I've put up several auctions and but it now items to draw more traffic but I barely ever sell my store items. This is my store url for ebay
http://stores.ebay.com/brandnewdvdforless
I even made a web adress for it so it is easier for people to remember.
http://www.brandnewdvdforless.com
Please help. I've put a lot of money into this business and I'm seeing no results. I also have sold over 200 items and gotten positive feedback for everyone but people don't buy my store items.
2007-01-07 03:12:59 · 8 answers · asked by Todd 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Small Business
I'm an Ebay Power Seller and I also have an Ebay Store. The trick with having an Ebay Store is you have to drive the traffic to your website yourself. Ebay does not advertise for you.
Ebay is just giving you a place to display all your inventory but you need to get people to come to your store and click on them.
Here's how you do it:
Every week list a few "loss leader" AUCTIONS. Just a few DVDs that you don't mind breaking even on. Auctions are what will drive people to visit your Ebay shop because people want to bid for their items, not just pay a set price for them.
Your auction will be up for 7 days so this is like a mini 7 day advertisement you are putting out in Ebay. If people stop to take a look at your item they'll visit your store and see what else you have to sell.
In your auction listing make sure to say "Please visit my store for more great DVD deals!"
Now, you can also drive traffic from outside of Ebay.
All you do is visit movie communities on Myspace, Livejournal, Xanga or you can find forums where people talk about movies and you can start being a part of them. Then you slowly integrate your business and let people know you're selling DVDs of movies.
People don't like being advertised to. You have to go at it at round about way like me. I have a T-shirt company that I run on the internet:
www.PoisonAppleShirts.com
I'm sure you'll stop by and take a look if you found this helpful :)
If you need any other advice you can contact me at:
www.IndieElite.com
I wish you good luck!!!!
~Mark Lim
2007-01-07 04:35:03 · answer #1 · answered by www.PoisonAppleShirts.com 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Things like this take patience! Don't feel too bad, maybe it just won't work out. Try giving people you know little cards or something to give out to others and keep for themselves to advertise your business. Maybe ask some local stores if it's ok to post some fliers of your business around. Be sure people know that you're not going to cheat them out of their money, some people don't like buying DVDs from eBay because there are some incredibly stupid people who will just burn the DVDs and then sell those. Just remember patience!
Best of luck to you!
2007-01-07 03:17:31 · answer #2 · answered by Pyrai 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I checked out your website and it is professional and seems easy to use. I think it may have something to do with searching catagories. I typed in God's Guns as I saw that was a listing you carried and when the search came up your store was not listed as one of the ebay stores. Dont know if this helps or not. Good Luck!
2007-01-07 03:21:53 · answer #3 · answered by Shell 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From what I can see, you're doing everything right (great movies and shipping prices). I can think of something that might be causing the problem: competition. Because of the great deals and programs from Netflix, Blockbusters, and others, people seem more interested in renting then returning movies instead of actually buying and keeping them. My suggestion would be to expand your inventory to other technologies (computers, games, systems, etc...).
2007-01-07 03:19:21 · answer #4 · answered by Scippio of Light 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to expand into other items other than DVDs.....
And, EBAY is joke if you ask me. Its overhyped and they charge too much..... I run a small business and do better just by doing a pay per click ad program on GOOGLE and YAHOO than my competitors on EBAY.
2007-01-07 03:24:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't normally shop on ebay but I checked out the site.You seem to have good prices and it's well presented.good luck.
2007-01-07 03:16:45 · answer #6 · answered by shrekster2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
take better picturesand when you sell more then one DVD say what DVD's you are selling. pp aren't just going to but DVD's and spend over 100 dollars if they don't know what they are getting
2007-01-07 03:22:49 · answer #7 · answered by Answerfinder1360 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people dony pay for this stuff anymore
2007-01-07 03:25:40 · answer #8 · answered by ice13water 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋