I found a postcard written by my great-grandfather in an antique shop many miles from where we live. What a treasure! Bravo on your $$$$ and happy 4th!
You asked for stories like your (wonderful) one: Mine wasn't a postcard, but I once sold a vintage "Breck Girl" shampoo ad to a lady whose mother was that Breck Girl. The mother, now quite elderly, had never had a memento of it until the daughter found it in my store and had it framed for her. Sure made me smile.
Very cool story about those family postcards. That's nice of you to give up your postcards. I would have paid for all of them, you put in the work. Very generous of you. I always wondered how and where you could search for them. Thanks for sharing that ephemera site.
Thank you for sharing about Family Search. I have a collection of cards sent to one woman from all over. The woman lived in Connecticut. Over 1,000 cards. I haven't been able to find any info on this lady. I'm sure she has a story. I think I will try Family Search and see if anyone comes across my cards. Thanks again!
Oh WOW - I live about 2 miles from Public Landing in Snow Hill, Maryland - I wish I would have seen that postcard first! Thanks for another great video!
Hi there! I have a question. So I've been looking at different ebay sellers stores as I research items on ebay and naturally go and look at other people's stores. I see lots of stores doing similar things where they tend to price all their postcards at something like 8.99 and 2 dollar shipping, or everything at 7.99 free shipping, or they price even higher. Names like Trusted Postcards, colbears postcards, and eternal loot just to name a few. Now these guys have huge stores. Colbear with like 70k listings, and the other two have 200k or so. Now, these guys are selling TONS of postcards a day and are actually really making those high sales. My question for you today is are these guys really marking average and high ticket postcards at that premium price? Or are they only picking cards that sell for that much. And why do they do this? When I look up cards I see people selling them at really low numbers and then one of those guys has a promoted listing right at the time for lots more than the other sellers for that card. Is it worth doing this ? Do you suggest promoting? How dot these guys seem to get away with this? Is it because they already have a huge store and are so well positioned in the game already as staples? Thanks for the advice. I've been studying alot of these stores lately.
I’m not as familiar with Colbear and Trusted Postcards, but for Eternal Loot they have really nice postcards, and a ton listed, but high prices. Their sell through rate is relatively low considering how much inventory they have listed. They would no doubt sell more if their prices were lower. Anybody can choose to set high prices. That just means you will likely have to promote more, offer steep discounts, and list a ton of postcards. For my business model, I price my postcards competitively (but not low), list a ton, and aim to list great postcards. I am able to maintain a healthy sell through rate without promoting at a high rate or offering significant discounts. It’s really just up to you to decide how you want to run your business!
I found a postcard written by my great-grandfather in an antique shop many miles from where we live. What a treasure! Bravo on your $$$$ and happy 4th!
You asked for stories like your (wonderful) one: Mine wasn't a postcard, but I once sold a vintage "Breck Girl" shampoo ad to a lady whose mother was that Breck Girl. The mother, now quite elderly, had never had a memento of it until the daughter found it in my store and had it framed for her. Sure made me smile.
Very cool story about those family postcards. That's nice of you to give up your postcards. I would have paid for all of them, you put in the work. Very generous of you. I always wondered how and where you could search for them. Thanks for sharing that ephemera site.
Thank you for sharing about Family Search. I have a collection of cards sent to one woman from all over. The woman lived in Connecticut. Over 1,000 cards. I haven't been able to find any info on this lady. I'm sure she has a story. I think I will try Family Search and see if anyone comes across my cards. Thanks again!
Oh WOW - I live about 2 miles from Public Landing in Snow Hill, Maryland - I wish I would have seen that postcard first! Thanks for another great video!
Now I'm motivated to break out a box of rppcs and list 400 or so. I have so much paper sitting around, but postcards are just so fun to list
Thanks for the great video; and, congratulations on such a profitable week.
Hi there! I have a question. So I've been looking at different ebay sellers stores as I research items on ebay and naturally go and look at other people's stores. I see lots of stores doing similar things where they tend to price all their postcards at something like 8.99 and 2 dollar shipping, or everything at 7.99 free shipping, or they price even higher.
Names like Trusted Postcards, colbears postcards, and eternal loot just to name a few. Now these guys have huge stores. Colbear with like 70k listings, and the other two have 200k or so. Now, these guys are selling TONS of postcards a day and are actually really making those high sales.
My question for you today is are these guys really marking average and high ticket postcards at that premium price? Or are they only picking cards that sell for that much. And why do they do this?
When I look up cards I see people selling them at really low numbers and then one of those guys has a promoted listing right at the time for lots more than the other sellers for that card.
Is it worth doing this ? Do you suggest promoting? How dot these guys seem to get away with this? Is it because they already have a huge store and are so well positioned in the game already as staples?
Thanks for the advice. I've been studying alot of these stores lately.
I’m not as familiar with Colbear and Trusted Postcards, but for Eternal Loot they have really nice postcards, and a ton listed, but high prices. Their sell through rate is relatively low considering how much inventory they have listed. They would no doubt sell more if their prices were lower.
Anybody can choose to set high prices. That just means you will likely have to promote more, offer steep discounts, and list a ton of postcards.
For my business model, I price my postcards competitively (but not low), list a ton, and aim to list great postcards. I am able to maintain a healthy sell through rate without promoting at a high rate or offering significant discounts.
It’s really just up to you to decide how you want to run your business!
Nice week Daniel!
Congrats on such a great week! You deserve it!