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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RachelW, post: 10159045, member: 15376&quot;]THANK YOU everyone who&#039;s taken time out of the busy season to reply here. I really appreciate all your responses! There is a lot of food for thought here.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did initially end my listings on sundays/weekends, but stopped doing that as I saw loads of auctions do well any day of the week and it made sense for me to list on monday or tuesday after sorting through the vide grenier finds. But I should go back to making that a priority.</p><p><br /></p><p>Volume seems to be the stand out issue here. I don&#039;t think I&#039;ve ever had more than 15 listings at a time. I&#039;m not sure whether to &#039;close&#039; the store for the holiday season and find more pieces in lots etc, then reopen and list 5+ things a day until I have a larger number.</p><p><br /></p><p>The holidays are definitely a factor, but not so much in July or April, this has been happening all year round. The state of the economy makes sense, but sometimes I question the quality of my pieces. I see bidders spend 200+ easily on certain silver brooches, which of course are different to mine but the money is there. I wish I could get my hands on some of those pieces, but of course if I did they wouldnt go anyway! Case in point, the sentimental hair brooch I got for 5 pounds, I could get the bidders but that one is mine because I normally can&#039;t touch them!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve had bad luck with BINs, they sit forever with 1 or two watchers and don&#039;t do a thing. But perhaps time to try a bit more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Shipping wise, I think someone knocked off one star on their review for &#039;high shipping&#039;, I thought it was a bit odd as I bubble wrap everything, with a nice velvet jewelry pouch and a little hand written note, and the box is taped to high heaven against leaks. I offered free postage on one or two items without much difference to the quickness of sale, but again, if I do it for all the items it might be different. All my pieces are pretty light, if I use a padded envelope instead of a box I can afford to add the extra 1.50 on the sale price.</p><p><br /></p><p>To give you an idea of the type of sale photos, quality might be affected and the 2nd one isnt the full photo, had to do some fenaigling to get the photos to show up:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]508268[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]508267[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]508266[/ATTACH] </p><p>I use the photo box I got for christmas last year, black background. I tried different colors but they clashed a lot. Again, its something I could experiment with some more, but the white was very hard to get the lighting right, and red or blue was awful.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry if I&#039;ve missed any points in writing my reply! So far the main ones are list more items, make them BINs/don&#039;t do so many auctions, change up titles (I don&#039;t do this right now, but generally I try to hype up my pieces), pull listings and reevaluate, offer free domestic shipping, research.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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