LOVE this series 😍. It’s like watching a pro athlete going to a bad team and lifting them up. I say this because we all know how good you are but you are working with very little with this new store. Looking forward to the next episode!
Carrie- this is the most realist thing on the internet right now. Thank you for showing the reality of beginning a new shop and learning. I have 4 years experience. But I crashed and burned last year and re started my shop at the end of February/March of this year. I have jumped back into jeans but I added the category of men's that I am learning from scratch. This video captures how it feels for me as a seasoned seller to be starting over again. I deal daily with feeling like it's not moving fast enough. This video is confirmation for me that I need to chill out and just keep going lol. -Alissa
Excellent video, Carrie! I love that you are explaining every detail, step, process of reselling on ebay. There's soooo much that goes into being an ebay seller and your videos are just what people need to get started! Keep killin' it girl, i'm here for it!! 🥰
I'm basically starting over. I've had to re-donate 2 yrs inventory cause it was bad buys. I've learned so much since starting and I want my store to reflect that. I made so many mistakes in the beginning. Thank you for the video.
I am in a similar situation only I stopped doing eBay a few years ago because hurricane Harvey made me homeless temporarily and I had to find another way to get my life going back again. In any case. While my store was doing OK I now recognize that I could’ve made much better decisions and so going forward. I am trying to reeducate myself before I move back to the states so that I start the way I mean to go on this time instead of just sort of falling into it by accident and then scrambling, and having it take over my life and home.
Very interesting series!!! Curious to know - what you would have done differently if say you started with a $250 or $500 budget? I’d also really like to know how you learned this new niche. I saw your video with Tech. But more on that part of your journey would be interesting.
I wanted to start with a small budget because there are beliefs out there that you need a lot of startup money. If I started out with a bigger budget, then I would buy supplies/tools to make listing easier sooner than now. I’m learning shirts by studying sold comps and getting out in the field to see what’s around 👍
You’re crushing it. Look at your views and engagement in roughly the first hour. Get ‘em! For viewers who may be curious: How are you selecting garage/yard sales?
I think shipping is the scariest thing for most beginners. Can you please address shipping in great detail when you get to that point for your next few sales?
@@carrieathome I think you should tell people that they must have a scale and a ruler or measuring tape. Maybe tell them that priority boxes from the post office can only be used for priority. Explain the difference between ground advantage and priority. And then maybe weigh your item after it's packaged and step them through how to fill out the purchase the label screen. And maybe even how to do the QR code on your phone and have the post office print their label in case they don't have a printer at home or their printer is broken or out of ink, which always causes a panic.
Thank you for doing this video series! I am in my second week of reselling and following the steps that you outlined in another video which has been most helpful. This series has been encouraging me to keep going when nothing has sold and I wonder if the effort will pay off. Yours are selling, mine can too! I have been consistent with listing every day, as you suggest. It has been a bit of a learning curve along the way, but I'm getting there. And, finally, today, I shipped out my first two sales. yes! Not enough to retire on, but progress. I look forward to watching the next video. And, getting any and all tips and tricks of the trade. Thank you again!
Carrie, thanks for sharing your struggles and success as you go through this exercise! You prompted me to check what i need to do to achieve top rated seller status and I was surprised to see that I am much closer than i thought! ❤
You are doing an experiment with my life currently! I'm in the group with you -- single parent to 3 children -- I am in survival mode and in the first year of business -- I provide for 4 people! Can't wait to see how this goes for you!
I love this series. You are such a good teacher and are helping so many of us!! Can you mention how much the items cost at the bins? Thank you for these videos!
is the account so new that they have those like you can only list 15 items or $500 worth of items sell price. I saw limits like that for a super new like you just made the account today kind of numbers. I myself have a 5k item and $50k per month limit but my brother made a fresh account and he was limited so much that it wasnt even worth trying. If you linked this account to your main then you wouldnt have had that issue at all. Im looking at it from someone who decided today to open a ebay account with those very strict limits on new accounts.
This is a brand new accoun that I just opened. ebay has upped the limits a lot for most people. Some people are even getting like a million free listings a month now! lol But my new store has 700 items/$35k per month 👍
@@carrieathome thanks for the reply my brother ended up having an account that he made to buy something about 8 months ago the thing he bought was around $200 that was his only activity on the account when he put in his bank account info it revealed how much his selling limit was on that account and it was the same as mine 5k items $50k a month. So it worked out for him by looking for other emails he had used. As for the day one account with the 15 items $500 limit I feel bad for anyone who has to deal with those limits starting out. I enjoyed the videos I have watched of yours thanks for all information it helps a lot of people.
This is such a great series! I’m interested to see if the promoting works for you. I’ve heard other resellers saying promoting doesn’t work at all, or it does but only to do the minimum 2% 🤷♀️ I just started selling on eBay in early March; I’ve only sold 4 items, totaling $220. It’s extremely frustrating. I’m on daily listing, sending offers, and revising my listings but it doesn’t seem to help much. I also only have about 20 items in my store because I want to list good stuff but my cash is tied up now. 😩 I am making about $36 profit per item sold but it’s so slow
I promote on my other store at an average of 6% and it seems to be working well. I personally think promotion is needed in the clothing world, unless we’re selling hard to find items. But for the common stuff, we’re in a pool of other sellers. Gotta find a way to stand out to the customer, from my experience.
Can I ask you how you were able to download your pictures from your phone to your computer. I know it’s probably a simple process but one that I’ve never really been able to grasp and would really love to know. I believe it would make my life so much easier.. thank you and I appreciate all your videos 😊
Carrie, can you explain to me how you send out your “newsletter”/email things people get (not from buying, but just visiting your store? Seems to have a 20% coupon and shows some of your newly listed items? I’d love to see or a video on, or know how to do this for our store?
Your videos show that even in 2024 you can be lucrative thrifting as long as you put work in and have the knowledge. It's inspiring me to finally get out of the rat race after 5 years of stagnating and being discouraged. Side question. Besides the 15.5x12 poly mailers what size clear bags do you use? 10x13? Thanks!
@@carrieathomeThanks! Can't seem to find 12x18 polymailers online. Only 12x15.5 and 14.5x19 😅 Also only 12x15 polybags no 12x15.5. Can you give a link to where you get them from? Or a hint?
Obsessed with this series!! I just hit my first $1000 in sales but I haven't sold 100 items yet. I'm getting almost daily sales and starting to get better about inventory I think? It's all kind of a giant experiment. But I walk into thrift stores and walk out empty handed all the time. It's very discouraging for sure.
Hi Carrie, I found a pair of GANT jeans and I can't locate a comp for them can't even find the square leather tag on back with two men standing side by side. Tried to find the history of the changing leather tag but nothing..any ideas?
I’ve never come across that brand before! I googled Gant, and it looks like they have a website. I would study up on their website and use keywords they use and try to find the exact model or something similar for more information
Carrie, how long does it take for your items to show up in search? Mine arent showing yet..ugh and after you sell some thing how long before or after does it take to get all of your funds?
Hey I'm getting serious about selling on ebay what's your favorite packing tape? I'd like something that's fairly cheap but still does the job without being frustrating to use
Nice it's coming along but Taking pics on the floor?! with no sheet under the shirts?!...is the floor clean? Looks like hanging on the wood shelves would be more attractive & clean looking & help sell.
lolol I knew it was clean you look like a very clean & tidey person! ...I meant clean looking background😆🙏🏻I'm sorry I worded that wrong!!...Everybody's always Hollering WHITE WHITE back ground so confused me a bit the floor would be ok. Did you white out the background? & Forgot to tell us? Yep bet that's what it was. ✅
@@mshowell6264 there’s a big division of white or gray backgrounds. I’ve heard the pros and cons for both sides too but I grew up with the gray background influenced so I’ll be buying a gray blanket when I get my photo station set up. But for the challenge, I currently only have $10 in my budget so I’m going to wait until I have a bit more money before purchasing a backdrop. For now, concrete floor! lol
Great videos guys. What is your advice for a new seller with zero feedback in terms of how many items to post? I am ready to start a new account and have about 14 items. Should I post them all? Or start out slower? Thanks guys!
This is my first time having none to low feedback so I can’t really give a straight answer on that. I started selling clothes on the same account Kyle was selling toys on so there was already established feedback on that. I personally listed a handful of items on this new store, sold 5 items before I got 2 feedbacks. Maybe post half your items in one day and then list one a day from there. That would give you 8 days to sell something!
I’m not tracking a lot these days other than my mileage and average cogs. I take a photo at the beginning of the year of my odometer and then a photo at the end of year. I allots a percentage of those miles for business. For cogs, I take what I spent in that month and divide it by the amount of items I listed. We buy and list 30/day.
Hi! With Selling on eBay, I've never understood how returns work, like how do you know when you get your money? If someone gives feedback does that mean they then can't open a return?
As a buyer getting money from a return refund, it takes a few business days for it to appear on your bank statement. And if the buyer has left feedback, they can still open a return within the return time window. If they left a negative feedback, opened a return, and the seller refunded and closed the return case, the negative feedback will be removed
i get that you're trying to be realistic, but i would just never sell with a 0 or low feedback account, you can probably build up a 100 feedback account just by buying stuff off ebay and you can't get negatives as a buyer.
@@carrieathome you can receive/leave one feedback per seller each sun to sat week, so if i have to buy two things from the same person i'll buy one off one account and then login to account 2 and buy the same thing. just doing this over time, you can build up feedback on a secondary or third account. for me i always want a backup plan and a backup to the backup plan. like if an account goes below standard, then move to your plan B account until the bad metrics drop off. or like separately types of product like you're doing with jeans vs shirts. no, i'm sure ebay doesn't want you to do that but you cannot be in a situation where they can put you out of business with no recourse
For the computer I list on, it’s a custom built gaming computer but for the one I ship from, it a Dell that has a touchscreen monitor (idk the mode code). I have listed on that just fine though!
It’s hard for me to get top rated but I also don’t take returns and do three day handling time. Would you suggest less then three days and accept returns?
If you think you need three days to ship an item out, then leave it there because you don’t want to not make it and get penalized. But if you think you can ship an item out within a day or two, I suggest shorten your handling time. ebay will boost a shorter handling time vs longer one.
I am planning to open second store on ebay with a niche down category. Is that still possible with same personal infos? Thank you. You alway look great and pretty by the way.
Nice! I would look into it when you are getting some consistent sales in the month. I wouldn’t if only a couple things sold that month. I’d try to figure out how to sell them first before using the tools. The tools are there to help sell your items faster if they are good items. 👍
Definitely greedy at 12% they tell me that for every item and when I do 4% they say low amounts might hinder your sales. Sure ebay sure. You are much more successful than me so maybe 1 listing idea will work but id want to put out as many fishing lines as I could. If you listed all your inventory you might start getting 1-2 sales a day. It also will get you more feedback which people will feel safer with sadly I dont buy from any low amounts because they are mostly scammers they take your money then close up shop. To recoup your money fast you might need to like 50% off what things go for. Some money all of the time over all the money some of the time. GL
It’s a lot of people from TH-cam looking at my store to follow along the journey. Lol I just ended and relisted the items so ebay will hopefully get me a fresh set of eyes.
It appears that eBay videos make money of TH-cam. 1000 listings on eBay and very few sold for the past 90 days brand clothing brand new. I can’t even imagine dare to sell used clothing
If you sell clothes people want to buy, new or used, and at a price they want, you won’t have any issue selling, ever! Hope this helps and thank you for watching!
omg, the one thing i noticed is how many views you got on your items Already!? What are you doing to have so many people going to your listing? I had a santa fe Carhartt get max 100 view in 30 days.
LOVE this series 😍. It’s like watching a pro athlete going to a bad team and lifting them up. I say this because we all know how good you are but you are working with very little with this new store. Looking forward to the next episode!
A rising tide raises all ships! 💪 glad you’re enjoying the series ☺️
Carrie- this is the most realist thing on the internet right now. Thank you for showing the reality of beginning a new shop and learning. I have 4 years experience. But I crashed and burned last year and re started my shop at the end of February/March of this year. I have jumped back into jeans but I added the category of men's that I am learning from scratch. This video captures how it feels for me as a seasoned seller to be starting over again. I deal daily with feeling like it's not moving fast enough. This video is confirmation for me that I need to chill out and just keep going lol. -Alissa
Thank you for sharing that ❤️
Excellent video, Carrie! I love that you are explaining every detail, step, process of reselling on ebay. There's soooo much that goes into being an ebay seller and your videos are just what people need to get started! Keep killin' it girl, i'm here for it!! 🥰
Thanks so much!
I'm basically starting over. I've had to re-donate 2 yrs inventory cause it was bad buys. I've learned so much since starting and I want my store to reflect that. I made so many mistakes in the beginning. Thank you for the video.
That takes a lot of courage to do that! Congratulations on that move 👏
I am in a similar situation only I stopped doing eBay a few years ago because hurricane Harvey made me homeless temporarily and I had to find another way to get my life going back again. In any case. While my store was doing OK I now recognize that I could’ve made much better decisions and so going forward. I am trying to reeducate myself before I move back to the states so that I start the way I mean to go on this time instead of just sort of falling into it by accident and then scrambling, and having it take over my life and home.
A lot of people do start over. I would do a garage sale.
@@carrieathome thank you
This is my favorite reseller content right now!!! 👏👏 Thanks for sharing your journey with us, it’s inspiring.
Awesome! Thank you!
I love this series because I am just starting my store. A lot of it Becuase if the inspiration you give to me!! Thank you
Let’s goooo! 🥳
I am LOVING this series, Carrie! So inspiring and I'm learning a lot! Keep plugging away!! 🥰
Thank you!
It made me feel better to hear that you too, walk out of thrift stores empty handed! I thought I was doing something wrong!
You’re not alone!
Thank you so much for this series!!
Very interesting series!!! Curious to know - what you would have done differently if say you started with a $250 or $500 budget? I’d also really like to know how you learned this new niche. I saw your video with Tech. But more on that part of your journey would be interesting.
I wanted to start with a small budget because there are beliefs out there that you need a lot of startup money. If I started out with a bigger budget, then I would buy supplies/tools to make listing easier sooner than now. I’m learning shirts by studying sold comps and getting out in the field to see what’s around 👍
I am really enjoying this series and learning a lot from your process.
Glad you’re enjoying it and learning something from it!
You’re crushing it. Look at your views and engagement in roughly the first hour. Get ‘em! For viewers who may be curious: How are you selecting garage/yard sales?
Thank you! I just look for community garage sales. Ping ponging across the region sucks lol
Carrie I LOVE this series! I'm really grateful: it's so helpful for us brand new sellers! Thank you for you time and teaching us!
I'm so glad!
I think shipping is the scariest thing for most beginners. Can you please address shipping in great detail when you get to that point for your next few sales?
What do you find the scariest when it comes to shipping? That’ll help me better understand for a video! :)
@@carrieathome I think you should tell people that they must have a scale and a ruler or measuring tape. Maybe tell them that priority boxes from the post office can only be used for priority. Explain the difference between ground advantage and priority. And then maybe weigh your item after it's packaged and step them through how to fill out the purchase the label screen. And maybe even how to do the QR code on your phone and have the post office print their label in case they don't have a printer at home or their printer is broken or out of ink, which always causes a panic.
Really cool series, just went back and watched the first 3 episodes 😎
Nice!! Thank you for watching :)
Thank you for doing this video series! I am in my second week of reselling and following the steps that you outlined in another video which has been most helpful. This series has been encouraging me to keep going when nothing has sold and I wonder if the effort will pay off. Yours are selling, mine can too!
I have been consistent with listing every day, as you suggest. It has been a bit of a learning curve along the way, but I'm getting there.
And, finally, today, I shipped out my first two sales. yes! Not enough to retire on, but progress.
I look forward to watching the next video. And, getting any and all tips and tricks of the trade.
Thank you again!
So I say to myself as I often do…. Let me go see this commenter’s shop…I tap on your name and your link isn’t on your TH-cam page.
@@Sanity_Faire Thus my learning curve. 😁
@@aliassteve9055 be right over to check your work 😀
@@Sanity_Faire Ok, finally figured out what link to add. Not sure if it's the correct one, but it is one. Learning curve! 😁
@@aliassteve9055 you DID figure it out! :) I just deleted mine. I’m selling on Chairish in$tead.
This is the most realistic video about starting a ebay store and starting new catergory. Thank you
You're so welcome!
Carrie, thanks for sharing your struggles and success as you go through this exercise! You prompted me to check what i need to do to achieve top rated seller status and I was surprised to see that I am much closer than i thought! ❤
Wonderful!
How much is your expenses ? Like cost of packages, any suplies, car gas/maintenence to search items and blah blah blah. Tax?
It would be easier to say that after all expenses we make around $15 profit per item. :)
You are doing an experiment with my life currently! I'm in the group with you -- single parent to 3 children -- I am in survival mode and in the first year of business -- I provide for 4 people! Can't wait to see how this goes for you!
Wow that’s a lot of to manage! I wish you the best and learn as much as you can from Tech! He knows what he’s talking about :)
This is/has been so helpful as well as interesting. I’ve listened to a lot of how tos on starting up and this has been so wonderful and fresh!
Thank you!
You are doing it! Keep going! 💪🏻 Cheering you on🤗
Thank you!! 😁
Another great video! Keep it up! I need to find your stores now
Great video! Look forward to seeing the progress 🤙
Thank you!
Keep pushing! Looking forward to seeing how you progress!
Looks like the store is going great so far.
Great work Carrie loving this series 💕😃 love from Australia 🇦🇺🦘
Thanks so much 😊
This is my first time seeing any of your videos and I just wanna make sure I understand… You had an eBay store and have started the second one?
Hi! I still have my main ebay store but I started a new ebay store from scratch to document the journey of building it up :)
Love this series ! You are doing a great job !
Glad you enjoy it!
Thanks so much for the info! I was wondering how I can combine shipping and offer a discount for shipping if a customer buys more than 1 item?
Just found your channel through my TH-cam feed. Thank you for all your great info and transparency!! What is the name of your main ebay store?
Great series! Lots to learn from this
Glad to hear it!
I love this series. You are such a good teacher and are helping so many of us!! Can you mention how much the items cost at the bins? Thank you for these videos!
Thank you ❤️ they just increased the price to a little over $2/pound. I forget the exact cent amojnt
Ok. Thank you!
waiting for a Q&A episode.
Liked the * at the end. What do you call a speech typo, lol, but this fixes it, super cute idea!!
Thank you!
Great video Carrie thanks again for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Loving this series so much❤
is the account so new that they have those like you can only list 15 items or $500 worth of items sell price. I saw limits like that for a super new like you just made the account today kind of numbers. I myself have a 5k item and $50k per month limit but my brother made a fresh account and he was limited so much that it wasnt even worth trying. If you linked this account to your main then you wouldnt have had that issue at all. Im looking at it from someone who decided today to open a ebay account with those very strict limits on new accounts.
This is a brand new accoun that I just opened. ebay has upped the limits a lot for most people. Some people are even getting like a million free listings a month now! lol
But my new store has 700 items/$35k per month 👍
@@carrieathome thanks for the reply my brother ended up having an account that he made to buy something about 8 months ago the thing he bought was around $200 that was his only activity on the account when he put in his bank account info it revealed how much his selling limit was on that account and it was the same as mine 5k items $50k a month. So it worked out for him by looking for other emails he had used. As for the day one account with the 15 items $500 limit I feel bad for anyone who has to deal with those limits starting out. I enjoyed the videos I have watched of yours thanks for all information it helps a lot of people.
This is such a great series! I’m interested to see if the promoting works for you. I’ve heard other resellers saying promoting doesn’t work at all, or it does but only to do the minimum 2% 🤷♀️ I just started selling on eBay in early March; I’ve only sold 4 items, totaling $220. It’s extremely frustrating. I’m on daily listing, sending offers, and revising my listings but it doesn’t seem to help much. I also only have about 20 items in my store because I want to list good stuff but my cash is tied up now. 😩 I am making about $36 profit per item sold but it’s so slow
I promote on my other store at an average of 6% and it seems to be working well. I personally think promotion is needed in the clothing world, unless we’re selling hard to find items. But for the common stuff, we’re in a pool of other sellers. Gotta find a way to stand out to the customer, from my experience.
Thanks for the info. I think I’ll try it out and see. It doesn’t hurt (much) to try
Can I ask you how you were able to download your pictures from your phone to your computer. I know it’s probably a simple process but one that I’ve never really been able to grasp and would really love to know. I believe it would make my life so much easier.. thank you and I appreciate all your videos 😊
I just use a USB cable and plug it into my computer! Hope this helps :)
Carrie, can you explain to me how you send out your “newsletter”/email things people get (not from buying, but just visiting your store? Seems to have a 20% coupon and shows some of your newly listed items? I’d love to see or a video on, or know how to do this for our store?
That comes with an ebay store subscription!
@@carrieathome thanks. I know, but was hoping you could show how to use it…and what options you use with it?
Your videos show that even in 2024 you can be lucrative thrifting as long as you put work in and have the knowledge. It's inspiring me to finally get out of the rat race after 5 years of stagnating and being discouraged. Side question. Besides the 15.5x12 poly mailers what size clear bags do you use? 10x13? Thanks!
15.5x12 are our clear polys and 12x18 are out white polys for shipment :)
@@carrieathomeThanks! Can't seem to find 12x18 polymailers online. Only 12x15.5 and 14.5x19 😅 Also only 12x15 polybags no 12x15.5. Can you give a link to where you get them from? Or a hint?
Woo! I was hopign thered be a video today!
You be right! 🥳❤️
Do you think this might take longer than you originally thought it would? Starting over is so hard!!!
I think I can do it faster than the first time if I focus on it!
Obsessed with this series!! I just hit my first $1000 in sales but I haven't sold 100 items yet. I'm getting almost daily sales and starting to get better about inventory I think? It's all kind of a giant experiment. But I walk into thrift stores and walk out empty handed all the time. It's very discouraging for sure.
Congrats!! When in doubt, I would rather walk out empty handed vs pick up questionable or bad items. It’s a marathon, not a sprint 💪
@@carrieathome thank you! Good advice!
I enjoy watching all your videos. Since you specialize in jeans, what's the max you would pay for a pair of rock revival Men's jeans at the thrift?
It kind of depends on the size, style, color, and condition. But for the middle of the road pair, I’d pay up to $20 for it, I’d say.
Hi Carrie, I found a pair of GANT jeans and I can't locate a comp for them can't even find the square leather tag on back with two men standing side by side. Tried to find the history of the changing leather tag but nothing..any ideas?
I’ve never come across that brand before! I googled Gant, and it looks like they have a website. I would study up on their website and use keywords they use and try to find the exact model or something similar for more information
@@carrieathome thank you
Carrie, how long does it take for your items to show up in search? Mine arent showing yet..ugh and after you sell some thing how long before or after does it take to get all of your funds?
Hey I'm getting serious about selling on ebay what's your favorite packing tape? I'd like something that's fairly cheap but still does the job without being frustrating to use
Good luck! I just buy tape off of Amazon and use a tape gun, I don’t have a specific one I like over the other.
How do you photograph a pair of jeans in one minute? 😮 Do you have a video on that?
Just posted a video with it in it!
How do I figure out the taxes for Ebay? I live in Canada. Can you touch on how you filed your taxes and where you get your T4 if there is a T4. Thanks
ebay sends a tax form with information on it like sales amount, collected sales tax, etc. I’m not sure what ebay Cananda looks like through 🤔
Amazing video. How much is the monthly fee to get an ebay store so you can send out coupons and stuff to your past sellers?
I believe I can do that at their $5/month tier? I’ll have to check it out.
Nice it's coming along but Taking pics on the floor?! with no sheet under the shirts?!...is the floor clean? Looks like hanging on the wood shelves would be more attractive & clean looking & help sell.
That freaked me out too
lol my floor is clean!
lolol I knew it was clean you look like a very clean & tidey person! ...I meant clean looking background😆🙏🏻I'm sorry I worded that wrong!!...Everybody's always Hollering WHITE WHITE back ground so confused me a bit the floor would be ok. Did you white out the background? & Forgot to tell us? Yep bet that's what it was. ✅
@@mshowell6264 there’s a big division of white or gray backgrounds. I’ve heard the pros and cons for both sides too but I grew up with the gray background influenced so I’ll be buying a gray blanket when I get my photo station set up. But for the challenge, I currently only have $10 in my budget so I’m going to wait until I have a bit more money before purchasing a backdrop. For now, concrete floor! lol
Great videos guys. What is your advice for a new seller with zero feedback in terms of how many items to post? I am ready to start a new account and have about 14 items. Should I post them all? Or start out slower? Thanks guys!
This is my first time having none to low feedback so I can’t really give a straight answer on that. I started selling clothes on the same account Kyle was selling toys on so there was already established feedback on that. I personally listed a handful of items on this new store, sold 5 items before I got 2 feedbacks. Maybe post half your items in one day and then list one a day from there. That would give you 8 days to sell something!
@carrieathome Awesome! Thanks for your help and hope you guys are well! Have a great weekend!
It takes a lot of time to video when sourcing, some days I say I’m not videoing and I find the best stuff lol 😅
Funny how that works! 😂
im curious what makes listing on the website better than on the app? i’ve always done the app
It personally goes a lot faster for me. I can make a listing anywhere between 25-60 seconds (depends on how long I need to price research)
Just woundering why you guys don’t list on Poshmark? Thanks
Just focusing on ebay has been plentiful enough for us!
What do you use to track your inventory as far as where you purchased, cost, mileage how do you keep track this is where i struggle
I’m not tracking a lot these days other than my mileage and average cogs. I take a photo at the beginning of the year of my odometer and then a photo at the end of year. I allots a percentage of those miles for business. For cogs, I take what I spent in that month and divide it by the amount of items I listed. We buy and list 30/day.
Hi! With Selling on eBay, I've never understood how returns work, like how do you know when you get your money? If someone gives feedback does that mean they then can't open a return?
As a buyer getting money from a return refund, it takes a few business days for it to appear on your bank statement. And if the buyer has left feedback, they can still open a return within the return time window. If they left a negative feedback, opened a return, and the seller refunded and closed the return case, the negative feedback will be removed
Is this how your first store was at the beginning too or did you see faster results? What’s the difference?
It seems to be going the same way, if not a bit better. The process is a lot better, and I believe I’m getting a bit more sales right out the gate.
I have several old promoted listings with no views.
This is fun what you are doing!
i get that you're trying to be realistic, but i would just never sell with a 0 or low feedback account, you can probably build up a 100 feedback account just by buying stuff off ebay and you can't get negatives as a buyer.
That’s very true and a great way to build up the feedback barrier
@@carrieathome you can receive/leave one feedback per seller each sun to sat week, so if i have to buy two things from the same person i'll buy one off one account and then login to account 2 and buy the same thing. just doing this over time, you can build up feedback on a secondary or third account. for me i always want a backup plan and a backup to the backup plan. like if an account goes below standard, then move to your plan B account until the bad metrics drop off. or like separately types of product like you're doing with jeans vs shirts. no, i'm sure ebay doesn't want you to do that but you cannot be in a situation where they can put you out of business with no recourse
Thanks for the update but why just post 1 a day?
So I don’t run out of items too quickly and it’s something I can commit to easily :)
OBS for screen recording would be helpful. ❤
Carrie, what desktop do you use? Im done using my ipad.
For the computer I list on, it’s a custom built gaming computer but for the one I ship from, it a Dell that has a touchscreen monitor (idk the mode code). I have listed on that just fine though!
Hey!! What is y’all’s other store name? A friend loves bonobos and I was telling him y’all sell a lot of that brand.
Thank you! But I don’t link my main store right now. ❤️
It’s hard for me to get top rated but I also don’t take returns and do three day handling time. Would you suggest less then three days and accept returns?
If you think you need three days to ship an item out, then leave it there because you don’t want to not make it and get penalized. But if you think you can ship an item out within a day or two, I suggest shorten your handling time. ebay will boost a shorter handling time vs longer one.
@@carrieathome I’m doing two days. I work full time in a high stress job so the three days helps but I’m dropping to two. And I’m going to do returns
@@carrieathome thanks btw
I am planning to open second store on ebay with a niche down category. Is that still possible with same personal infos? Thank you. You alway look great and pretty by the way.
Yes you can!
Do you wash everything before selling
Yes, it’s eBay’s policy that all preowned items are washed.
I just recently started selling on ebay, when would you say it is worth it to start looking into having a store subscription?
Nice! I would look into it when you are getting some consistent sales in the month. I wouldn’t if only a couple things sold that month. I’d try to figure out how to sell them first before using the tools. The tools are there to help sell your items faster if they are good items. 👍
Clothes in US is totally different compared to Australia, you can source excellent stuff very easily and cheap. Here is not like that
You should at least buy a small throw rug for pics. Thx for the videos
Low cost no cost is the way to go right now
Definitely greedy at 12% they tell me that for every item and when I do 4% they say low amounts might hinder your sales. Sure ebay sure. You are much more successful than me so maybe 1 listing idea will work but id want to put out as many fishing lines as I could. If you listed all your inventory you might start getting 1-2 sales a day. It also will get you more feedback which people will feel safer with sadly I dont buy from any low amounts because they are mostly scammers they take your money then close up shop. To recoup your money fast you might need to like 50% off what things go for. Some money all of the time over all the money some of the time. GL
How do your 3 items have so many views in 30 days?
It’s a lot of people from TH-cam looking at my store to follow along the journey. Lol I just ended and relisted the items so ebay will hopefully get me a fresh set of eyes.
@carrieathome then it's not a true new seller journey when you have tons of youtube people going to your store.
It's not a true new seller journey when your getting traffic from your already established youtube channel.
@@bill2461 okie doke
@@bill2461lol someone will always be unhappy
Let’s see you try it haha
It appears that eBay videos make money of TH-cam. 1000 listings on eBay and very few sold for the past 90 days brand clothing brand new. I can’t even imagine dare to sell used clothing
If you sell clothes people want to buy, new or used, and at a price they want, you won’t have any issue selling, ever! Hope this helps and thank you for watching!
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omg, the one thing i noticed is how many views you got on your items Already!? What are you doing to have so many people going to your listing? I had a santa fe Carhartt get max 100 view in 30 days.
Because people from TH-cam view her items… I just did too
Yup, what Brooke said! My other store gets anywhere between 2-35 views before it’s purchased. So lots of TH-cam eyeballs checking it out :P
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