Price is the only part of a listing you can change in ten seconds. It is also the one most often left untouched for months. Here is a simple method to set, adjust and negotiate your prices without giving your wardrobe away.
1. Start from what actually sells
Before listing, look up the same item (brand, type, size, condition) and check the prices of listings that go, not just the ones that have been sitting there for months. A price in line with the market saves you from cutting it later. Keep a small margin on top: many buyers will make an offer.
2. Give the listing time before touching the price
A listing needs a little time to find its audience. Look at views and favourites: lots of views but no favourites usually means the photo or the price. Favourites but no sale is almost always the price. Very few views is not a price question yet.
3. Lower it in small steps
Rather than one big cut, go for modest adjustments of around 10%, a week or two apart. You find the price at which the item sells without going lower than you need to, and you don’t look like you are selling everything off.
4. Use offers instead of putting up with them
An offer is a buyer who has already decided they want the item. Reply quickly, and if the amount is too low, make a counter-offer rather than a flat refusal: the gap often closes in a single exchange.
5. Offer bundle discounts
In your settings you can turn on an automatic discount when a buyer takes several of your items. It is the cleanest way to shift the small pieces that would not sell on their own, and the buyer only pays postage once.
💡 Cutting the price of a listing nobody sees does not achieve much. The order that works: visibility first, price second. If a listing has almost no views, its price is not the problem yet.
6. Relist before you slash
Before dropping another notch, put the item back at the top of the results: a listing that gets in front of new buyers often sells at its current price. Relisto does it for you across all your unsold items, one at a time, at a human pace.