Ebay Sales Down

[jamcas997]

Originally Posted by jamcas997

This week compared to last week

Total sales
$1,198.19
246.6%Up
vs. prior time period




Quantity sold
208
74.8%Up
vs. prior time period

This week is wow and the Month is WOWWWWWWWWWWWW


Report for Mar 1, 2023 - Mar 17, 2023
Compared to Feb 1, 2023 - Feb 17, 2023 (17 days)


Total sales
$2,933.18
138.3%Up
vs. prior time period


Quantity sold
327
20.7%Up
vs. prior time period

[thenightman]

Originally Posted by jamcas997

This week is wow and the Month is WOWWWWWWWWWWWW


Report for Mar 1, 2023 - Mar 17, 2023
Compared to Feb 1, 2023 - Feb 17, 2023 (17 days)


Total sales
$2,933.18
138.3%Up
vs. prior time period


Quantity sold
327
20.7%Up
vs. prior time period

What have you been primarily selling?

[jkampis]

Originally Posted by Raleigh504

What is everyone's average card price on their eBay? Mine is $1.53 although I do have more $2+ items being listed lately. (quantity & price found on the active listing page to calculate).

I’m curious how you’re able to sell cards with an average price so low and still be efficient enough that it’s worth your time. If you don’t me asking, what’s your hourly profit from time selling on eBay?

I’ve eschewed cards less than $10 because I haven’t been able to figure out how to be efficient enough it’s worth going that low.

[shrevecity]

Originally Posted by jkampis

I’m curious how you’re able to sell cards with an average price so low and still be efficient enough that it’s worth your time. If you don’t me asking, what’s your hourly profit from time selling on eBay?

I’ve eschewed cards less than $10 because I haven’t been able to figure out how to be efficient enough it’s worth going that low.

It's all about organization and listing speed. I am slow at listing compared to some and I can do 70 to 80 an hour if I am focused. Many times can do it while watching TV then shipping with my system I can generally pull and ship cards at a rate of about 1 per minute.

Some with the right systems can do over 200 an hour..

[jamcas997]

Originally Posted by thenightman

What have you been primarily selling?

Some items that had been sitting a while and I had ran a sale on went for full price this week. Also bought a couple Leaf ITG Used Sports Boxes hit some low numbered Awesome cards and got nice return on them. Mostly it was stuff I have had listed Baseball, football and a few Hockey went to.

Just kept listing mainly baseball prospect and rookie autos that I have had in my inventory that needed listing.

[rwperu34]

Originally Posted by jamcas997

This week is wow and the Month is WOWWWWWWWWWWWW


Report for Mar 1, 2023 - Mar 17, 2023
Compared to Feb 1, 2023 - Feb 17, 2023 (17 days)


Total sales
$2,933.18
138.3%Up
vs. prior time period


Quantity sold
327
20.7%Up
vs. prior time period

It feels like i have been slumping, but over the same time frame my quantity is up 22.2%, but my dollars are down by 25%.

I haven't sold a graded card since March 12th after being on fire for most of February.

[jamcas997]

Originally Posted by rwperu34

It feels like i have been slumping, but over the same time frame my quantity is up 22.2%, but my dollars are down by 25%.

I haven't sold a graded card since March 12th after being on fire for most of February.

Im looking at my First $1000 weekly payout since Aug 5th 2022. over 6 months and an $800+ last week. Best 2 weeks in like what seems forever. Plus I have my tax money coming back soon.

[Raleigh504]

Originally Posted by jkampis

I’m curious how you’re able to sell cards with an average price so low and still be efficient enough that it’s worth your time. If you don’t me asking, what’s your hourly profit from time selling on eBay?

I’ve eschewed cards less than $10 because I haven’t been able to figure out how to be efficient enough it’s worth going that low.

A lot of stuff listed is older cards. I do have some higher priced stuff that moves from time to time or players sell cause they get hot. I do have sales of someone buying 10+ cards at a time. I do this all on the side, scan cards, use a program and have all my cards organized by sport/year/card #/etc. helps for duplicates. I also try to price my stuff a little lower than what’s on there so to get people to buy/move products, hence the multiple items sold. Again this isn’t my job and monthly sales are always around $1k.

I maybe spend a few hours a day (like 1-2) shipping, listing, etc. Going through new stuff I will do at night when watching tv. I will bulk sell items that may take too long to sell or if I have too many of the item to just move cards.

I will add, I always seem to sell my higher listed items each month too and it’s not just $1 cards. I will go through my collection and sell any item I don’t want anymore which is always $150/200+. So that helps with getting more money.

[rwperu34]

Looking at my traffic report this last week has been brutal. Impressions are down over 20% on both sides (graded and raw). Sales are down 100% on the graded side and 30% on the raw side from the week prior, which itself was down a little from the previous week.

Possible reasons;

1) My slump coincides almost perfectly with bank failures.

3) My slump coincides almost perfectly with the WBC.

9) I have not been as consistent at anything due to my spring training gig.

While there's almost certainly a touch of random variation here (I was running way too hot in February), I'm pretty clearly getting hammered by the search algorithm. Unfortunately I won't really be able to start to right that ship until until the 29th.

[premium1981]

Originally Posted by rwperu34

Looking at my traffic report this last week has been brutal. Impressions are down over 20% on both sides (graded and raw). Sales are down 100% on the graded side and 30% on the raw side from the week prior, which itself was down a little from the previous week.

Possible reasons;

1) My slump coincides almost perfectly with bank failures.

3) My slump coincides almost perfectly with the WBC.

9) I have not been as consistent at anything due to my spring training gig.

While there's almost certainly a touch of random variation here (I was running way too hot in February), I'm pretty clearly getting hammered by the search algorithm. Unfortunately I won't really be able to start to right that ship until until the 29th.

It has nothing to do with #1 or #3. Its 100% #9.

[thenightman]

I'm tracking less cards sold this month than last month, but it's not by an egregious amount. What's really killing me is my average sales price. Last month it was $26.16 and this month it's $17.42. I went ahead and started promoting all of my items $100 and over and my listing impressions are way high, but CTR, LPV, and SCR are all down.

[jamcas997]

Listing impressions
2,383,756
14.3%Up
Click-through rate
0.2%
0.0% ptsUp
Listing page views
5,323
37.9%Up
Sales conversion rate

10.2%
3.3% ptsDown

[shrevecity]

My sales are up this past week but it's things like vintage tees and other items moving best.

[jamcas997]

Originally Posted by jkampis

I’m curious how you’re able to sell cards with an average price so low and still be efficient enough that it’s worth your time. If you don’t me asking, what’s your hourly profit from time selling on eBay?

I’ve eschewed cards less than $10 because I haven’t been able to figure out how to be efficient enough it’s worth going that low.

If I was only selling $10 cards and higher then my sales would be down over 75%. I will sell it all. You may get that repeat buyer who bought a $4 card from you that ends up buying a $40 card from you that they really wanted.

I list while watching tv so having a system that works is what is important.

[thenightman]

Really weird thing just happened. So, like a half-hour ago I jump on the app, as I'm want to do, and I got 141 cards that are currently being watched. No big deal, it's been like that most of the day. I jump on again, just a moment ago, and do the same thing again; because I'm constantly looking at that every day like a crazy person. Now, just a mere half-hour later, the number jumps from 141 to 155.

I know it's Sunday night and all that, but I've never had the number jump that high in such a short amount of time.

[shrevecity]

Originally Posted by thenightman

Really weird thing just happened. So, like a half-hour ago I jump on the app, as I'm want to do, and I got 141 cards that are currently being watched. No big deal, it's been like that most of the day. I jump on again, just a moment ago, and do the same thing again; because I'm constantly looking at that every day like a crazy person. Now, just a mere half-hour later, the number jumps from 141 to 155.

I know it's Sunday night and all that, but I've never had the number jump that high in such a short amount of time.

Lot of things could theoretically cause that but overall watchers don't mean a whole lot anyway. I watch many items with zero intention of buying

[thenightman]

Originally Posted by shrevecity

Lot of things could theoretically cause that but overall watchers don't mean a whole lot anyway. I watch many items with zero intention of buying

I know, like I said, I'm a crazy person. Just thought it was funny/interesting and for as many times I've looked at my eBay account there is very little anymore that I find funny/interesting.

[rwperu34]

Originally Posted by premium1981

It has nothing to do with #1 or #3. Its 100% #9.

I can see a market dip in my buying results as well. During this same stretch I had my biggest night ever in terms of wins (by a solid 20%!!!!), my rolling 7 day win % is at its high point for the year, and I've landed more big cards at discounted prices than I normally would.

At the very least the WBC is taking some air out of the sails since it is gobbling up so much of the headlines.

Also, this;

Originally Posted by thenightman

I'm tracking less cards sold this month than last month, but it's not by an egregious amount. What's really killing me is my average sales price. Last month it was $26.16 and this month it's $17.42. I went ahead and started promoting all of my items $100 and over and my listing impressions are way high, but CTR, LPV, and SCR are all down.

That's another poster that is experiencing the same sag I am, almost exactly.

[jkampis]

Originally Posted by shrevecity

It's all about organization and listing speed. I am slow at listing compared to some and I can do 70 to 80 an hour if I am focused. Many times can do it while watching TV then shipping with my system I can generally pull and ship cards at a rate of about 1 per minute.

Some with the right systems can do over 200 an hour..

But the shipping is the slow part of the process, right? How fast can one package and ship a $1-$2 card?

[shrevecity]

Originally Posted by jkampis

But the shipping is the slow part of the process, right? How fast can one package and ship a $1-$2 card?

A minute or 2 usually. Most of that is the pull time. It's all about your organization. Use of custom sku to tell you where the it should be. I use 5000 count boxes with numbered dividers and only have 20 cards or so per section. The rows are marked numbered and boxes have a letter. So A11 is box a row 1 section 1

[premium1981]

Originally Posted by rwperu34

I can see a market dip in my buying results as well. During this same stretch I had my biggest night ever in terms of wins (by a solid 20%!!!!), my rolling 7 day win % is at its high point for the year, and I've landed more big cards at discounted prices than I normally would.

At the very least the WBC is taking some air out of the sails since it is gobbling up so much of the headlines.

Also, this;



That's another poster that is experiencing the same sag I am, almost exactly.

Its almost never outside circumstances like the WBC. Its almost always the individual who helps or hurts their own sales.

Also, don't compare yourself to others good or bad. You will never find another person doing the exact same thing as you. Comparing yourself will either make you feel bad about your sales, or justify bad sales, when you could be doing better. If you are blowing others out of the water you way get complacent and not keep up the same pace. Just keep working and growing. There isn't a secret sauce. Its the ones who do the same thing over and over and over on a regular basis that win in the long run.

[premium1981]

Originally Posted by jkampis

But the shipping is the slow part of the process, right? How fast can one package and ship a $1-$2 card?

I shipped 90 packages out this morning by 9am. And there were many orders that had large quantities in them that slowed me down. Get organized and it isn't that hard. Most people just don't want to do it.

[bigdog2003]

I'm not listing cards yet, but I'm selling through my Scout memorabilia inventory while getting ready to transition into cards and other stuff. Currently my sales conversion rate is 6.8%. I'm getting ready to transition to a store instead of just using the 250 free listing each month so that I can start listing cards too.

[Raleigh504]

Originally Posted by premium1981

I shipped 90 packages out this morning by 9am. And there were many orders that had large quantities in them that slowed me down. Get organized and it isn't that hard. Most people just don't want to do it.

I had to reorganize my entire inventory (still think I can do better and may revamp it again with an actual card location number) and that helped out tremendously. I am now able to get out my stuff so much faster. I would be able to print/ship faster if I wasn't on paternity leave. I can't print out too much and lose my spot when my daughter wakes up or needs to be laid back down to nap. So unless it is under 10 orders, I will typically do it one at a time just in case I need to stop in the middle.

[Raleigh504]

Originally Posted by jkampis

I’m curious how you’re able to sell cards with an average price so low and still be efficient enough that it’s worth your time. If you don’t me asking, what’s your hourly profit from time selling on eBay?

I’ve eschewed cards less than $10 because I haven’t been able to figure out how to be efficient enough it’s worth going that low.

Also one thing I didn't mention is that the past few months I have changed my strategy for how I am going about this as a side business (as I mentioned earlier to eventually get to $5k profit each month and pay myself a "wage" and all when I get there). I used to buy new and open boxes to get items or go to shows and dig through the bins to find steals. That really didn't seem like a good strategy for my circumstances. I have now been buying collections/large lots and going through them.

I will go through the lot/collection once and pull out cards that I believe should sell, sort by sports too. Then go back and try to go by decade and pull any cards I may have missed. Any cards that may take too long, commons or anything else I will bulk together into a flat mail rate box and sell it on eBay. It won't generate me a ton of money but it moves cards out faster vs taking to card shows and having quarter boxes. I am sure I have missed good cards in there by doing this, but it will also have customers see they can pull great cards from my auctions (of this type) and buy from me again.

I had a lot of 1970s baseball cards that sold for more than I bought the entire collection for and it also had some Judge rookies and other hot stars that go from $1-$10 or so along with the commons that go into this lot.

So for the $1 cards, using the software and such after I scan them, I will teach myself about the cards and maybe not pull certain ones next time or be on the lookout for certain types too.

Basically my main goal is get inventory for cheap, build up my store with a lot of different cards & price points, look for good deals on really anything and move the inventory as fast as I can. I never try to set the market on anything. I would rather leave meat on the bones for someone else and they return as customers than to set the market and have them upset about spending more on my items.