Scavenger Sick In Bed

Jay, yes, I did pick up on your voice last time, bummer for Ryanne right now! I hope your house returns to full health at soonest possible! Thankful for all that you do always.

8/15 – 8/25/18

eBay store totommyto

Total store items: 603
Number of items sold: 8
eBay sales (not counting s/h): $478.30
Cost of items sold: $19
Consignment payouts: $77.20
Highest price sold: $179.80 – lot of 4 wood long bows
Average price sold: $59.78
Returns: 0
Money spent on new inventory: 0
Number of items listed this week: 5

Etsy store Oldfleatoymarket

Total store items: 564
Number of items sold: 4
Etsy sales (not counting s/h): $75.50
Cost of items sold: $8
Consignment payouts: 0
Highest price sold: $22.50 – vintage Sweet Treats Spoon doll
Average price sold: $18.87
Returns: 0
Money spent on new inventory: 0
Number of items listed this week: 10

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Hope you feel better very soon R and thanks for your past consistency with the podcast!

Total Items in Store: 457
Items Sold on Ebay: 12
Gross Sales: $300
Cost of Items Sold: $42 + 28 free shipping
Highest Price Sold: $60 Quantity 2 new bowls paid $17 clearance in Spring
Average Price Sold: $25
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $18
Number of items listed this week: 2

Mercari update: Sold one item, listed one of our clothing. Mercari sends a message about low view, stale (6 weeks old) listings asking if you still want to sell the item. Interesting…

On Ebay this week sold a lot of low dollar items and it felt even slower. Life outside Ebay unforgiving so I’m hoping it’s a better week on Ebay. I did manage to sneak out Saturday intending to shop at the tile stores, which were closed by then so I went late to two estate sales. Didn’t buy much but interesting. One was a clear the decks divorce sale at a gorgeous property with a city view. Amazing furniture at fair prices but the little stuff left was way overpriced. For example, they had one of these Dansk Teak Ice Bucket priced at $90 and not in great condition. Another “Moving Miss Daisy” (love that name!) run by some fun gay guys who obviously know their stuff and also price high. I’m going to have to learn the ropes later when I clear the death piles. I guess estate sales might also be about finding what other people are missing. And building relationships and finding the right companies or family run sales.

Have a great week.

Get well soon Ryanne!

Oh, no, strep throat is so painful. I hope Ryanne is taking antibiotics! I had strep several times as a kid and a few times as an adult. Thankfully, I haven’t had to deal with it for a long time now. Maybe I’ve built up my immunity.

Anyway, I track your sales, and I’m jealous as I’ve had one of my worse weeks in the past year or two. I had three days with no sales. Not sure what happened, but I’ll stay away from conspiracy theories.

Week of Aug 19 – 25
* Total Items in Store: 1219
* Items Sold: 6
* Cost of Items Sold: $4.80 + $6.76 Commission
* Total Sales: $117.51
* Highest Price Sold: $30 Hand Thrown Vase
* Average Price Sold: $22
* Returns: 0
* Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
* Number of items listed this week: 16

I refrained from any sourcing this week for two reasons.

The first is that my parents are visiting and brought a packed SUV of their friends’ stuff. They live in an active adult community, and their friends downsize by giving me stuff they don’t need.

Second is that I am helping a friend set up an online auction who wants to sell her house next year. I spent two days last week working on it. The auction will happen late September, and I will get paid a commission.

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Feel better guys!

Week August 19-25, 2018

Total Items in Store: 928
Items Sold: 17 (1 Amazon)
Cost of Items Sold: $101 (17.6% of sales)
Total Sales: $574.96
Highest Price Sold: $80 (Panasonic Cassette Transcriber https://www.ebay.com/itm/192173670562)
Average Price Sold: $33.82
Returns: 0 (1 I can’t find though)
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0
Promoted listings test: 8 sales, $281.99 (49% of total sales), $14.10 fees (5.0% of sales)

Interesting week for sales, sold some things I thought I’d never sell even with deep discounts. The high item above, the transcriber, took about 3 years. Sold a lot of boxing 8mm reels (https://www.ebay.com/itm/191757318785) which was my oldest listing in my store from 2014 (sold 2 Muhammad Ali reels out of the lot almost immediately after listing 4 years ago, the rest have sat without an offer), a Rolling Stones coffee table book that I’ve had for at least 2 years (https://www.ebay.com/itm/201932103737). All in all, a nice average sales week in terms of volume & dollars plus got my COGS back under 20%.

No actual new listings, although I’ve been pruning my listings over the past week in prep for the upcoming busy season.

Empathy to Ryanne! Hope you get better soon. Quick tip – eat marshmallows! While it’s actually the marshmallow root that does the trick, even the modern marshmallows help to relieve that awful scratchy feeling. Dunno why, but it has always worked. Best wishes for a speedy recovery!

Speedy recovery!
So I was away all last week – so I did not list much and my store was on 5 day handling. Relative to my inventory size sales kept up well transaction wise, average sale was pretty low however (highest sale was only 30 bucks.) Spent about 500 bucks sourcing this weekend and have a lot of inventory to list.

Also had a first this past week — i have a woman (think it i a female) requesting for a partial refund PRIOR to receiving an item – complaining about an imagined hole in the handbag that she seems to think my finger is covering up in my picture. Not sure where she got that impression as I list out any flaws pretty straight forwardly and there is no hole, so maybe she has been burned a lot by sellers… or maybe she is on of those petty scammers. Not a big deal either way – she can return if she wants, any time things are a bit fishy i take the partial refund off the table right away but leave full refund for any reason after the item gets back on the table.

8/19/18 – 8/16/18
Total items in store (beginning of week): 328
Items sold: 11
30 day sell through (rate): 14.37%
Total Sales: (no shipping): 177.58
Average price: $16.14
Cost of items sold: $21.26
Average cost per item: $1.93
Gross profit: $156.32
Highest item sold / best sale: Coach Leather Zoe Hobo 30.34 paid 6.67
New items listed: 2

Total Items in Store: 1604
Items Sold: 32
Cost of Items Sold: $125.69
Total Sales: $968.96
Highest Price Sold: $179(German made cuckoo clock)
Average Price Sold: $30.28
Returns: 2 return requests – not returned yet
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $99.50
Number of items listed this week: 87

Hope you are feeling better soon Ryanne. Never fun being sick.

I decided to go all in on the promoted listings last week and it may have paid off. My ad fees were $54.25 but I got a decent bounce in sales so probably worth it. Also got a couple of return requests and one was for the $179 clock of which I sold as “untested selling as is” – so of course the buyer starts a return saying it is defective and does not work. Not sure what is going on there.

I hope everyone has a good week of scavenging and sales.

Get well soon Ryanne, have some carbs haha.

Aug 19 – 25
Total Items in Store: 1711
Items Sold: 26
Total Sales : $977
* above yearly average of $782
* above 2017 total week sales of $250
Highest Price: $100 (Pelican Black Gun Rifle Hard shell Case)
Average Price: $38
Returns: 1
Cost of Goods Sold: $214
Costs of Goods Purchased this Week: $214
Number of New Items Listed this Week: 48

I’m so sorry about your strep throat, Ryanne. I’ve had that before and I know it’s not fun. I hope you make a quick recovery!

I had a very good week for sales. It’s crazy how it seems like something happens on the backend of eBay and it feels like the flow of sales can just turn off and on, week by week.

My COGS is really high this week mainly for the Pelican rifle case I sold. It was a rookie mistake on my part. I got caught up in a bidding war at an auction a couple summers ago and ended up spending over $150 on this case thinking I could flip it for double my money. Well I found out that people don’t want to spend a lot of money on a case that already had the foam cut out to fit a specific gun. After about 2 years of it being listed, I finally took a $100 offer just to get it out of my storage. I’ve since learned to be able to let things go at auctions if they’re not dirt cheap.

Speaking of auctions, I went to one on Saturday. They advertised all these old toys from the 80s and 90s. A lot of Kenner type stuff still in original packaging and so forth. When I got there, none of that was to be found. Apparently, the family was notified of it’s worth and pulled it all at the last moment. Ugh! I probably wouldn’t have been able to touch any of it anyways because all the nerds came out of the woodwork for this one. LOL!

Items in Store 1144
Items Sold 19
Total Sales $548.00
COGS $56.25
Total Profit $491.75
Average profit $25.88
Average sales price $28.84

Felt like the week was on ebay cruise control as we had a lot going on. We started Homeschool back up and all of our kids were in the WV Cupcake Festival pageant. 3 out of 4 won their age divisions! The 4th should have won, in my entirely unbiased opinion. 😉 Now they get to do a bunch of parades over the next year.

I listed a bunch of shoes this weekend – 40 pair! It never ceases to amaze me at how plentiful used shoes are in my little corner of the world. It is soooo hard to pass on a good deal for shoes. I bought 10 pair at a single yard sale on Saturday. I have become a lot more picky about what I buy in regards to brand, condition and price. And yet, I think I buy MORE shoes now with all my added conditions. I even broke my cost rule yesterday and paid the bloated Guuci Goodwill price of $16 for one pair. Why? Because they were a pair of rare vintage Nike Basketball shoes in near mint condition. Did you know Scottie Pippen had his own signature shoe? I didn’t until yesterday. Search “Nike Air Pippen” and you’ll see why I happily paid $16.

Oh and no worries on the lack of podcast this week. You all deserve a week off here and there even if you weren’t sick.

Get well soon!

Get some rest and get well soon Ryanne. (Unsolicited advice warning) If you take an antibiotic regiment, consider following up with a month of a good probiotic supplement.

8/20 – 8/26
Total Items in Store: 1101
Items Sold: 16
Sales: $1,008.98
Cost of Items Sold: $120
Highest Price Sold: $200 (antique sign)
Average Price Sold: $63.06
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $50
Number of items listed this week: 100

Low number of sales but that was offset with a solid ASP. Been receiving a noticeable increase in offers over the last couple weeks, hope that will translate to more sales at some point in the near future.

I have been working on listing items that just seem to take forever to get listed. I have a couple extra days off from the day job so I intend to take advantage and get a solid amount listed this week before the holiday weekend.

Hope you feel better soon Ryanne!

Here are my numbers for the week:
Total Items in Store: 2514
Items Sold: 39
Total Sales: $909
Cost of Items Sold: $122
Average Price Sold: $23.3
Average Cost of Item: $3.15
Highest Price Item Sold: $59.95 Canon 104 Toner Cartridge
Number of items listed this week: 68
YTD Sales: $29497
YTD sales compared to this time last year: +18%
Average age of items in store (in days since listing): 315
Average number of days between listing and selling this week: 135
Median age of sales (in days, between listing and selling): 52
Sell-through rate (for the week): 1.55%

Pretty decent week. Nothing amazing. Just a steady stream of lowish-value sales. I spent a little more time listing instead of buying on the weekend. Next weekend my daughter is coming to visit so I wont get much listing donw. I’ll also have to move a lot of my ebay storage out of her bedroom. That’s always fun. 🙁

Hope everyone has a profitable week!

Get well you guys. I hate sore throats. I just suck on the Halls metholiptus drops. That menthol seems to numb it up a little. And yep, antibiotics from your Dr.
Jay, heard your crackly throat last week also. Everybody here says that handling all the used stuff we do that we all need to wash our hands often and keep hand sanitizer up here in the office.
Take care and get well soon.

Hit two estate sales this week and got a lot of really good stuff. About 50 items for an avg. of approx. $3.40 ea. All got quick entered into WonderLister and one of our assistants, Christie, is working on the listings now.

Sales seem to be bouncing on back after the Summer Slow down. Thank Goodness.

Have a return request this week for a lg. metal urn. Buyer said it was “broken” when she opened the box but no external signs of damage to the boxes [double boxed]. How does metal “break”. Who knows, but Hassle Free returns issued a return label anyway. Will see what that is all about after we get it back and inspect. Then of course the refund comes.
Hate to get returns on items that take a long time, like over an hour to pack up using our “cocoon” method. They never return it packed the way we did in sending things to them. Slap it back in the box, push everything down and back it comes. Ugghhh!

Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art

Ugh, strep is the worst. Get well soon Ryanne, we miss your voice!

Store Week 8/19/18 – 8/25/18

Total items in store: 1782
Items sold: 19
Cost of items sold: $31.03
Total sales: $639.13
Highest price sold: $125.00 (Antique bird pin cushion)
Average price sold: $33.64
Returns: 1 (changed mind)
Money spent on new inventory this week: $21.10

Well, the kids are back in school and I’m hoping to finally get back on some sort of schedule and get some work done. As much as I hate to see summer go, I’m ready for fall. Today it is cool and rainy here. It’s a nice departure from weeks of 100+ degrees and air thick with smoke from wildfires. Hooray for fresh air! And the transition into fall seems to have sales picking up for me too! I’ve been selling a lot more in the last couple of weeks and I’m listing like crazy. Looking forward to more!

Hope you’re feeling better soon, Ryanne!

Hey Ryanne, Hope your feeling better soon. Why don’t you give those marshmallows a try and let us know if they work. Never heard of that before.
Get well soon!
Love you guys

Hi Ryanne,
Hope you feel better soon – missing the podcast is like missing my favorite TV show – guess I’ll have to listen to reruns this week! 🙂 I’ve got a minor sore throat too – but I think it is a cold not strep – still sucks though..

Here are my numbers:
My Store Week August 19-25, 2018

Total Items in Store: 1122
Items Sold: 13
Total Sales: $250.23
Cost of Items Sold: $20.49
Highest Price Sold: $36.58 (Danskos on Bonanza)
Average Price Sold: $19.25
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $20
Number of items listed this week: 30

Hope everyone has a good week… I’ve done a lot of experimenting with Promoted Listings these past few months and I have tried all different percentages ranging from 3%, 5% all the way to 20% (which is ridiculous.. but at times I was feeling desperate.) I can say that I have gotten MORE sales with using a lower percentage (3% to 5% range) rather then “trending rates” or “trending + x%”.. go figure… I do see an uptick in sales with promoted listings but from now on, I’m sticking to lower percentages (not more than 5%) and will be trying to only use this feature if there are multiples out there of whatever I have listed. We’ll see what happens. I don’t want to throw money away for nothing, even if it is only a small amount.

On another note, does anyone else see under Tasks on their Seller Hub Overview Main page – “Match with eBay catalog product or provide valid product identifier” ? I have a handful of these on vintage electronic items like old Dryer Cords and parts that do not have UPC #’s. My only option is to submit a new entry into the catalog – which I attempted to do. It was an annoying and painful process. I had to select “Does not apply” for many fields and then submit detailed pictures – it took several minutes and then… my submissions were denied the next day because the photos were not what they were looking for ?!? So, I doubt I’ll be making any more submissions. Not sure if I should ignore this task (which is what I have been doing) or if I should remove the listings – (if it is going to lower my search ranking in some way) – but for now, doing nothing.

2018-08-19 – 2018-08-25

Site: US / Feedback 1161 (Red)
Neutral Feedback 2.00
Positive Feedback 425.00
Total Items In Store: 2430.00
Items Sold: 13.00
Cost of Items Sold: 50.00
Total Sales: 544.93
Total Fees 92.63
Net Sales After Fees: 452.30
Highest Price Sold: 169.99 (Bible)
Average Price Sold: 41.92
Buyer Shipping $ 130.96
My Shipping $ 0.00
# Days so far 6.91
Avg. Daily $ 78.86
Proj. Week $ 552.03
# Items Listed 8.00
$ Listed 289.92
ASP $ Listed 36.24
ebay Final Value Fees 57.11
ebay Fees Allocated 11.90
Paypal Fees 23.62
Fee % of Gross 17.00
# items being watched 1073.00
# items watch count >= 10 17.00
Avg. Item Hit Count 506.00
Refunded # 1.00
Best Offer # 4.00
Best Offer $ 103.00
Best Offer ASP $ 25.75
Money Spent on New Inventory: 59.00

Ok, I went a little crazy adding to this report, but I can actually think of more things to add to it. I could add the names of my sales that are active, items that sold via promoted listing, YOY, $ spent on materials, $ spent on contractors, mileage, etc. Then give a net $ of what you took home at the end. But of course this still wouldn’t give you a true net number because I would need to add a percentage of my monthly expenses: ebay store $ per month, GoDaddy, WL, and Storage Unit fees. This goes back to that cashflow discussion from last weeks podcast.

Note: that I entered the description of highest price sold: “(Bible)”, actual amount of “Cost of Items Sold”, and “Money Spent on New Inventory” by hand, these were not calcualated by the report.

So, now I know where to find all the data in WL for these data points in the report. That sets me up for the end of the year report and for other drill down analysis as needed.

I will post below about my “cycle count” experience.

Mark

This past week I have felt like Benjamin Martin from the movie “The Patroit” as he expressed his feelings in the famous opening lines: “I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me, and the cost is more than I can bear.”

That is what happened to me this week when I started moving all of my listed clothing (and doing counts) on to a new double tier clothing rack – Extended Height Double-Rail Rolling Z Rack Garment Rack with Nesting Black Base by Metropolitan Display. You can find it on Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/s?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Extended+Height+Double-Rail+Rolling+Z+Rack+Garment+Rack+with+Nesting+Black+Base+by+Metropolitan+Display

This clothing rack is a beast and I highly recommend it. You can really save a lot of space with this one if your ceiling will support it, you need about 81″ in height. But the rack was not the issue.

The issues were correcting bad practices of the past: (and I am calling the fix below “best practices” for me for right now)

1. Had to move the clothing from all sorts of different garment bags to my standard black, 33 Gallon Trash bag (from Sams Club).

2. All Garment bags have to have a sticker with the lot # on it and tape over it so it doesn’t fall off – preferrably from the printer, but a hand written one will do.

3. All Clothing must be on an appropriate hanger with a white marking tag that clearly states the Lot\item #

4. All Clothing must be listed on ebay (ok, T-Satt, you got me on this one. The very first item I checked was not listed and there have been several more.) I had to set those aside to relist.

5. If the clothing is listed on ebay, it must be in the garment bag. Good on this so far.

6. Merge these garment bags with the ones on the other clothing racks so that they are in order by lot # (same as container #, but on a clothing rack. My COGS lookup table will keep track of which items are hanging up and spit that out to my pick list report.)

7. Put all the new garments bags neatly and tighly (but not too tight) on the new rack location so as to conserve as much space as possible.

8. As I am going through the clothing and it has be listed more than a year or so, decide if it needs re-priced. If so, note that and reprice later at the computer and of course add the sku\container # in the right spot when you do that.

Are you exhausted yet reading this? I didn’t want to touch these items more than once, so I figured I would cover all my bases when I went through them. It is almost like starting all over.

It wouldn’t be so bad if this were just for 15-20 items, but this is for several hundred items. I am still making my way through all of this.

Mark

Hope you guys get well soon.

Pretty tediously slow week for me, with not that much time for scavenging. Wife & I did have a great time horseback riding on our anniversary though.

Sales: CAD$235, 4 items, COGS: $51 –> Item profit: $137
Expenditures: $121 –> After tax cashflow: $31
Listed: $1115, 15 items
Hours: 6, $6/hr

Was just visiting friends in DC over the weekend, and the hubby is suffering what he started thinking was a sinus infection. Apparently something had been going around his office…. Makes me glad I’m the only one in this office! 🙂 Feel better all who aren’t!

After the previous week’s sad showing, this past week picked up nicely, and I had 10 sales over Saturday & Sunday to pack up when I got back from DC (they will be split between this report and next week’s, diluting the celebratory #s).

08/19/18 – 08/25/18
Total Items In Store: 915
Items Sold: 13
Total Sales: $732.22
Cost of Items Sold: $65.60
Highest Price Sold: $250 – Climbing ropes/bag/slings, etc (sold on commission); $135 – lot of 150 pcs vintage and antique linens of all kinds (took best offer on $150)
Average Price Sold: $56.32
Returns/Refunds: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $45
Number of Items listed this week: ~25

Forgot to mention this in a previous week: I got a message from a recent Buyer who apologized for just having left a negative review for me; it was meant for another Seller from whom she had bought a very similar pair of shorts. She asked me to send her a Feedback Revision Request, which I didn’t know existed – did you? I asked her about it, and she sent me the following link from the help pages: https://pages.ebay.com/services/forum/feedback.html

Fairly automated. There might be some review on eBay’s side, but maybe not. I sent the link, she re-wrote her review, and it was processed quickly. Sharing for FYI and in case it can be used by others after communicating with Buyers who are willing to change their reviews – show them how easy it is.

I have listened to you faithfully pretty much since you began this podcast. Even though I don’t post much, I just want to let you know that I look forward to the podcast every week. You two are my favorites. I want to wish Ryanne a quick recovery. Strep throat really sucks. With that said, I wish you two great sales this week.

Sincerely,

Debbie Keith

Wishing you both a speedy recovery.
I miss Ryanne’s laugh, Jay’s smooth voice and all the knowledge shared!

Something just crossed my mind. Ryanne didn’t pick up and eat any body abandoned food did she? LOL haHa :-). Hope ya’ll are feeling better today.

mike at MDCGFA

Hope you both feel better
3 weeks into my Premium (1000item) store. I couldn’t make myself post last week’s numbers. On the 2nd week I sold 1 whole item for a whopping $12. At least this past week I made 5 times that. Going upwards. Just had a $70 saled
So not what I had hoped. But I had 407 items listed, more than ever before. I’ve been very occupied with family-3 major moves of immediate family this month. One hospitalization.
Goals met- 1)More listed at the end of the week than ever before
2) I sold my cheapest item for $3.50! An unused preschool book that I almost pitched so many times. I decided to lower the price until it sold. Now I won’t do that with my long tail R&J type of items. But the things that I’ve had up since 2015, that I would not buy again, lowering the price. Two other items-small sized J Jill and Columbia shirts have been in my longest 10 item list. They both sold within 24 hours of lowering the price. So worth it to get the bottom stuff out of my closets

Hope you’re feeling a little better by now Ryanne, strep is really awful.

Sales have definitely picked up a bunch compared to last month, and I’m almost up to where I usually am. Doing a lot of cross posting to Etsy and it’s finally paying off. I still have a ton to list before Q4, so I’m gonna try to hit that hard in the next couple days.

Since you guys are taking a week off (get well Ryanne!), I don’t feel so bad not posting my July numbers until now! 🙂 I have had a busy summer which I may post about later, but quickly, it has been overall a good sales summer for me.

My Monthly Numbers for July:

I had a horrible July last year and I almost doubled my numbers this year! Probably have 250 more items in my store now as compared to then, which helps the bottom line.

51 sales (another good month)
$ sold (minus shipping): $1265 (goal $1k, still above!)
Per sale average: $24.80 (goal over $25, ok, but sold a lot of low value patches)
cost per item average: $3.53

Items in store peak for month: 700 another new record!)

Returns: 1 (well it was a low value item and I let him keep item but refunded fully, due to a mistake I made in the listing). Also one partial return on a broken plate of three (still made money on the sale after refunding a third), AND the woman bought another lot of bowls from me afterward (which didn’t break) AND gave me positive feedback, woohoo!

Biggest sale: Aramith Granite Stone Collection Belgian Billiard Pool Ball Set for $100, https://www.ebay.com/itm/192557266865 , paid $20 at my favorite thrift store).

Sold many of the patches I’ve been listing and other bread and butter items. Listed as much as possible but slowed down in August (more to come as to why!). Ramping back up now for the fall/winter rush!

Hey did anyone see the new [I think] ad from Amazon about buying clothes? I was having lunch and was half listening and watching but the jist was a box arrives and a guy brings it into his house / bedroom. Opens the box saying something like, just have got to have a selection of something to wear this weekend, or whatever something like that. Didn’t hear it all. He opens up the box and it has several folded shirts, sweater, tie, a few other things. he pulls them all out, try’s them on in front of a tall mirror. Smiles and puts a few things over on his bed and the rest back in the box and the Big Caption over reads Only Pay For What You Keep and Return the Rest!!.

I didn’t catch it all but then it struck me, is Amazon advocating buying clothes on consignment like the old stamp collecting companies used to do? Are they going to let you select a bunch of clothes, get them shipped to you, you try them on, keep what you like, send the rest back and then they only charge your card after you send them back or something similiar?

That is oing to put the hurt on a bunch of clothing sellers. Order up 30 clothing items, Amazon sends them to you, try them on, send back what u don’t want and pay for what you keep.

The stamp companies used to send collectors envelopes of mint stamps off of a want list you would send them. They would let you go through them, keep what u wanted and send the rest back. Only catch was you had only had a few days to make the return or you got invoiced for the whole lot.

So wonder what Amazon is up to? Did anybody else seen this ad yet? What are the details I missed? OR DID I JUST MISS the whole thing and got it totally wrong??

Just curious.

Okay you two, I swear by good old fashioned chicken soup! Hope you are feeling better. eBay is taking a bit of a back seat for me this week also. My dad had two dr appointments already this week and fried his hearing aids by putting them in a glass with water instead of his hearing aid cup (he is legally blind so things like this happen). My husband has a blockage in his right leg, so Thursday we go to the hospital for an arterial roto-rooter treatment.

On the EBay front, last week was pretty good. This week has been a bit slow, but considering the above, that’s probably a good thing. My highest sale last week was 3 IKEA Henriksdal chairs for $100. I know I could have held out for more, but I only paid $1 for all three. I bought them to use, but my husband disliked them so much I was highly motivated to sell them. I had to store them in a friends garage so he didn’t put them out on the curb!
eBay August 19-25
Total sales. $264.93
# sold. 19
Avg. sale. $13.94
Returns. 0
COGS. $14
$ spent on new. $18.50
# listed. 21
Highest sale. $100 3 IKEA Henriksdal chairs

Wishing you a SPEEDY recovery.

https://imgur.com/a/lW40GgX

Feel better soon! Hope you are able to take it easy.

Here’s a new one on me.

I have noticed that WL is including in a list of standardized Item specific a field for the Cal. Proposition 65 Act. I assume this may now be showing up on regular Ebay listing forms as well.

Here is alink to what is suppose to take place as of August 30th. Question is, now are we suppose to identify the materials older, vintage items are made of and state if the content in the material, resign, plastic contains any harmful or possibly toxic ingrediants?

Here is a link to an article about it. https://www.law.com/therecorder/2018/07/05/new-prop-65-warning-requirements-are-coming-on-aug-30-are-you-ready/?slreturn=20180730195500

Just curious and wonder what others know of this.

Mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta

Mike,

Yes, I just began seeing this on the item specfic section in ebay.

I just ignored it for now.

Mark

Hope you are feeling better!

Just got a prop 65 letter at work – to have on file.

Complying with this rule selling junk is – nigh impossible

My company has a legal response ready in case it comes up.

There’s no way I want liability if some obscure item from 60 years ago doesn’t meet some criteria. So – impossible for me to comply.

Pretty much impossible for me to comprehend, honestly…

And missed temudjins post earlier. Ignore.

Missed you, Jay and Ryanne, but I consoled myself by listening to episodes 5-11 while painting my bedroom. I really should be listing.

Missed you, Jay and Ryanne, but I consoled myself by listening to episodes 5-11 while painting my bedroom. I really should be listing.

RR Store Week August 19-25, 2018

Total Items in Store: 1561
Items Sold: 18
Cost of Items Sold: $15.65
Total Sales: $381.62
Highest Price Sold: $100 (1950’s Paris cabaret program)
Average Price Sold: $21.20
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 1