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@stickerswa wrote:Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday - 4 sales total ...Thursday 16 sales and 3 questions..... Friday nothing , nada zip !
Can only imagine how busy I would be if the lights were left on ! So over ebay but no where else to go!
Be careful what you wish for............
I had an experience a couple of years ago when ebay obviously had a problem and left my lights blazing for several days. I got totaly swamped with sales, questions, offers etc. Things where selling quicker than I could pack them and each day I had to use the tradesmans entrance at the rear of the post office to unload parcels onto trollies as there was too many to just go over the front counter. I was getting further and further behind when it stopped as quick as it started. It took a couple of days to catch up and I was ready for a rest when it finished.
My ebay business runs around 1800 listings which is about all I can handle comfortably as far as sales, packing, new listings etc. goes. This keeps me busy for 15-20 hours a week. When ebay gets busier than normal, I dont have the time to devote to my sheep grazing business and so I dont do any new listings. This slows things back down again for awhile. When things slow, I do a few more listings and re-invigorate things.
By restricting or increasing my new listings, I manage sales flows over time, keeping things busy, and at the maximum I can comfortably handle. If the lights where to go on too long, I wouldnt be able to keep up and would have to downsize my stores to compensate.
I believe my stores where heavily affected by ebays averaging of sales up until 12 months ago. Most months my total sales varied less than 1% on average. Around a year ago something changed and I find my sales flows are now less regulated and more " natural '"
