I’m sorry but the biggest problem with eBay is they are saying the buyer is right. No matter what they defend the buyer not the seller. They need to find a medium happy for sellers and buyers. Gift cards rewards would be nice but being fair would be a lot nicer. Just my opinion about eBay.
1000% agree! I have probably been screwed out of a couple thousand with them pulling that bs! They look for any reason to blame the shipping company and expect us sellers to deal with them and will flip flop on whos fault it is. I have been going back and forth with them and Fedex on a $700 laptop that Fedex lost. Yes, Fedex lost it, but its Ebay's fault for not fixing the INAD policy and buyers can use that excuse for anything even if they don't understand what they ordered!🤦♂️ I sold a brand new laptop "AS IS". I tested it and showed pics of it working. The buyer gets it and immediately opens a INAD case. I was forced to pay for a return shipping label. Fedex loses it so for almost 30 days Ebay tells me I am covered since its the buyers responsibility to get it back to me. The end of the month rolls around and Fedex clears pending tracking numbers so it shows delivered, but it wasn't delivered to me! I had 2 days to fight with Fedex over it and they admitted they lost it. Ebay closes the case in the buyers favor and tells me that since I sent them the email with Fedex admitting they lost it, I could file a claim, but then Fedex wont let me file the claim because ebay put the buyer as the shipper. So its been over a month and I am still out. At this point IF I get paid for it, its going to be a loss for all the time invested trying to get somewhere🤦♂️
Unfortunately Ebay won't change. Ever since the day they got rid of Sellers ability to leave Negative Feedback, it's been all downhill. That's why Scammers are Rampant.
Hey Kevin, I gotta say, I am very jealous of your setup. Having a separate structure just for your resales. I would kill to have something like that. Good for you man
I’ve been an eBay seller on and off since 1999. It has changed SO much. I feel like they shot themselves in the foot repeatedly when they didn’t value sellers.
eBay needs to back off on fees!! they are killing my profits!! standard fee, promotion fee, store fee then a transfer fee if I need my money immediately!! its ridiculous. what are other good platforms?
They should be promoting for us. We pay them a fee each transaction(I'm okay with that since they are bringing the buyer, atleast were..).. but now they want us to pay for the promoting of our items to get buyers to our listing, but they want to keep raising the fees and bring in less buyers unless ourselves pay for the ad.. its just free traffic to the website coming out our pockets.
Thank you Kevin. I am always grateful you getting me into the business and supporting me. You saw me in T2C Vegas too. I hope to get a Jordan out of the pack. They won't hear what I wrote. lol
One of eBay's biggest mistake was forgetting who their customers are -their sellers. Period. The buyers are their customers' customers. A lot of traditional small sellers were also buyers, and they've chased many of those away. The primary mistake was forgetting that dishonorable conduct will bite you in the butt sooner or later. Dishonor the sellers and once they've taken all they can stomach, you're in trouble. It's good news that they're FINALLY wising up and going after a younger customer base, but it's likely they have to since they've chased off a lot of older ones.
I’ve only seen whatnot wander why. Because I watch all his ads so he gets paid for it for all the help he has done for us and taught us all. I figured it’s the least I can do they are only 39-11 secs long. And Kevin Deserves it for as hard as he works. God Bless Him
Love your ideas and ethical attitude about selling! Can you tell me if you charge shipping separately as a rule on your items? The reason I ask is that it seems like Ebay wants us to include shipping in the cost of the item.. but that makes the item seem more expensive, and people selling seem to have such a slender profit margin that I wonder how they stay in business. I haven't been a seller on Ebay for decades, but must sell on Ebay now to create a livable income; needing to afford a used car and better heat this winter. At times in the past, I took a beating on shipping, so now that I'm on an extremely limited income, way below the poverty line, I am wary of how I should sell my things.. I appreciate everything you teach, and any advice you can give, thank you very much for being here to help us.
That eBay ad has been running for the last couple weeks…was encouraged to see them finally advertising but found the execution to be absolutely cringeworthy. The ad confirms that eBay still clearly has an identity crisis and doesn’t know how to convey the practical/bargain factor that they should be embracing for a much broader appeal for regular folks regardless of age.
If eBay is not constantly running industry analysis they are in big trouble. It appears they are if they are starting to trend towards advertising to a younger crowd but they are already behind the curve and now trying to play catch up. It doesn’t take much for new entrants to a market to innovate and jump ahead anymore with how rapidly technology changes. It’s all about competitive advantage and if eBay is complacent with where they sit in the market because they have a large share today, we are all in trouble tomorrow.
Ebay needs to fix the glitches that have been ongoing for over a year. When the glitch is in offers it affects sellers ability to sell items. You'd think that would be a priority but, well its apparently not.
Hi Kevin, Long time viewer. I so appreciate your thoughts. I've been selling part time on eBay since 1998. eBay listing problems...few months ago I had shipping amount changed on a Lego sale....by about 90%. It's documented. eBay had no explanation and did not seem surprised, just voided sale transaction. eBay has secrets.
I agree with the helping sellers find or culminate buyers. I had that thought the other day when I heard tesla owners get a code and can redeem $500 tesla credit per car sold with their code. It’s a great incentive and keeps word of mouth advertising going.
Yep, Kevin, that was me. I got the tapes for free with the gift card I got from ebay from the last ebay open. I also have other tapes to match up these with what I have in stock. Can't go wrong with free!
I've seen TWO different fashion-based eBay ads on UA-cam of late. Big bravos. Would love to see one in another category but, hey... they're going the right direction!
Love the new ad targeting a younger crowd-great move, eBay! I’m all for gifting eBay gift cards too. I always give one to my mail carrier as a Christmas gift-helps them, helps me as a reseller, and helps eBay. Win-win!
Kevin- how did you know when a sale is a viewer sale? Also, can you explain what the backlights are for? I carry a “picker bag” with some essentials (flashlight, magnet etc.) and thought I’d get one but not sure what it’s used for. Thanks much!
If it is a repeat buyer that I recognize the name. If it has a message attached to the purchase. I have no doubt some are but I can't tell if they are or not. The blacklight is to dectect glass that glows. Uranium glass etc..
I Thought for sure that you were gonna talk about ebay finally making therapy available to sellers that don't have stores I just noticed that yesterday and I was super excited to be able to actually research stuff beyond a 90 day period!
I saw the eBay fashion ad last week and quickly got on Facebook and messaged eBay and thanked them. Its good to let them know we appreciate their efforts.
Yes I do think it is a good thing that Ebay is finally doing some advertising. Why in the world they have taken so long and this is a very small ad campaign. It should be expanded to everywhere!
Just made our first sale on Shop Commons! Someone got an absolutely smoking deal. 137 hats, everything from Vintage to New with tags. Autographed Richard Petty, tons of Mitchell& Ness, New Era, Travis Matthew. and so much more. Happy to move a bunch of hats to someone who will make a great profit on them. We will be listing more, we have so much "bulk" inventory we are just sitting on. Thanks for a great concept, looking forward to buyers getting some great deals and for us to open up some space. Cheers
@@WellnessWizdom 137 hats, for $320 Free Shipping. It was 30 pounds of hats, was not cheap to ship. Some really good stuff. Vintage, new, every hat is super clean. Autographed Richard Petty hat, lots of good stuff. Happy someone is going to make good money with them.
I'm not offering to help ebay with promotions. Thats what I pay them 1/3 of my sales for. They get enough off me for "seller fees" that after my first full year of selling full time, I am considering creating my own website and paying for FB and TT ads and would probably save money and sell more! Im also getting tired of ebay taking up for garbage buyers all while lying to our faces about "having sellers backs" 🙄
@@commonwealthflipper I will definitely let you know. I already have experience in building websites so that part won't be to hard. I know that's what is so intimidating to some and why they continue staying on eBay
31:13 Not a woodblock print, a wooden printing/stamp block. It's a printing block if it's made of metal and backed with wood. The metal ones were made to set into a pringing plate like they did at an old newspaper. Rubber stamps are usually on wood too. Sometimes you might rarely run into an old engraving block or linocut block. A wood-block print is made with multiple (usually) wooden blocks carved to be printed with just one color, and then used one after the other. Japanese block prints can be incredibly elaborate, and alas don't sell for much now. (Gave a small one away to an art teacher a few years back, literally gave, and he was over the moon because they were $illy money when he went looking and I'd opened the back so he could show his kids how it was done.)
This is great news ... as long as eBay doesn't make the mistake of damaging seller's businesses by implying that items are practically free in their advertising like Poshmark did. Poshmark's buyer directed ads made it very hard to sell quality apparel at an acceptable profit margin. It's also pretty foolish marketing considering that PM is paid on percentage by sellers. That, among other things, drove many sellers to start crosslisting.
eBay has never recovered from their biggest mistake. Letting a guy selling books out of his garage totally crush them. It was so embarrassing to eBay that they gave up trying. Maybe they will start trying again, its about time.
When I started selling I had a 19 year old friend tell me I was old school for even selling on ebay. Other platforms have a completely different group of buyers. Something that doesn't get many views on eBay can sell quickly and higher on a different platform. Ebay isn't the be all end all for pricing that it maybe used to be either.
I must say I too love Trash to Cash Podcast yet they need to quit speaking over you, and there selves-sometimes it hard to follow until about 5-10 mins later😂😂😂😂😂❤joking-seriously😂 Kelly from Ocala fl
The only way eBay can bring younger buyers to the platform is to only or mostly only enable sellers who sell to that demographic. look at it this way, there are 100 stores you can make them brick and mortar or they could be 100 vendors at a flea market you invite only those who are 40 and younger to this event & at least 50% or more of those vendors cater to an older demo, the younger buyers won’t be attracted to them and then will only buy from a select number of those who are younger demographic sellers. That’s eBay. as long as they look like a junkyard with photos that are upside down, sideways, blurry, compounded by awful descriptions they look like amateurs and far from cool. ebay started by selling your junk around the house & that is what they still look like that is their image. perception is realty. unless they change their image they’ll never achieve that goal.
I’m sorry but the biggest problem with eBay is they are saying the buyer is right. No matter what they defend the buyer not the seller. They need to find a medium happy for sellers and buyers. Gift cards rewards would be nice but being fair would be a lot nicer. Just my opinion about eBay.
1000% agree! I have probably been screwed out of a couple thousand with them pulling that bs! They look for any reason to blame the shipping company and expect us sellers to deal with them and will flip flop on whos fault it is.
I have been going back and forth with them and Fedex on a $700 laptop that Fedex lost.
Yes, Fedex lost it, but its Ebay's fault for not fixing the INAD policy and buyers can use that excuse for anything even if they don't understand what they ordered!🤦♂️
I sold a brand new laptop "AS IS". I tested it and showed pics of it working. The buyer gets it and immediately opens a INAD case. I was forced to pay for a return shipping label. Fedex loses it so for almost 30 days Ebay tells me I am covered since its the buyers responsibility to get it back to me. The end of the month rolls around and Fedex clears pending tracking numbers so it shows delivered, but it wasn't delivered to me! I had 2 days to fight with Fedex over it and they admitted they lost it. Ebay closes the case in the buyers favor and tells me that since I sent them the email with Fedex admitting they lost it, I could file a claim, but then Fedex wont let me file the claim because ebay put the buyer as the shipper. So its been over a month and I am still out. At this point IF I get paid for it, its going to be a loss for all the time invested trying to get somewhere🤦♂️
Unfortunately Ebay won't change. Ever since the day they got rid of Sellers ability to leave Negative Feedback, it's been all downhill. That's why Scammers are Rampant.
I've been saying this for a few years and people say I was nuts lol... I stopped selling because of that
@@Mr012366
If you stopped selling because sellers can't leave negative feedback you are nuts.
"eBay says the buyer is always right"
It's that way at pretty much every retail outlet.
Hey Kevin, I gotta say, I am very jealous of your setup. Having a separate structure just for your resales. I would kill to have something like that. Good for you man
I’ve been an eBay seller on and off since 1999. It has changed SO much. I feel like they shot themselves in the foot repeatedly when they didn’t value sellers.
The wound isn't lethal let, but it's infected.
eBay needs to back off on fees!! they are killing my profits!! standard fee, promotion fee, store fee then a transfer fee if I need my money immediately!! its ridiculous. what are other good platforms?
They should be promoting for us. We pay them a fee each transaction(I'm okay with that since they are bringing the buyer, atleast were..).. but now they want us to pay for the promoting of our items to get buyers to our listing, but they want to keep raising the fees and bring in less buyers unless ourselves pay for the ad.. its just free traffic to the website coming out our pockets.
Ebay used to advertise on regular TV years ago. Glad to see them advertising on different sites.
I think the last tv ad was at least a year ago they need to go back to Tv in evening hours
Thank you Kevin. I am always grateful you getting me into the business and supporting me. You saw me in T2C Vegas too. I hope to get a Jordan out of the pack. They won't hear what I wrote. lol
One of eBay's biggest mistake was forgetting who their customers are -their sellers. Period. The buyers are their customers' customers. A lot of traditional small sellers were also buyers, and they've chased many of those away. The primary mistake was forgetting that dishonorable conduct will bite you in the butt sooner or later. Dishonor the sellers and once they've taken all they can stomach, you're in trouble. It's good news that they're FINALLY wising up and going after a younger customer base, but it's likely they have to since they've chased off a lot of older ones.
Seeing eBay ads other than eBay motors ads is cool
Us sellers are customers as well, from their take on our seller fees to store subscriptions period!
Ironically...when I'm watching yours and other reselling videos, I see TONS of ads for Etsy, Whatnot , Posh, and Mercari!
I’ve only seen whatnot wander why. Because I watch all his ads so he gets paid for it for all the help he has done for us and taught us all. I figured it’s the least I can do they are only 39-11 secs long. And Kevin Deserves it for as hard as he works. God Bless Him
Love your ideas and ethical attitude about selling! Can you tell me if you charge shipping separately as a rule on your items? The reason I ask is that it seems like Ebay wants us to include shipping in the cost of the item.. but that makes the item seem more expensive, and people selling seem to have such a slender profit margin that I wonder how they stay in business. I haven't been a seller on Ebay for decades, but must sell on Ebay now to create a livable income; needing to afford a used car and better heat this winter. At times in the past, I took a beating on shipping, so now that I'm on an extremely limited income, way below the poverty line, I am wary of how I should sell my things.. I appreciate everything you teach, and any advice you can give, thank you very much for being here to help us.
That eBay ad has been running for the last couple weeks…was encouraged to see them finally advertising but found the execution to be absolutely cringeworthy. The ad confirms that eBay still clearly has an identity crisis and doesn’t know how to convey the practical/bargain factor that they should be embracing for a much broader appeal for regular folks regardless of age.
Also, can't wait to see you review my purchase. Love your wisdom! Thank you!
I love Jocelyn and been watching her for years ❤😊😊
How do I find Joycelyn? Thank you
@@Kelly-nd3cz Crazy Lamp Lady on UA-cam
I love Jocelyn. I don’t even sell glass and I love watching her!
If eBay is not constantly running industry analysis they are in big trouble. It appears they are if they are starting to trend towards advertising to a younger crowd but they are already behind the curve and now trying to play catch up. It doesn’t take much for new entrants to a market to innovate and jump ahead anymore with how rapidly technology changes. It’s all about competitive advantage and if eBay is complacent with where they sit in the market because they have a large share today, we are all in trouble tomorrow.
Ebay needs to fix the glitches that have been ongoing for over a year. When the glitch is in offers it affects sellers ability to sell items. You'd think that would be a priority but, well its apparently not.
I, just found a vintage set of 6, Coors promotional shot glasses, that sells for about 25 per glass.... free
5 oz
Hi Kevin, Long time viewer. I so appreciate your thoughts. I've been selling part time on eBay since 1998. eBay listing problems...few months ago I had shipping amount changed on a Lego sale....by about 90%. It's documented. eBay had no explanation and did not seem surprised, just voided sale transaction. eBay has secrets.
I've been seeing this eBay ad ever since I subscribed to your channel a couple of weeks ago.
Hi, first time buyers dominate my sales on eBay. This past weekend 42 sales with three of them being repeat buyers. It's a pretty consistent ratio.
I mean first time buyers on eBay itself not really from your eBay.
@@commonwealthflipper o I wonder if that is also due to more eBay advertising
Love the shirt Kevin ! Have a happy day!
I agree with the helping sellers find or culminate buyers. I had that thought the other day when I heard tesla owners get a code and can redeem $500 tesla credit per car sold with their code. It’s a great incentive and keeps word of mouth advertising going.
Yep, Kevin, that was me. I got the tapes for free with the gift card I got from ebay from the last ebay open. I also have other tapes to match up these with what I have in stock. Can't go wrong with free!
I have a box I grabbed from Cernoch in my eBay room right now. It’s on my list to get listed this week.
Im glad its great sell day! Huggicates Mr Kevin!😊
I sell on Ebay but rarely buy, if I do make a purchase it's for Auto Parts or shipping supplies.
I've seen TWO different fashion-based eBay ads on UA-cam of late. Big bravos. Would love to see one in another category but, hey... they're going the right direction!
Love the new ad targeting a younger crowd-great move, eBay! I’m all for gifting eBay gift cards too. I always give one to my mail carrier as a Christmas gift-helps them, helps me as a reseller, and helps eBay. Win-win!
Kevin- how did you know when a sale is a viewer sale? Also, can you explain what the backlights are for? I carry a “picker bag” with some essentials (flashlight, magnet etc.) and thought I’d get one but not sure what it’s used for. Thanks much!
If it is a repeat buyer that I recognize the name. If it has a message attached to the purchase. I have no doubt some are but I can't tell if they are or not. The blacklight is to dectect glass that glows. Uranium glass etc..
I Thought for sure that you were gonna talk about ebay finally making therapy available to sellers that don't have stores I just noticed that yesterday and I was super excited to be able to actually research stuff beyond a 90 day period!
Winning is so much fun!
Yes, I think that EBAY should advertise
I really enjoy your kids especially TURNER'S jokes.
I saw the eBay fashion ad last week and quickly got on Facebook and messaged eBay and thanked them. Its good to let them know we appreciate their efforts.
Yes I do think it is a good thing that Ebay is finally doing some advertising. Why in the world they have taken so long and this is a very small ad campaign. It should be expanded to everywhere!
Just made our first sale on Shop Commons! Someone got an absolutely smoking deal. 137 hats, everything from Vintage to New with tags. Autographed Richard Petty, tons of Mitchell& Ness, New Era, Travis Matthew. and so much more. Happy to move a bunch of hats to someone who will make a great profit on them. We will be listing more, we have so much "bulk" inventory we are just sitting on. Thanks for a great concept, looking forward to buyers getting some great deals and for us to open up some space. Cheers
What was the deal?
@@WellnessWizdom 137 hats, for $320 Free Shipping. It was 30 pounds of hats, was not cheap to ship. Some really good stuff. Vintage, new, every hat is super clean. Autographed Richard Petty hat, lots of good stuff. Happy someone is going to make good money with them.
Hello and good morning Kevin 😊😊
love your tie dye shirt!
That is an Awesome Shirt! We don’t see too many tie dyes anymore
I'm not offering to help ebay with promotions. Thats what I pay them 1/3 of my sales for. They get enough off me for "seller fees" that after my first full year of selling full time, I am considering creating my own website and paying for FB and TT ads and would probably save money and sell more!
Im also getting tired of ebay taking up for garbage buyers all while lying to our faces about "having sellers backs" 🙄
I would be curious to see how that worked for you.
@@commonwealthflipper I will definitely let you know. I already have experience in building websites so that part won't be to hard. I know that's what is so intimidating to some and why they continue staying on eBay
Great Sales Kevin! Congrats
eBay should do advertising of "not tolerating scammers anymore"
31:13 Not a woodblock print, a wooden printing/stamp block. It's a printing block if it's made of metal and backed with wood. The metal ones were made to set into a pringing plate like they did at an old newspaper. Rubber stamps are usually on wood too. Sometimes you might rarely run into an old engraving block or linocut block. A wood-block print is made with multiple (usually) wooden blocks carved to be printed with just one color, and then used one after the other. Japanese block prints can be incredibly elaborate, and alas don't sell for much now. (Gave a small one away to an art teacher a few years back, literally gave, and he was over the moon because they were $illy money when he went looking and I'd opened the back so he could show his kids how it was done.)
Good morning Kevin 🦋
Good morning!
This is great news ... as long as eBay doesn't make the mistake of damaging seller's businesses by implying that items are practically free in their advertising like Poshmark did.
Poshmark's buyer directed ads made it very hard to sell quality apparel at an acceptable profit margin.
It's also pretty foolish marketing considering that PM is paid on percentage by sellers.
That, among other things, drove many sellers to start crosslisting.
Kevin Ive only known of eBay gift cards starting at $25 yet I’ll keep an eye out for you
Dddammmnnn Turner has gotten so tall Kevin! Yucaipa 4 Life!
My Folks are in SoCal now. 50 HS reunion
eBay has never recovered from their biggest mistake. Letting a guy selling books out of his garage totally crush them. It was so embarrassing to eBay that they gave up trying. Maybe they will start trying again, its about time.
I love that tea pot. I never find them with all the parts.
When I started selling I had a 19 year old friend tell me I was old school for even selling on ebay. Other platforms have a completely different group of buyers. Something that doesn't get many views on eBay can sell quickly and higher on a different platform. Ebay isn't the be all end all for pricing that it maybe used to be either.
Took me like 4 minutes until realized you didn’t have hat on.
I nvr realized
That hand signal that you was posting at the beginning of this post was 3 sixes?
No hat??? Is it Opposite Day?
🎃 you catch him off guord 🤣🤣
Thanks
Hey Oh!!
I must say I too love Trash to Cash Podcast yet they need to quit speaking over you, and there selves-sometimes it hard to follow until about 5-10 mins later😂😂😂😂😂❤joking-seriously😂 Kelly from Ocala fl
Rolfson Plains
That’s crazy
Ebay needs to advertise more! Wow long video
The guy that has the channel “Taylor Exchange” has been doing ads as a second income.
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❤❤❤❤
LOVE TRASH TO CASH!!!
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The only way eBay can bring younger buyers to the platform is to only or mostly only enable sellers who sell to that demographic. look at it this way, there are 100 stores you can make them brick and mortar or they could be 100 vendors at a flea market you invite only those who are 40 and younger to this event & at least 50% or more of those vendors cater to an older demo, the younger buyers won’t be attracted to them and then will only buy from a select number of those who are younger demographic sellers. That’s eBay. as long as they look like a junkyard with photos that are upside down, sideways, blurry, compounded by awful descriptions they look like amateurs and far from cool. ebay started by selling your junk around the house & that is what they still look like that is their image. perception is realty. unless they change their image they’ll never achieve that goal.
You are too much into yourself