I'm having a lot of luck paying per click. The recommend .50 cents per, which will kill you. I've got mine set at .08 cents per. Currently I've sold about $250 gross against $19 worth of advertising cost. I plan on taking anything that's not over $40 off so that only bigger ticket items are getting advertised.
Old players were once new, so this crying is not justified. Everyone should be given equal opportunity old or new. In the end, sellers with good service and products will stay in the game.
I can confirm how much delisting and relisting boosts traffic. There were a few personal circumstances that forced us to shut the store down in the last year and as soon as we relisted everything we had really bug sales weeks. Some people will say "you'll lose your watchers" but it is very much worth it.
Your business tips make so much sense. I have viewed some of your older content and even that is spot on! All that you talk about are found in my college textbook. Intrigued to see real-life business education translate to tangible value. Amazing.
I really enjoy and learn a lot with you. Every time I see one of your vids come up I am like “ Welp, time to go to school” So nice of you to take us with you in your journey and sharing what you learn with us ! 👍🏻✨
This does work well, and I do it frequently. Only caveat is ending too many listings with no sell through can also possibly be a detractor in itself. I've been experimenting with only ending in worst case stale scenarios and editing the dead listings, switching around photos, updating title, description and specifics. Found that the listing also seems to get a traffic boost when doing so without the detractor of ending a listing with no sell through.
Nice! Know how so many viewers stop watching for the end? Well, I am now back at the beginning so I can watch this all the way through the second time! This is gangbuster-good stuff, Chris. Thanks.
eBay is pressuring me to lower a $7 item. What the heck? Why should I reduce below cost? Why waste time on packaging and going to the post office to make 50 cents?
Excellent video. Been selling on EBay for several years now, and always wondered why certain items just seem to die after a bit of time passes. Thanks for the tips, and info.
Yepper...i found when i "end all items" and then relist individually making small changes....THAT's when people start to notice and buy my stuff. Also, i learned from the school of hard knocks to spend 3 to 5 minutes REALLY searching for the lowest price when i go to buy...cause sooo many times i buy at what i think is lowest and then find below the same items even less expensive. It does chap me. A buyer needs to put forth "lots of effort" when searching for lowest price. Ridiculous e-bay concepts ARE "promoted listings" (i.e more expensive) and "fees for listings" (hell, why penalize the seller from listing an item, when e-bay makes 6 to 10% money off the sale-sold items).
This video is 2 years old but since the posting I think one of the worst things eBay has done was to eliminate the bots from viewing items. The fact that your items could end up listed on all kinds of different scavenger websites to me was an advantage. Now you are lucky if you Google the name of your item and you actually see one of your photos pop-up in images.
This was a really good one Chris, thanks. Did a huge sale yesterday via the turning off promoted listings for a week then re-turning them back on at 1% per listing again. Huge boost.
The promoted listing algorithm has changed since the Fall Update, 1% is no longer going to give you as good of results as doing the 'recommended rate' - not to be confused with what used to be called the 'trending rate' and is no longer mentioned. Unfortunately, you may have to pay more now to get the same with no real added value.
Great information have been selling on eBay since 2018 100 percent rating mostly sports cards because I love the hobby but have recently branched out to other items love your channel
With this mindset no new sellers would be able to get started. Not even you back when you got started. I think it's fair for every item to get same chance.
Thank you for this video, I have been on Ebay for many years, however, I am new as a dedicated seller. It definitely is frustrating, I've tried a variety of things such as listing daily to see if that increases traffic. I am also trying keywords . New subscriber.
Right?! The people who have been on there for a long time have huge stores and make $40k to over $100k a year on eBay, when new people come on we are just investing, usually don't have much to work with, and want a chance for our things to sell too so we can get where more experienced sellers are. If all the people who have been eBay for years only got sales that wouldn't be too fair either ...
One thing I can add: I don't like how Cassini treats one off items like vintage clothing items like replenishables. Say I have a pair of vintage Levis in size 40x30 that are Orange tab and faded. That's a lot of item specifics to go through to find the right buyer. It might sit for months but eventually sell for $60. I get what you say about how Cassini treats each listing, but it seems terrible to treat non-replenishable listings the same as a listing that has 100 of an item. What I actually wanted to contribute to this conversation is the sell similar thing. I did it all last year to keep my inventory fresh. As an experiment, I stopped doing it in the 4th quarter. Big mistake, while most stores were making record sales, mine completely tanked! Lesson learned! :P Great video!
I am watching this video now for this very reason. I basically sell “replacements” so it’s used goods that someone may need at some point. Far from a replenishable. Last few months my sales have ranked. Trying to figure out why it’s so bad. Thinking I used to end and sell similar every month but stopped. Going to try it again.
@@kimbarnett9939 It seems useless when I do it every day, but when I stopped doing it, it really killed my store! To think that prior to 2013 and Cassini, I used to sell clothes via auction only! I read a couple of years ago that Cassini lowered an items rank after three weeks. Nobody knows, but it's a guess anyway.
Chris, how do you start an electronics cleanout business or just cleanout service in general? I am not entirely sure how the business model works. Do you keep the items for free? Do they charge you for the items? etc. I was hoping you could touch on this or maybe point me in the right direction to a video that explains this a little better. Thanks!
are you getting sold listings being relisted?- i understand relisting but how long does that last-i usually hold out promoting for 2wks assuming thats the run also take advantage of a lowball offer nock the price down than accept if it(23hrs) doesnt sale
5:15 YES your 'browsers' are not shopping just looking to see what you're doing because of your 'how to' videos. Fortunately you're open enough about your business that they see you're for real.... thanks for that.
Ooh also great point on give away a bunch of 5-7 dollar items every month to sell those higher dollar ones.. Do you do any auctions on a monthly basis to help your store perform?
i am finally at 700 items. sales are random still, about 5 things a week. Plugging away at it! So grateful for such great selling tips and information. Thank You!
i’m doing much more consistent sales since my last comment. i’m at 1060 items and bout 1500$ last month. i forget that february is a slow mover and consistency is key in any business!
Very true good luck that is a lot of listings!! I do a lot of vintage myself but in garage sale season I make a killing on electronics and video game stuff thrifting is ok but the deals i get from garage sales and estate sales cant be beat recently ive been doing a lot of corning ware its been selling good for me
@@zachreidy9604 I sell sports cards packs and I have about 26 up and sell probs 2 per week lol. Will my conversion go up with the more items I got? The packs are at fair prices but things are moving slow. Just wondering if I should trust the process and if things will speed up when I get like hundreds of packs.
Can you make a video on pricing items? I've heard you mention before that your items are not the cheapest on ebay, so how do you do it? How do you get someone to buy your item that costs more than someone else? I've had that problem for 2 years and have been trying to price my items cheaper than everyone else's, but sometimes it's not even worth it or I'd end up losing money.
My sell through rate is around 13%. It might be more, but I've really pumped up my listings to a new level, so my numbers haven't caught up. I feel that's decent, given that I sell clothes, mainly. However, my sale conversion is 1.8% and I feel like I can contribute my good sales to that. When that number is running high and increasing, I'm getting more hits, more watchers and more sales. This makes obvious sense to me.
Hi, thanks for explaining. If I end a list and I make it again, yes it can go up but also I loose the counter of how many I sold. For instance, if I have 20 units and I sell 5 , it says 5 sold. If I make a new list, it just will say 20 available. It might look a bid bad for someone, like if I have never sold a piece of it before Can you share some other platforms where I can list an item please, a part of Amazon
Thank you for sharing tips to your success, Chris. I have some listings that I relist instead of doing sell similar because it shows how many I have sold. Do you think this matters to the customer or should I still be relisting these as well?
@@dailyrefinement I was wondering on this because I have many skus that are replenishables that have high traffic but also have a decent number of sales so was wondering if it is better to keep them up or repost. I’d hate to lose the prior solds as I feel like that helps the buyer have more confidence in the item they are getting especially if you have positive reviews on it. So for replenishables would you suggest not relisting or sell similar on them?
I feel like resellers are moving to Amazon, Shopify, poshmark, goat and mercari from eBay. eBay needs to change if they want to drive more traffic and get back more resellers.
I notice that to , I’m selling on eBay after eBay did a big update it messed up my business more so I created Amazon account, if I do good on Amazon I’m going to delete my eBay account cus eBay is bull shit
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WOW!! I think I may do this too! I need major help with my Ebay store
what do you sell? ebay amazon, sorry no instagram
Ebays new SCAM Is the promotions. They always recommend crazy percentages
It sucks
I'm having a lot of luck paying per click. The recommend .50 cents per, which will kill you. I've got mine set at .08 cents per. Currently I've sold about $250 gross against $19 worth of advertising cost. I plan on taking anything that's not over $40 off so that only bigger ticket items are getting advertised.
@@InReteroArcadecan you fill me in how you do the pay per click?
Old players were once new, so this crying is not justified. Everyone should be given equal opportunity old or new. In the end, sellers with good service and products will stay in the game.
I can confirm how much delisting and relisting boosts traffic. There were a few personal circumstances that forced us to shut the store down in the last year and as soon as we relisted everything we had really bug sales weeks. Some people will say "you'll lose your watchers" but it is very much worth it.
No bs I have been on ebay for 20 years...not been the same..I agree
Your business tips make so much sense. I have viewed some of your older content and even that is spot on! All that you talk about are found in my college textbook. Intrigued to see real-life business education translate to tangible value. Amazing.
I look back at your "old" videos, Chris and learn so much. Thank you!
I really enjoy and learn a lot with you. Every time I see one of your vids come up I am like “ Welp, time to go to school” So nice of you to take us with you in your journey and sharing what you learn with us ! 👍🏻✨
Glad you like them!
LOL Raven, I am saying that now too.
This is really important information. I'll keep that in mind. Thank you for the sharing!
Keep up the good work Chris. 😎⭐👍
Very interesting. Been selling on Ebay for a Lifetime. Great thoughts. Thanks for sharing with me. Have a great weekend.
This does work well, and I do it frequently. Only caveat is ending too many listings with no sell through can also possibly be a detractor in itself. I've been experimenting with only ending in worst case stale scenarios and editing the dead listings, switching around photos, updating title, description and specifics. Found that the listing also seems to get a traffic boost when doing so without the detractor of ending a listing with no sell through.
Nice! Know how so many viewers stop watching for the end? Well, I am now back at the beginning so I can watch this all the way through the second time! This is gangbuster-good stuff, Chris. Thanks.
eBay is pressuring me to lower a $7 item. What the heck? Why should I reduce below cost? Why waste time on packaging and going to the post office to make 50 cents?
Excellent video. Been selling on EBay for several years now, and always wondered why certain items just seem to die after a bit of time passes. Thanks for the tips, and info.
This was a really good video. Def going to put some of those ideas to the test. Many thanks! Keep it up!
Hows it going
U the MAN..i only watched 3 videos so far & i can tell you very SMART..glad i found you ..ty
Wow! Great content and video. Thanks for sharing
Yepper...i found when i "end all items" and then relist individually making small changes....THAT's when people start to notice and buy my stuff. Also, i learned from the school of hard knocks to spend 3 to 5 minutes REALLY searching for the lowest price when i go to buy...cause sooo many times i buy at what i think is lowest and then find below the same items even less expensive. It does chap me. A buyer needs to put forth "lots of effort" when searching for lowest price. Ridiculous e-bay concepts ARE "promoted listings" (i.e more expensive) and "fees for listings" (hell, why penalize the seller from listing an item, when e-bay makes 6 to 10% money off the sale-sold items).
Its over 13%. My first free listing with the managed payments was charged almost 14% which is of course including the 30c paypal fee. Wow 🤯
Shout out to you because the whole time I've been on eBay only you and one other person have given out real helpful tips
Who is the other person? :o
@@nano349 Harry tornado
@@whysoserious867 sweet thank you sir! Just expanding my knowledge.
@@nano349 I also like Cincinnati picker and garage flips they sell more of the same type of stuff that I do, I tend to stay away from clothing
@@whysoserious867 checking this one out today! Appreciate it
Thank for the information , never knew that eBay ever did that this way , good one !
Great info Chris...thanks!
Can’t believe I’m just now discovering your channel. You have some stellar content 👌. Mad respect :)
Always great tips and tricks! Thank you. Keep up the great work.
ThNk you
Great explanation of how ebay flows traffic to or away from listings.
This video is 2 years old but since the posting I think one of the worst things eBay has done was to eliminate the bots from viewing items. The fact that your items could end up listed on all kinds of different scavenger websites to me was an advantage. Now you are lucky if you Google the name of your item and you actually see one of your photos pop-up in images.
Thank you - useful content - on point!!!
Great video, very informative.
Thanks Chris! Great video!
Lots of useful information. Thanks brotha
Great information man. Thank you
Great advice Chris!
Brilliant video! Thank you.
As usual, great content, Thanks Chris! My hometown is San Mateo but I’m currently in DFW 🙂👍🏾
Sweet! Texas sounds nice
This was a really good one Chris, thanks. Did a huge sale yesterday via the turning off promoted listings for a week then re-turning them back on at 1% per listing again. Huge boost.
That’s a great tactic
@@dailyrefinement I learned from the best :)
The promoted listing algorithm has changed since the Fall Update, 1% is no longer going to give you as good of results as doing the 'recommended rate' - not to be confused with what used to be called the 'trending rate' and is no longer mentioned. Unfortunately, you may have to pay more now to get the same with no real added value.
Thanks for the tip
Great information!! Very helpful
Glad it was helpful!
Great information have been selling on eBay since 2018 100 percent rating mostly sports cards because I love the hobby but have recently branched out to other items love your channel
Thanks Travis! Yes, I think we are all spreading out!
This was so helpful.
Great info
Very good video. Thanks
🤯 I always learn a bunch from you. Thank you
Glad to hear it!
Great video!
Thank you so much!
Awesome video thank you!
With this mindset no new sellers would be able to get started. Not even you back when you got started. I think it's fair for every item to get same chance.
Amazing....never seen such to the point and helpful video regarding ebay
Glad it was helpful!
Great vid!
Interesting information, thnak you
Very insightful thankyou
Really interesting watch. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you!
Thank you for this video, I have been on Ebay for many years, however, I am new as a dedicated seller. It definitely is frustrating, I've tried a variety of things such as listing daily to see if that increases traffic. I am also trying keywords . New subscriber.
Thank you so much for sharing your expertise
Great insight into the ebay marketplace.
Ton of excellent information in this video. 👏🏾
Glad it was helpful!
100% true! Being top rated plus I worked damn hard for that and I used to get good placement with eBay but not since promoted listings!
Thanks for the info
You bet
thak you,going to try it
Love your content! Do you do amazon also? If so, is it possible to do some videos on it?
You are great!!
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Good point on eBay also being an advertiser and they don’t want to waste their money on the stale stuff!
Well, gotta be fair to everyone selling to, no matter if they are a new seller or not. They git to make money too and get better at it to.
Right?! The people who have been on there for a long time have huge stores and make $40k to over $100k a year on eBay, when new people come on we are just investing, usually don't have much to work with, and want a chance for our things to sell too so we can get where more experienced sellers are. If all the people who have been eBay for years only got sales that wouldn't be too fair either ...
It would become the RUclips for sellers where small seller will struggle with promotion
Keep up the good work
Great info👍🏾
Glad it was helpful!
Another lean cogent video. You are the Paul Akers of reselling!
How long does a listing have to be up to be considered stale? I’m a new eBay seller and appreciate all the information you share with us. Thank you.
Thank you for these strategies
You’re welcome
Well Said!
Great video. This must be why eBay is reworking their business model with this new April update.
You are on fire🤝🔥🔥🔥
thank you!
Great information no holding back
Glad it was helpful!
One thing I can add: I don't like how Cassini treats one off items like vintage clothing items like replenishables. Say I have a pair of vintage Levis in size 40x30 that are Orange tab and faded. That's a lot of item specifics to go through to find the right buyer. It might sit for months but eventually sell for $60. I get what you say about how Cassini treats each listing, but it seems terrible to treat non-replenishable listings the same as a listing that has 100 of an item. What I actually wanted to contribute to this conversation is the sell similar thing. I did it all last year to keep my inventory fresh. As an experiment, I stopped doing it in the 4th quarter. Big mistake, while most stores were making record sales, mine completely tanked! Lesson learned! :P Great video!
I am watching this video now for this very reason. I basically sell “replacements” so it’s used goods that someone may need at some point. Far from a replenishable. Last few months my sales have ranked. Trying to figure out why it’s so bad. Thinking I used to end and sell similar every month but stopped. Going to try it again.
@@kimbarnett9939 It seems useless when I do it every day, but when I stopped doing it, it really killed my store! To think that prior to 2013 and Cassini, I used to sell clothes via auction only! I read a couple of years ago that Cassini lowered an items rank after three weeks. Nobody knows, but it's a guess anyway.
That's why I haven't sold this t-shirt for 10 years. Damn!
Yeah!
haha
Chris, how do you start an electronics cleanout business or just cleanout service in general? I am not entirely sure how the business model works. Do you keep the items for free? Do they charge you for the items? etc. I was hoping you could touch on this or maybe point me in the right direction to a video that explains this a little better. Thanks!
are you getting sold listings being relisted?- i understand relisting but how long does that last-i usually hold out promoting for 2wks assuming thats the run also take advantage of a lowball offer nock the price down than accept if it(23hrs) doesnt sale
5:15 YES your 'browsers' are not shopping just looking to see what you're doing because of your 'how to' videos. Fortunately you're open enough about your business that they see you're for real....
thanks for that.
Hi Chris love your videos
Thank you!
Ooh also great point on give away a bunch of 5-7 dollar items every month to sell those higher dollar ones.. Do you do any auctions on a monthly basis to help your store perform?
Is the 20% sell through rate based on a rolling 28 day basis? Thanks Paul
Once again you have helped me with a video. One question, what is a decent click through and sell through rate? Thanks
Dependz kn the category
Does Casini recognize when you delist and item and list the same one again? Will this help in increasing your algorithm rate?
You’re a really wise dude 👽
Customers are NOT sorting the results from low price to high?
i am finally at 700 items. sales are random still, about 5 things a week. Plugging away at it! So grateful for such great selling tips and information. Thank You!
I stay at 300 active and sell about 80 items a week what are you listing ?
i’m doing much more consistent sales since my last comment. i’m at 1060 items and bout 1500$ last month. i forget that february is a slow mover and consistency is key in any business!
I sell a huge variety of vintage mostly lol i just try to sell my own things until i can invest in my art to create and sell on another platform.
Very true good luck that is a lot of listings!! I do a lot of vintage myself but in garage sale season I make a killing on electronics and video game stuff thrifting is ok but the deals i get from garage sales and estate sales cant be beat recently ive been doing a lot of corning ware its been selling good for me
@@zachreidy9604 I sell sports cards packs and I have about 26 up and sell probs 2 per week lol. Will my conversion go up with the more items I got? The packs are at fair prices but things are moving slow. Just wondering if I should trust the process and if things will speed up when I get like hundreds of packs.
Hello Chris.
Thank you always for sharing the helpful and valuable information!:) I would like to buy the t-shirt... do you guys ship to Japan?🤔
I’d have to order one first, I can work it out though, chris@dailyrefinement.com
@Daily Refinement Sorry for the late response. Great! How should I proceed? Thanks.
Can you make a video on pricing items? I've heard you mention before that your items are not the cheapest on ebay, so how do you do it? How do you get someone to buy your item that costs more than someone else? I've had that problem for 2 years and have been trying to price my items cheaper than everyone else's, but sometimes it's not even worth it or I'd end up losing money.
My sell through rate is around 13%. It might be more, but I've really pumped up my listings to a new level, so my numbers haven't caught up. I feel that's decent, given that I sell clothes, mainly. However, my sale conversion is 1.8% and I feel like I can contribute my good sales to that. When that number is running high and increasing, I'm getting more hits, more watchers and more sales. This makes obvious sense to me.
Yeah, sell through can decline with size!
Hi, thanks for explaining.
If I end a list and I make it again, yes it can go up but also I loose the counter of how many I sold.
For instance, if I have 20 units and I sell 5 , it says 5 sold. If I make a new list, it just will say 20 available. It might look a bid bad for someone, like if I have never sold a piece of it before
Can you share some other platforms where I can list an item please, a part of Amazon
Is it still possible to revive a stale store like you described in this video? Or has Cassini changed how it does things.
😱🤯 I just learned more in 8 minutes than any other vid I’ve watch ........ now I get it ...... thank you 😊
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing tips to your success, Chris. I have some listings that I relist instead of doing sell similar because it shows how many I have sold. Do you think this matters to the customer or should I still be relisting these as well?
If you have multi quantity, I’d just leave the listing up forever
@@dailyrefinement Thank you. I appreciate your quick response.
@@dailyrefinement I was wondering on this because I have many skus that are replenishables that have high traffic but also have a decent number of sales so was wondering if it is better to keep them up or repost. I’d hate to lose the prior solds as I feel like that helps the buyer have more confidence in the item they are getting especially if you have positive reviews on it. So for replenishables would you suggest not relisting or sell similar on them?
When you say relist all the items, do you mean relist with the same item number, or relist and get all new item numbers? Thanks
If you end the listing and relist does it get a new date, like fresh listing????
I feel like resellers are moving to Amazon, Shopify, poshmark, goat and mercari from eBay. eBay needs to change if they want to drive more traffic and get back more resellers.
I notice that to , I’m selling on eBay after eBay did a big update it messed up my business more so I created Amazon account, if I do good on Amazon I’m going to delete my eBay account cus eBay is bull shit
What type of shelves are you using?
Does using the eBay photo editing tool that gives your item a white background help the same as photographing against a white background?
Does this work for amazon or is there something similar for amazon?
How do you calculate/measure sell through rate?