Oh no.......... He's back again Blimey is it really 17 years on here?

[Rednosty]

Hi. I'm Back Again. Having to re learn stuff Like How to be paid (If I sell anything!) Adding new items every day now. No Longer am I the watch king! 998 feedback.......I've got to make it 1000 sometime! Hmmm well my Store logo need to change PLEASE feel free to remind me how to do all this stuff.

[FirstGreenIsGold]

Hi Rednosty, it's been a long time since I set up my shops etc., and I can't help. I'm trying to remember how to navigate here myself. Good to see you again.

[madelaine]

Hello & Welcome back. It's kind of quiet round here but I do still sell - just not as much as I did. I blame the fear about money which is in the air

[Rednosty]

Sell? what is this strange concept? Nothings changed in the time I've been away. Lots of Bots viewing Little sales (Non so far on my return) Early days. It also highlights to me That the site is still far from Simple to navigate around. Guess it's a case of it works but nothing has progressed. We have had this convo so many times before. The site is too complex.

[mark4740]

I Have sold quite a few items this year, Germany, USA, Hawaii and UK, I have some issues with the site not working for me but i have sold quite a few items, I have had enough of ebay i'm not a business as some seem to think i should trade as over there, sales are random for me here but i like the platform but it has a few unresolvable issues for me but i will keep adding listings and tweeting sorry Xing links.

[theElench]

Sell? what is this strange concept? Nothings changed in the time I've been away. Lots of Bots viewing Little sales (Non so far on my return) Early days. It also highlights to me That the site is still far from Simple to navigate around. Guess it's a case of it works but nothing has progressed. We have had this convo so many times before. The site is too complex.

Why a strange concept ?

A very quick look at the Home Page shows that at least a dozen items sold between 14:54 and 18:04 yesterday afternoon including:
postcards 4
stamps 1
pillow case 1
model railway parts 1
pin badges 2
film clip 1
bottles of eye drops 2

I expect from recent checks that by the time you read this the stripe will have moved on to a different snap-shot with another dozen sold items. I haven't yet checked it at any time when there haven't been 12 sold items to show.

I'm actually looking at what sells on ebid and trying to work out how that relates to items shown by Google Shopping. Personally I think that sales here could improve for many if they took the time to do the same and created listings that GS will show in its search results.

E.g. I note that of the dozen sales currently being shown, 7 were RUS listings, only 5 on auto re-newing auctions.

Anyway, welcome back and good luck with getting to 1000 FB, at the start of this year I was hoping to reach 100 FB. This year did start-out well with my sales hitting 25 by the end of April (the best start to any year I've been selling here), but then like many other sellers I found that the rest of the year sales have pretty much dried-up not only here but on that other site I sell on.

If I might make one small suggestion ?

How many buyers are likely to type "(26)" as the first part of their search parameters for a Wade Turtle? The first four words are said to be most important when writing a listing title so I'd put my storage box number at the end, not the beginning, where it's less likely to confuse google's search

[theElench]

This morning's snap shot is for sales between 9:58 and 14:02 and the 12 items are:

Toys 3
Photos 1
Stamps 4
Post cards 2
E de P spray 1
Video games 1

And again 7 items were listed as RUS, 5 were auctions.