In-House Summer Selling Challenge: Week 2

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From Rebecca:

It’s day nine in our battle for the ultimate office eBay-selling champion. Mr. Green finally put some items up for sale on eBay this week, but I was one step ahead. I prepared a dozen or so listings in advance, and saved them in Auctiva so that when the right moment came along (like when Robert listed a few products), I would strike. His listings were a bit sad, and if we weren’t in a competition, I would make him redo them so he’d have a better chance of getting a sale. Oh well, whattaya gonna do, right?

After launching several listings Thursday, I currently have 15. Did I mention I’ve already sold two items this month? What’s funny is that Robert thinks it was the fact that he listed items that first motivated me to suddenly list things this week. Hello, that’s what Auctiva is for! Make listings and use the free scheduling feature to launch them when the time is right. I’ve been doing it for years.

For now, I will bide my time, and see what “tricks” Robert supposedly has up his sleeve. I’m shaking in my sandals!

From Robert:

We’re just about a week into this contest, and I’ve yet to sell a single item.

No excuses, but the holiday weekend meant I didn’t get around to posting any items to eBay until a few days ago. In all, I have about 28 clothing items now posted. They were closeout items I bought when a national high-end clothier went out of business. They’ve been sitting in my office for more than a year, and this contest finally gave me enough incentive to post them.

These 28 items comprise only about 6 different styles, but various sizes. Luckily, I have Auctiva’s Multi-Variation Listing Tool to make creating these listings a breeze. I just created a single listing per style, and quickly specified the various sizes I had for both. Not only did this save me a lot of time versus making individual listings for each item, but I’ll save on insertion fees, too.

I’m also experimenting with a number of listing formats. Many of these listings I made as 7-day fixed-priced. But I also did a few auction-style listings of various durations. My thinking was that these might give me better, quicker exposure in search, and I could utilize that exposure to bring more visitors to the rest of my items since all my listings use Auctiva’s Scrolling Gallery.

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