Amazon Ebay Abritage & Making $$ for the Holiday Season

[Silkk]

@Grizzly What apps/techniques are you using to make your pictures the best with your iphone camera?

 

[Human Torch]

Bout to get in the game. Just need to load up on research. Y’all brehs share any sources, good websites, etc to start with so i can get balls deep in this shyt.

I literally do procurement for a living so I should be able to transfer some skills in order to be successful.

 

[Silkk]

I see why @Grizzly logs off for days at a time. Thecoli, Youtube, & IG kill the fukk out of my productivity. May do a march cleanse.

 

[MMS]

I see why @Grizzly logs off for days at a time. Thecoli, Youtube, & IG kill the fukk out of my productivity. May do a march cleanse.

You have too

I started using Evernote and Podio to keep track of all the things im doing

 

[Iceson Beckford]

@BlackPearl The Empress Is this still a viable side income?

Roughly how much would you recommend for intial investment?

 

[CASHAPP]

The absolute best way to drive traffic is through promoted listings + markdown sales. When you're making a listing, Ebay always tells you the rate + cost to promote it and I always add that into the listing price. That way no matter how the customer finds your product you always come out on top. If a customer finds my product organically and purchases it then cool. I only have to pay the Final Value Fee (FVF) and I end up making extra profit from the ad fee (+). If they purchase it through promoted listings that's cool too. I already covered the ad fees so I'm not tripping off that. I'm not getting the extras but I'm still gonna make good profit cause I used smart pricing. Either way it goes, I'm in the green.

The best thing about this method is you start off using promoted listings but once you get more sales and more positive feedback you start getting more organic sales so you can lower your price and ad rate over time. For example, I created a listing last week and started off with double the trending ad rate on purpose just to get it moving. I got one sale here, one sale there, another sale until the end of the week I had like 4 total. These were all through promoted listings but I saw I had 20 watchers. This week the sales were still spread out but my search ranking was getting higher and higher. Yesterday, I woke up and checked my phone. I made two sales in my sleep and made another sale before the afternoon. That's a few hundo. All organic. I got people messaging me a few times a day now about this listing and I have 50+ watchers. I stopped running markdown sales for it and I can lower my ad rate because I'm getting organic search traffic now. Ebay has some great tools if you figure out how to use them to your advantage.

I don't have an E-Bay store but I just have a couple products listed now under the 50 free listings plan. I did what you said for the promoted listing but it seems as if it is barely working. I"m brand new btw. I just do not get this and why its so hard to get more watchers. I'm getting views but for the 4 items i have up total its 0 watchers between all of them. By the way its just a set of scientific calculators, and three individual Cds. I'm not sure if its because I posted the latter in a competitive category and most people are on the first page but its ridiculous. This is why Ebay desperately needs an FBA program like Amazon.

 

[Grizzly]

I don't have an E-Bay store but I just have a couple products listed now under the 50 free listings plan. I did what you said for the promoted listing but it seems as if it is barely working. I"m brand new btw. I just do not get this and why its so hard to get more watchers. I'm getting views but for the 4 items i have up total its 0 watchers between all of them. By the way its just a set of scientific calculators, and three individual Cds. I'm not sure if its because I posted the latter in a competitive category and most people are on the first page but its ridiculous. This is why Ebay desperately needs an FBA program like Amazon.

CDs definitely sell better on Amazon than Ebay but there could be a number of things preventing your items from selling. It could be that your SEO is preventing it from being shown in front of the right people. It could be your photos or description. It could even be the competition like you said. You could be selling an item that's not popular on Ebay period and doesn't sell that often. Have you searched to see how many people are currently selling your item on Ebay? Have you checked "Sold Listings" to see how often it has sold in the past? That's stuff that needs to be done to determine if an item is even worth listing on Ebay. Just from what you told me though this is what I would do.


- Turn on "Best Offer" if you don't have it on already
- Sell the CDs as a lot instead of using three individual listings (example title: Lot Of 3 Wu-Tang CDs Rare RAP HIP-HOP New York)
- Sell the scientific calculators as a lot. "Lot" is a keyword that will give you extra juice in Ebay search. Use that instead of "Set" -
(example title: Lot Of TI-83 TEXAS INSTRUMENT Scientific Calculators Math College School Gift).
- Run a 5-7% markdown sale. Nothing that's going to cut into your profit too much. Remember that you are not the only listing being promoted in Ebay's search results. This will make your listing more appealing and help you stand out from the pack.
- The last resort would be straight up running an auction. You can set a reserve price if you want but if you really just wanna get it off your hands instead of potentially prolonging it then leave the "reserve price" field blank
- If it still hasn't sold after all that then you should go back to square one, create three individual listings on Ebay and cross post those same listings on Amazon (Merchant Fulfilled) and Mercari

The most important thing you need to do is source for better products and list more. You can't bank your whole Ebay selling career on 5 items. Get at least 20-30+ up there and make sure their fully optimized. Really you should be trying to max out all 50 listings.

 

[CASHAPP]

CDs definitely sell better on Amazon than Ebay but there could be a number of things preventing your items from selling. It could be that your SEO is preventing it from being shown in front of the right people. It could be your photos or description. It could even be the competition like you said. You could be selling an item that's not popular on Ebay period and doesn't sell that often. Have you searched to see how many people are currently selling your item on Ebay? Have you checked "Sold Listings" to see how often it has sold in the past? That's stuff that needs to be done to determine if an item is even worth listing on Ebay. Just from what you told me though this is what I would do.


- Turn on "Best Offer" if you don't have it on already
- Sell the CDs as a lot instead of using three individual listings (example title: Lot Of 3 Wu-Tang CDs Rare RAP HIP-HOP New York)
- Sell the scientific calculators as a lot. "Lot" is a keyword that will give you extra juice in Ebay search. Use that instead of "Set" -
(example title: Lot Of TI-83 TEXAS INSTRUMENT Scientific Calculators Math College School Gift).
- Run a 5-7% markdown sale. Nothing that's going to cut into your profit too much. Remember that you are not the only listing being promoted in Ebay's search results. This will make your listing more appealing and help you stand out from the pack.
- The last resort would be straight up running an auction. You can set a reserve price if you want but if you really just wanna get it off your hands instead of potentially prolonging it then leave the "reserve price" field blank
- If it still hasn't sold after all that then you should go back to square one, create three individual listings on Ebay and cross post those same listings on Amazon (Merchant Fulfilled) and Mercari

The most important thing you need to do is source for better products and list more. You can't bank your whole Ebay selling career on 5 items. Get at least 20-30+ up there and make sure their fully optimized. Really you should be trying to max out all 50 listings.

Thanks breh great advice. I will follow this. When you say "markdown sales" what are you referring to? You mean just listing as a lower price right? I did try the auction price recommended for one product. I wanna one day go in one of these thrift stores and see a gang of graphing calculators for real cheap. Imagine finding 10 in a pack and its a dollar tree. You spent 10 dollars and you can possibly flip each one for $200 net on ebay and make 2000 before fees. Thats a perfect world though and alot of these stores know of the hustle already and try to make it hard lol.

Theoretically I wanna end up using both Ebay and Amazon and have got a stack of these bubble mailers on stock for Ebay. There is a big hustle on Ebay now of a well known video game that has been popular for 2 years that people are buying brand new for cheap...like less than $50 and reselling on Ebay for like 200 and up. Ive checked sold listings and saw some sold it for $250, some for $500,etc. And in the sold listings they sell like every week. Now a product like that is something I desperately wanna sell and I wanna make sure I'm able to get that top contributor badge in a couple months if its possible before I sell them. Because then its a guaranteed sale and i can also upsell the price.

As for Amazon man i kick myself for not learning about FBA years prior before they started all the restrictions. I'm still organizing my first shipment and obviously books at the start is one of the few categories new sellers can sell on Amazon. The books are a pain in the ass though holding onto all of it. I really wanna get ungated for CDS. I've heard that sometimes you don't have to deal with the sending in invoices thing for ungating and some people get ungated automatically if they have great account health and good sales. I hope that is me. Cause I don't wanna spend money on brand new CDs at a Best Buy or something. If for example i send in invoices from CDs I bought at a Savers they had better accept it. I know they have the policies in place because of counterfeit but man its ridiculous. It makes no sense...because its funny I think im ungated for electronics....

Shouldn't they be more worried about counterfeit electronics than counterfeit cds?


Oh and what are your thoughts on Seller Fufilled Prime? I just learned about it. Do you think its better than FBA? People say you always get the prime badge but what many people do not know about is that when you list products for $25 or more you automatically allow the customer to get free shipping

 

[Silkk]

@Grizzly How is everything going with the Amazon light box? Has it improved your sales? Is it worth the investment so far in your opinion?

 

[Silkk]

Flipped three ATT remotes i've had since 2011 in a matter of hours on Ebay. Great start to the day

 

[CASHAPP]

Flipped three ATT remotes i've had since 2011 in a matter of hours on Ebay. Great start to the day

from just following what Grizzly said?

 

[Silkk]

from just following what Grizzly said?

Nah, this was just some stuff I been had but never put up. Finally took time to put all my current inventory up on Ebay & Amazon this weekend.

I need to make an order with some suppliers for what I actually plan to build my brand around.

 

[LeVraiPapi]

Anybody knows how to add variations but different prices? Like you can add different things and sell for different price.

Let's say it's an Xbox--- Add 1 controller for 5$ extra, add 2 games for 40

Something like that

 

[BlaqkSpliffin]

Can you resale stuff like detergent and household items on Amazon? Asking for a friend...

 

[Silkk]

Can you resale stuff like detergent and household items on Amazon? Asking for a friend...

You can sell whatever the f you want as long as its not a restricted item