I haven't actually heard of managed payments, I also was not 100% aware that people could do click and collect for my items. Both of these are topics I might do a little research on.
Over the past couple of days, I finished sorting through the books I had and have put ones with above 50% sell through rate in a seperate box to list first. The others I will try to sell at a local flea market. Just because space is currently much more valuable to me than some lower quality stock. (I live in a share house)
Postage wise, I've looked into flat rate postage costs, my main concern with that is that I am not left with much of a profit margin if I sell books below $20 with free postage. I will start printing out all my postage labels through Aus post my business site. I've realised that the eBay doesn't connect to my business properly though. So I've been doing it manually.
I met a guy today who has been involved in selling in ebay for the past couple years suggest doing untracked postage for lower priced items. I know this will make me heaps more competitive on price if I start doing that. What's your thoughts on untracked postage?
Another thing I've noticed is that book sets sell quite well, so I've combined a few of my listings. I might even do book bundles by the same author or topic and see how that goes.
I realised with auction houses, I am a bit too excited to win the bid and make bad buds due to that, so I'm going to write up a bidding price versus profit chart and put it up on my wall to give me a hard line price wise for bidding. I've also decided that I don't want to sell any used electronics unless they are still sealed in their original packaging.
Is there any chance @davewil1964 that you could drop a link for one of your eBay stores? I would like to take a look through and see if there are any easy things I could adopt from you.
