Thursday, June 26, 2008
Added My SNUZZLES to Our Catalog - Thoughts on Setting Prices for Collectibles
SNUZZLES Large Lion BlankieI added our collection of Playskool Snuzzles to our Catalog today. Some of the harder to find ones are listed for sale on eBay for close to $100! I have tried to price them at what I consider to be a reasonable price, but Snuzzles are some of my all time favorite lovies, and I can't bare to part with them for "bargain" prices.
This brings up something that came up in an email I received the other day referring to a seller's price on eBay for a HTF (Hard to Find) toy being price gouging. Buying and Selling Collectibles is totally a Supply and Demand driven business situation. It really doesn't matter how much a toy cost originally. What matters is how much people are willing to pay for them today, right now. If the price is too high for a potential buyer - they don't buy. If the price is too high for a seller - it doesn't sell. Eventually, everything seeks its own level. That's how auction sites like eBay work to help set the current value of any item.
So, I tried to find that spot where I feel good selling my Snuzzles, and hopefully someone else will feel good buying them.
We hope you will find the lovie you are looking for in our DIRTY BUTTER Plush Animal Shoppe CATALOG. But we have many more toys in stock than we have listed, so please Contact Us if you don't see what you are looking for. If we don't have it in stock, we will search the Internet for it. If we still can't find it, we will post your request on our Plush Memories Lost Toy Search Service Facebook Page.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
So Easy to Get Confused
I found a huge mistake in the catalog today, and it took quite a bit of time to fix it. I somehow managed to put up two pages that had some of the same pictures on them. I am feeling so much better now that I did not get all stressed and upset the way I would have back when I made the mistake. I was feeling so bad back then that I can't be surprised for making the mess. I had to change the numbering on a bunch of items, move some photos around, and fix the Google Base feed to correspond to the current numbering, but I did it.
I have now put over 500 plush toys online in our catalog, and we have had quite a few sales from it, too. I am working on putting up the Security Blankies now, but it will take me awhile to get the pages to a point that I can put them online. I have been experimenting with how to categorize them, and I hope I have come up with logical page categories.
I have also taken all the many puppets we have bought over the last few years and re-boxed them into what I hope will be reasonable categories, too, but I am a long way from taking all the photos and putting the descriptions up. But, I see progress in my storage system, and continue to work on making all our toys easier to find when someone asks for help finding a lost lovie on our Plush Memories Lost Toy Search Service.
We hope you will find the lovie you are looking for in our DIRTY BUTTER Plush Animal Shoppe CATALOG. But we have many more toys in stock than we have listed, so please Contact Us if you don't see what you are looking for. If we don't have it in stock, we will search the Internet for it. If we still can't find it, we will post your request on our Plush Memories Lost Toy Search Service Facebook Page.
I have now put over 500 plush toys online in our catalog, and we have had quite a few sales from it, too. I am working on putting up the Security Blankies now, but it will take me awhile to get the pages to a point that I can put them online. I have been experimenting with how to categorize them, and I hope I have come up with logical page categories.
I have also taken all the many puppets we have bought over the last few years and re-boxed them into what I hope will be reasonable categories, too, but I am a long way from taking all the photos and putting the descriptions up. But, I see progress in my storage system, and continue to work on making all our toys easier to find when someone asks for help finding a lost lovie on our Plush Memories Lost Toy Search Service.
We hope you will find the lovie you are looking for in our DIRTY BUTTER Plush Animal Shoppe CATALOG. But we have many more toys in stock than we have listed, so please Contact Us if you don't see what you are looking for. If we don't have it in stock, we will search the Internet for it. If we still can't find it, we will post your request on our Plush Memories Lost Toy Search Service Facebook Page.
Saturday, June 7, 2008
SingleFeed is a BIG Help!
The folks from SingleFeed asked me to write a testimonial the other day, and I figured I would post it here, whether they end up using any of it or not on their own site.
We have been selling on eBay since 2002, gradually becoming more involved and business like as we went. We have also been working toward selling from our own website for some time now, and we finally have a small part of our inventory in our online catalog. I tried uploading our items to Google Base all by myself, but was having difficulties. It makes more sense to spend my time taking pictures, writing descriptions, and filling orders than to get bogged down with the details of sending a perfect feed to Google every time we add to our catalog. Sometimes that can be several times a week, as our inventory is sold and I add more items to the catalog.
Since I started using SingleFeed, I don’t have to spend any appreciable time on this part of our business at all. It took awhile to get the data feed set up the way SingleFeed requires it, but their directions made sense, the download gave me a template to work from, and they helped – something Google does not do. Now that I have a data file set up correctly, all I need to do is add our new items to the file and click Upload on SingleFeed’s site. On those rare occasions when I do make an error in the Excel form, I get an immediate response, showing which items are faulty and what the problem is. I can fix it immediately, upload again, and it’s all taken care of.
We are a small business, so for now, at least, we only use SingleFeed for Google Base. But it is very reassuring to know that if we ever decide to become involved with the comparison shopping sites, we are all ready for it. Some people might think it is foolish to pay for something I could eventually figure out for myself, but my time is definitely worth something and is much better spent on other aspects of our business. Using SingleFeed was a good business decision for us.
We hope you will find the lovie you are looking for in our DIRTY BUTTER Plush Animal Shoppe CATALOG. But we have many more toys in stock than we have listed, so please Contact Us if you don't see what you are looking for. If we don't have it in stock, we will search the Internet for it. If we still can't find it, we will post your request on our Plush Memories Lost Toy Search Service Facebook Page.
We have been selling on eBay since 2002, gradually becoming more involved and business like as we went. We have also been working toward selling from our own website for some time now, and we finally have a small part of our inventory in our online catalog. I tried uploading our items to Google Base all by myself, but was having difficulties. It makes more sense to spend my time taking pictures, writing descriptions, and filling orders than to get bogged down with the details of sending a perfect feed to Google every time we add to our catalog. Sometimes that can be several times a week, as our inventory is sold and I add more items to the catalog.
Since I started using SingleFeed, I don’t have to spend any appreciable time on this part of our business at all. It took awhile to get the data feed set up the way SingleFeed requires it, but their directions made sense, the download gave me a template to work from, and they helped – something Google does not do. Now that I have a data file set up correctly, all I need to do is add our new items to the file and click Upload on SingleFeed’s site. On those rare occasions when I do make an error in the Excel form, I get an immediate response, showing which items are faulty and what the problem is. I can fix it immediately, upload again, and it’s all taken care of.
We are a small business, so for now, at least, we only use SingleFeed for Google Base. But it is very reassuring to know that if we ever decide to become involved with the comparison shopping sites, we are all ready for it. Some people might think it is foolish to pay for something I could eventually figure out for myself, but my time is definitely worth something and is much better spent on other aspects of our business. Using SingleFeed was a good business decision for us.
We hope you will find the lovie you are looking for in our DIRTY BUTTER Plush Animal Shoppe CATALOG. But we have many more toys in stock than we have listed, so please Contact Us if you don't see what you are looking for. If we don't have it in stock, we will search the Internet for it. If we still can't find it, we will post your request on our Plush Memories Lost Toy Search Service Facebook Page.
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