The Power of Being a Small eBay Seller

This is exactly how my store works. I have a 250 store of everything. I list 4 to 5 per day & average 4.3 sales a day at £27 per item. I source items at car boot sales with high ROI & good sell through. I make a full time living off a 250 item store.

I found Chris back in January of 2022. I started following his listing process and now I’m up to 30 listings a day. I have a person who drafts listings for me and I always have a bank of drafts to pull from. As I continued to follow his recommendations my sales are currently up 56%, Impressions up 32%, click through rate no change, listing page views up 24%, and conversion rate up 1%. Quantity sold up a staggering 97%! Thanks Chris!

Thanks for caring about the little stores. Thanks to you, I will do 70k in sales from EBay and Mercari this year. I list 5-7 items a day. I sell 500 items every 90 days. I have 38$ average selling price. Thank you so much

Chris, I felt so happy watching this clip. I was thrilled to hear you speak specifically about smaller stores. Due to my severe chronic health issues, I find I can only manage up to five listings a day in each of my stores. In one I sell books - like Mel (Back from Burnout) and the other I sell Plus Size women's clothes and underwear (basically retail arbitrage). Some days I list just one in each. On good days, I take heaps of photos as I find that task quick physically demanding. I am fortunate to have many willing helpers to go to the post office for me which is a fantastic help. I'm so glad to have found channels such as yours and Mel's as I was despairing over ever being able to generate income again and have something to in some small way make up for my lost career. With reselling I can 'work' at any time of day or night. I am teaching my young niece and nephew about reselling so that when they are old enough (or with some adult help in the meantime) they can begin to do this themselves. They love thrifting or "Op Shopping" as we call it in Australia. Op Shop is short for Opportunity Shop. These shops are usually run by charities. I look forward to the day when I can build on what I've started but for now, 200 - 250 items is my limit but my stock turnover in good. Thank you so much for all the wonderful information, encouragement and motivation you provide for us. Reselling has changed my life for the better in my post cancer treatment state. Kind regards, Simmone

I sure wish I found Chris last year! I bought items (alot!) instead of starting w my own items. But having health problems and losing my husband, I had a sale thru an online estate sale site. Then sold house. I still had plenty I might been able to start with, but I bought alot of inventory. Now I'm overwhelmed. Hard lesson to choke on. Listing came to a stop. Now listing again! Daily Refinement is great motto! Start small and cheap, learn and improve technique daily.

i follow your advice religiously , and this is the exact model im using , im at the 800 item , listing 5 - 10 a day mostly , selling 5 plus a day average sale price $36 it takes so long to get to a high item store because people buy all the good stuff hahah .

Followed Chris way back when he was 10k on the bay. He has the best videos about reselling on ebay period. Listen and act on what he says.

Great information! I need to stop buying and focus on selling and pricing.

This information is so validating. Ive watched many of your videos. As a new seller, my goal is to get to 250 listings. I didnt want to start bog. Watching your previous videos, i was overwhelmed with how i would get to 10,000 listings and i dont want to carry that much inventory. This video is so much more relatable. I may be a bog seller someday but for now, i want to concentrate on being a great “boutique “. Making sure every listing and transaction is the best it can be is important. Taking care of the customers well is more manageable when you take the time to grow, not grow too fast. Chris, you said this scalable plan well and makes me feel more centered that this is my beginning plan! Maybe someday ill be at the “table” in Patreon but for now, im small and thats ok!

OMG, this is the best video for a new eBay seller, EVER! Dam! Chris you are a genius. This method will teach new sellers how to eBay properly, without developing bad habits. They will avoid the pitfalls and they are many, which can devastate the individual and could cause them to quit. Chris you are the only YouTube "teacher" that I know of, that is worth their weight in gold.

I am just about to this level. I have inventory of 185 and list 1-2 things per day. I only sell 1 thing every other day.

This is really great advice ! Instead of telling everyone to go and buy buy buy and fill a room up , and Not even get consistent sales or realize it's not for them and they get stuck with a bunch of crap and wasted time and money ..... Ive been researching for Decades , 80% of the time I know the value within a split second ... I really feel like researching the markets and data is the first thing people should de , as they practice and learn by selling at the same time ... It takes years to develope the strategies, Logistics,. And not every item is created equal , and not every item is going to be as enjoyable to sell as another . Space, Time, Money, Life / Work Balance and Passion .. these must be in order before anything

In my store this might sound silly but I actually give a better deal to buyers with low feedback. I understand that they say low feedback means it could be a scammer. However my thoughts is that the person is new to eBay and I want to give them a good experience. If I give buyers a good experience that's great for all of eBay as a whole! 👊🙌

I started watching people go to flea markets a few months ago. Eventually, I found your videos. I'm super pumped about reselling and I believe you offer sound advice. I just started listing sports cards and selling things around my home. I'm learning so much from doing that. I am listing only 2-3 items a day until I get 1 sale a day. I'm only on my second week and that appears to be happening. Thank you Chris for your humility, wisdom, and transparency with your own experience.

I'm not a new seller and have been only part-time for 20 years on ebay. I love the 250 "free" listings. The best part is that if I come close to going over my limit on listing I cull the herd and take things off are lower dollar and not selling or I cross-post those on Mecari. I made a few sales over there on items that have been sitting on ebay. I also lower prices and send offers to get rid of old inventory. Keeps my store fresh and sales popping.

I started selling on ebay in 2001 and made enough money to put a downpayment on a house. I was working full time then and had my husband help with the packaging and mailing. I remember my highest gross for one month back in those early days was $36,000. I just started my family and we lived in a small aprtment in NYC. I had inventory stacked to the ceiling and was up until 1 AM listing and answering inquires. I sold only RL shirts, new with tags and designer sunglasses. Somehow I was able to find a distributor that was able to get small quantities of these luxury items each month. I bough all of them every month. I never knew what I would get. Since I lived in NYC, I would go to the designers main flagstores to get the authentications. At one time I was selling steriling silver Gucci cross necklaces. They did not look like anything special , but when you have the name Gucci, they sold very fast. I did this for five years and it just got too much. I was making a ton of money but it was becoming more difficult to source and I never left my daytime job. I did not want to run around looking for boxes to ship Prada shoes. I gave it up and only last year I started to sell again, but lower end items and listing a lot less. It has become more fun without the pressure I had decades ago.

I feel you were preaching to me as I have struggled to do 5 a day, yet I can do 2 or 3, so my goal is 3 per day with 1 in the bank. I was so busy at work last week that I was unable to list for 2 consecutive days, and because of that, I didn't have a single sale this week.

Thanks Chris for the tips. Great video. Thanks for reaching out to us small stores. It's nice to know that someone is out there for us for moral support as well as showing us some numbers.

The unfortunate thing about this video is that I know this is great advice for a beginner only because I have experience now. If I watched this when I first started, for sure I would have ignored this advice and done my own thing anyway, lol... But really, for beginners, this is by far the best advice I've heard. Great video!

best advice. I am in the place where my sales are daily. I list daily, I have a month of inventory all ready to list. I will not buy more than that. Hardest lesson to le