Ebay Lister

TheKindCromang

Just saw this job listing on Craigslist.

Dude wants 200 - 400 records listed a week including cropped photos and MP3 clips.

Is that even humanly possible?

Ebay / Internet Lister needed - rare records listings

Date: 2011-02-01, 12:22PM
EBAY - Rare Records listing position
Ebay experience and knowledge of rare records is required.
Mac users preferred.
Programs used are Garage Sale, Photoshop (or any program to crop and do levels) & any music program that can make mp3 audio clips (currently using Pro Tools).
Looking for someone who can handle 200-400 items per week.
Work at home position. Having the skills as well as the facilities to do this at your own home is essential at this time.
Skills & Tasks required:
Typing - Average or above average only. Spellings must be on.
Taking photos - Have a digital camera, know how to use it.
Photoshop - Rendering / sizing / contrast images in photoshop.
Soundclips - Have a facilities and program to record sound clips of vinyl albums at reasonable quality into mp3 form.
Record Grading - Must have some experience grading vinyl & jackets.
Love of music - We specialize in R&B / Jazz / Rock & similar genres. You must love this type of music and know the micro genres associated to a certain degree.
Please send your bay seller name with resume. If you don't have any experience please don't reply. Record collectors and enthusiasts to the front of the line.

dj_cityboy

shiz! thats some serious prerequisites to post teh rekkids....200 - 400 per week seems highly unreasonable given the the quality of posts they are looking for, you'd be at it all day and night

RAJ

Jesus. You'd have to pay me at least $40/hour to do all the things they want.... not to mention are they buying the software and or providing the digi-cam?

Also, if you are a Mac user, you are extremely fuct when it comes to listing albums in bulk. Garage Sale and iSale suck severe ass. Hate to say it but Windows XP and Turbolister reigns supreme in the ebay game.

MR_ZIMMS

From my own experience I can tell you that you can list 50 unique (new, no relisting) items a day (working 9-5). Including photos, grading etc. And as Raj says, you're f@ck@d with a Mac. By the way, Turbo Lister sucks when you're trying to synchronize 3000+ items. They promise everything but all EBay can do is giving sellers a hard time which gets worse every 3 months with all their new policies & new rates...

Jonny_Paycheck

RAJ said:

Garage Sale and iSale suck severe ass

I use it (Garage Sale), and I would have to concur. Sigh

Dude I do this shit for a living and I can barely list like 20-30 items in one day if you're talking about multiple sound clips per item (recorded, tagged, uploaded, etc) and relatively inspired grading/descriptions.

MR_ZIMMS

Yeah, forgot about the soundclips, let's make that 20-30 then indeed

Breez

Jonny_Paycheck said:

Dude I do this shit for a living and I can barely list like 20-30 items in one day if you're talking about multiple sound clips per item (recorded, tagged, uploaded, etc) and relatively inspired grading/descriptions.

Shit gets out of hand real quick.

fountain16

i haven't listed in a couple years as i have a 9-5 job with insurance that pays pretty well, so i use my free time not fucking with ebay.when i did do it i did an assembly line setup.grade all records to be listed at once and record condition on post-its on the back. then take all pictures, then list them.i would keep them in order of the photos so i wouldn't have to look around for each photo.i ididn't do mp3s,but could easily do 100 a day in less than 8 hours.

RAJ

My problem these days with eBay is to be competitive you need sound clips and 8 different pictures of the record including label scans, front - back, etc. Plus you need a creative write up to peak people's interest. All the while, records do not go for what they used to and eBay and PayPal fees keep rising. This all equals more work and less pay.

sabadabada

RAJ said:

All the while, records do not go for what they used to and eBay and PayPal fees keep rising. This all equals more work and less pay.

My plan is to sell the collection around 2015 in between the Rio World Cup and Olympics. By then the economy in the west should be in full swing and Brazil feever will be at a pitch. I'll sell the big pieces first through the website and then the leftover on ebay. Done and done.

hcrink

The actual listing of that many records isn't nearly as labor intensive as packing, shipping & dealing with the general aftermath of the sale. And I can tell you from experience, for this to even be worthwhile a pretty serious hourly wage would have to be involved. For a percentage type cut to do it you'd have to be talking some seriously sick shit.

herbacios tweed

would love to email him just to get the hourly rate and a laugh.

50% of take minimum for all that work. and they'd have to be real records.

Burns

Can't we admit its a boring job, selling records online, getting higher digital digits in your paypal account only to be sent to another website for phone bill, more records, account balancing, bills, never really seeing the money. All this happening while the Russians are still making easy and effective pornography and having fun at it.

edit not Russians but also Ukrainians.

Mr_Lee_PHD

If you were to list 300 records in a 35 hour week, you're looking at listing one record every 7 minutes.

tokyobeats

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tokyobeats

Burns said:

Can't we admit its a boring job, selling records online, getting higher digital digits in your paypal account only to be sent to another website for phone bill, more records, account balancing, bills, never really seeing the money. All this happening while the Russians are still making easy and effective pornography and having fun at it.

edit not Russians but also Ukrainians.

right on! well said ;)
i like your way of thinking