posted on January 17, 2002 02:24:54 AM new
I am on the yearly program due to end in July. If I switch to BE, the most expensive +20$ plan, how much extra would I have to pay than I am paying now. I really don't want to be referred to pages to calculate. A rough stab is all I'm looking for. How much more a month until July?
posted on January 17, 2002 03:30:13 PM new
Sorry if we didn't see or respond appropriately to your question the first time.
If you would like to switch to the Power Plan Flat Rate plan, we have a special offer for existing yearly Power Plan sellers where we waive the monthly fee for that plan. Therefore, the difference you would experience is that listings under the new Power Plan Flat Rate are 10 cents each instead of 5 cents.
We have other plans available that may be more effective if your average sales price is relatively low (like $10) or your sell-through (% items sold compared to listed) is less than 50%. If this is the case please send me an e-mail, and I can do a full comparison.
Hope this helps. I'll have email notifaction on this thread, so I'll know if you have any additional questions posted here (or e-mail me directly). Thanks.
posted on January 19, 2002 10:09:13 PM new
Hi Mike-
I have no choice but to change. The question is, to what?
I work my auctions geared towards Buy It Now. I put up about 300 auctions a week. 150 on each of two days. When they close, I have about 33% success. However, I have a significant number of BINs and as near as I can tell, they bring me to 50%, give or take. Many of my items are below $20 but 60% are above. The average is well plus $20.00.
I'll tell you how screwed up I am. I was just notified by Ebay that I'm a silver powerseller which is 10K plus a month, I think.
That's a lot of envelopes. I'm retired and work alone. I could post double the amount of auctions but there isn't a way in hell I could handle much more than I am handling now with my current methodology.
"Inventory" in the way I use Pro, is passive. I work strictly from batches. One DVD title to a batch. I just change each batch individually re number of days, and launch date/time. Doing that 300 times a week is very time consuming.
I know I can make two large batches of 150 each but then I'd have no way to alter launch times etc.
Another huge problem I may have created for myself through misunderstanding is Pro's capabilities re labeling.
I knew I could make a shipping receipt but I'd like to find out how to send the name and address on the WBN to an Avery program so I don't have to sit for hours copying and pasting.
Finally, lack of reporting. I'd like to make decisions on more tangible evidence than I now have, and your BE purports to help in that area.
If I convert to BE, can I take those individual batches I now have and move that info into BE in the areas BE was designed to have such info? I assume BE works best if you don't use my makeshift batch system.
If I can batch change certain areas, solve the labeling problem, and get some progress reporting, the difference in price will be worth it.
From what I've said I assume you agree I should take the higher level BE program. If not, what do you recommend?
Can you give me some hints on converting my batches into BE and how best to handle labeling from the WBN to an Avery program.
Any thoughts you have would help. I'd like to add 200 more auctions a month in the same period of time I now devote to this.
