I'm Going To List 10,000+ MORE DVD's On eBay (Chapter #1) 

Yeah I switched to as many smaller/flatter/lighter things as possible a few years back when Amazon changed the rules all of a sudden and implemented storage limits on everyone. So that forced into going more in on eBay and lettermail was the way to go! Do you offer free shipping for those items?

@realwildgoods Sorry for the late reply, no I charge 3.95 shipping in both canada and the us on paper items, trading cards, etc. Anything that's not technically allowed to be shipped lettermail to the states usually requires tracked packet, but I'll slip stuff like patches and other very thin items in there anyways. I tried the free shipping route, and honestly found that my sales dropped, the worst part was I went into it thinking that I was going to offer nothing but free shipping going forwards and increased all of my prices to entail that. After awhile i decided that was a poor decision on my part and had to spend the time to readjust all of my listings again. In my experience most buyers know theirs going to be some shipping entailed in the buying of items and at 3.95 canadian it's really not bad, the states pay us even less. I sell way more to the states then canada.

@@AlexButler-ry3hj Yeah for the States, I've had it a couple of times we're we're shipping a single item of paper via lettermail, but we include a piece of card to keep it flat and a piece of saran wrap around to keep it dry and they've sent it back as not allowed. I think randomly someone just decides to try and do their job a little too well and send a message that they're in charge. Regarding free shipping in Canada, as an eBay buyer I definitely don't filter listings out based on whether people offer free shipping or not, so I think most people are used to just searching by total price with the item and shipping added together. I'm on the fence about whether free shipping is a good idea or not, but at the moment, we do keep a lot of items at free shipping within Canada. A couple of people have left feedback to say they appreciated it.

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Awesome! Welcome aboard! This is chapter 1 of a series I’m doing to document getting these listed so I’m glad to hear you’ll be following along. Thanks for the comment!

Oh for sure I have my price/photo/list time right around 1 minute. I'm gonna document that in an upcoming video but watch this space. I'm not sure if it's my iPhone 10 that's the problem, but honestly the reaction time of the eBay app to get from one step to another is one of the main thing that slows me down. I've tried listing completely on the computer, completely on the phone, using spreadsheets and have ended up at a hybrid of phone and pc. We currently have 3000+ movies and 5000+ CD's listed on our store. For a lightbox I use a couple of lights and a white piece of card.

@@realwildgoods I wouldn't list media using any other method than a document camera attached to a desktop computer. I couldn't imagine the nightmare of trying to list fast from a phone.

@@onefootflipper I haven't found a faster way to create drafts with photos attached, than using your voice to search on the app (for me it's faster than typing on a computer and I'm a very fast typer, then clicking one of the pre-suggested templates helps fill in a bunch of item specifics), adding the photos right there and then while you have the draft open and then pressing close to auto save it to research the price later. On a computer, I often can't press "sell similar" on someone else's listing, because if it's located in USA, then it will start creating a draft on eBay.com rather than eBay.ca since I'm in Canada. I find it slower to have photos sent to the computer and then make a listing with the keyboard (although I've never tried plugging a camera into a PC, maybe that feeds them straight into a draft like the smartphone app does?)

@@realwildgoods With the mounted document camera you literally just stick the item under it, click, flip it over click again. Way faster than taking cell phone pictures and in some web browsers you can actually take the photos from the listing itself, although I don't do that. I also use 3 Ultrawide screens so I can see everything I can tile about 6 windows across so I can see everything I would want to reference at the same time.

@onefootflipper nice yeah I can see how that setup would work well for similar sized items like these DVD’s where you’re not trying to get all different angles of larger items. I’ve just never really had a camera before to try that and I’m planning on setting these up so I can scan all the barcodes in the app. I do something similar to you for sets of items like pin badges where I might have a set of 100 or so then I’ll take 100 photos with a mounted camera. Then I create 100 generic listings at once to add all those photos to, add some keywords to each title and post them all at once.

America has the issue of mega media sellers who have 5 digit presort media mail rates that are much cheaper and thus this drives the prices of most DVDs in the US to under what you can ship the thing out for. I don't think Canada has that issue.

For sure some of them are going to be worth a good amount, but I find that a lot of the time the only way to find out is to research where the market is at. By the time you've looked it up, you might as well just continue the listing and go ahead and make a listing. Some movies are obviously massively over produced (an example I often use is the first X-Men movie I feel like that was at peak DVD owning time). We offer free shipping for them within Canada since they can be sent via lettermail which is sort of in the $2-$4 range, but for sending to the States then we're currently charging $9.99 (CAD, not for larger boxsets though) which definitely puts off a bunch of US buyers (rightly so) that are used USPS shipping prices. I know some movies are worth very low amounts, but we like giving customers a good experience and put our faith in getting repeat business from satisfied customers that we've taken care of even with really cheap items. If you become known as a reliable seller then that can only be a good thing right?!

@@onefootflipper yeah I've seen accounts with hundreds of thousands of media items, the way that we try to stand out is by having actual photos of our items over the generic ones that a lot of them do. I think Canadian buyers appreciate being able to see if there's a French language option on movies, or collectors that want a really specific release of a certain movie. We have a few $50 DVD's listed currently, so if those aren't available elsewhere then who knows which country they may end up being sold to!. Thanks for your comment!

@@realwildgoods You are correct. You don't have to join the race to the bottom if you're offering stuff that other sellers aren't. I'll usually include specific info just for collectors like studio/release date/insert etc. and I always mention that it will ship in a 'sturdy/safe mailer' which collectors love

@jamessanechiaro7918 you’re totally right. Specifically for CD’s and DVD’s we replace any cracked or damaged cases before they go out so it gives the customer a better experience over sellers that don’t bother doing that. We also clean discs in our JFJ machine before they leave so they look as nice as possible. We also under grade items to exceed customer expectations. It’s all the little things that help add up to more positive experiences and hopefully repeat business or multi quantity purchases. Just about your comment with shipping there, we do the same thing for magazines and comics, to support them in not just bags and boards, but also cutting a sturdy piece of cardboard or two to go with it and a waterproof polybag to help aim for the best outcome possible. Shipping protection does cost money of course so you can’t always also be the lowest priced option otherwise the numbers don’t work out well.