selling your stuff on Amazon - part 9 - advice for newbies in the first 2 posts

tsharp

Why does your closed listings page always display your items even when you have reopened them? This is really annoying.

wilf55

these things are sent to try us tsharp

tsharp

Grrr, that means after a while I will have a HUGE closed listing list!

teapot2

tsharp wrote: »

Grrr, that means after a while I will have a HUGE closed listing list!

Fear not Tsharp, I think closed lisitngs must fall off the end after a while. I've been selling for about a year and usually have around the 170 listed. I only have 83 closed items and as I'm not a pro-seller my unsold items do come up for relisting every 60 days.

I suppose if you listed LOADS at once , I don't to spread it out a bit then it might be a long list for a while but hey such things are sent to try us

rare_stuff

wilf55 wrote: »

i left the buyer who left the bad feedback a response detailing what happened stating that i listed the book as acceptable and highlighted the fact that that is amazons lowest condition category as well as highlighting the faults in detail

If you left the response by clicking the "respond" button on your feedback page, the buyer will not be aware of this unless they return to look at your feedback, which is unlikely. Also if you actually leave feedback for them in return there is little chance of them seeing this either. As well as emailing it may be an idea to write them a letter just explaining nicely, and saying how much the neg feedback is likely to damage your sales.

its just that if i am purchasing a book i look at the % rating of the seller

Most buyers do the same, most of the time. Though if there is only a few sellers of that particular item buyers will look at feedback and will also take into account that it only takes 1 unfair feedback to have a huge effect on sellers who have less than 100feedbacks. As long as your descriptions are good and you have the stock people want to buy it should not effect your sales too badly.

The other thing to bear in mind is if you do attempt to open a seperate account, it is possible to get in a bit of trouble with Amazon due to this. Sellers who have tried similair have had their seller account suspended, so not a method I would use at all.

Also if you look at the feedback of some of the american sellers who have thousands of feedbacks, and a quite low percentage you will see having low feedback does not deter all customers!

wilf55

thanks rare i sent him an email and also a response

havent had a sale since...but it could be the weather just bit disheartened ebay sale ok tho

ruthiejane

Anyone heard anything from the selling fairy? I've not had a sale in over a week now. Admitedly I've not listed anything new for ages, but still have about 300 listed.

wilf55

1 sale today first one in almost a week!!!

but with my current bad feedback rating thats great!!!

tsharp

She hath abandoned us! I listed 2 books bought for 50p each today and an old Indie CD single recently, and no takers! However, I posted a lego kit on ebay using Turbo Lister and as i was waiting for my My Ebay page to load so i could see it, someone emailed me and asked for a BIN price! :eek: Literally 30 seconds after i pressed upload on Turbo Lister!

iieee

I've sold 4 things since monday and I only had 17 listed. :j

Think it's mostly cos I am selling a bunch of CDs by an artist that has released a new album this week though.