Closing down shop **

[suzy-recycle]

Hey. 

Currently have 800 items listed.

With awful sales declining over the past 4 months, and returns volume up. I'm wanting to close up shop and sell elsewhere. 

Ebay are just to greedy and frankly I don't want to line there pockets anymore. More people order to just return on ebay. 

So.... If I reduce my shop to basic, what happens to my current listings. 

I will of course reduce it to 250 listings. What happens to my other 550 items?

Will I still have access to them? Will the pictures be removed. I would need these for other platforms.

How does it work when you reduce the shop. 

Also anyone else doing the same and any other advice? 

Thank you 

[writesoon]

I think you’ll find the listings you close will remain in your unsold list for about 90 days, so if you decided or needed to start any again you can relist them from there

[vintagechinashop]

I did this recently and just rotated the listings which I thought would be fine however my sales which were already bad dropped like a stone and I barely sold a thing. I can only put this down to eBay making my listings less visible so I ended up reverting to the next level shop. Sales picked up immediately but are still low. After my shop fee my fees are currently 55%  which I can’t sustain  not sure what my next plan is but I’m expecting and hoping as we get into September things will be better otherwise I will have to look at downgrading again in the new year 

[krafty-kreations]

It is so hard to know what to do.

I didn't have enough listings to make a featured and with sales so low my fees were 61% so I ended a load and may just shut up completely after Christmas. 

[writesoon]

The other thing that might be worth considering is subscribing to Sixbit, an off-line listing tool for eBay which allows you to keep all your items with images in a database so you never lose them. The cheapest level is about £25 a month. It enables you to build up your inventory off-line, and then choose how many you want to list on eBay at different times of the year, so you can swap between Basic and Featured shop at different times without losing listings or being forced to relist them within 90 days so you don't lose them. If you keep images your document folders, it also means you have everything you need to copy and paste for use on other platforms if you ever want to do that.

It does mean paying out an extra £24 or so a month, but it might be worth it for you. I think they offer a 30 day free trial period, and you could use that to import all your current listings and images into Sixbit.

Good luck, whatever you do

[writesoon]

Sorry my reply below to vintage china shop should’ve been to you, Suzy-recycle