Curious About Webstore Anyone Heard Of Or Tried It?

At least you finally got a sale, but yes its sad and so slow to sell lately. I had a good stamped cover up 30 days on BIN. At the end of it the view count said 3. I put that down to no one viewed the cover at all. Sometimes it takes a few times to get an item sold even when its a good price with nice stamp on it. Depends how far your items are down the queue with Cassini I guess as to if your item actually gets seen. What I see lately is a buyer come in for one BIN and pay. I wonder if they are looking at the rest of the shop inventory or not. Sometimes I message the buyer to look, but they don't answer.

The 30 day listings are a wast of time IMO. They just sit there somewhere it the background and when the last 7 days comes round so does the listings visibility and lookers.

Had a selling plan for 30 day listings but not anymore.

On the other hand in better times I had people come in and take a batch of BIN in one hit so that is why I have some up. Also a few sell every week one at a time. You never know with BIN. And some go unsold. Try them again.

Your point is very well taken Duncan.

It is probably best to have a mixture of listing types.

Trying to discern which is the best listing style for which lot is going to be the hard bit.

It was not that long ago that I had only listed auction style.

Also best to put on BIN what you think will sell based on previous sales. Maybe in your case put 250g AUS kiloware up at $150-$175 BIN like you sold recently in your feedback. You may get lucky. I have also had in better times BIN sell 1 minute after it was listed. Depends on what you list and if you have buyers for that item. People can be searching at anytime.

I looked at webstore, but found nothing of interest. The same problem I have a hipstamp. I do find and buy material on ebay and delcampe

Hi jarnick webstore needs more sellers and buyers to join and grow it, its like hipstamp now but the best feature is free listings for sellers. Which if it grows will save sellers money. What are fees going to be on ebay in another five years time? It may not affect buyers as much but it will affect sellers who sell stamps for an income.

Good discussion, I liked the horticulture references. I have an unlimited number of water hyacinth growing in the streams adjacent to my house, they sell on ebay for $3 each, so who needs stamps. Of course I would have to be alert to water moccasins and alligators but nothing is easy right?

I did want to say that I don't think the political chaos in the US is impacting stamp sales. Turning the TV off and losing yourself in stamps is a great way to keep your sanity. Recently I have stopped International shipping except for Canada and Australia and I thought I would take a hit in sales but I really haven't, so I think US sales are still OK.

Good luck with webstore I'd help you but I live and die with the auction format.

Back to the original post. No hits on Google or Bing with the title from one of the listings. Plenty of other hits however.

Hi KRelyea who needs stamps I do due to poor health I do this hobby business and its all I have so completely rely on it. Stamps are light weight so easier to handle when posting to buyers. Webstore also has auction format its just me choosing to have a BIN store there.

cfrphoto I don't think my Webstore listings will be on google yet I am too new on there but hopefully when I am not feeling to lazy I will get more items up there and later on see them in google results.

On another note I hope ebay sellers are ready for the loss of active content on June 1st. This includes javascript and apparently the store search field is going? I imagine a lot of sellers are going to be caught of guard with this so expect chaos in June. Some sellers I know have their whole listings in javascript. These days selling going to be aimed towards mobile devices, one reason I do all my listings in the caps lock!

I'll bite, what does all caps have to do with mobile devices?

Don

Hi Don its just a personal choice, the text is bigger and clearer to read when caps lock used and larger font. It should be easier to read on smaller screens. Everyone has a different device. Also stands out from listing titles not in caps. See my listings as example.

Ah, I understand. I don't necessarily agree but understand the reasoning.

Responsive design and modern browsers account for the smaller screen size and automagically adjusting the font size. The code generally looks like this

body {
font-size: 100%;
line-height: 1.8;
font-family:Arial;
}

Note that the font is defined at 100%. Browsers then dynamically resize the font to account for the screen resolution. This aids in readability.

And standard web etiquette is that ALL CAPS IS SCREAMING and is usually best avoided. But of course if it is working for you then so be it.
Don

Edit for clarity: Your method makes sense for old sites which are not coded to be responsive.

Duncanvr when I said "who needs stamps" it was a tongue in cheek comment. My wife and I depend on our stamp sales to augment our retirement and it's important to us. When my sales are off so am I.

The problem right now is twofold ,first your dealing with the collector who is reducing his inventory and the reduction in the amount of buyers .
Collectors like me and many others purchased our stock and inventory back in the 1980's and 1990's when the wholesale price of stamps were 1/2 to 1/3 of what you can buy today . If the collector is selling they are just looking to reduce their holdings not like the experience E-bay seller who needs to bid against other sellers to find inventory .
The whole stamp community has gone over to smaller less specialized collections so the buyers we are seeing are buying less and less for their holdings .
So that's where we stand lower prices and less buying .