eBay Update
eBay has been so good, and so far I have 10 feedback, and 16 sales. Some of the feedback is from the same people, as I have a few repeat buyers.
I have a couple of people who have messaged looking to buy bundles of things to keep the shipping costs down, and since they're buying a few items I usually knock €15-20 off the price, sometimes more.
It has been a bit of a rollercoaster so far, at the start it was slow, and took maybe a week before my first item sold. Back them I was posting multiple listings a day, and over the course of that month I had a bunch of stuff up there.
Some things sold, but there is still plenty of things from those initial few weeks that are still sitting up there. I've lowered the cost a bit, but there seems to be hardly any views. It's no big deal, I don't mind them sitting up there for as long as it has to.
Top Rated Seller
There is a special little mark of distinction on the site, and seeing it represents that the person you're thinking of buying from is a top rated seller.
To qualify for this, you need to have a good feedback score, as well as that, you need to sell 100 items, and make at least €1,000 from sales, within a year.
I thought it would be near impossible, but so far in the last 2 months I've made €776, and have sold 16 separate items.
It would be closer to 25 items sold, but I've taken down a bunch of figures, and vehicles and lotted them together for certain buyers, meaning that they only count as one item sold. Kind of annoying, but it is what it is.
I have a bunch of Eaglemoss Lord of The Rings figures I'm looking to sell soon, so maybe they'll help. I've had them for the last 15+ years, all still in their boxes. It isn't the complete collection, but it's a good 36 of them.
They'll be listed in a way that people can pick and choose what one/ ones they want. I could ship a max of 6 per box, and would make sure to say that to people who are thinking of buying some.
Halo Megabloks
The Halo stuff has been the biggest and best seller so far, and has accounted for the majority of the money I've made on eBay.
There are people waiting to purchase more large bundles of the stuff when I have the sets ready to go, so that can't come quick enough.
I'm doing my best to get them together, but it's hard not having the time to do so. It was about 2 weeks since the last time I listed anything on my store, so I went all out recently and get a bunch of games ready to go. From the new batch of games I've listed so far, 4 have sold.
New Stock
It'll be a while before I need to buy any new stock, but I have found myself searching around regularly to see what's out there. Hunting down the deals is a lot of fun, and basically my favourite aspect of this whole thing.
The pickings seem to be slim at the moment, but I have a few lots I have my eye on.
What I need the most now is a shelving unit of some kind, where I can have all this stuff stacked in an easy accessible location, where I can see it all and have it organised better than it currently is.
I'd like to have the top two shelves reserved for items I have listed, one for games, and one for other stuff.
Then, the other shelves could essentially have everything waiting to be photographed and listed.
Nice work!
I sell as ForgottenCornerFinds and things have been a little slow the last while, so it's good to hear of a seller doing okay
I'm still fairly new to it man, but I'm doing my best to stay consistant with it. I try to upload fairly regularly, and everything gets shipped out as quick as I can.
I've looked up a bunch of videos of people talking about running stores on there, and going through how to go about doing it.
Hope you get to the Ebay trusted seller. I used to resell stuff from there before the ecomm is big over here. Now, it's almost impossible 😂 cause with more sellers, the regulation is stricter than before. Have you got any international buyers?
I've had a few international buyers, I've sold a bunch around Ireland, and second would be England, and I've sent stuff to Germany and Portugal too.
I find it fairly cool shipping stuff out of Ireland, but the only downside is shipping costs.
Not too Shabby! Nothing wrong with extra $!
Too right man, a few extra bob coming is great.
That’s good that you are doing well selling on eBay! I didn’t realize that halo sets were popular on there - we have a few ourselves lol unopened as well!
It's useless junk man, but I can take the stuff off your hands, it'll spare you the hassle of throwing it in the bin.
Haha, in all seriousness, sealed sets could potentially be worth a fair bit, that's sick man. Don't suppose you have any pictures of the sets do you?
To be honest, I had no clue there was so much Halo stuff out there, but in the last few months I've learned a good bit about them.