What do you do when Buy It Now items don’t get Bought at all

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Obviously the options are:
Promote the listing
Send offers
Accept buyers offers
… Reduce the price

Anyone ended up paying promoted listing fees on a low ball buyers offer that you accepted in desperation, which then turned out not to include the new eBay selling fee so that was knocked off too. Oh and maybe you forgot you had offered Free Postage as an extra enticement!

I’ve got loads of non-Vinted type stuff to sell due to downsizing. It doesn’t help that I can see what I paid for some of it in my Purchase History - I know I have to be realistic about what I can get nowadays -research Sold Prices etc - but it’s very slow going.

How do other sellers handle non selling items? What works best in your opinion? Do you keep ending and revising before relisting? Or do you just revise them without relisting so as to keep the watchers. Are those seller stats useful to anyone?

Please share your tips!

It depends on item check sold listings for price and note dates if only 5 have sold since July but at decent prices it is low demand but will sell just needs time, this is often true for expensive items like a certain pattern of Waterford crystal decanter but wouldn't be true for a beswick Peter rabbit figurine. always look at lowest price plus postage if you need to sell make sure it's cheapest on eBay often a 10%price reduction gets stuff sold

Are you set up as a business, because there are no seller fees on eBay for private listings?
I leave stuff on auction, with offers enabled and it relists automatically if not sold. I reduce the price if necessary or accept that nobody wants it and take it to the charity shop.
Things are only worth what someone will pay for them, and you shouldn’t expect to get your money back. If you’ve had use out of it then that’s what you’ve paid for.

Thanks for the replies both of you. My bad, @MagpiePiI didn’t mean seller fee, I meant the hahaha buyer protection fee - when a buyer made an offer I got caught out thinking that’s the amount I would get but I was wrong. That sounds very systematic of you @Cottagecheeseisnotcheese - I have never looked at the Sold Item info like that in terms of dates and expectations of how long it would take to sell. I suppose my mistake is to think people are like me - they get the alert! The long awaited sought after beloved is on eBay!! Buy it NOWWWW!!

So few items are sold on Auction format @MagpiePi I didn’t consider it as an option. I shall have to reconsider as at least the stuff will sell even at the rockest of rock bottom prices.

Having said that I should add my real buying days were when items were nearly all on Auction format - and I’ve been a sniper for 20 years so didn’t pay more than a few quid above the other high bidders. So it’s not like I massively overpaid, just that people nowadays have much less spare cash - and of course tastes change. But you’re right @MagpiePi I need to take into account I’ve benefitted by owning them.

I usually give stale BIN listings a refresh end and relist with better photos or a tighter title, sometimes even move it to a different category. Dropping the price by a couple of quid can also nudge watchers into buying. If something just won’t move, I’ll switch it to a 7-day auction and let the market decide.
As for fees, I try to build postage into the item price and only promote if it’s something I know has demand. Otherwise it feels like throwing money away. Personally, I find ending/relisting works better than constantly revising the same listing.
But i don't really use Etsy again because of some issues and i cant scale very well like i want so i move to shopify few months ago and its been amazing like i make my monthly income on Etsy daily on shopify

Thanks for the advice @VictoriaHelen, I was wondering whether ending and relisting might bring the items back to the top of people’s searches more cheaply and effectively than revising them while leaving them Promoted and you have confirmed that.
I’m glad Shopify has worked well for you but I don’t really have a brand or a business.

@VictoriaHelen I am interested in your shopify what are you selling

If youre downsizing I would also be inclined to consider other avenues of sale

Well am selling home decor products in my store though i started few months ago but its been amazing not going to lie

Totally get that ending and relisting is often a quick, cheap way to bump things back up in search without throwing more money at promotion. And you don’t actually need a “brand” to start on Shopify. Some people just use it as a clean, simple storefront for the stuff they’d normally list on eBay/Vinted. It lets you control pricing, postage options and how everything’s presented, and you only grow it into a brand later if you want.