topic Re: Shop Subscriptions in Selling

Shop Subscriptions

www_thecardhut_com_au — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 00:50:47 GMT

Hi Guy's

I have a question I have a featured Store and im close to grwoing out of the featured store but the next jump up is a anchor store but the price jump os to high.

Do you think Ebay should have a option inbetween the featured and anchor store subscriptions for those sellers who are not up to the anchor store.

Your feedback is welcome

Re: Shop Subscriptions

jessicadazzler97 — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 02:33:34 GMT

I think the prices are pretty reasonable. You could simply pay for extra listings instead of jumping up to an Anchor store.

Re: Shop Subscriptions

southaustraliacardshop — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 03:02:03 GMT

I might be stupid but what are the advantages of having an anchored store I know it costs about $150 per month?

Paddy

Re: Shop Subscriptions

imastawka — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 03:27:29 GMT

Basic store = $20 per month - 200 listings

Featured store = $50 per month - 500 listings

Anchored store = $500 per month - unlimited listings

Yes the jump is too much from featured to anchor.

Better to open another basic or featured store if you have outgrown

the one you have.

Re: Shop Subscriptions

dazzledayz — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 04:07:19 GMT

@imastawka wrote:
Basic store = $20 per month - 200 listings

Featured store = $50 per month - 500 listings

Anchored store = $500 per month - unlimited listings

Yes the jump is too much from featured to anchor.

Better to open another basic or featured store if you have outgrown
the one you have.

A simple calculation shows that you would need to have greater than 9,500 listings before the $500 Anchor Store becomes cheaper pro rata than the Featured Store (you are in a media category so $0.05 per additonal listing above 500).

This does not take into account the 1% less that you would pay in FVF so you'd have to work that one out using your average sale price + average postage cost x avg monthly sales.

I think you'll probably find it's going to be quite a while before you want to go Anchor.

Re: Shop Subscriptions

harley_babes_hoard — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 04:16:29 GMT

what do you mean growing out of it? you only have 300 odd listings?

I usually have over 600 listings and not close to out growing mine

Re: Shop Subscriptions

davewil1964 — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 04:49:30 GMT

If you're only selling media, I would go back to a basic store. You're paying 10c each for 300 'free' listings, versus 5c if they're not 'free'.

Re: Shop Subscriptions

www_thecardhut_com_au — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 05:01:36 GMT

have arond 5000 more items to list and even still not worth me going to anchor

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www_thecardhut_com_au — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 05:02:46 GMT

I had no idea you can open two shops under the one ebay user name please explain this one to me cheers

Re: Shop Subscriptions

clarry100 — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 05:09:21 GMT

You have to create another userID then you can have a store on that ID as well.

But the listings cannot be duplicated across the two IDs.

You can sell the same items but they have to be in different variations or quantities.

Re: Shop Subscriptions

dazzledayz — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 05:19:21 GMT

@davewil1964 wrote:
If you're only selling media, I would go back to a basic store. You're paying 10c each for 300 'free' listings, versus 5c if they're not 'free'.

It's a line ball decision I'll admit but the extra 300 free listings account for $15 (or half) of the difference in price between Basic and Featured store subscriptions.

If you are turning over $1500 per month then the saving of 1% represents another $15 so even steven there.

(that $1500 includes postage too).

I know my sales patterns make it a marginally profitable exercise to stay with Featured rather than go back to basic.

A lot of that is to do with postage costs which can be quite a large part of book sales.

I think it would be a lot less for the OP as trading cards post a lot cheaper (unless registered).

@OP - a second store is as simple as signing up a new (second) username and then subscribing to the store of choice.

Do the sums first as you may find it's not cost effective.

Also, don't forget about the complexity of running 2 stocks across 2 separate stores.

Re: Shop Subscriptions

www_thecardhut_com_au — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 05:24:36 GMT

Ok i see now i dont think i will do it i will stick with the featured and pa the extra fees

Re: Shop Subscriptions

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 06:25:29 GMT

i have a basic store and i currently have around 700 listings

Basic store for me worked well while i had the "3 free relistings" tickbox
I lost the tickbox about 3-4 weeks ago so once my current batch of free relistings runs through i will have to go for a featured store.

Last month was the first time i had to actually pay for listings (was only about 50 @ 0.05c per listing) and im nearly out of my 200 already for this month

in the next month or so it will be cheaper for me to go featured store and then pay 5c per listing over the 500

Re: Shop Subscriptions

digital*ghost — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 06:49:50 GMT

eBay's Fee Illustrator will give you a direct comparison of all the store subscriptions, making it quite easy to see which is the most cost effective option for your listing and sales volume once you enter your main category, sale and postage price etc (you'll have to estimate approximate sales for the additional items you have to list, though).

http://www.fees.ebay.com.au/feeweb/feeillustrator

Re: Shop Subscriptions

chameleon54 — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 08:47:35 GMT

I have around 2000 listings spread across two featured stores. Average sale price of $38.00 and reasonably good sales numbers. It is still more cost effective for me to pay the extra listing fees rather than go to anchor store, although if I wanted to increase listings much more, the anchor store might be an option.

I find the 2000 listings keep me fairly busy and I couldnt really handle many more without employing some-one. I know the trading cards would be easier to manage, but could you realistically keep up with 6000-7000 listings ??? assuming they sell well thats a lot of listing, filing, questions to answer, items to find and pack etc. ( even with combined post orders for multiple sales )

It might be worth recording how much time you spend on ebay now with around 350 listings. 7000 listings will take 20 times as long unless you can increase efficiency. If you spend 3 hours on ebay per week now, you will need 60 hours to manage 7000 listings. If you can improve efficiencies in listing, packing and mailing you may get that down a bit ........but ???

Re: Shop Subscriptions

chameleon54 — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 09:31:40 GMT

I have just had a closer look at your business. You currently have just over 300 listings and 79 feedbacks for the past month. If around half of your clients leave feedback you may be making perhaps 150 sales per month on your 300 listings. Some of your listings are "one offs" and some multiple quantity.

If you increase your listings to 3000 at any one time ( assuming you sell some one offs from your 5000 items and restock with new items) and assuming you still make sales on 50% of your listings ( current average ) you should make around 1500 sales per month, 375 per week, 75 per day. ( 5 day working week ). Assuming some of these are multiple item sales with combined post, thats an awfull lot of listing, filing, searching for sold items and packing.

That sounds like a lot of work day in day out.

Re: Shop Subscriptions

davewil1964 — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 13:13:30 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
i have a basic store and i currently have around 700 listings

Basic store for me worked well while i had the "3 free relistings" tickbox
I lost the tickbox about 3-4 weeks ago so once my current batch of free relistings runs through i will have to go for a featured store.

@Last month was the first time i had to actually pay for listings (was only about 50 @ 0.05c per listing) and im nearly out of my 200 already for this month

in the next month or so it will be cheaper for me to go featured store and then pay 5c per listing over the 500

Why? You will pay 10c per each of the additional 300 listings. Unless the lower FVF is worth 5c per listing, you will simply be gifting eBay money. All to get perceived 'free' listings.

You might also like to sample edit a few of your listings and see if the 3 free auto-relists magically reappears, which I have found to be the case.

Re: Shop Subscriptions

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 14:26:07 GMT

ive had a closer look at this tonight since someone posted the fee illustrator, and you are right. Its not worth it at all for me to go featured store

i currently have around 700 listings, and even if i have to pay 5c for each of the listings over my 200, thats still only an extra $25 per month.

I do plan to list more. Im aiming to get to the 1000 active listings over the next couple of months so perhaps it will be worth it then

as for sample editing, ive tried everything and it looks like its gone for good. The tickbox is even gone for my other ID which has only 63 feedback and 60 auction listings (sold only 100 items on this ID)