Frustrating Sales
A week or so ago, I looked through my older listings, and decided to put two dozen or so up for auction. Near all had starting bids of $1. Received nary a bid. Not looking for sympathy or advice. Just venting, and starting to consider whether I am using the wrong venue. Lots and lots of hours building my store...not large, but over 600 listings.
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And I along with many with similar type stores to yours sometimes go several days without much if any sales. But then all of the sudden, a bunch of orders come in. As some of my colleagues can attest, a little private bitching and complaining about sales almost always results in instant sales. Don't know why but it works.
Someone above mentioned the Hipstamp marketing letters. They are good - sometimes great sales after they go out and sometimes nothing. You can also build your own email list from customers that pay you via Paypal. . I have not found % off sales to be that productive, but you could try a sale on all or part of your inventory. If you have customers from different souces, i.s Feebay, the Boys in Belguium, old fashioned mail order, etc make sure that you put something in your shipments to them directing them to your Hipstamp store.
My final thought - We had a bit of a boom when there were lots of covid restrictions. With those restrictions relaxed and disappearing a lot of collectors are not stuck st home looking at their stamps, and they are finding other ways to spend their money.
Yeah, like for food and gasoline...
You have to keep up with the fiber in our advanced years.
Myself I like the liquid kind that all good Germans use. LoL
That have "less than desirable" photos. Most of them are well edited, and have just a hint of border, but now and then you have some that are really bad. I think if you cleaned up those it would help with sales.
Just some constructive feedback. For the most part, you have one of the nicer set of listings I've seen.
Most descriptions are not very personal but more so a guide of how to find the stamp and the condition if it was more from the heart think sales here would maybe pick up it's about connecting with your customers on a personal basis not just making a sale!
Brett, you can't piss on our legs and tell us it's raining. You have 11 items listed in your "store". You have a, let's just say, sub-par feedback rating. Your listings are of very common stamps with poor images and even worse descriptions. And you are asking exorbitant prices for those listings. I, and others here, have tried in good faith to help you improve and be successful here ever since your first opened a store but you have always refused to take any advice or make any effort to improve. So....good for you on your new platform, wherever that may be...real or imagined. Goodbye.