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441 posts tagged selling
Describing the condition of books and films
In the book trade, "good" means worn. Using it to mean good is the most common honest mistake there is.
How to sell trading cards on Metzee
Centring, edges, surface and corners. Live is where a raw card can actually be judged.
Packing and posting books and films
Books are damaged at the spine and the corners, and ruined by damp. All three are packing problems.
How sneaker condition is described
Deadstock, VNDS, and the honest middle. What each term commits you to.
Pricing books and films for a live auction
Start low on the common ones, protect the scarce one with a reserve, and never price the title when you mean the copy.
Packing and posting sneakers
The shoe box is not the shipping box. That one mistake accounts for most sneaker damage in transit.
Pricing sneakers for a live auction
Start low, let the size run find the buyer, and use a reserve rather than a high opening price.
Condition words across every category
Deadstock, mint, NM, VG, uncirculated, restored, married. What each means, and in which trade.
How to sell books and films on Metzee
Which copy you have matters more than which book it is. The camera is how you prove it.
Every Metzee term, explained
Show, host, store, balance, payout, credits, boost, strike, collect-by. The words this site uses and what each means.
How to sell sneakers on Metzee
Size, condition and completeness decide the price. The camera is how you prove all three.
Is live selling just a fad?
A fair question. Here is where it has lasted, where it has not, and what it is actually good at.
Auction or fixed price — which earns more
The trade-off is specific, and the answer changes per item rather than per seller.
Metzee vs selling on Instagram
Instagram has the audience and none of the structure. Here is what each actually does, including what Instagram does better.
Selling live is a performance, and it is learnable
For anybody who thinks they are not a performer. The skill is not charisma, and it is not the one you are afraid of.
The discount bidders apply for uncertainty
An undescribed flaw is not hidden. It is priced in, at the worst case, by everybody in the room.
How an auction finds a price
A room of people revealing what they will actually pay produces a truer number than any seller guessing. Except when it does not.
Your buyers may not read your language
A practical argument for describing things in a way that survives being read by somebody whose first language is different.
Selling from outside a metro
Two real disadvantages, and one advantage that beats both.
Monsoon, humidity and what it does to stock
The damage is slow, invisible for weeks, and permanent by the time you notice.
Selling and shipping around festivals
Demand goes up, courier capacity goes down, and the gap between them is where promises break.
Shipping across India, realistically
Metro to metro is easy. Everything else varies more than any courier's website admits.
What is a boost?
Paying to be seen first, labelled Promoted, for a set time — with the numbers shown and the unspent budget returned.
Who can sell on Metzee?
Anyone with a verified seller account, selling almost anything. Makers, resellers, collectors, shops — the check is on the person, not on how they got the thing.
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