For the last four years I have had a nice little novelty toy item listed as a "Buy it Now" item on ebay; Averaged about two sales a month at $11.95 each, not to be sneered at. An extra trip to McDonalds when all is said and done.
BUT, the Importer went out of Stock at the end of May, just when I needed to do a restock. And while restock was initially promised for the end of this Month (July), has been pushed back to the end of August (at best). And sales are "seasonal", concentrated in the summer months.
I finally made telephone contact with the product manager, basically he didn't care. No interest in diversifying the product (It would be nice to have SOMETHING else I could rely on to sell), no interest in holding the Chinese feet to the fire on product appearance or assortment. Or asking the Chinese (Injection Moulded Plastic- How about new Tools?) to develop new product. So I'm just kind of hanging in there, waiting for the restock to appear on their website. With no prospect of "growing" the product line.
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