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@davewil1964 wrote:

With my extra 1600 listings in my store I intend to concentrate my listings there. Cheaper FVFs, too.

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Whatever works for you......

I find the non store account does not seem to be affected by throttling in the same way as the stores and the auctions are still working exceptionally well for us on this account. . We have had 58 sales and averaging turnover of $300 - $400 per week  on this account in the last month which is a handy top up to the stores. The items we sell on that account dont owe us much, so a fair % is profit.

 It doesnt matter how many new listings I put up on the stores, my sales still remain the same, so if I want to sell a bit extra I use the non store account. Since ramping the non store account up, we have kept accurate records and will be declaring sales from this account along with our stores to the ATO.

It has worked that well for us that we are considering opening another 40 freebies per month, non store account. The stores just sit there ticking away with the same $$$ sold each month, so non store accounts are the only way we can grow our sales on ebay and make it worth the effort.  The stores also only sell a specilised range of products whereas we sell all sorts of things on the non store account which is a bit of fun, especially when an auction or group of similar items attract a lot of interest.

Despite all the doom and gloom on ebay it is still possible to sell enough to well and truly make it worth the effort. It just requires a bit of flexibility to work around the roadblocks that ebay put in place. The non store account is the work around that is allowing us to stabilise and even slightly increase sales at the moment.

Its also just a bit of fun hunting down that elusive stock that might make a small fortune.....