I did it, I finally did it! Now that it has begun, I think the wheels will keep spinning for a while.
For the last 3 days, I've been getting some stuff up on my eBay store, and so far so good. Now, I've had no sales, but I have had a fair few views, and some of my items are currently in some peoples watch list.
I'd personally like to get a good bit of stuff up on the store, before I start making sales. I just want to fill it up, although, if the sales started coming in soon I wouldn't be complaining all that much.
I put 5 items up on Monday, 3 on Tuesday, and 4 today, so in total I have 12 items listed, for a grand total of €248.49 before eBay's fee of 10-15% which would work out as a deduction of either €24.92, or €37.08 respectfully.
It's not too bad, but I don't know what other fee's and things like that may be included, so that's just an estimation.
As well as that, I kind of put each listing up for a reasonable price, at a bit lower than the average person, but I also added a lower number that I'd be willing to go down to. Now, my listings say, €25, or best offer. Which is great, because people will be able to haggle a bit if they're interested.
I have it set to ignore any offers lower than the lowest number, because I'm not bothered seeing silly offers, should any come through.
New Listings
I have a folder in my google drive, filled with subfolders for each game photographed so far, and when I'm ready to upload I download those pictures, fill out the details on the listing post, activate it, then move the google drive folder into another sub folder "Listed" really, it's just for organization, and so I can keep those pictures handy, incase I decide to start another online store elsewhere, selling anything that doesn't sell on eBay.
There are enough ones unlisted, to allow me to put up 2-3 listings, until Saturday, and what's good is, I'm going to get some more pictures taken on Friday, so my hope is to have enough photographs to allow me to post 2-3 listings a day, for the next 2 weeks or so.
I decided to make a couple of documents to help keep track of how much I've picked the games up for.
Not only will this help me keep on top of profits/ losses, and help me make informed decisions in the future, when I have a better understanding of what sells, and what's worth picking up, and for what price, ideally.
This will also help with organising and paying taxes where needed.
I made this spreadsheet too, which kind of works in conjunction with the other one, and this is where I'll be able to mark out how much something was bought for, sold for, what the postage fee's were, and how much eBay's fee's were, and finally, what my net total was after all was said and done.
I'm looking forward to seeing how things go now that it's active and ready to go.
Mondays listings only became live on Tuesday morning, Tuesdays listings then went live in the afternoon, as did the ones today which I put up at 8 AM, which then went live at around 1/2 PM.
Because of those few hours of waiting, I'm not worried about selling some of this stuff, I seem to have had a few views so far, and even the ones I put up today have been seen a few times, so it's all good really.
The more stuff I have up, the more people will come across it, and potentially then see my other listings, also, I think the more views it gets, the more the items will be shown to buyers.
I'm not 100% sure how it all works, but so far so good.
