Wagging the Long Tail: What Sells On Ebay After The Good Stuff Goes
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
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Lol thank you for the pronunciation
These type of videos of yours are what helped me the most. Miss the old barebones “what solds” with the raw data but glad to see your business growing and evolving.
You have inspired me to get into selling clothes. I mostly sell hard goods, but they take up so much space and are harder to ship. I've learned a ton from you, thanks Matt!
I agree about Soft Surroundings. It's a slow seller for me.
You're right on that Canali jackets being 2000's. That little shop here in Raleigh closed in 2010.
Thanks for the tips on suits. I truly appreciate it. I don't really sell men's clothes, but I went in to a .25 clothes thrift store and picked some up. It seems very few people pay attention to them.
Really good, thorough information. Thank you! Hope you're doing well.
I LOVED The Toxic Avenger! ♥️
Never heard of Scully - thanks for the heads up -
Would love to see the whatnot, what sold and a class on woman's clothes
Your videos are a big help. I found two pairs of Huk shorts and I would’ve passed them if I hadn’t watched you.
Vintage tees - actually hard to find, at least here in the Phoenix area. If you relied on finding them in any number, you'd
be out of luck.
Hey there, I just received an email from Poshmark about testing a new feature. I haven’t seen the details, but they’d like me to test twice before the end of October. It’s going to be some type of direct sales model similar to Whatnot.
I’ll let you know when the details arrive. Thanks for the videos my friend.
I have a WindRiver modern fit 2xl.2tg can’t find any information. Please advise when you have time. Look like a nice button up
Men u r saving me so much time and money with ur knowledge. Thanks so so much. God bless you
Very good video. Great sales and I like that you shared the not so exciting stuff because that's largely the reality of reselling. Is there a strategy to including commas in your ebay titles? Seems like commas would eat up character space for another word that you could use that would/could mean something to a search engine.
Great question! Since there’s no “manual” per se re: the hard & fast rules of eBay (Posh, etc.) reselling (altho there are 1000’s of armchair QB’s” through whose prescient wisdom we can “know”), I will speak from experience… we NEVER use commas in titles. Or quotation marks. Even apostrophes . Hyphens, yes, because they don’t waste a character space, improve on grammar, and apparently hyphenated phrases & plural words (Levi vs Levi’s) are read by the search engine as the same. Always try to optimize & use up all 80 characters.
Hello, hope you are doing well. You are an inspiration!! Would you be so kind to share what kind of shipping method you are selecting to offer Free 3 Day Shipping? Thanks so very much in advance!!!
Some Redwings can be rebuilt/ resoled
The $0.25 word for that is “recrafted”… saw it in a Allen Edmonds catalogue.
Women’s clothing is a mystery.
I definitely perfer selling men’s for sure!
I'm a woman and I totally agree
I’ve forced myself to learn it, and it was just like menswear was at first… filing one brand away at a time into the mental transom. And familiarization w/ one category at a tine,
I got REALLY interested AND courageous to wade in with ladies’ denim first (after a young woman at church couple 3-4 years ago revealed she resold ONLY women’s jeans and grossed 50K the previous year.
Of course bottoms of all subclasses followed by outerwear (abundant at the thrifts year-round back in SE Wisconsin) were next. You won’t find Lululemon, Spanx, or Peloton unless you venture into the gal’s activewear racks (unless it’s mixed in on the new racks or mistagged in men’s).
Although I hate listing clothes, I will still pick up Duluth & Kuhl & Free People. My sales are dead, probably because I charge shipping on everything. ⚰️
The shipping isnt it. Sales should start picking up here soon with 4th quarter starting. Are you listing every single day?
@@charchar7897 I am very small hobbyist seller. No, not daily....
Yep, Duluth and Kuhl are great. Eddie Bauer long sleeve button down shirts are excellent quality and desirable
@@darrenrubendall3020 I listed one today.🙂
Hey Matt, don't know if this is helpful feedback, but I've watched a slew of your videos now, and every time you say "for some reason, this took a really long time to sell...", I'm always thinking: dude, look at that photo! The 90 degree pants, the Free People top, the Marti Kat shirt and most notably those Prana shorts -- all those pics don't do justice to the piece, in my opinion. The garments look worn out and saggy. Maybe photograph the drooping items lying flat??? Love to watch anyway
This is why i do flat lays. I can not make a garment look presentable on a hanger.
We just switched to Chris L’s stand-up photo-booth “rack” from the 45 degree flat-lay we used for years, and overall, WHAT an improvement! It takes up 1/2 the space w/ 1/4 the clutter. HOWEVER, garment tops over a men’s Large looked way better before, also took way longer to smooth out AND was so hard on the back. Solved the problem this week. Got a free extra-wide hanger from one of my local GW managers. Sales volume similar to before even w/ hangar clips showing on pants photos, etc.
What do you think about sourcing on whatnot for clothing to sell on eBay? Been buying recently and have gotten a lot of bread and butter for 1 or 2 dollars plus shipping. Stuff I’m hoping to sell for 10-12 plus shipping. Not sure if the margins will end up being there, but I like not having to drive to the thrift. Interested to hear your thoughts or anyone else’s. Thanks.
Applied to Whatnot. We will see how it goes.
What would be your course of action to sell good and long tail items within 1 month. I ordered huge amounts of clothing stock then turned out I will move in 1 and a half months and want to convert it to cash rather than leave it in storage for a few months. Is auction my best bet?
Only a few select people can sell on Whatnot.
This is so true. And this comment is not to discourage anyone. It is alot like the quick pace of tic tic with the emphasis on entertainment and merchandising goods. Matt is extremely well spoken and articulate, with a very wry/droll sense of humor which is entirely his own. Add to that a very good looking human with great merch and it’s a win win win. On you tube I sometimes tune into selling venues and they are so out there and don’t sell much. They talk about extraneous stuff and I’m like where are the goods, as they talk about their cats. 🤓 I can’t do it. Having been in this biz most of life it’s one and done and keep moving. Matt brings that.
Absolutely, he is made for Whatnot. It's hard to hear fron UA-cam creators that Whatnot is the new platform when most of us are not able to join the party.
How did posh change their algor?
Do you list solely from your phone or airdrop photos to iMac then list items on eBay?
USB transfer the photos to desktop and list there
@@ThriftALife I currently take photos on iPhone then airdrop to iMac and list from desktop, but have heard a lot of people listing solely from there phones to list faster. I’m interested to see how others list. Roughly how many clothing items are you able to list per hour with your method? Thanks for your reply!
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Found a pair of Loro Piana pants, burnt orange, but one of the hems on the legs is loose. Would anyone recommend getting it rehemmed or just sell as is?
@@Bluewaterpinessantarosabeach no, I haven’t even attempted to sew in 25 years. I’ve thought about having my mom do it but I’m too nervous because they are such nice pants
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Old navy…. A European brand 😂 🤔nope , never heard of it
As soon as i hear whatnot, I exit the video.