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eBay Efficiency
 

Ok, so I'm always looking for ways to be efficient in eBay/Paypal land. I have a lot of the basics covered, but wanted to see what big steps others have taken to be more efficient.

GO! :cheer:

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Efficient in terms of what exactly? Can you explain further?

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Not sure if it applies to you but on all of my user accounts on my mac I have it set up that the moment my computer recognizes my iPhone 6 being plugged in, the Photos app opens up. I then quickly upload the photos I need within seconds and drag them to the image cleaner application I have.

Way easier than emailing myself photos then downloading them (which I used to do).

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Efficiency becomes critical if more than 5 accounts are managed. What I do is using onenote/gdoc to track everything. I applied GTD(get things done) into account managing...

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Just overall with processing orders. From buying inventory to shipping products. I'm always looking for ways to make things faster if possible. I like to spend less time in from of a computer processing orders and more time going what I love.

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You know, I never thought about using this ebay. I absolutely hate emailing all my photos to myself. Plus you can only email about 4 at a time. Thanks for the idea!! Unfortunately I dont use my Mac for ebay (wife and kids use it mostly) but I may need to invest in another one.

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What is onenote/gdoc.

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Google doc I assume

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It is like excel but is stored in the cloud so you can access it from anywhere, a very good tool in my opinion.

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I switched from Excel files/flash drive to google doc.

Another thing that may help you save a bit of time is having home pages on each user account.

Everytime I open firefox.. whatsmyip.org, google doc, and aspkin forums open up.

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wow this a great tip dude.

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Pictures. Setting up phone with Google images to upload automatically all pictures taken on the phone to your google account then downloading from there.
Another option - digital camera with sd card.
Also I found fire Fox portable much faster than separate Windows accounts, but needs to be more careful. Each of my account opens up with a home page with the person's name of that account. I use goglogo.com for that. I am sure there are other ways.
Hotspot- I noticed that with some phones/carriers you need to turn off and back on the device in order to change ip. I use virgin mobile phone with hotspot feature that changes ip when I switch the hotspot feature off then back on and get a new ip every time. Takes literally 3 seconds. No need to turn off the device. Saves you another two minutes.

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Better yet, I'm trying to figure out how to automate the eBay process.

What if there was a way to automatically send payments to suppliers to order product when inventory is low?

What if there was a way to auto transfer money out of paypal when the balance reaches a certain amount?

Is there a way to auto print labels on dymo printer when items are sold?

Is there a program that can auto update my excel spreadsheet when an item is sold, so I don't have to manually enter information each day?

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I am pretty sure the answers to most of your questions is - no.
Few years ago eBay gave the option to integrate sales to QuickBooks. They took it down after few months

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Actually, in a simple google search, I found that they do have Paypal Auto Sweep to auto transfer funds. Also hope is not lost! :bounce:

I do not know if you can change how much is transfered and the duration of the transfers. For example, if I want to transfer $500 from my Paypal every Thursday at 8:00am. I will have to look into this more.

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Blind printing can be wonderful and when a problem occurs it can be catastrophic.

Batch printing is fast and very efficient but works best when every item has identical shipping requirments such as 1lb priority or 3 once first class etc...

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All my items ship in flat rate boxes so all the shipping cost is standard. I wish there was a way that at the end of each day I can open Endicia have it print all labels from todays orders at once.

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You can for sure.
Its called batch printing.

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Yes, but I have to manually find the addresses and copy/paste them in Endicia and print them. Is there a way to have them auto load into Endicia so they can be batch printed?

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Use VMWare if you have MAC. Create separate user for each eBay account as that to me appears to be the most easiest and safest method to manage countless accounts

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I am using a PC. Does it work for PCs?

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great topic i ship out very small items and have my own shipping .

i have my own stamps,

and i ship out regular sized envelopes via usps,

i have to add 6 peices of card into each envelope in order for the envelope to actually ship due to the tracking number.

is there anyway i can scale down this process that someone might have in mind?

The real problem is writing all the buyers name/addy on the envelopes...

i don't know what i can uutilize to amke this easier,

an envelope printer?

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Buy 250-500 small bubble mailers for like 50 bucks and buy 500 labels for like 15 bucks... pack print and stick em on the mailer. 5 minutes turned into 30 seconds.. and it looks more professional and less chance of the package to be ripped open or lost

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thanks jakobrockz. i bought a zebra thermal printer but bought a lp2824 instead of the one that needs to be bought. i got it for 20 bucks. its got no use to me anyone intereseted in it?

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but can you print shipping labels without actually [printing postage/stamps.. i get free stamps...


Anyone?

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Just copy and paste and format the address into a word document file... create a template to use everytime

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There are free tools all over the internet which allow you to print a "postage-less" shipping label. I think that would look a bit more professional than formatting your own in MS Word. But either way is better than hand-writing addresses. You want your buyers to think you are a credible business rather than someone selling out of their garage..

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I don't know if all Paypal accounts have this feature (I think it may have only showed up in mine once sales reached ~$1k/day), but my account has an option called "settlement withdrawal". It automatically transfers funds at the end of each day.

http://s15.postimg.org/4qu5y0caj/ssss.png

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Just subscribe to the free Selling Manager, and that is one of the features where you can print shipping Labels, all the info is uploaded from your transactions , so it's very easy

Just go to your seller dashboard and on the left you will see a subscription link, click that and than on the next page find Selling Manager and subscribe, it's free

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You get 1k per day?

:shocked:

LUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKY!

haha..

Never even knew this existed. Pretty cool thing to have. I only log into my paypal accounts to withdraw, unless something else comes up.

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I wonder is there is any added risk with using the auto transfer option.

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Hmm could be relative to amounts coming in...

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How do youi set up this Daily Settlement Withdrawl?

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Here are my 5 cents:

1) For stock : google sheets
2) For accounts : VPS for each acc

This setup allows to control everything from any place, any computer

I am planning to dive even deeper, by RDCin into "control" VPS, and then RDCing into particular VPS for every aacount.

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I've never actually used the feature, I just saw it pop up one day. I'm pretty sure you tell paypal the percentage of funds you would like transferred every day, and they do it automatically.

I access that page by clicking "withdraw funds" on my summary page.

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You mustve done something something in PayPal that made it stand out

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Other than making daily $999 withdrawals from the account I've done nothing special. I'm pretty sure that option showed up about the same time P/P started offering me their working capital loan on that account. But I unno. Figured it was a standard option for everyone..

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Is ther a reason you were only withdrawing $999 as opposed to more? Does more than that raise a red flag?

It makes sense that you withdrew $999 daily so they added that option in there for you. THis option used to be available to everyone you just had to activate it in "god mode" lol jk. But ever since they UI of PayPal changed it's not accessible anymore.

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try this for some tips and tricks

http://www.aspkin.com/forums/ebay-di...lth-tools.html

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this is a smart idea, i wish i had an iphone i was using at the moment can this be accomplished using an android?

also, google docs/ (which is really called google sheets; the spreadsheet pgm) is the best. i wouldn't know what to do without it.