Sales drop, sale only around 3 items a week. Anyone else has similar problem?

[yanrovinskay-0]

Don't understand why such a drop in sales.  May be need to move from ebay to another platform?

[domino-710]

I think those 60-70 buck sales have to be horns. 

🤣

[davewil1964]

C'mon tipping. Chamo will always outperform any every other eBay seller, In every category, at any price.

[*sons_and_daughters*]

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@davewil1964 wrote:

C'mon tipping. Chamo will always outperform any every other eBay seller, In every category, at any price.

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My mistake. You are correct. I was wrong. I'll bow out into insignificance, at not being able to perform as well. I should have known better.

[domino-710]

Wake up - youse 2 - you're doing it wrong. lol

[*sons_and_daughters*]

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@domino-710 wrote:

Wake up - youse 2 - you're doing it wrong. lol

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Shouldn't that be "ewes"? Bawahahaha!

[domino-710]

Only if they're - near or remote. 😉

[chameleon54]

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@springyzone wrote:

Wow, that is an impressive wage per hour (in both cases). There are many jobs around that pay a lot less!

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That's why I,m still selling on ebay. I can make as much sitting in my office at home as I was making as a licensed builder travelling away working on projects hundreds of kilometers away.

As much as I would like to give eBay away, there's not many other things a 60 yo bloke who doesnt really want to work for a boss can do to earn similar money.

[chameleon54]

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@*sons_and_daughters* wrote:

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@chameleon54 wrote:

@ tipping-point, - You may well sell 250 items some months, but have you accurately calculated your return on time invested over a number of years ?

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Ummm, yeah I have. Most of my sales I make over 5000% on purchase price, and am doing quite well thank you. So much so, I was thinking of dropping a day each week from my regular job to keep up.

I suspected that was the case..............you are probably one of the more successful sellers on the forums who actually has some worthwhile experience to offer so not going to debate the fine points of selling with you..........By the way, do you still love your sheep ?

Maybe you need to stick to your "sheep grazing business". Whatever that means. I'm a sheep farmer, and have never heard anyone call it a "sheep grazing business'. You have sheep for wool, or for market (freezer). You don't have a business having them eat your excess grass, which is what grazing is.

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I lease eight properties besides my own in the Adelaide hills and a major part of the job IS actually grazing the excess grass off to reduce the fire risk. This is valued by some clients so much, that I receive use of their properties for free. This includes a vineyard owned by a Chinese consortiam who cant be there to see that the grass is controlled. I just do my thing and probably only hear from them twice a year. Just the way I like it 

The sheep have been good to me over the years, but at 60 its starting to be hard work. I dont recover from the inevitable thumps, bumps and motor bike falls as well as I used too. The land is worth a fortune now so probably a good time to change down a gear, sell some of the property off and take things a bit easier.

[chameleon54]

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@davewil1964 wrote:

C'mon tipping. Chamo will always outperform any every other eBay seller, In every category, at any price.

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Not quite. I have a selling price cut-off point of around $10.00. Anything below that and the time taken to source, clean, photograph, list, answer questions, store,  retrieve, pack and post etc. means that the listing is unviable as far as ever getting any sort of commercial return on the time invested.

I'll leave that end of the market for others who have got plenty of time on their hands and nothing else to do with it.

[chameleon54]

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@domino-710 wrote:

I think those 60-70 buck sales have to be horns. 

🤣

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As usual its all true.............

You and your acidic friends are not the only ones who read the forums. ( although you have an awful lot to say ) Some people actually follow threads to learn stuff. The point of higher average price points and higher profit margins is vitally important to increasing dollars earned per hour and achieving a sustainable income. Having several different selling id's with different product lines gives me insights that single id sellers may not gain.

The charity account gives much better return per hour than my own accounts. While it is selling donated stock which has no cost, that is not the main driver for dollars per hour, as my own stock costs me  very little ( or nothing these days as I have a shipping container full ) and it is only a small proportion of my costs. 

The single biggest drivers of dollars per hour is item selling price ( with high profit margins )  and sell through rate. ( amount of stock sold as a percent of listings ) The charity account sells the pick of the pick and so there is no dead or ghost listings. It achieves a monthly sell through rate of around 12% - 14% compared to 2 - 3 % for my poorest performing account. Basically on the charity account, the stuff sells as quickly as I can list it.

The take away is the better the quality of the stock, ( selling the stuff buyers actually want ) and the higher the price point the higher the hourly income achievable.