@phorum_junkie* wrote:
I have found that second hand clothing does much better in auction or BIN with Best Offer than it does with BIN only. I would never dream of starting a Miller's top at $10, I would probably start it at about $5.99 and be grateful If I got more than one bid. You can often pick up Miller's clothing for less than ten bucks in store brand new. For the cheaper brands I don't specify in the title so there is more chance of a buyer actually opening the listing and liking it. Target is worth mentioning though.
Although it seems insane shops sell things at one cent under the next dollar as $9.99 looks less than $10 even though everybody knows the difference is so small.
I hear that sort of thing
And then I see myself selling millers tops for $10 every week, and being fairly happy with my sell through rate, with lowering prices on old stock periodically.
I think people have an idea of what should work, and what should happen, but the reality is different. A lot of my sales go to country and mining towns where they cannot go down to a local shop and buy these things themselves. These people are more than happy to pay $10 for a millers top. In my experience, people don't look at the brand, people search for 'blue top, size L', and look at the pictures for a pretty one, the brand is pretty irrelevant.
As for the previous poster who says they would buy brand names and would not buy without measurements, I appreciate that, however, they need to understand that they are not nececarily representative of the majority of buyers. I don't need measurments, neither do my friends who buy on ebay. None of us care about brands. I know those people are out there, but plenty of people do not feel the same way. Don't assume your way of looking at it is representative of everyone, because my sales seem to prove otherwise. And like I said, removing measurments improved my sales in a noticable way.
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