Thinking about opening an Ebay store.
Anyone has some positive/negative experience with using an ebay store?
Been selling my old stuff on ebay sporadically for a few years. But in 2014 I really got a lot more into it.
The past 3 months have been my most active ever with an average of 850$ in sales a month. Mostly because I started selling refurbished consoles for a little profit.
I never thought an ebay store would be something for me until I checked the numbers.
Turns out the category of item I sell ( Refurbished consoles ) has a massive final value fee discount on it for store owners ( 4% instead of 10%).
This is actually the most discounted category on ebay, ( Reverse Murphy's law ftw )
I have sold 750$ of console in the last month ( Including shipping) so I entered those numbers in the Ebay number cruncher and here is what I get.
http://i.imgur.com/U3k3bkD.png
30$ saving a month, with a 1 year suscription. Not bad. I only need to sell 300$ of console a month shipping included and the store would pay itself.
Anything over 300$ and the benefits pile up pretty quickly. On top you have the added perks a store gives you.
Really tempted to subscribe to it. In fact I am trying to find reasons not to :p
The main reason would be that I stop selling on ebay. Considering I have a full time job on top of it and that selling stuff on ebay does eat at my spare time, that is a reasonable possibility but I kinda like doing it so I can see myself continuing for at least the next year.