Closed my eBay store after 9 years and my sales on eBay skyrocketed.

[TeamPooka]

The store was dead.
Not getting any real business anymore.
I closed it and now just list things as a regular account.
eBay gave me a bunch of free listings for some promo recently so I took advantage of them for the hell of it and listed a bunch of stuff.
Sales have gone way up for me on the wacky mix of stuff I sell/collect. Wood boxes, pens, art, glass, mid century collectibles.
I guess the stores are a search ghetto and the main listings are more featured in searches.
25 sales in August and continuing in Sept too.
4 since Monday.
Very pleasantly surprised.
Anyone have a similar experience?

[Vinca]

1. Are you selling as an auction or fixed price?

I've never bothered with an ebay store because there are certain times of the year when ebay is so slow it's not worth bothering with. I've just started listing again and I've sold a few things, but nothing to get excited over. I only do fixed price now. When ebay first started, auctions were amazing. Now, with about a trillion items for sale on the site, you can list a valuable item for $9.99 and end up selling it for that because the listing is buried. I might just be getting old and lazy, but I mostly sell in a brick and mortar store now. People can examine an item before they buy it and there's no shipping involved.

[TeamPooka]

2. fixed price only

[JI7]

3. can you explain this since i don't use ebay much

i thought when you did a search for an item all results will show up unless you yourself narrowed the search results based on the options they provide.

but are you saying you have to do different searches for items on the regular listings v the items on people's own market place ?

[glinda]

4. I used to sell other then quit. Hated the shipping issue. Do you just

do free shipping in US? I am thinking of trying it again since I have to get rid of some things. That or Etsy. Don't know which is better really.

[TeamPooka]

6. "Free shipping" and I just build it into the price. nt

[northoftheborder]

5. I'm pondering starting an Etsy site.

I have a mixed bag of stuff - old books, vintage toys, misc. such as miniature items, vintage clothing, etc.. They have to be vintage (they determine 20 yrs. as vintage, which is easy.) There are stores on there selling an assortment such as I have - wonder if it possible to email some of those people and ask how fast their things sell.

[glinda]

7. The sellers that I have met on Easy are very nice. Ask them.

I will bet they are informative and will help.