U: hello
M: 🙂
M: how r u?
U: a little better
U: and you?
M: good
M: I have important news to tell you
U: oh really
U: should i stand up for this?
M: sure, stand at attention please
U: standing
M: OK,
M: Ebay has changed its rules
M: When they caculate their commissions, the shipping and handling price will be included for auction-style listings.
U: really
M: They will take 9% of the shipping and handling price as commission.
U: i’m not aware of this
U: maybe for canada only
M: really?
M: one lady from Cyprus bought one of my scarves 🙂
M: where is it, by the way?
U: in the Mediterian Sea
U: near greece and Turkey
M: Africa?
U: no
M: Asia?
U: in the mediterainian Sea
U: europe
M: ((nod))
M: oh, i c
U: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus
M: It’s the ending day of my auction listings.
M: can you guess how many scarves have sold today?
U: 3
M: 🙂
M: 5, but only two have made payment.
M: And one made a bid on two scarves but the auction hasn’t ended now.
U: thats good.
U: making progress
U: imagine if you were marketing your ebay site
M: but the price isn’t high.
M: but it’s still quite good, right?
U: yes…very good
U: it takes some time to build
U: you just started
M: I’m eager to sell out at least one, so I put the price of two scarves which are very, very nice to the minimum. They are sold out really, but the benefit is quite low 😛
U: well…its important to build a good score
U: then people will have more confidence
U: but…at around christmas time
U: you should be able to really make a killing
M: 🙂
U: Stock up on these scarves for christmas
U: they make great gifts
M: It’s long time away
U: and are easy and light to give as presents
U: i know
U: but all businesses build up for that time of year
U: and its good to sell now
U: but the big sales will come at christmas
M: it’s scarf season now
U: true
M: oh, i c
U: but its gift giving season at christmas
M: ((nod))
M: Monther’s day is coming
U: yes
U: big gift day
U: good point
M: 🙂
U: and mothers look good in scarves
M: ((chuckle)) sure
U: so…prepare for it
U: add into the description or heading about a mother’s day gift
U: so it comes up as a key word
M: 🙂
M: I was sort of surprised by the sales. the scarves I thought would sell out soon didn’t sell out. The scarves I ignored were popular
M: http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170634132095
M: two buyers competed for this one
M: It happened that I ordered two in total
U: really?
U: not very attractive to me
M: One is from Cyprus
M: another one is from Canada
U: the shipping cost to cyprus will be high?
M: it depends. I will ship it by letter mail
M: The scarf is light and thin. I think that around $2 should be ok.
U: thats the advantage of selling scarves
U: low shipping costs
M: ((nod))
M: it’s neck scarf. the shipping fee for long scarf should be high, even by letter mails.
U: i see
M: 🙂
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