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@chameleon54 wrote:

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@extraterrestial.2016-5 wrote:
You would do better in life if you switched off your brain and accepted and rolled with the rythym why all you people complain about people haggling is beyond me its actually natural for people to haggle its a skill, who cares about all the charges, way i see it whatever is sold for whatever price its still turnover of goods you want to have good turnover so get off your high horse and you dont haggle with whoever you bought the item off is that what your saying again switch off your brain get off your high horse

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An old thread, but the problem is still the same.

 

extraterretial.2016-5..........I take it you dont run any sort of business yourself.     The only reason turnover matters at all on ebay is because sell through rate affects search standing with cassini. If a seller sells unique items that are not available anywhere else, that is not such a big problem.  Other than this little ebay perculiarity, turnover or selling stock at any price is a fast road to going broke.

 

What matters is profit margin. It is much more profitable to sell one item with 50% mark up than 5 items with 10% mark up. The reason, each item needs to be sourced, transported, stored, handled and packed. It costs less to store and handle one item than five. Each sale has a risk factor with returns for INAD or damaged in transit to the buyer. Again this cost is less for one item than five.

 

The real way to make profit on ebay is to charge the highest price the market will bare which may mean 400%-500% profit margins and hold out for the buyer who is willing to pay this. Sure you sell less items, but the profit on each one that does sell is so much higher that it doesnt matter and you have more time to do things other than packing and posting.

 

The best advice is to put idiots who make silly offers straight on the blocked buyer list as they are nothing but trouble from start to finish.

 

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Of course they don't have a business themselves.  You have to have your brain switched on to run a business and they obviously don't have theirs switched on!

The problem with blocking people who make ridiculous offers is that they're just as likely to buy on another ID.  I don't have offers enabled on any listings but I still occasionally get stupid rude offers on my main ID.  People asking for discounts is something that rarely used to happen but I seem to be copping a lot more of those these days.