{"id":12357,"date":"2010-08-17T17:32:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T21:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/?p=12357"},"modified":"2010-08-16T21:45:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T01:45:37","slug":"tip-selling-in-lots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/tip-selling-in-lots\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip: Selling In Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots are tricky business. They can either be a great way to unburden merch fast or a lazy man&#8217;s cheap out. If you are looking to unload a stack of tees, have a deadline to sell and can&#8217;t be bothered listing a ton of items, lots could be your best bet. But there&#8217;s a catch. Just because you list 14 tshirts, doesn&#8217;t mean you are going to get at least $140 in return. Oh hell no. Most kids are cheap. Fuck, I&#8217;m a cheap bastard, I know how this works. No kid is really interested in all 14 items (hardly ever) and doesn&#8217;t really want that chintzy Up Front tshirt in the pile (especially when <a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?icep_ff3=2&amp;pub=5574737960&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5336547836&amp;customid=&amp;icep_item=160469210434&amp;ipn=psmain&amp;icep_vectorid=229466&amp;kwid=902099&amp;mtid=824&amp;kw=lg\">quality originals<\/a> are available). So most times, selling in lots barely ever benefits the seller. But buyers love them. It&#8217;s a great way to get a stack of tees for $50.<\/p>\n<p>There is a way to make lots work out BETTER for you the seller, though. Take clear pictures. Just because you are lazy doesn&#8217;t mean you can get away with one picture of 45 shirts. That won&#8217;t cut it. It definitely won&#8217;t cut it at your bottom line either. So clear pictures are key. Also key? Descriptions of each shirt. You can&#8217;t expect a buyer to pick out there favorite shirt in a pile of 50 if you don&#8217;t call it out by name. Also, ebay doesn&#8217;t keyword search your image. No one will stumble on your Earth Crisis lot if you don&#8217;t specifically mention the keywords &#8220;Earth Crisis.&#8221; It&#8217;s as simple as that.<\/p>\n<p>So lets rate the lots from <a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?ff3=4&amp;pub=5574737960&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5336547836&amp;customid=&amp;mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%2F_W0QQsassZbittersethQQhtZ-1\" target=\"_child\">bitterseth<\/a>. How&#8217;d he do? I say he gets a solid 80 out of 100. His descriptions mention all the bands and describe the tees. His pictures aren&#8217;t terrible, but they aren&#8217;t stellar either. It&#8217;s really hard to gauge the condition of these tees from the pics. BUT, I&#8217;ll give him extra credit for this line, &#8220;<em>Bid hard and pretend half of these bands didn&#8217;t deteriorate into total garbage.<\/em>&#8221; You determine what bands he is talking about &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?icep_ff3=2&amp;pub=5574737960&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5336547836&amp;customid=&amp;icep_item=270621052304&amp;ipn=psmain&amp;icep_vectorid=229466&amp;kwid=902099&amp;mtid=824&amp;kw=lg\" target=\"_child\"><img title=\"click to view on ebay\" src=\"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/17.alphalot.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?icep_ff3=2&amp;pub=5574737960&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5336547836&amp;customid=&amp;icep_item=270621050143&amp;ipn=psmain&amp;icep_vectorid=229466&amp;kwid=902099&amp;mtid=824&amp;kw=lg\" target=\"_child\"><img title=\"click to view on ebay\" src=\"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/17.alphalot2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?icep_ff3=2&amp;pub=5574737960&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5336547836&amp;customid=&amp;icep_item=270621054695&amp;ipn=psmain&amp;icep_vectorid=229466&amp;kwid=902099&amp;mtid=824&amp;kw=lg\" target=\"_child\"><img title=\"click to view on ebay\" src=\"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/17.alphalot3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><img style=\"text-decoration: none; border: 0; padding: 0; margin: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/roverimp\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?pub=5574737960&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5336547836&amp;mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots are tricky business. They can either be a great way to unburden merch fast or a lazy man&#8217;s cheap out. If you are looking to unload a stack of tees, have a deadline to sell and can&#8217;t be bothered listing a ton of items, lots could be your best bet. But there&#8217;s a catch. 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