Filed under: EBay | Tags: comiccollectorlive, comics, diaper, EBay, self help
I want to talk about EBay. If you believe the rumors that are circulating, EBay sales are suffering. More and more EBay sellers are calling it quits, saying it is just not worth their time and effort anymore.
Obviously there are more sellers on EBay than ever before, selling more completely useless garbage than ever before. I find it really difficult to find something that I actually want at a lower price than I can get it in stores for. And that is the thing, isn’t it? If I want to pay regular price for something, I can go to the store and pay regular price for it. If I am shopping on EBay, I want to get a deal!
And then there are the idiot sellers who list their stuff for $0.99. I was looking through some toy listings and came across a lot of Star Wars action figures for $0.99. Great deal, right? Not really. When I opened the auctions I saw that the shipping charge is $12.00. I can buy the exact same action figure at Wal-Mart for $7.99!!!
Up until recently I was a seller on EBay. I had a store called Xuthl’s Wilderness and I sold a variety of items. My prices were fair and my shipping charges were fair. I was not charging a handling charge because I do not believe the old mantra that time is money. If you are someone important that may well be true, but for the rest of us, we have tons of time and not a lot of money. So I donated my time to try and get my EBay business going.
But I think the EBay market is so saturated with idiot sellers with small prices and big shipping charges that the consumer has just been completely turned off, and has tuned out. The result is that I have gone over to ComicCollectorLive.com to sell my comics, and anything else I decide to list goes back onto EBay. I am a month in, and I am finding the same problems at CCL as I did at EBay. Sellers with deceptive ads are cutting into my business there as well.
What’s the answer? Well I am still working on a few projects in my spare time. I want to get my Bum-Gunk diaper salve going again and try to peddle it on EBay, or Kijiji. I also have been trying to sell my self help book, Xuthl’s Guide: 30 Tips to Improve Your Life (http://www.usededmonton.com/classified-ad/5033314&category=books-textbooks). Sell is not the correct word. I am trying to give it away. Free. If you want a copy send me your email address and I will send it to you. I am writing a novel set in the Forgotten Realms. I also have a How to Book in the works on Home Budgeting. I tried to get a weight loss program going, but that is the most competitive racket there is. I think I have a good plan, but I could never get it going even when I offered to give it away for free!
Maybe when my youngest kid gets older and I find a little time to complete some of my projects I can get selling my good again. This post meandered a bit. I apologize for this. I will do better next time!
