Libra63
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posted on May 10, 2005 04:26:58 PM new
I am, anyone else?
The reason sales are slow, items that usually get some good bids are getting nothing. I figure I can use the money instead of ebay and Vendio.
And I need a rest..............
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niel35
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posted on May 10, 2005 04:30:34 PM new
Take that rest Libra. I just got back from 3 weeks in Western Canada and feel rejuvenated. Only thing I kept running to my sister's computer for email. Really hooked. I felt like my arm had been cut off. LOL Really though a break is good for you and you get to see the outside world again. Have a great time.
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gina50
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posted on May 10, 2005 04:33:05 PM new
I'm thinking about doing that! My sales have been so so but yeah, need a break.
Maybe I'll just put up 3 or 4 auctions per week over the summer so my buyers won't think I quit eBay or anything.
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ebayvet
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posted on May 10, 2005 05:35:56 PM new
One of the nice things about ebay is that I can take a break and take a long trip. I plan on stopping my auctions Memorial Day Weekend, and not starting again til Mid July. I will still buy items, but I need a break from the auction routine!
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Roadsmith
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posted on May 10, 2005 05:36:07 PM new
I just finished a 3-month unexpected "rest" from Ebay. Been so busy with our little chamber of commerce (on the board, 1st v.p.) with multiple issues to resolve that I haven't had those blocks of time to photograph and list things. It's been killing me, and I'm just this week back to listing a bit. Don't know what I'll do over the summer - yet. I keep wishing I had the will power to just photograph and list a lot of things for "later on," but once they're lined up there like birds on a wire, I just WANT TO LAUNCH them! Can't stop myself.
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MAH645
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posted on May 10, 2005 05:53:24 PM new
In the month of May I don't sell on E-Bay other than a few store items. We make Memorial Flowers and that is all I can keep up with right now. We have been swamped with orders and taking more to our store everyday. I plan on taking a rest after this month other than ordering new items for the store on E-Bay and our other store in the Peddlers Mall. Then we do the 127 Yardsale.
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sthoemke
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posted on May 10, 2005 06:41:36 PM new
eBay is horribly slow right now. Few bidders and hardly any watchers. I suspect things will get even slower in the summer when schools and colleges are out, and everyone is either too busy working or too busy travelling.
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fenix03
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posted on May 10, 2005 10:25:24 PM new
I'm lucky - much of my inventory just gets more popular during the summer. Sepetember gets slow and then in mid October things kick in again. I think I'll take abreak in September unless I find some new fall type merch... oh hell, who am I kidding. About the only break I take is the week before Christmas.
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alldings
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posted on May 11, 2005 05:41:38 AM new
I have taken about a two year rest from selling, Wasn't heavy into it anyway. May start up again this fall. Was a good customer,but my eBay buying dwindled last year and is at about zero this year. I don't even browse it much anymore. eBay has lost its novelity and newness, needs a revamp.
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HerbsCraftsGifts
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posted on May 11, 2005 07:58:41 AM new
I guess we are too sorta. Once we get to Colorado, we'll have to settle in.
We are going to have the big yard sale this weekend again. It been nasty or rainy every weekend since November!
We've been looking into Antique Malls for the collectible stuff that doesn't sell here. There are tons of places there in both Colorado Springs and Denver. Haven't even looked at the ski areas yet!
So even thought we won't be eBaying too much, we will not be resting either. lol
Louise
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ebayvet
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posted on May 11, 2005 08:27:21 AM new
Two years isn't a rest, it is a change of direction! Also, what is there to revamp? From a buyer's perspective, with the exception of paypal which didn't exist when it started, it operates pretty much the same as it did a decade ago...People have been going into Sears for a century, and the basics of retail are basically the same!
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fenix03
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posted on May 11, 2005 09:49:21 AM new
Vet - we are talking about a person that states they have not sold in two years and rarely buys - how much weight are you really going to give their opinion?
I think many of the people that state that eBay need to change and revamp actually just want it to digress. The site and the markets evolved and they failed to evolve with it. I'm sure we would all like for ebay to be like it was a few years ago but those days are long gone. We are not going to bring back the Model T or Potbelly stoves and you are not going to bring back the early days of eBay either.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
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ebayvet
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posted on May 11, 2005 11:03:21 AM new
You're right fenix...and I agree about not adapting. There are a lot of business models that simply go away, and you have to change with it or be left behind. I started an internet business in 1995, and it is still running ten years later - My business plan is VERY different than it was in 1995. Of course, back then, the biggest challenge was trying to convince people that a website was not a waste of money! Just about everything related to my business has changed, from who I target (If I stuck with my initial plan, I would be long out of business) to what I would offer (again, I would be long out of business)
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ladyjewels2000
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posted on May 12, 2005 07:03:10 AM new
For the last 2 or 3 years my summer sells have been really great - much better than the rest of the year. I do, however, change what I list so I be listing as always.
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cashinyourcloset
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posted on May 12, 2005 04:28:44 PM new
I always go away the last two weeks of August, so I will be ending auctions with enough time for payment and shipping prior to my leaving.
August seems to usually be pretty slow on eBay anyway, so it works for me.
Claude
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estatesalestuff
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posted on May 12, 2005 05:40:25 PM new
Claude... you're closing your b/m consignment store for awhile in August??? .... do your customers that have their items in your inventory get nervous about that?
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cashinyourcloset
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posted on May 12, 2005 05:55:23 PM new
I start telling people in June/July. So many of my customers are repeat customers who have come to trust me that it wasn't much of a problem last year.
I try to pay as many consignors as possible before I go away (I usually have a certain time lag between when I get paid and when I pay out, to allow for any "material" errors in description to surface before I pay out).
I don't really have a b/m consignment shop in the sense of selling out of the shop. I do have a storefront where I take in items, and a large area in back where I photo, store, ship, etc., but items aren't "on display" for shoppers.
I also try to relax people by telling them that their item, which didn't make my pre-vacation listings, will go "live" on September x at x:xx PM PST -- the specificity seems to calm their nerves 
Claude
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sanmar
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posted on May 12, 2005 06:05:45 PM new
I'm on summer vacation 365 days a year!! LOL!! I never stop putting on auctions. I follow them all over the country on my laptop.
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