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March ebay totals

March 31st, 2007 at 11:02 pm

Our last auction of the month ended today. We sold 5 items for a total of $108.48. Not bad at all since we did it very casually and made no serious effort at all.

I was a little disappointed with today's auction since there were 7 watchers and it ended with only 1 bid. I was hoping a few of those watchers would be competing at the end and boost the price.

Of course, I know from experience that with a little effort, we can do far better. My best month ever on ebay I took in nearly $3,000. I've been training DW how to do ebay and a couple of the sales were hers, so she's getting the hang of it. I'm sure we'll gradually ramp up the number of items we post. I'm going to set a goal of $200 in sales for April, nearly double this month. That should give us something to shoot for and still be easy to accomplish.

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3 Responses to “March ebay totals”

  1. daylily Says:
    April 1st, 2007 at 12:10 am 1175386203
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    I've never bought or sold anything on eBay.
    Will you explain what you mean when you say '...we did it very casually and made no serious effort at all' and '...with a little effort we can do far better.'
    Thanks.

  2. disneysteve Says:
    April 1st, 2007 at 01:52 am 1175392337
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    daylily - When I say we made no serious effort, I mean that 2 or 3 times during the month, one of us came across something in the house while cleaning and said, why don't we put this on ebay. Or my wife reminded me that I promised to teach her how to do ebay and when we had some free time, we went upstairs and listed an item. We only listed 6 items all month (1 didn't sell). Back when I was doing ebay seriously, I listed 10 items a day, 7 days a week. That was anything but casual.

    So when I say that with a little effort, we could do better, I mean that if we really got serious about it and planned ebay time into our weekly schedule, we could list a lot more items and make a lot more money.

  3. daylily Says:
    April 1st, 2007 at 03:05 am 1175396720
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    Okay. I thought you meant that there was something special that you could do within eBay to attract buyers to your product.
    I do browse eBay; I just haven't made a purchase although I do plenty of other online shopping.

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