paying in alternative ways.

Have recently given up with cheques, bit too much hassle for me nowadays to cash them. But still like to offer Postal Orders as an option - and some kind newbie just sent me the cash the other day. (I didn't request it, and she didn't say she was going to. Was expecting a postal order. Gave her some friendly advice regarding RM.)

ollyk

try tidying your layout up a lot - things are too messy I took one look and couldn't be bothered to read anything.

Good luck!

anewman

Be aware that something like a burberry scarf might have difficulty getting bids if bidders look and feel they have any doubt as to it's authenticity. Unfortunately there are lots of fakes on Ebay, with a common excuse for it being fake usually being "it was bought by someone else so I do not know if it is genuine or not".

Also try not to worry too much as most bidders bid at the last minute and it's not unusual for something to have no bids and go from 99p to £20+ in a few hours.

GabbaGabbaHey

jellycat40 wrote:

On Thursday I listed 21 things, some books, pc games, some fog lamps, a burberry scarf, some clothes and some records.

Had a look at your records. You would be lucky to get 10p each for them at a car boot sale - it's extremely unlikely that anybody would pay 75p plus £1.50 postage for them.

miss_lisalou

I'm in the process of selling off all my vinyl, old books and CDs on ebay.

There's nothing wrong with the stuff you're selling as everything is to someone's taste... but I always play my records before I list them so I can say whether there is any surface noise etc or if they are still in excellent condition. I also visit other online vinyl sites to see what they're selling for elsewhere and type that in the description so anyone can see what a bargain they're getting from you. And mention if you have good, strong packaging etc. No point paying for a record for it to be buckled or damaged when it gets to you... just little things but it might help.

But I can't actually say there's anything wrong with your listings. You sometimes find that if an item doesn't sell, leave it a month or so and relist it and there'll be folks interested in it then... good luck

grownup1

I've learned a bit from long (sometimes hard experience) and have concluded that - if you know what you'd be happy to get for an item - Buy it Now is both attractive to impulse purchasers, and lets you indicate a value (people are swayed by this). You can then add Best Offer option and people think they're getting a bargain if they get the item for a bit less.

I also suspect I'm getting more bidders by including an international postage price (even if European buyers end up paying slightly over the odds compared with long-distance buyers).

Does this reflect your experience folks?

Mrs_Sparkle

Your clothes have really expensive postage- would you really expect people to pay £4.00 for a jiffy bag and stamps for a lightweight top, a scarf or a jumper? You should get more interest if you weigh items and work out the postage via Royal Mail's website. Hope that helps.

Contains_Mild_Peril

Some of your items will be difficult to sell because there are simply so many of them around, e.g. popular paperbacks which customers may be able to find in their local charity shop or boot sale without having to pay p&p. Last Christmas by Wham! was a huge seller (as it happens, one of the very few singles to have sold over a million yet failed to reach number one) so there are still many copies in good condition around. If the date on yours is correct, that would make it slightly rarer since it was first released in 1984, so if yours is a 1985 version it's worth mentioning that it's a re-release which is less common than the original.
It's also easier to sell new rather than used goods at this time of year, as some people have mentioned. Your Burberry scarf should sell fine though, so long as rival sellers don't report it as a possible fake (in which case ebay would most likely pull the listing without investigating first).
Gallery pics are usually important for clothes, which tend to be difficult to sell without them, but less important for items like books and games.
P.S. Mrs Sparkle has a point about postage. I think you'll find the actual cost of 1st class postage for a scarf will probably be about £1.70 (since it's likely to weigh 250-500g). I normally charge £1.90 p&p for lightish items of clothing.
Sometimes, of course, items will fail to sell for no particular reason: there's always an element of luck involved. You can check completed listings to get an idea whether any of yours which are unsold the first time would be worth relisting, but remember, the refund on listing fees if it sells the second time applies only to the basic fee, not gallery (and there are also a few conditions, e.g. it doesn't apply if you change from auction to BIN or if you increase the start price when you relist).