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Amazingly helpful, informative. Great job!

EBay does have enough sales or customers to be so picky. Just wait until things get worse and they will drop this nonsense. There is going to be a big backlash from normal people on on this PC stuff, I can feel it starting already.

Thanks for talking about my clearance section. Another great show.

I’m here for James

James is like the eBay meteorologist. Love him or hate him, he can read the barometric pressure of the site and he’s here to report it to us all.

Awesome video, I've watch James for years

I liken resellers who constantly say anyone who sees slow sells just needs to sell better stuff to advising a golfer who is struggling with their putting game to just get all holes in one. Pretty obvious and not helpful in the least. I call these resellers “Happy Gilmore Resellers”. IYKYK. Thanks for the interview James!

Good stuff

Awesome show

New subscriber. Thanks for sharing this valuable information.

James is one of my favorite resellers! He is a wealth of knowledge and as real as you can get. Thanks for having him on...I've subscribed to your podcast thanks to him!

This guy blames all his problems on eBay. You can list a hundred items per day but you need to list stuff people want. Also I constantly hear resellers talk about servers and algorithms with no detail. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say you probably have no idea what you’re taking about lol

OG Legend! Started right after me, I been full time since 98' crazy how time flys

Great Interview. Enjoyed it.

Guys my thoughts with the promoting on Ebay...as a consumer when I see sponsored on a listing I know that is a retailer seller and if I am purchasing a item that I want to be warranty refuned if not working that's the one I will pick. If it is something that I consciously know has a lower probability or something wrong or low loss for me I will deliberately look for a non sponsored listing. Food for your thoughts

60K listings. James is a legend.

James is one of my favorite youtubers. Roll Tide!

Awesome ep guys, keep grinding!

I've been reselling for about 3 years and before I started I watched a lot of youtube reseller videos. I have continued to watch a handful of reseller videos dropping a few that seemed to be full of it. It's really interesting to see these resellers come together here and in other places and see the common ground about what is known about what works and what doesn't. It's also interesting to just see the different personalities together. Thanks you guys, James you rock.

My favorite resellers! 😊😊😊

Guys James is an awesome guests hope you have him back. He's really encouraging and bearded you too. Jon great guide and Josh you are the nominated Interviewer you have a natural about you to ask the questions we want answers to. You all are so great together. Keep them coming❤

Solo ? Doesn't his son and wife both help with his account?

I tried to watch this guys, but he has not learned a thing. He blames everything on eBay, when others are doing great. Has millions of dollars of stuff in storage but has to thrift. With 60,000 items listed, one should sell at least 300 items per day. He cannot sell 100 per day because his store and units are full of junk. Guys like Ebert know their stuff.

Great show!

I watched the rest of the podcast, do you really want me comment? Most every factor that is impacting eBay is completely out of eBay's control and the biggest began rear it's head right about when James said, 2021. Thought might be as a seller I double up my stuff online and that ought mean double my sales. Not the case, not at all. eBay has finite buyer traffic and its being eaten away like termites at wood by many entities and factors associated. If "xx" traffic is eBays nominal statistical average then "xx" is traffic delivered. It doesnt increase based on me listing twice as much as I have now. My doubling up only means more potential exposure to that nominal average delivered. eBay has been loosing buyers and traffic due to a literal plethora of factors most of which they've absolutely no control over whatsoever. The biggest impact is online retailers bar none because they are prioritizing online retail to mainstream, some even saying they anticipate to be out grow brick and mortar because thats how the generations brought up with this tech like to shop, delivered to their door or picked up in store with TRULY free shipping. TRULY free shipping is really free. Staples price online for this printer is same in store. They use what is called an immediate line item write off of the shipping expense which means the taxable revenue = price - shipping expense. So say, Printer is $299 and $30 to ship, they declare $269. Retail associations have said over the last four years online retailer traffic is up 40% and climbing and of that 40% they are seeing a WHOPPING 30% more purchasing. If we could statistically see a overall online retailer statistical comparator against eBay traffic and sales I bet donuts it'd be a parallel curve. As the online retailers evolve the Internet and unified supply chain towards the Internet we see the traffic wane into open marketplaces. People also don't equate Amazon nor Walmart into the equation. Due to Walmarts embracing authorized supply chain delisted merch sellers they blew past eBay like eBay was standing still in those revenues into the #2 spot GLOBALLY of eCommerce. EVERY SELLER IS IN COMPETITION NOT ONLY ON SITE FOR EBAY BUYER SALES BUT ALSO WITH EVERY SINGLE MAJOR ONLINE RETAILER NOW FOR THE CONSUMER DOLLAR. That's the deal and THEY ARE WINNING. You can say in ways it similar to what happens in communities where the Super Walmart stores open. Small businesses often (more often than not!) suffer due to the finite buyer traffic going to Walmart instead of those other stores. Even retailers such as say Lowes may suffer as Walmart carries a variety of home and garden merchandise from Pavers to Mowers, grass seed, rakes and on and on. ONLINE its BECOMING SIMILAR. Some months back I read Target in Q2 2024 when many a seller was howling as they do for sales Target Merchandise ONLINE was up a WHOPPING 400% (4 times) in revenues. Google mobile voice search speech recognition is the #1 undisputed king of traffic delivery now in eCommerce. Google for over 20 years has tried get to the top of ecommerce search usage having even tried its OWN marketplaces. Now they achieved that and many a government has concerns over that domination in respect to FAIR PLAY. Now commoner eBay seller thought seems to be, "Well, eBay is different than what is searched for at retailers that come up at Google showing Walmart or Kohls, Target etc" and that is somewhat true BUT MUCH of the same products are at eBay especially delisted, surplus, clearance, overstock, wholesale merchandise which is ALSO becoming MORE AVAILABLE through mainstream online retailers who have EMBRACED that merchandise JUST LIKE WALMART ONLINE. The retailers are getting the traffic delivered and eBay is not. ITS SO APPARENT in revenues and WHY promoted listings are now a staple in eBay revenues. If it were not for promoted listings its CLEAR as a bell that eBay actual sales are in decline. There is far far far more to this I can relay but these are the facts and how eBay is able to make movements towards maintaining market/traffic share is very much in question.

Great episode as always - I've met Jon & Scott a couple times each, Only ran into James once I was hitting his subdivision's yardsale. Josh you need to hit a reseller meetup.

Promotions are like the mafia. Once your start there is no turning back. Just sell sought after items that sell themselves and save the money

james is like a bible when comes to reselling and ebay people really should listen to him great show again guys but i think its gonna be hard to top the two last guests you had on

May I ask what the best way to do shipping is on eBay

I cannot comprehend how paying for five whole storage units full of unlisted items makes any sense. Maybe one unit with a continuous in out flow but five seems like those items would all have to be worth big money to be worth it month after month

GOOD CHAT! Very helpful!

Awesome show. Makes me want to list...

James! Good talk with the guys today! When answering the question of do you take days off you said no and then they asked why and you said this is better than what I was doing before. You truly seem to enjoy what you do.

Another great guest and another good episode!

I normally don't watch but, I enjoyed this episode.

best video yet.

It seems like everything related to reselling is down across the board. Sales are down, even views on reseller videos are way down. I track the performance of a lot of the big channels and most of them are way down in views year over year, many at multi-year lows.

another great guest

I have random streaks of nothing happening all the time. We always want to mentally find a reason for something that might not have a reason. My recent seeming pattern is the daytime shutdown, with nothing selling from noon until about 8 PM. The brain looks for a pattern, when I started having dead daytimes I started looking for dead daytimes. However I have never once gone to ebay and tried to find or purchase items and not been able to do so.

rock on Triple J and B podcast

James is a MACHINE! Great show!

Impressions are both meaningless and not and this stands true for any website be it eBay or some personal blog. Impressions are a count of results from a database query and that does not mean it's come before a human beings eyes. A simple example is lets say i do a search and it comes up with 5000 results and on that first page there are 50. The first five a customer might actually see with their eyes, the other 45 they never even saw but it IS AN IMPRESSION. With mobile devices now being used by 95% of shoppers this is amplified as they won't thumb scroll through through those 50 items. This is where promoted listings come in as they can push your listing INTO VIEW. Programmatically for "Impressions" to be accurate would require that a program written in a language called Javascript built into web browsers would have to actually TRACK what comes into the viewport of the device be that a phone, tablet, PC, Screen Reader etc. Then it would have to send that "Viewport Hit" if you will back to the server (eBay) to record as a "True Impression" if you will. Imagine for a moment how much server activity would need to occur with millions of shoppers browsing and EACH ITEM coming into their viewport before their eyes would need have a "call" happen to eBay's servers to record it. It would take MASSIVE server infrastructure and bandwidth (which is not free!) to do that and really recording that data is meaningless. It doesn't cause conversions so like any website the "Impressions" simply mean a result came back in a database query, it doesn't mean an actual person VIEWED the data. Further, we don't know how many results eBays pulls from the databases in a query, how many are being cached? It's more efficient to do a database query of say 250 results than do 5 with 50 results each EVEN THOUGH only 50 of those 250 results are on "Page 1 Results" if you will. STILL if your item comes up in that 250 result query it will likely be counted as an impression. For that NOT TO HAPPEN would require a server side software application would need actually LOOK at every item in that resultant query... Aka: Software would need parse that first page 50 item result and record each listing having an impression. If the customer then wants see the second page of results, parse those EVEN THOUGH a new database query never occurred. Enterprise level software architectures usually will not do this as again the data is a VERY LOW (Near lowest) RESOLUTION MEASURE statistically. So instead its VERY likely that in that 250 item resultant data from the database query an impression is flagged regardless if whatever, "Page 2" was ever even viewed.

When James was my boring reseller life, he was voted by some website as the #2 BEST RESELLER CHANNEL on you tube! Plus he drives a Porsche. Enough said!

I follow all of you as J Corona.

I am so pleased that you have invited James to your podcast. He has a wealth of knowledge. You should add him as part of your team as a permanent member.

❤love James! It was great over the last year and a half to have someone point out the issues of eBay and not hold back. I feel like he gives resellers a voice.

The best guest ever!! HAHA

So a question I would have is: for unique item sellers, does the conversion rate of your account matter? Or just the conversion rate of individual listings with multi quantity? Sounds like he’s saying that for unique item sellers the best thing we can do is end/sell similar to get the new item boost in search

If we stay with the thought that Ebay is only concerned about their profit to keep the shareholders happy. Of which I agree with that. Then if we take ebays recent history of money grab then one would have to believe that if ebay does anything then I see them charging customers a percentage fee. But not lowering the seller fees there by making more money. Now will they do that I hope not but with their recent track record it wouldnt suprise me a bit if they did.

now this is required hearing. Good one for once lol