I was just curious if anyone pays any attention to these storage shows any more? The first year of storage wars I watched, quickly lost interest. As with many new fads or popular jobs or reality shows they got like a 1 year shelf life if that. Deadliest catch and a few others have stuck around but its because you can't fake that and its actually interesting. Storage wars always seemed to be more about the plot than the actual business and it was so staged and edited i think people lost intersted quickly. Just curious if anyone watches these anymore?

Just curious if you guys charge a re-stocking fee on your returns. On one of my accounts they allow me to do this on the other they don't, I'm not sure if you have to be top rated or power seller or have a certain level category of store but I really like this feature.

It allows me to accept returns while still getting paid for my time and expenses on selling an item. I still don't like returns but heck if someone returns something I make a nice 20% margin and then resell the item again to someone else so not the end of the world. I have chosen to offer a 14 day return policy with a 20% restocking fee so I do offer returns and am rewarded in best match search for doing so however it also prevents buyers from playing games buying something on the offchance they may want it and sending it back or buying something just to try it out.

I was under the impression Paypal should be sending out automated emails upon us as sellers processing labels it used to automatically generate an email to the customer saying your item shipped here is your tracking. I'm always bombarded with requests for did my package ship or tracking. It's hard to tell whether people don't get these, whether they go in spam, or whetehr people just don't check the email associated with their paypal account. Not sure if Paypal isn't sending these or my custoemrs just dont check. Was curious if all your customers get these automated emails with tracking info.

Obviously mail is slower during the Holidays. I'm seeing some first class packages taking like 10 days, even priority which was guranteed in 1,2 or 3 days is now 4 days. I have so many buyers wanting refunds. One guy I actually gave a refund to and package showed up very next day so I'm out payment and product. Now I'm telling people I gurantee I will refund or reship but will wait appropraite time to make sure package truly is lost and not just slow. what a headache. i love how people wanna do my free shipping option and then wanna cry they didnt get item next day when if they wanted to they could upgrade for an additional fee. im also annoyed usps is now calling delivery confirmation tracking, its misleading. i get at least 3 messages a day saying hey my package is still sitting at such and such or my package is still in this state. i have to give them the whoel spiel about ussp is delivery confirmation not tracking.

Not only can you do research on your own category and competitors but say your just randomly thinking I wish I knew hwat some hot selling categories were and products were. I attached one screenshot with a color codes guide such as what are hot selling categories. I saw guitars was one so dug deeper into subcategories and looks like effects pedals are hot as well. You can then dig futher into effects pedals and see what models.

You can also do "hot" research and see what the most common searched terms and items on ebay would be. I attached some screenshots showing you guys this stuff. Probably not worth it for the casual ebay seller but if you sell alot of your storage goods on ebay or even if your looking to supplement your storage auction stuff and try to buy stuff wholesale and resell to supplement your ebay store or ebay biz you can figure out what those products are as well.

Hey guys, not sure if I'll have any luck here but was going to try to sell my domain freestorageauctionlists.com. I used to put a fair amount of time into it but to be honest for the past 6 months or so I just havn't had the time. I have another online ecommerce business and a few other blogs which I'm a bit more interested in at the current time. Storage auction for me are more a hobby these days moreso than a business. I thought someone else with more time might be able to do more with it than myself.

Early on I did a lot of linkbuilding and buidling backlinks. It used to have a very strong following, following has dropped off a bit since I havn't been posting as much. I post storage auctions as well as have a blog section with some tips and just commenting on the industry.

It's worth about $1200 to me in completely passive income just off adsense and probably a bit more if I take ebook sales into consideration as well. I know storage auctions aren't as hot as they used to be and are on a bit of a downturn. To someone who already has storage auction listing sites this could be of some value to you.

I'd like to get $1200 or basically a year of ad revenue from it but open to offers. I've never sold or transferred a domain before so may need some assistance transferring it over to you after the sale but I've done it before so just need a helping hand and shoudln't be a problem.

I'd be more than happy to give you all the content on the site as well as the blogspot page that it's currently forwarded to as well.

Thanks

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I know some of us have been fulltime auction buyers, some part time. I know years ago alot of us were thinking about quitting our day gigs and giving this a go fulltime or opening stores. I was just curious how many of you guys have gone from part time buyers to fulltime buyers and have since gone back to working for an employer or gone back to your old careers. It just seems to hard to make money these days even with crowds down.