Saturday, December 10, 2011
Ebay - the emails never stop coming!
It is like some sort of nightmare I cant escape from!
I still get ebay surveys, deal alert and my favorites delivered to my inbox daily. Prol time to just close that hotmail account
Really torturous. I mean do they think I will BUY anything there still?
I am an Amazon convert for sure - God Bless Prime and 2 day free shipping!
I still get ebay surveys, deal alert and my favorites delivered to my inbox daily. Prol time to just close that hotmail account
Really torturous. I mean do they think I will BUY anything there still?
I am an Amazon convert for sure - God Bless Prime and 2 day free shipping!
Friday, December 9, 2011
I cried when I left Ebay
I cried, I had no idea I would feel such a void! It took up so much time that I felt lost without it. I cried in bed, in the shower, driving the kids to school, watching TV, cooking and more. I should I weaned myself off it, but I quit cold turkey.
It took about 1-2 weeks for the waterworks to finally dry up. Lost a few pounds, too!
To finally come to realize that ebay sales did not define me. And that perhaps I had simply "conquered" ebay, and I needed to find my next great project?
Perhaps that is what is that is confunding me now. I know I will never excel in my trained career - too much time missed now rasin' chillins. Not sure if my next great conquest is this online site off ebay? It just seems like if I could find that next challenge I could hit it hard and get appropriately distracted.
It took about 1-2 weeks for the waterworks to finally dry up. Lost a few pounds, too!
To finally come to realize that ebay sales did not define me. And that perhaps I had simply "conquered" ebay, and I needed to find my next great project?
Perhaps that is what is that is confunding me now. I know I will never excel in my trained career - too much time missed now rasin' chillins. Not sure if my next great conquest is this online site off ebay? It just seems like if I could find that next challenge I could hit it hard and get appropriately distracted.
Ebay and TRS
I was never able to keep this for more then one month in a row.
When I was a TRS traffic went up HUGELY, sales went up massively, the percentage of unpaid item cases went up EVEN MORE and wait for it...... NEGATIVES AND CASES also went UP UP UP.
Obviously more purchases by noob buyers who search poorly and are faced unintentionally with your listings and pull the trigger spontaneously then leave feedback. So it would be me with 25000 feedback vs the buyer with a feedback n of "1" who always nailed me to the ground each time.
I mean, thank GOD the ebay community was protected by this buyer who has been on the site for all of 5 minutes but was able to warn everyone against an established seller of 7 years. Thank goodness the world is safe now! Hallelujah!
Always lost it the next month. When I lost TRS I would breathe a sigh of relief and exit the parallel universe of ebay insanity. Then I just jumped ship all out
When I was a TRS traffic went up HUGELY, sales went up massively, the percentage of unpaid item cases went up EVEN MORE and wait for it...... NEGATIVES AND CASES also went UP UP UP.
Obviously more purchases by noob buyers who search poorly and are faced unintentionally with your listings and pull the trigger spontaneously then leave feedback. So it would be me with 25000 feedback vs the buyer with a feedback n of "1" who always nailed me to the ground each time.
I mean, thank GOD the ebay community was protected by this buyer who has been on the site for all of 5 minutes but was able to warn everyone against an established seller of 7 years. Thank goodness the world is safe now! Hallelujah!
My post-eBay life and Walmart
Seriously, going toWalmart is the most exciting thing I do now all day sometimes.
Now that I dont HAVE ANYTHING TO SHIP, I can do the shopping for the household again.
How pathetic is THAT?
Ebay vs Online store - traffic
For the visitors looking at the exact same items on two different sites -
Easily on ebay I had 2500-3000 visitors per day.
Currently I have only topped 300 (301) once. Most days lower or mid 200s.
Talk about a f*cking needle in a haystack!!!
Easily on ebay I had 2500-3000 visitors per day.
Currently I have only topped 300 (301) once. Most days lower or mid 200s.
Talk about a f*cking needle in a haystack!!!
Post-ebay amnesia
I used to sleep and breath ebay all day. Never out of my mind, always strategizing, shipping, planning, shipping, arguing, shipping, troubleshooting, shipping and more shipping. All day, and often waking up at night and back at it again.
That's how you do it when you are running a business of "your own". But in fact it was ebay's baby all along and ALL that work was eventually for naught.
Now things are slow and there is next-to-nothing to ship and I forget that I even run an off-ebay business.
I have amnesia for all my old hobbies and I don't even remember what authors or what books I read. I am not even sure if I have any friends left! I sit home all evenings, I dont go out so I am sure that I lost most of them along this long ebay road. I dont remember how to sit at a table and eat - I used to eat and answer questions in front of the laptop.
Do I need to be medicated???
That's how you do it when you are running a business of "your own". But in fact it was ebay's baby all along and ALL that work was eventually for naught.
Now things are slow and there is next-to-nothing to ship and I forget that I even run an off-ebay business.
I have amnesia for all my old hobbies and I don't even remember what authors or what books I read. I am not even sure if I have any friends left! I sit home all evenings, I dont go out so I am sure that I lost most of them along this long ebay road. I dont remember how to sit at a table and eat - I used to eat and answer questions in front of the laptop.
Do I need to be medicated???
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