Avoid Enshittification By Crosslisting To Spread Out Platform Risk & Sleep Better At Night
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
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I just had the same complaint about not shipping fast enough. The item was purchased on Sunday, and went out Monday night. I use a post office in the middle of the Financial District in NYC. Sometimes, they take a day or so to update due to volume, so it didn't update until midday Tuesday. Some people have zero patience.
what is sourcing like in nyc?
Some great points!
thx chris. what platforms do you sell on and what sort of seller are you?
@@hayfro eBay, Amazon, District--Mega Media Mall, District--Dibdit, Various FB groups, YT auctions on various channels. A FT seller after my FT job. About to start Etsy.
I’m exhausted too! Nothing works on eBay! I can’t even find my own stuff with my titles! 🤷🏻♀️ the other platforms are hit n miss but they make up for eBay’s shortcomings!
it's sad this is ebay. i don't think I could in good conscious ever recommend someone to sell on their platform in 2024.
I have to say that Ebay CEO is doing great job of pissing off seller all around, I have been doing ebay about 8 years as a full time and couple years ago, it was unheard of many ebay seller crosslisting to other selling platform. Now it is mandatory for ebay seller to cross list. I never thought in my life that I have Poshmark, Etsy, Mercari, and Amazon account. On Amazon seller account I sold few Nike stuff. Ebay should realized that Ebay is not only game in town. Within few years I'm slowly transition off ebay, I will still be on ebay but I'm not going to list new item or put in any effort/energy into it, ebay will be small portion of my overall sales. Not a smart move to PISS OFF seller
yep. it's a pain in the butt to have to almost start over on new platforms. ebay is sad and until they actually start being pro seller and help is without extortion my message about ebay will not change. use them as they use you.
Getting squeezed everywhere you go! Another avenue would be swap meets. I've been there in the past too! Some have good traffic, but difficult to run by yourself!
Back in the day I used to go to the ASD trade show (LV), as a buyer under my friend's business and there would be sellers with a booth not taking orders, but are just there solely to sell off everything, or excess merch, for "cash-n-carry." I believe it's on Wednesday. Anyhow, it's better to go in with someone to split the rent!
Yeah, I've been around for some time...had a blast, closing out stores and booths, but not anymore!
sounds like fun!
I reset a part of my store daily. I added title to my first pictures. I think that with my sales. I am selling an no more worries. Thank you for helping so much.
🎉 nice video Jeff!! Thank you!!!
I understand why you detest promoted listings but I find that promoted will help sell things same day, sometimes within minutes or hours of listing. So the promoted tool helps those of us that can't afford to sit on inventory. Or afford the storage. Only My Boring Reseller Life has an endless basement and a wife with endless patience.
A - it looks like it's in the style of Gustave Klimt. I would use "fairy" "art nouveau" "Beauty" "nymph" "symbolism" "modern art movement" "geometric" "abstract" "figurative"
thank you so much, these are all great keywords. very helpful. 🙏🙏🙏 btw, what is your name, you've commented enough here I should know this to address you properly.
any ones for b or c?.. :-)
@@hayfro you're welcome! Sorry for the delay. I took a few days ooff of social media.
My first name is Kasey and "Winter" is part of my very long surname.
Other keywords which could apply to "b" and "c" include "outsider art" "pop" "Optic art" "female portrait" "elf-like"
Sourcing in NYC is great for clothing because it's really easy to find designer items as well as samples. We have access to a lot of furniture, decorative pieces, as well as cutlery and serving items from hotels. For example, I bought my aunt some cake knives and dessert spoons from the Waldorf Astoria.
Sourcing for collectibles can be neat because we have all of the cons, but those items you tend to have to pay up for. Truthfully, I do a lot of my sourcing for collectibles when I'm back in Ohio where I occasionally Adjunct at a Uni - it's a lot cheaper there.
Hey there!! Looking forward to it. This going to be a live or pre-recorded?
We hope this whole video is an extended clip of Hayfrosells laughing… haha
prerecorded with live chat
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Did primo ever add this sound to the sound board? Lol
@@SPAMbansheehar har spam. you'd love that wouldn't you. 😁
@@DarthThrifternot yet but i'm sure once he cycles thru some of his new clips he'll add it.
It’s definitely a grifting site eBay.. we are so being controlled!
I cross list without a crosslister too .. the crosslister makes us lazy and did make mistakes when I did that!
This year Jan and Feb were OK sales. March sales have been bad. Is it like this for others? Or just me?
jan was horrible for me. feb and march have been trying to make up for how bad the beginning of the year was for me personally
Great video. Please continue to let us know how sales are going..whatever the platform ❤
thanks deb. appreciate you watching and being interested.
As usual I am with you and your findings. I am tired of all the extra BS that we have to do to get sales when we should be focusing our time on listing. No other platform does this. I have also been lowering my promoted listings a small amount because it just doesn't seem worth it if they are not going to give us the return in sales on it. I still do partial store resets with some success instead.
It's liken to working for a really arrogant narcissist boss who wants to take all the credit for your work and take more of a profit of your earnings. no thanks. I will treat ebay as they treat me and do my absolute best to sell everywhere else and be thankful the sales I get there but I'm done stressing about it.
Well said! End and sell similar is no longer effective. eBay has caught on to this trick. Since March 14th I have had no sales! The first 2 weeks were great but no it’s terrible. It’s exhausting trying to figure out new tricks just get a sale. I am done! Set it and forget it. I will only end and sell similar when my listings approaches the 30 day listing timeframe. Last few times I sourced it all went on Mecari. Just as I am typing this I get an eBay sale. lol. Screw you eBay. Funny how you mentioned about that person getting a call from eBay. I got an email about a special rate for cost per click campaign after 5 days of no sales. Hmmm the shakedown is real. Ramping up my presence on Posh and Mercari this year. I’m done with putting in effort on eBay. I will still list but will limit to unique and items priced over $20.00.
It’s as if they pay people to send low ball offers! $30 item $5 offer 🤷🏻♀️ not the odd one it’s daily !
I'm still having success with end sell similar not nearly as good as in the early days but it's still noticeable to me
i had someone watch a $5 item today. my response when sending him a 5% offer is either buy this or I'm going to donate it. i nearly lose money selling anything under $5 due to ebay fees. lol
I find that ending so many items (not all of them) and sell similar relisting them helps because all of sudden people can see items that have got lost over time in my listings. It gets my sales up a bit too. It doesn't help all the time though because Ebay glitches cause issues to buying and selling at times too.,
Before you list those fanart pieces i would use google lens to see if the artist is already selling their work online. If they are, you could potentially have an issue with the artist reporting the items. Even if they don't own the character they may report it anyway. It looks like the kind of fanart you would find in the artists alley at an anime convention, but many of those artists now have online storefronts too.
If the character belongs to a series or show, I wouldn't get that worried about the companies taking it down. The only company I've seen aggressively taking fan art items down is nintendo. Otherwise, most japanese companies aren't that worried about these things, they have a huge fan art scene in japan (doujin or doujinshi) and a lot of people working in the industry started with doujin items. Now, I'm not sure how american companies feel about selling fan art so I'd be the wrong one to ask about those.
so when you say the artist could report it, are you saying it's not allowed to resell other peoples art? and this is on etsy you are specifically referring to?
@hayfro Ok, to clarify, I've never sold anything on etsy. I do sell my anime items (official and fanmade) on other platforms and never had an issue with anything being taken down yet. The example I gave with Nintendo mainly applies to fan art, they don't have an issue with people selling official items.
With fanart from western artists, I don't think it's that likely the artist would report it, but it's possible because I know some of them will go looking for people reselling their art even if they don't own the character. Because what can happen is a company in china will take their artwork, print it on an item and sell them in bulk. Obviously you're just selling one offs so the artist may not care but I just wanted to put it out there. I agree it's kind of weird that people will draw copyrighted characters and then get upset that others resold their artwork, but that's how it is sometimes.
I just googled fan art for etsy specifically, it looks like Etsy does have an info page about Intellectual Property Infringement and Trademark policies and they do have a reporting system. So maybe you could start by looking at that.
thank you for this lengthy response. I appreciate it. @@mayakoyama9130
@@hayfro NP! hope you can get something for those!
BTW I ran 15% off sale for entire weekend and got only 3 sales, so now testing out 4% promoted without any sale.
nothing makes sense. try raising your prices 1% on your entire store. maybe the algorithm will reward you. nothing works and there is no valid playbook for ebay. ebay is silent, says nothing, just takes our money.
@@hayfro I had 2 sales yesterday for full price minus the 4% promotion. Maybe 4 to 5% extortion fee is all that is needed.
Sales work sometimes and other times they just don't. Sometimes I think Ebay just hides the items you have on sale or makes it harder for people to buy them,
@@Aaramliasi dont' disagree with that but I want to hear why you would say that. think about it. if the items are on sale...there is a higher chance that they will sell so why would ebay hide those items? the logic doesn't make sense.
@@hayfro I find that Ebay is so buggy that sometimes their site isn't working well and sales are down because customers are either unable to see the sales or the algorithm pushing your items down because it's not working right.
Promoted minimum going to 3% in September? Hmmm
is that a fact or speculation.
What did you mean when you said that Pete's account was strapped for getting one negative feedback?
pete believed that his account traffic and sales were effected by a negative feedback he received. given how the whole feedback system works that buyers can leave pretty much any invalid comment they want and give you a negative it doesn't seem right that feedback should have any impact on our store but it does.
@@hayfroThey let a guy lie in feedback for a canceled item!! I was so mad. They let him buy it even though it was a location I don't ship to. I even tried to fix the location to ship to him, it didn't work, so i apologized to the guy and had to cancel. He was really mean about it, so I sent him a revision request and he actually revised it. Ebay was no help though.
Posh and mercari are the majority of my sales. And I like them way better than ebay.
Yes I received NFB a few days ago and my sales dropped of a cliff to one a day since. Ebay agent says it has no effect on sales unlike losing Top seller status. I find that hard to beleive. Buyer said, "I paid my hard earned money for broken birds. I am very disappointed and will be leaving you
horrible feedback if you don't refund me. She had the items for 2 weeks before complaning and never sent a photo. She left the NFB but Ebay says that was not extortion. WTF?@@hayfro
Yeah I got NFB a few days ago and my sales fell of a cliff to one sale a day. Ebay agent said NFB does not affect sales but I don't beleive it. Buyer said "I paid my hard earned money for broken birds. I am very disappointed and will be leaving you horrible feedback if you don't refund me."I appealed it but Ebay says that is not extortion😦@@hayfro
😦Stupid petty little you tube
Can you explain how you reset at eBay!
search in youtube "ebay reset" and you'll see my original video series there. if you've never done a reset it should def help your store. after viewing if you have question either message me directly (my email is in the description) or comment on the video. thanks for watching and I hope your sales pick up
What is enshittification?😅
Wiki: It's when a platform is good to their users.....then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. Initially platforms offer useful products and services at a loss, as a way to gain new users. Once users are locked in, the platform then offers access to the userbase to suppliers at a loss, and once suppliers are locked-in, the platform shifts surpluses to shareholders. Once the platform is fundamentally focused on the shareholders, and the users and vendors are locked in, the platform no longer has any incentive to maintain quality.
wiki it but essentially "The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits."