The holidays are fast approaching and many sellers on eBay are already beginning to see in increase in their sales as people begin to do their Christmas shopping. Depending on the kind of merchandise you sell on eBay, the Holiday season may be reason for a huge increase in your eBay sales or you may little or no change at all from the rest of the year.

The Holidays don’t produce a significant increase in my sales because the majority of the items I sell are purchased by collectors and not items that most people would normally buy someone for Christmas. Each Holiday season does, however, usually provide one or two interesting stories when mom, dad, or a spouse decide to buy something for the the collector they love.

I once had a husband who got into a bidding war with his wife because he was determined to surprise her on Christmas morning with a piece of Teco pottery he knew she really wanted. The selling price ended up more than two thousand dollars more than I had expected to get for it.

Three years ago I listed an early Lehmann tin wind-up toy in late October. The first bid placed on it was from a collector who had been buying from me for several years. The following day I received a phone call from his wife asking if I would cancel his bid and sell the toy to her off eBay so she could give it to him for Christmas. We settled on a price, I canceled her husbands bid and ended the auction.

That evening I received a phone call from him wanting to know what was going on. When I told him I’d chosen to accept an offer someone had made for the toy, I had a very vocally upset collector on my hands and our friendship cooled over the next two months.

Christmas morning I the phone rang and when I answered it both of them were on the line and we all had a good laugh over his Christmas present.

How do the Holidays affect your sales?

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