I guess I am going to jump on eBays carrot.  They have extended their offer of 50k free listings to store sellers through July.  This gives me the perfect window to follow the strategy I described Tuesday.  That means growing my smaller stores to move them towards 5k items which would then make sense to upgrade them to anchor stores. It's cheaper to have 4 stores with 40k items ironically than to have 1 store with 40k items.

To that end I have started launching auctions every night for my Patchsniper Store with 50 up so far and adding another 25 every night.  I think that having new auctions launch every night of the week can help juice the store sales.  We shall see!

I am also using the same 25 auctions per night strategy on OApatch with 137 live auctions now.  What I've discovered over the years is the more items you have in the store the more you sell.  It's very random what sells but the rule is if you don't list it you can't sell it.

• UK Scouts Oxfordshire District Badges
• 10 various OA lodge flaps from Croatan Lodge #117
• Boy Scouts Of America Wolf Cub Hat And Neckerchief
• BS Red and White NESTOR California Patch. Very Tough
• Eagle Boy Scout Neckerchief BSA Boy Scouts of America
• Boy Scout Blue Ridge Council Trail Blazing Hike Felt Patch
• Calumet Council Boy Scout 2011 Friends of Scouting CSP Set

The other project I mentioned in the newsletter was working on categories.  I've got three of the accounts all cleaned up.  My main Patchblanket store is going to be a monster but I've started on it too.  Meanwhile I've decided to run a clearance sale on items that I've had listed for over 1000 days.

• Central Florida SA-121; 2010 - 100th
• OA Lodge #265 O-Shot-Caw F-4 Flap
• Georgia Carolina - Indian Waters Wood Badge 2006
• OA Lodge #509 Agawam Merged 1972 F-1b Wht Bdr; TLR
• Lodge # 164 Tisquantum S-23 Gmy Bdr; Blu Fdl; Nc 1996;
• Nashua Valley Council SA49 FOS 30 Made Shoulder Strip CSP
• OA Lodge 119 Tomo Chi-Chi F1 First Flap Coastal Empire Cncl.