EBAY 4 Beginners: Easy & Effective Inventory Management For Resellers 

"Behold My Corny Transition" made me laugh out loud!!

I use totes that have just words on them (I’m still small, no need for alphanumeric yet). So Books are in the ‘Books’ bin and Shoes in the ‘Shoes’ etc. I use the SKU all the time starting with the date listed, amount spent on item and then in which bin it’s stored. So far it works great. I may tweak it in the future.

I just recently started numbering my bins. I only have 8 at the moment. I’ve been meaning to go through and add the bin number to my listings before it gets out of hand! I really like knowing I can search by bin to check against eBay. Great info! Thanks again!

I've been selling for more than 20 years but you always teach me something I didn't know how to do easily. Thanks!!!

I've never been so excited to do admin! Been wanting to start an inventory system for a while and just get so overwhelmed/confused about where to start. Not now!! I can't wait to get organised 😅

Very helpful for getting organized. At the moment my entire inventory is in 2 of those tubs,but it's growing so I might as well do it the right way from the start.Thanks!

Great video Scot. I use pretty much the same inventory system. However, I have to say that as long as I have been at this I still didn"t know how to search a particular bin or sku so that I can check the contents of that tote. SO Thank You for another awesome and informative video.

I'm a new subscriber to your You Tube. 69 Years Old and drove 2 hours to see my sister to help me start my E Bay store today. She's been doing it for years now. I saw your printer on one of your videos. Would love to have one for my new business!

New Subscriber here. I been selling on eBay for 17 years. It has its ups and downs. At this point I wouldn't know what I would do without it. Good Video.

Hey Scott, thanks for this tutorial. I'm a new eBay seller and this is just what I have been searching for. Are you sure you have never been a teacher in the past lol. Great channel BTW. I watch all your videos and get lot's of information from them. 👍🏻

Good timing on this… as I hunted for a missing item today! Such great and simple advice.

I’ve been thinking about changing my system, but was unsure about the process I wanted to use. I believe this will be the one! I didn’t know the sku #’s could be searched. Thanks for the tip & excellent video!

Born to be a teacher! Rollo would be lucky to have you.

I definitely like the simplicity. The old KISS, Keep it simple stupid, always works well for me! Thanks. Time to get working on this as I’m getting upwards of 70 active sale items.

This is exactly the same way as I do it. I even use A1 A2 B1 B2. I have 8000 items listed on eBay in over 100 containers. I started cutting colored paper and now I just put A, B, C etc. In the sku I will write Yellow A, Blue B, Green A ect. The containers would get all mixed up and take longer to find, by having a colored Square my eyes will automatically find Yellow or Blue or Green and I only have to look for A B C now once i find the correct color.

Your advice is invaluable, thank you for taking the time and trouble to make these vdeos

I love how simple this is. Thanks for the education!❤

I like that you added the tips how to check your inventory in each bin. Also your process you set up to double check by listing date. Thank you Scott.

I run a medium-large BrickLink (LEGO parts) store and you use the exact same inventory method as me. I've been selling for 12 years. When people ask me what equipment they should invest in, I tell them #1 a shipping scale and #2 Label printer. Until you own a label printer you don't realize the time and effort that it saves. And your advice about using the same container for the day's inventory to help find "lost" inventory is spot on! I don't know how many times that it has saved me. And for the rare customer that may sell items that number in the thousands (many $.01 - $.10 parts) I would also recommend a counting scale. They are expensive but will save you hours of having to count parts.

This is exactly what I do……granted I only have a shelf and a box right now, but as I grow, I will definitely continue to use this system. Thank you Scot!

Good system! Last year I started using rolls of item number stickers in stead of hand-writing them. It’s a big time saver, and I no longer repeat numbers.

Thank you so much for your tutorials. I've wanted to start getting rid of stuff via ebay, but I've never gotten around to it. Some of it can be a bit overwhelming. Mainly the shipping. I watched your video on shipping and that took some of the hesitancy away. Hopefully I can be up and selling my stuff in no time! Your videos have made that possible!

I now use the sequential numbering system. Cardboard boxes and items are packed in resealable cellaphane bags. I use a sticker on the bag showing the number. It's easy. Takes less room. I used to do this system. I sold those totes and made my money back. Whatever works best is the way to go.

Congrats on the fabulous growth of your RU-vid channel!

love the 'corny transition'! and the old post office drawers- those are so cool! I just started numbering my bins yesterday after temporarily losing a couple of items. that was so stressful LOL so even though I also only have 8 bins, I definitely needed a better system! btw, I don't have the Rollo printer, but I do have their scale and it's awesomely accurate!

I love your videos. You inspire me because you have such an upbeat way of sharing information. Other channels always talk about the negatives all the time but always approach problems with solutions. Thank you ❤

Great video. Great system. I’ve lost a couple of items or more and I have a system now. As I grow my business I’ll be using a system like yours. Thanks for excellent advice.!!😺

This is awesome! I sell 99% jewelry and I use Sterlite drawer systems marked A 12345 B 12345 very much the same as you do! As always, thank you for sharing!!!

I love that you like to teach us❤! It is very helpful for beginners like me, thank you!!

Watched 2 of your videos so far, plan to watch more. Love the way you explain information. New seller fixing to start when i settle my nerves!!! I know i can do well, maybe not great, but well. but its hard to just get started... Lol. From TN. Appreciate your tips very much. Just what i need a down to earth slow talking easy explaining person. Best of luck also with successful sales for ya'll!!!!

What a simple, easy & logical Inventory System you have, with a built-in cross reference, too. Thank you for sharing your simple, user-friendly system! Bless you!

So glad I found your channel. I wanted to learn more on how others do their inventory. And So far your example has been the best. 😊

Scott you're a genius you've have mastered an inventory system that I like! I will watch this video again and again until I catch on your sku system. Just to give you an idea of one of many challenges I'm dealing with, I'm living in a small one bedroom apartment in NYC. I do have a storage unit not to far from me...I'm in the process of decluttering and reorganizing my small living room space to put in some shelves (I may try to put rolls on them so I can move them around different areas if need be;) to create an all in one work station etc. Oh did I mention I also design gift baskets that I mostly sell on the streets and church bazaars vendor and pop up shops. I'm sorry for the long comment, I can't help it I retired from a corp customer service position and I talk a lot, sometimes too much 😊 I'm very social - I was promoted 3x times I think because of my people communication skills. Thanks for reading my comments. Here's to success to you and Melody💰

I like this! I'm thinking about starting an eBay store and I was wondering how to go about organizing everything. Thanks

I use a similar inventory system. Thanks for sharing your way to check if eBay has dropped any listings. I'll definitely do that soon!

Thank you, Scott. Great video. I have something new and very simple to manage. Pls keep the great work.

Last week I was just fed up with not being able to find stuff. To be honest all I was doing was writing down. What been I was putting stuff in and then kept that in a notebook. I had seen your other videos where you make mention of the SKU But holy brilliance Batman, your extended explanation, and the fact that you can find it by typing it under item name is amazing exclamation anyway, there were so many refunds I had to give because I just couldn’t find stuff that I finally went out to the shed with my hubby, and we went through every single Bin and rewrote everything and then in a few days from now, I will go back through every listing and add the SKU number. That’s gonna be time consuming huh? I want that Rollo. For some reason even my text, savvy, son-in-law, and daughter cannot figure out how to just be able to print now and have my labels print out. I literally have to print one label at a time and I cut them out and then I take my paper and turn it the other way around in my printer so I can at least get to labels out of one sheet and then keep the other half the sheet and run it through my paper shredder to use for packing if I need it. I do have everything else though on your list I made a wish list for Christmas from your reselling video even have a manikin head. And it’s funny because I only have like six hats at the moment. OK rambling over. Thank you again for showing me the system. You and Melody use. I would love to see a day in the life of you guys with your eBay stuff and I cannot wait to start seeing videos of you guys going back to garage and yard sales. Have a great week.

Great video-I love it! Very simple, and as you said, there's no reason for it to be complicated. I am excited for you, Melody, and myself-why? Almost 25K subs! Happy for you both and I hope so much to enter and win the rollo. I used to be a hobby seller, then stopped for a few years due to health problems. I have educated myself now to at least a degree where I'm ready to try full-time. If I can do it and make it work, my husband can quit the job that he hates. I've always printed labels in the past on paper and taped everything up. I can't buy the rollo, but want it very badly. It would really help and make my life a lot easier! I'll be hoping the best for all of us! Thank you for that upcoming opportunity Scott! 🤗

hey Scot, I've enjoyed watching you on Kat's channel several times and appreciate your laid back attitude! I agree to start your SKUs asap as I didn't until I lost an item and went on a marathon search through 200 items. You wouldn't think that was very hard, but I had to SKU items, make new tubs and sort by what could be stored in an un-A/C garage and what could not. Learned a big lesson! thx for your info!

Exciting news about the giveaway! For some of us newbies at selling online this would definitely benefit greatly. You have taught me a lot in the short time I have been subscribed and I will continue to go to your class.

Thank you for confirming I’m doing this as simple as possible.

Thanks for your video's. Keep up the good work. Just made an order with your link. I been doing eBay for many years Part time, On and off. My basement was getting pretty full lately so I have been hitting it hard. Yes, It has slowed a little but fine by me. Part Timer. Thanks again.

Thank you for giving us an insight in regards to inventory control. Being new I have listed a relatively small number of items however with your comments I will develop a "simple and easy to use" inventory control system. I imagine that you must have a large amount of items in your inventory so having an easy to use system is a great benefit for your team.

I appreciate inventory videos because I can apply this info to my reselling platform, Mercari 🎉

Thank you for these simple and effective tips!

Thanks for this simple explanation. I’m hoping to update mine this summer

Hey there, great video! Very helpful for resellers :) Alternatively, you could use an inventory management app to track & control your stock!!

Thank you!

Great info, especially the auditing the tubs. I put my eBay username and the box designation in the custom SKU field. When I print a label, I can tick the show custom sku on label button and it prints my username on the label.

Great video! Just what I needed, thanks!!

Great video!

Your videos tutorial are amazing and inspires me to keep going .. I am struggling with inventory management and dropping my seller status from top seller to above standard seller because of this .. I would like a video how to manage returning items .. top seller status .. buyer feedback .. how to manage store to keep high standard … lots info I know but I don’t want quite and your experience will provide a best practice as a eBay seller

So helpful, thanks

I think this is my 3rd time I had to re-sub to this channel. What the frack

Wonderful Video. Thanks for all of your help

Still complicated. Just slightly. See I do the same but instead of c1 and items going into c1… I have bought something that comes tomorrow. It’s a qr code and the random 5 characters below that. 1.5 billion combinations available.100 tags for just £6 … I plan to place a tag on a box and on an item inside the box. If the invoice is placed randomly I scan it and it will tell me on what group (box ) should go. And the app I use is stock control on iOS. It’s cheap and effective even if the product has an expiry date.

Please make a video that shows how you price your ebay items. Also how to create listings for clothing items, just want to know what you enter in the dimension and weight for clothings.

Good vid, just to comment, you stack those 3 tubs on top one another, must be annoying if you need the bottom one, I suggest to put the tubs into shelves.

As always, a great video and wonderful information! I can't thank you enough for all your great advice. I am eagerly waiting for your Rollo giveaway. So very generous of you to give back.

Hey Scott, I noticed the Red Suit example had a label. Is that a sticker you made with your Rollo? Do you bag all & label all inventory? Thanks

Thank you! This is great info.

Great ideas 💡 thanks a million!

Your videos are excellent. I'm a newbie, and setting up my organization. Where did you get your plastic storage bins please?

Thank you again Scott👍🏼👍🏼

Thanks for sharing you both have a blessed day in the name of Jesus Christ.

Great system you all have there. Any suggestions on breakable hard goods? I store my crystal stemware in wine cases but having some difficulty with the smalls. Thanks for all you're "how to" videos. Very helpful for this newbie 😊

HA! I was just searching for this VERY subject!

These are fantastic tips! I'm planning to put them into action. Personally, I feel like the eBay interface is a bit cumbersome, so I've opted to manage my products through a spreadsheet instead. Though effective for now, I can see how this approach might become laborious as my store expands. Any recommendations?

I learned a lot from this video thank you. I have a question, which is, how do you keep track of your inventory for bookkeeping? Do you use a particular software program? I looked through your other videos, but did not see anything on how you keep track of that. Thank you.

Nice organization, thank you for sharing. New friend from Nelly (THB's channel) shoutout. All the best!

Thankfully I don’t have much inventory living in an RV. I’m constantly moving my inventory around and it gets complicated to put in a different custom sku for multiple items when I change things around. I only work off my phone. Lol. That’s what I’m doing today! What other platforms do you sell on? Anyway, have a great day! 💕

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I am just starting and plan to use this system. Perfect timing! By doing this, is it necessary to also keep inventory spreadsheets? Or is this enough? TIA

I like the idea of adding the item number / sku number right into the description. Since I'm not doing eBay sales as a business yet, and I don't have a store, where can I put my inventory numbers? Any suggestions? Thanks for another helpful video.

You can't use that date if you sell similar, selling similar starts that date all over again. I have a whole garage full of a certain category, however, ebay is saying I only have 52 listed. Some of the sku's are there but, they are saying that only one item is in that box. They have deleted whole sections of my inventory over the past year. No, I don't sell similar and have erased my own inventory. Things just fall off, sometimes things I have sold last year or two months ago reappear. I have been selling for over 8 years and this is the worst mess that I have seen ebay go through. It is so bad that I didn't have to buy any new Christmas items to sell this year. I just pulled two old totes up and none of the items in those totes were still listed. Most of them sold either through ebay or Mercari, the rest that didn't sell will be donated.

Where do you get your clear poly bags you use in the tubs?

Where do you enter the Custom Label (SKU) data when you create the listing? In the variations, I see a "SKU" but not a "custom label" field.

Excellent video and I use this method as well. I have multi quantity of the same item and I spread it out over 2 bins because I could of purchased the items at different times. eBay does not pull the custom skus for me when I use different bins for the same item. An example is: I use A1 and X1 for the same item because purchase at different times. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!

Why wouldn’t you just edit the SKU from the the active listing page? Instead of going all the way into the revise? That takes way more time And or bulk edit?

Hello. I have a similar inventory system as yours. The problem I have come across lately is when ebay removes a item for reason like counterfeit and you no longer have access to your listing to look up your custom sku to remove it from your inventory. Was looking for something to help in this. I have found that if I do a google search that my item comes up as ended nothing comes up on ebay search. If maybe I put the Sku also in the main listing body description or title (will take valuable space in title) might help. Not sure if I want to create a separate excel form to keep track as I don't want to add more steps in my listing. Just curious on your thoughts on this and if you had ebay remove a listing and how you found it FAST to remove it physically from your inventory. Thanks, Ken.

Hello, great ideas. However, did you know USPS can print your labels with QR code. Saves money on labels and ink 😊

How do you print the labels for the poly bags?

Hi Scott, do you have any tips for getting more feedback/positive feedback from customers I sold a few things but haven't received much feedback. Would love to hear your thoughts on this, possibly in a future video!

I opened my business a couple months ago and quickly realized that I needed better inventory management from a past video of yours. I just have one shelf but over 150 items. One of the main things I am stuck on though is accounting. Accountants are expensive and some of the routes I have gone down don't work well because they don't track COGS properly or something else. What accounting software do you use... without offering tax advice?

Do you launder all used clothing before putting it in the plastic bags? Obv NWT are prob fine, but some items I’ve found even in decent condition need a little laundering.

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How do you get the custom label field when creating a listing? It’s not on my laptop or phone?

How do you determine where you are going to put new inventory? Do you just have to look through each tub until you find empty space?

Do you also keep a hard copy of any of this like in a notebook or a spreadsheet on your computer besides the eBay website

Question…when I go to listings and I want to find a specific one…how do I find it? I see no place to put a search word. I am using the app.

I totally did not understand the system at all. How does it start/set up. Maybe I missed it.

Perhaps im doing something wrong but I do not see sku spot or a custom label my screen does not look like yours any suggestions

That's a great system, my question is how long is it from the time you buy something to when you list it and complete the custom SKU? We have purchased things, especially at yard sales, and then they sit in the death pile awhile before listing and we struggle to remember how much we paid. So it there a good system to track prior to listing and putting into a SKU?

My Listing Page does not show a SUBTITLE Line or a Custom Label Line . Am I using a different template?

Can the customer see the sku number on a listing? Can you add an extra note after the sku number (like how much I paid for an item) or is there somewhere else to add a note that only I can see?

Do you have a easy bookkeeping system tracking sales, fees, etc?

How do I do the inventory on the app? I'm a new seller and there isn't an option to add a sku.

How do you keep track of profits from item lots you buy that some sell on eBay and others on facebook never understood that

I like that system. Where do you put the location in your Ad?

How long you need to pick an item?