Diversification challenge time! This one goes out to all you overachievers who took our day 1 challenge and already knocked it out of the park. Today’s challenge is to sell something you've never sold before, something you have at home or get for free, or something either thrifted or retail arb (whichever you do less of). This challenge is more for fun and variety than anything else!

Imagine you had a free week of help from a workshop full of elves. What would you have them do to help your store? Could there be anything better?! We share our takes on this intriguing question.

We're halfway through the 12 Days of Seller Club, and today we are asking: what do we want from Santa? We brainstorm, share, and challenge each other to come up with a wish list to help us each formulate goals and dream big for next year!

FIVE GOLDEN BOLOS! For real, there is a BOLO for everyone in this episode. From Barbie to sports, from specific to categorical, we're committed to giving you five you can take right to the bank!

On the 4th day of Seller Club, my true love have to me...Four shipping tips! We are keeping is super practical here on day 4. Check out all 4 of our most near and dear shipping tips! 

Three things to be grateful for no matter what your business is like during the holidays this year. Surpassing expectations? Falling short of expectations? No matter what, there are so many things to be grateful for, and of course, we each have our own list to bring to the table! 

Today's micro-episode has us each chipping in two tips related to researching comps! Do we care about how many have sold lately? The prices they sold for? The recent sales? The sales of yore? Jump in with us for a few minutes and find out!

Welcome to Day 1 of our holiday special, the 12 Days of Seller Club! Starting off the 12 days with a bang, today we are issuing a challenge to every listener.  Q4 is a time of action, so it’s about learning by doing: use a tool you haven’t tried, whether in the listing flow, Terapeak for research, running a sale, trying promoted ads, etc. Sometime during these 12 days, commit to trying one thing and go for it! 

In this episode, Anna, Glen, and Ken discuss eBay’s Second Annual Small Business report put out by eBay Main Street. It’s based on surveying over 4k sellers across the US, UK, Canada, Germany, Japan, and Australia, and there are some surprising and juicy insights to be gleaned! We also share some tidbits and answer some questions from our fellow Seller Club community members!

Check out the report we discussed here:

https://www.ebayinc.com/small-business-report/

This week, we spend a whole episode tackling an interesting question posed by Glen: at what point does reselling become an addiction? Using a model from some published research by Griffiths (2005) and using his conceptualization of the complex issue of behavioral addiction regarding social networking and other behaviors, together we take a look at reselling behaviors. We all talk about our own experiences using six criteria from Griffiths, applying them to our reselling behavior: how and when we’ve gone sourcing to cope, how reselling activities affect us, how we think about them, our motivations, the importance of self awareness and honesty, and much more. This episode is loaded! 

It should be noted that this conversation is NOT intended to assist in making any kind of diagnosis. This is an intellectual discussion and exercise to explore Glen’s intriguing question. We are not saying anyone has an addiction, and frankly diagnosing addiction of any kind is an extremely complex and personal process. This is not that, nor is it any kind of medical or professional psychological advice.

Merely spending a lot of time on something doesn't necessarily mean it's an addiction. A key factor is subjective harm – if reselling is causing significant problems in someone's life, it's worth addressing even if it falls short of a full-blown addiction. Our discussion is about reflecting on which aspects of reselling are most prone to cause us problems, the distinctions between healthy enthusiasm and problematic behavior, and what red flags indicate that reselling might be becoming harmful, as well as what’s totally normal and healthy within reason!

Griffiths’ 2005 Article:

Griffiths, M. (2005). A 'components' model of addiction within a biopsychosocial framework. Journal of Substance Use, 10(4), 191–197. https://doi.org/10.1080/14659890500114359