ebay shop

[eastbourneantiques]

hi all. I'm thinking of getting the middle tariff shop soon. please tell me of your experiences good and bad . thx for any help P

[technthread]

You can list a lot of those coins as multi quantity listings and maybe you won’t need a featured shop subscription.

I have some similar myself (have a look at my solds), try to get £1.99 for those it’s not worth it for 99p. I’m only doing it at £1.99 to move some postage stamps.

[technthread]

Just to add if you are going to stick at 99p I’d consider looking at a site called foreignmoneyexchange.co.uk and send them in there. That’s who I have used for certain coins in the past, it can work out better than paying an ongoing eBay shop subscription for a trickle of lower value time consuming sales. 

[therenewalworkshopltd]

To be quite honest, whether or not you get that shop is just a straight calculation of costs.

There really aren't any advantages to it, other than after a certain point, it works out cheaper.

From memory, you need to be hitting something in the region of about 6-700 listings to make it worth while.

though I may be a little off with that now.

And I can see that you only have 102 listings currently.  So unless your going to list a massive amount in a very short space of time, I very much doubt that it worth doing.

[technthread]

Sorry to harp on about this, you may have stamps or something like me so consider postage costs £0 but 10 of those old penny coins should weigh around 90 grams or so. I’m struggling to see how you send them as a 2nd class letter inc packaging. 

[therenewalworkshopltd]

Aside from the postage that has already been pointed out, are you aware, that it's against Ebay rules to have multiple listings of the same item?

What you should be doing, is listing a single item, with multiple quantities.

Over time it will get better placing in search as well.

[the_book_seekers]

I'd certainly start with a basic shop for the first month or so while building up listings -  having worked out the numbers for switching up to a featured shop.

[santlache_sales]

Take my word for it having a Middle Level Shop doesn't bring you more exposure or customers, you just end up paying eBay more.

I had a mid-level shop for over 15 years, then after the worst December I have ever had on here I dropped to a basic shop in January and culled over 200 not so profitable items. My sales have actually gone up a little since doing it.

However, for you, you are going to have to shift a lot of those scrap Pennies and Halfpennies at 99p to cover a Middle Shop option of £90+ a month. As previously noted you can combine many of those listings to one.

But also technically you are breaking eBay's rules by having several identicle listings.

Cheers