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Hello from Dublin. After a week of work, we are now free to roam Ireland for the next 15 days. We went to a flea market today and found some nice items to bring home to sell. Just the process of walking to a flea market is a great free way for us to explore the city and get out of the tourist areas.
We’re working on identifying any car boot sales or auctions we could visit while we’re here. We have two big bags we can check-in for free when we fly home.
It is interesting to realize just how much of a second-hand buying/selling community we have in the US. Seems like any day of the week in the US you can go to auctions, estate sales, yard sales, flea markets, or thrift stores. We’ve found no other country like it yet (or maybe we need ti find out where to look).
Here are the links we discussed:
- Amazon is changing their long term storage fee policy. Now even individual items will be charged a fee every six months.
- ProPublica did a investigation into how Amazon search results are now not showing buyers the lowest price.
- It’s that time of year again to use your eBay coupons to order free packing material. We use David’s free service to get reminded: http://wheresthecoupon.com/
- Susan sent us this article about the downfall of “fast fashion”. As much as we like to think Scavengers are helping keep clothes out of the landfill, it looks like we don;t even come close.
- Sheldon shared this video that explains why audiophiles pay big money for old cassette tapes.
Hope you had a good week.
Our Store Week Sept 25-Oct 1, 2016
- Store #1
- Total Items in Store: 4,110
- Items Sold: 16
- Cost of Items Sold: $25
- Total Sales: $651.88
- Highest Price Sold: $275 (vintage fur coat)
- Average Price Sold: $40.74
- Returns: 0
- Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
- Number of items listed this week: 0
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- Amazon FBA Store
- Number of items sold: ?
- Amazon total sales: $?
- Amazon FBA Fees, COGS, Returns, Shipping: $?
- Net profit after COGS: $70
Bonanza:
- Sold 1 items for $50
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- Store #2
- Total Items in Store: 1053
- Items Sold: 9
- Cost of Items Sold: $15
- Total Sales: $646.93
- Highest Price Sold: $300 (Salt and Pepper shaker)
- Average Price Sold: $71.88
- Returns: 0
- Number of items listed this week: 0
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