Bulk Listing on Ebay - Advice?

[savedfrommyspokes]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Would need a staff of people to move 40,000 items. Not sure you've thought this through. Shipping supplies along would be daunting. Not to mention time and effort to ship.

If one person could ship out (pull, package, print label, etc) an average of 100 cards/hour (including both single card orders and multi card orders) and worked 8 hours a day w/o a break, it would take TEN 5 day work weeks of time just to ship out the 40,000 cards.

In reality, with 40k FP listings on ebay, a seller may realistically expect to sell 200-300 cards a day. So figure on 2-3 hours each day for one person to ship all of the sold cards from the previous day.

[D. Bergin]

Damn, I must be slow as trash. I need to set aside like 2-3 hours just to ship out 10-15 packages. LOL!!!


100 an hour?


It would take me at least a couple hours just to print out 100 sets of invoices and labels.

[savedfrommyspokes]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Damn, I must be slow as trash. I need to set aside like 2-3 hours just to ship out 10-15 packages. LOL!!!


100 an hour?


It would take me at least a couple hours just to print out 100 sets of invoices and labels.

I would think processing 15 packages in 2 hours is about right.....if you ship 15 packages in 2 hours containing 14-15 cards (on average), you can ship 100 cards an hour. If you have a 40k item inventory, likely you will be getting a good number of multi item orders as so many buyers strive to save on s/h.

If a seller is shipping nothing but single cards to each buyer, they will obviously get no where near 100 cards an hour, but 20-25 single cards an hour shipped would be more realistic.

[steve B]

I'd advise easing into it. I hit a wall at 20 items a week where beyond that I started missing emails and being a bit slow on shipping. I'm sure a more organized person would do a bit better. But it's best to set up the physical system for packing/shipping, and see how far your system gets you.

Anything that's a common card in average condition should probably go in a lot. There's a limit to your time, and it's far easier to list a lot of several commons for say 9.99 than it is to list 10 cards at .99 I never saw much difference in the percent sold, but it made for a lot less work. (I did pretty well for a while with lots of somewhat random "junk" 400 cards fit pretty well in a small priority box. After a while they stopped selling. Fortunately right around the time I had a local guy ask about larger lots and made a deal for about 20,000+ cards.

Steve B

[glchen]

I use TurboLister, the free tool from ebay, to upload my bulk listings. However, I only have ~300 listings total. Not sure if there is a way to convert from spreadsheet to TurboLister format.

[btcarfagno]

Does COMC do autographs as well? I know they have autographed cards. But 3x5's, photos and the like?

Tom C

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by btcarfagno

Does COMC do autographs as well? I know they have autographed cards. But 3x5's, photos and the like?

Only if they've been slabbed by PSA/JSA/SGC. Send them an email at staff@comc.com to confirm, though. If you send in unverified autographs, they will usually load them into your account as "NEEDS TO BE AUTHENTICATED" and you can either send them back to yourself or submit to BGS through their service with COMC.

[bravos4evr]

Man.... I know you say you don't want to use an auction house, but think of the labor of just doing 1/40th of your collection for sale? 1000 things!!! If it took you an avg of 10 minutes to make the ebay page that's 10,000 minutes or 167 hours! Then the same ten minutes to make a label, pack the card and ship it off is another 167 hours!

For 40k cards that is 3334 hours (or 416 days at 8 hours a day with no breaks non stop) realistically we are talking a full time job for 2 years just selling em.

If you valued your labor at $15 an hr that's $50k AND you have to do all the work. I would think that even if you paid $75k in commissions the ease of just shipping em off would offset that.

but ymmv! good luck!