Grooming an eBay Store - Best Practice – Yaballe

We are sharing the wealth! This is a best practice guide to grow your own eBay stores from scratch and reach a scalable operation with multiple stores of this type case:

$8-10K sales / month
500-1,000 active listings
14-20% profit yield
6-8 months from start to maturity
Automation via Yaballe Fully-automatic Non-API
Reproducible to virtually unlimited number of stores

Process

Grooming such a store requires patience and managing risk, consider adopting the following process:

Here are the steps that to groom and eBay store from scratch till a mature stage, over 6-8 months:

Month	Listing (items per-day)	Sales Projection ($ per-month)	Do’s & don’t
[A] Open a new eBay buyer account (use a unique IP with VPS or Proxy)
1-2	0	0	Buyer Account warm-up: Buy 3 cheap products (up to $5 each) - one every 10-12 days Cookies (Once every few days, browse the site to build credibility)
[B] Switch to eBay seller account & connect to Yaballe Automatic Non-API
3	2-3	1,000-1,500	Seller Account scale: List items & grow sales gradually month-by-month as recommended Keep eBay promotion / promoted feature enabled at all times Delete listings that didn’t sell for 60 days – delete daily no more than 5% of total items Delete listings that are out-of-stock for 30 days – delete daily no more than 5% of total items Aim at 14-20% profit Avoid cases, excessive returns & negative feedback - #1 reason for mc011 Keep maximum 1,000 active listings at all times - to keep lower risk Keep maximum $10,000 sales at all times - to keep lower risk
4	4-5	2,000-2,500
5	6-8	3,000-3,500
6	10-12	4,000-4,500
7	14-16	7,000-8,000
8	20-25	9,000-10,000

Importnat to know:

1. Opening (multiple) new eBay accounts - best practice

2. Switching an eBay account from Buyer to Seller - best practice

3. Connecting eBay to Yaballe Non-API Monitor - best practice

Process

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