Which do you prefer?? High ticket items, low volume OR ....

[Futuremogul888]

I will sell anything profitable and as much of it as I can. Whether it is $.50 profit or $200 profit. I have some accounts that are selling 100 items a month and some that are selling 5,000 items a month. There will be plenty of time to sleep when I'm dead.

[keithy72]

I would say more expensive items and less volume but probably good to have a mix so that your feedback percentage does not go down so fast (in theory)

I sell 80-100 items per month, the people at the post office hate me, we only have a little village PO and normally 1 person serving, I go once a week with 20-25 packets all recorded delivery so by the time I am finished they are out on the street....Honest I feel like I am doing a walk of shame when I walk out of there with everyone with that look....You know the ones that if looks could kil!!!

I am curious for the big sellers like selling 1200 items in a weekend, how do you post your goods? Do the big sellers use some kind of couriers? Cant imagine me going to post office with anymore parcels than what I already take, it takes about half an hour to serve me!!

[mercurial333]

Originally Posted by AmazonStealth

95% $10-$30 items x10,000+ a month, 5% $100-1,000+ x20 a month

Low Cost High Volume is the key to success.

Those percentages supposed to be profits?

Originally Posted by mercurial333

Those percentages supposed to be profits?

hahaha that would be a huge difference

[bruceuk]

Originally Posted by keithy72

I would say more expensive items and less volume but probably good to have a mix so that your feedback percentage does not go down so fast (in theory)

I sell 80-100 items per month, the people at the post office hate me, we only have a little village PO and normally 1 person serving, I go once a week with 20-25 packets all recorded delivery so by the time I am finished they are out on the street....Honest I feel like I am doing a walk of shame when I walk out of there with everyone with that look....You know the ones that if looks could kil!!!

I am curious for the big sellers like selling 1200 items in a weekend, how do you post your goods? Do the big sellers use some kind of couriers? Cant imagine me going to post office with anymore parcels than what I already take, it takes about half an hour to serve me!!

If you are doing 100 a month you JUST qualify for an account with PO
Means a reduction on charges usual £3.65 recorded cost goes down to around £2.90 for example .
And the best bit .. they collect from your premises / home.
So no more standing in the post office queue getting death stares from the coffin dodgers waiting for there pensions.
Have a look on po website for business solutions

[Daga]

Why don't u use Endicia. I use it as it sets up easily at home and I print it right off. It is not connected to eBay so the real address is not linked and all u gotta do is drop it off. Sometimes dropping it off after hours is good too, as long as they have that drop off box for parcels and normal letters.

Originally Posted by keithy72

I would say more expensive items and less volume but probably good to have a mix so that your feedback percentage does not go down so fast (in theory)

I sell 80-100 items per month, the people at the post office hate me, we only have a little village PO and normally 1 person serving, I go once a week with 20-25 packets all recorded delivery so by the time I am finished they are out on the street....Honest I feel like I am doing a walk of shame when I walk out of there with everyone with that look....You know the ones that if looks could kil!!!

I am curious for the big sellers like selling 1200 items in a weekend, how do you post your goods? Do the big sellers use some kind of couriers? Cant imagine me going to post office with anymore parcels than what I already take, it takes about half an hour to serve me!!

[liimey]

[QUOTE=Sandy D;409132]I have taken more then that to the PO in a single day.

I would be disappointed in myself if I did not take 50 or more any time I went to the PO.

Why are you guys ging to the post office anyway. Just call them and they pick up nowadays. Even better, if you have good volume get a corporate discount from UPS or Fedex and get their automated shipping systems

[Mr. Invisible]

^^^^^^ Just like small PO, you can run into nosey carriers with a ton of packages with return address all over the place.

Of course my carriers get Christmas bonuses, snacks & drinks on hot days so they ask no questions, they love me.

[mercurial333]

Originally Posted by keithy72

I would say more expensive items and less volume but probably good to have a mix so that your feedback percentage does not go down so fast (in theory)

I sell 80-100 items per month, the people at the post office hate me, we only have a little village PO and normally 1 person serving, I go once a week with 20-25 packets all recorded delivery so by the time I am finished they are out on the street....Honest I feel like I am doing a walk of shame when I walk out of there with everyone with that look....You know the ones that if looks could kil!!!

I am curious for the big sellers like selling 1200 items in a weekend, how do you post your goods? Do the big sellers use some kind of couriers? Cant imagine me going to post office with anymore parcels than what I already take, it takes about half an hour to serve me!!

You need to go in the back where the employees work. That's how I do it.

[rsot]

[quote=liimey;411225]

Originally Posted by Sandy D

I have taken more then that to the PO in a single day.

I would be disappointed in myself if I did not take 50 or more any time I went to the PO.

Why are you guys ging to the post office anyway. Just call them and they pick up nowadays. Even better, if you have good volume get a corporate discount from UPS or Fedex and get their automated shipping systems

liimey what service do you use in Canada for pickup?

[zelpher]

On my Amazon account I was selling hundreds of phone accessories a week. It was such a pain in the @$$ running back and forth to the PO. I was spending all day packaging screen protectors and dealing with returns and messaging customers. I wanted to blow my head off. I ended up paying to get a website built, similar to Gazelle. People send me their phones/electronics and I pay them through PayPal. I am averaging 150-250 phones a month, and I make way more than the small ticket items. But as everybody suggest, don't sell higher end items unless you have a pretty stable account on eBay/Amazon. I slowly built my account up, and it isn't stealth its my main account.

[arshavin]

I go for the lower price high volume route. I may have to change this model though seen as i have learnt how VAT works.

[arpichelago]

I just started selling markers... Pretty fun but the first thing I've sold under 10$! They are selling well, but I can't imagine getting used to selling something every day!

I usually sell graphics cards for 160$ at the very least.

By the way, Ebay doesn't seem to have a problem with the word GRAFFITI... at least not in my experience, I have a disclaimer in my marker listings anyway.

[mercurial333]

Originally Posted by Speeder33

hahaha that would be a huge difference

Looks like he left us in the dark

[zoneout]

Originally Posted by mercurial333

Looks like he left us in the dark

He`s busy packing those 10,000 cheapies.

[GhostWhoWalks]

I sell from 80 to 165 items per month that are price range 9.99 to 29.99 with a good profit avg. And if a customer claims they want a refund or return or whatever it is. I won't cry over a few dollar items really.

If I was selling a high end item costing me a lot of money and one customer claims and ebay or paypal is in their favor I would lost out big time. I like to deal with smaller items people can spend money on.

If you sell stuff for $9.99 about 80% of the world has money for it.

IF you selling something for $250 only 15% of the world have money for it. And if they claim item is not as said. You lose out!

If someone claims it on my tiny items. I wouldn't care. I only get about 1 to 3 refunds per month. Customer not happy and so on.

About 20% of my customers come back to buy more. And they can buy more then one and I give deals buy 2 get 1 free, or buy 1 get 1 free but I make the prices higher.

Plus selling electronics is a pain I would imagine. If you don't sell it in 3 months time the price drops = you losing out on it.

I like to sell stuff that do not expire and the price does not drop. Smaller profits larger volume is the best. I don't even do the shipping part with packaging, my friends do that for me. I just push the orders!

Some people just want a refund and keep the products, I tell them to ship it back and its on the policy of returns on ebay and people can't read or don't care to read. Some people buy stuff, and then claim on their credit cards that they never approved of it. And don't even contact me back or anything. I hate people like that! And it hurts our accounts at times and we get -$20 fee cause of it.

[mastaflappa]

Originally Posted by zoneout

He`s busy packing those 10,000 cheapies.

Yeah 10 thousand cheapies for what ? a new hair do? lol It's funny I've got 1 account with no paypal holds and no seller limits, been selling nothing but high risk software for months

$3-$500/3-5 items per day for months and not a single problem, not 1 neg, no vba, ⊗⊗⊗⊗ address, no phone #, it's amazing what they let you get away with, why even bother with the cheap stuff @\/@

[cortex]

Originally Posted by bruceuk

If you are doing 100 a month you JUST qualify for an account with PO
Means a reduction on charges usual £3.65 recorded cost goes down to around £2.90 for example .
And the best bit .. they collect from your premises / home.
So no more standing in the post office queue getting death stares from the coffin dodgers waiting for there pensions.
Have a look on po website for business solutions

I think the minimum is 5,000 items per annum (packets and letters inclusive)

Packetpost

[Laritha]

Originally Posted by mastaflappa

Yeah 10 thousand cheapies for what ? a new hair do? lol It's funny I've got 1 account with no paypal holds and no seller limits, been selling nothing but high risk software for months

$3-$500/3-5 items per day for months and not a single problem, not 1 neg, no vba, ⊗⊗⊗⊗ address, no phone #, it's amazing what they let you get away with, why even bother with the cheap stuff @\/@

LMFAO! Impossible