Sales when you first started

[tackledfishing]

Hello fellow ebayers... Just out of curiosity how many sales did you average  (if any) in the first month you started selling on ebay ? ( if you can remember that far back , as you are all doing so so well).

Thanks guys! 🙂

[punch*drunk]

lol, the good old days!!  When ebays "list at 99c auction to create interest" was good advice.

I sold everything I listed at 99c starts, and for a good profit too. That lasted a few years until ebay tried to bring in paypal only and geared the site to favour BIN listings instead of auctions. Then I stopped selling for a few years.

When I started up again a couple of years ago, with fixed price listings, I sold 27 items my first month. I have increased my range and I sell roughly triple that now.

You should do well as long as you offer great customer service and quality items. I have saved you to my favorites, we just bought a boat and hubby will probably be wanting fishing gear for his birthday 🙂

[tackledfishing]

Wow guys.. I love reading your stories! Thanks for sharing! Just wanted to grasp if my sales as a beginner were slow, reasonable or great! Well congratulations to you all for continually growing and persevering ! Hopefully I will be around a while to share stories like yours! 🙂

[sillysillysheep]

For us, thinking back to the beginning was easy since it was only about 18months ago . We discovered Ebay by accident, an injury saw me having to leave my workplace and we literally had to sell nearly all of our possessions to survive and pay bills. Then all of a sudden we started to see a pattern and we were getting a lot more sales, it finally reached a point where I said to my wife " This is crazy why don't we try a store" She hated the idea at first but as we established a return customer base and found niches that existed parallel with our own it quickly exploded.

We started off with about 25 listings in our store in the beginning, and managed at least a sale a day, I look back at some our my early listings now and just cringe lol.

Now we average about 250 sales a month, and its all smiles from here 🙂

[tackledfishing]

Now we average about 250 sales a month, and its all smiles from here

Wow thats great sillysheep! Thats an impressive average! Well done and lucky for you ebay helped you out when times were tough.