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@imastawka wrote:

Are you serious????

 

Sellers are complaining about no sales, and you come here complaining that you're being bought out!!!!

 

And how collectable are they if you have multiples of 20 at a time to sell?

 

Bragging in the form of a complaint IMO

 

 

 

 

 

 

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WOW. Bad day?

I was neither complaining nor bragging . . . I actually DID want an answer to my question. I don't usually post just for the heck of it. 

1. I genuinely like my customers, have a good rapport with many of them (I would even consider some of them to be friends), and would like more than one of them to be able to buy a given item.

2. Over 75% of my sales are to repeat customers. See above.

3. Given 1 and 2, if a single customer is buying up all of a given item, then other customers may become frustrated and shop elsewhere if the items they want are selling out almost instantly to one person. And, I sell on eBay because I enjoy sharing my items with people who also appreciate them. Believe it or not, profit is secondary to that. Probably doesn't make me the best businessperson, but there you go.

It's like if you always go into Baby Bunting for baby formula and they never have it because Chinese resellers have bought it all - you're not going to bother going in there any more.

4. Given that my customers and I, uh - collect my items (and I spend a lot of time messaging with many of them about their collections) - yes, they are definitely collectible. I used 20 as an example because that is the maximum quantity I generally have. Remember how I said nobody else sells them? 20 for the whole of eBay - in fact, in most cases, the whole of the Australian market. Not collectible? Okay, Stawks. You don't even know what they are and you're making all these assumptions.

 I'm very lucky to be selling something that nobody else sells. I'm very lucky to be making sales, and to have a customer base of really wonderful people. I don't know why you're assuming I feel otherwise.