Need Some Advice For Selling Some Memorabilia On eBay.

[Greenguy]

I have 10 different Opie & Anthony t-shirts that I'm gonna sell on eBay. For those that don't know who O & A are, they're 2 "shock jocks" that were on radio in Boston, NYC & XM for about 20 years until Anthony got fired. He now has his own online show & Opie stayed on XM with his own show.

The shirt I have are all about 8-10 years old. They've all be out of print for at least 5 or 6 years, so they were rare even before their breakup. I searched eBay & found only 1 on there for sale. He put it up 3 days ago for a 30 day Buy Now price of $49.99, so I'm watching that.

I'm thinking about putting them up for a 7 day auction & starting out at $30 or so. I also think I have a good plan on marketing them, which will be me putting pics/info up on my domain & then spamming the forums/groups/communities that I can find.

But what I'm not sure about is this:
Should I put all 10 on eBay at the same time? Or should I put 1 up each week for the next few months?

Any opinions/comments/suggestions will be greatly appreciated

[Toby]

One at a time, don't want to compete with yourself.

[HowlingWulf]

One at a time to see what the response is. Also - limit supply to increase demand.

[Useless]

Wash the jizz off of them before you take pics.

[Greenguy]

One at a time was what I was thinking, too, but what about my marketing plan? My thinking is that it'd be easier to throw them all up on my domain, linking to how to buy each on eBay, in hopes of getting some SE traffic, because (to me anyway) it makes more sense to do that as opposed to just spamming links to my eBay profile. This way, I can set up the page on my domain with keywords, post links to that page all over & let Google do it's magic! (Bing & Yahoo can do their magic too lol)

So if I do one/week, I'd end up competing with myself in the SE's.....

[Toby]

You're over thinking it. The only search that matters is the one on eBay.

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by Toby

You're over thinking it. The only search that matters is the one on eBay.

Even if I can't find any of the shirts I have for sale anyplace when I search? (not even the one on eBay)

[Toby]

If you didn't find them, that means there weren't any listed for sale in the last 90 days other than the current one for sale. Other than the bumper stickers that are rather abundant there were few other O & A items of any kind listed.

People looking for O & A memorabilia aren't going to go to Google first, they're going to go to eBay.

[Greenguy]

It dawned on me what I can do: create a page with the 1st shirt I'm going to sell & spam that up. Then after it sells, put the next shirt on the same page (removing any reference to the prior shirt), and so on & so on. Keywords would basically be the same, so a month or so down the road, when I'm on 7 or 8, I should be in the Google

[Greenguy]

OH - speaking of the bumper stickers, the guy that has the t-shirt on eBay now sold an autographed one last month for $50. I think I have 3

[Greenguy]

I might as well this in here, too

Opie & Anthony T-Shirt For Sale

[JustRobert]

Hmmm, I have a first season t-shirt (93-94) from the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim signed by #25 Terry Yake and #32 Stu Grimson hanging in my closet since then (it was a gift). Wonder if that's worth a million bucks so I can retire, lol.

[ecchi]

Not sure if I misunderstood you, but I thought you said that you had put this on as available internationally. In an attempt to find something to do other than get on with the work I should be doing, I just looked at your latest auction (the one about to end as I post this). When I got to the page, I got told by eBay that I could not bid on it because the seller has specified only ship to USA.

[Greenguy]

I didn't put the t-shirt up for international because I can't see where anyone outside of the US & Canada would want it. You're thinking of my coins, which I have yet to soak on HP sauce.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

I didn't put the t-shirt up for international because I can't see where anyone outside of the US & Canada would want it.

There are lots of ex-pat Americans living abroad, there are also lots of non Americans who collect "Americana". And if there is someone outside the US looking for Opie & Anthony memorabilia, it will be harder to find outside the broadcast area, so they are liable to be prepared to pay more, sometimes a lot more.

A good example is American breakfast cereal. How much do you pay for a small box? In the UK it sells for between (the equivalent of) $7 and $10 per pack, simply because it is not commonly available here, so ex-pat Americans and British fans of America will pay through the nose for it! (You may remember a while back I posted that I had bought some American "spray on cheese" on eBay because I had heard it mentioned on TV. I forget how much, but that cost me an insanely high price for the same reason, and that was just for a can of Kraft cheese!)

When selling on eBay, whatever you are selling it is better to "post internationally" (assuming eBay don't charge a lot for the service) because, although in most sales it will make no difference, it will in a few, and over several sales you will make a lot more.