Scavenger Life Episode 462: What We’re Working Towards

05/03/20 – 05/09/20

Total Items In Store: 3455
Items Sold: 32
Cost of Items Sold: $ 100
Total Sales: $ 998.05
Highest Price Sold: $ 85 (Vintage Jacket)
Average Price Sold: $ 31.19
Money Spent on New Inventory: $ 0
Number of items listed: 20

Gut Sales Report for the week: Again, it felt like the busy season and sometimes the shipping got annoying. Now I have my shipping supplies stocked up to busy season levels.

Challenge of the week: Still trying to take pictures of about 10 items everyday Mon-Sat.

Scavenge of the week: Nothing.

Trends of the week:

1. VCR’s seem to be selling well now.

2. USPS is still slow. I sent a First Class package on April 22nd to the Pittsburg area, and
it is still in transit. And Pittsburg is not that far away.

Mark S

About the grocery talk, I shop at krogers for my groceries and see employees with a little cart and scanner, shopping for customers. It’s safer for them, as I see people in the store not following rules (no mask, not staying 6ft apart, going wrong way in aisles, etc). I would sign up for it but we don’t have a car. I have used instacart but you pay for the convenience, with a delivery fee and tip.

As for the slow shipping, I have had a couple of buyers message me with complaints, even though I had changed my handling time to 5 days to make up for the shipping time. But it’s still been an issue. I feel like if you buy something with free shipping, you don’t have a right to complain if it takes more than 2 days to get there.

Couple things about managed payments. I have 3 stores on ebay. 1 of them is managed payments and 2 are note. It’s been seamless for me. Only problem I’ve had is that you can’t sell any type of currency or anything else that falls under the same ebay category for whatever reason. Hope they clear that up before this becomes mandatory.

In reference to using paypal to spend; you can link your card to a bank account so you can spend with it.

My eBay Sales (No Store) Week May 3 – May 9, 2020

Total Items For Sale (No Store):
Items Sold: 1
Gross Sales: $13.80
Cost of Items Sold: $0
Highest Price Sold: $13.80 (Lot of 2 Grade School Books)
Average Price Sold: $13.80
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number Of Items Listed This Week: 7

I’m really looking forward to Managed Payments. I haven’t received an email to join yet but I have the Payments tab and I can “express interest.” I wish they would just let me join. I do need to start a new bank account for it though. I remember when I first signed up to Ebay coming from Amazon I was really disappointed in the fact that I had to pay Ebay its fees at the end of the month, I was like, “for real?” I guess people on ebay just really accepted that this was the way it is, not that they could do anything. I’m so happy ebay is catching up to 2020.

Items in Store 1523
Items Sold 52
Total Sales $1,749.00
COGS $168.00
Total Profit $1,581.00
Average profit $30.40
Average sales price $33.63
New Listings 14

So this weekend I completed my reorganizing trilogy- I tackled my garage office. Now I have three dedicated stations – listing, shipping, and photography. It hurt my listing numbers this week destroying my workspace for a few days, but it was worth it. Now instead of surviving chaos, I’ve set myself up for long term success with clear systems to crank through my backlog of unlisted inventory.

Sales volume slowed down this weekend, but I have several big sales to make up the difference. Today it has already picked back up though, so let’s keep on selling!

Retro,

I think this is the first step toward the next step.

I am doing the same thing. I can see the future with my forecast spreadsheet. The problem is that I do not have sufficient storage to get there.

So, I have started to get my garage ready for growth. However, I didn’t finish like you. It is a work in progress for me.

Mark

Total Items in Store: 571
Items Sold: 25
Total Gross Sales includes s/h: $504
Highest Price: $40 Brazilian Hammock Chair by Hammock Sky – Multicolor
Lowest Price: $7.90 TV Remote Control
Average Price: $20
Cost of Goods Sold: $20
Returns: 0
Costs of Goods Purchased this Week: 0
Number of New Items Listed this Week: 48

A solid week. Sold the same number of items as the previous week, but only about 40% gross. I wonder if the spike in sales over the past month is coming back to earth. Spent the past week listing my lot of 220 remote controls I bought a few weeks ago. Probably 4 out of 10 are junk – no-names that aren’t worth the bother to list. The ones I’ve listed are selling well. This week I’m turning to my pile of car owners manuals from the 70s and 80s. I’ll get my money back ($120) but don’t see making very much for the effort involved.

Thanks again for your shows! I’ve had 3 buyers recently contact me for ‘lost packages’ that were just horribly delayed by 2+ weeks. These were all USPS First Class and all 3 ended up sitting in different hubs for about a week not moving, Detroit, Grand Rapids and Chicago, then finally got delivered. I’m also seeing my local initial PO tracking scans not occurring until 25 -36 hours later even after mailbox pickup notifications. A few recent Priority packages never had tracking scans for days after getting halfway across the country. Anyway, I’m grateful to my PO carriers especially during this risky busy time for them. My mom was a 30+year postal carrier who worked her way up to PostMaster. My husband was a FedEx carrier for 30 years and newly retired (thankfully). Their stories of dog bites, falling on ice, crazy naked people opening doors, women locked out with newborns, the sweet regular customers, the stories are endless. Remember to thank your carriers!

My numbers for April:

Amount of Items sold 56
Gross sales $1,027.55
Shipping charge to customers $393.90
My shipping cost $(341.18)
Cost of goods sold $(177.25)
eBay fees (including my eBay store subscription) $(181.00)
Paypal fees $(61.86)
Additional business expenses $(12.72)
Returns $(77.77)
Total net profit $569.67
Average profit per item $11.47
Amount spent on new inventory $(388.04)
Active listings at the end of the month 606
New items listed 71

To see what I sold, check out my blog post.

Total Items In Store: 279 Ebay, about 70 Mercari
Items Sold: 8 Ebay, 2 Mercari
Cost of Items Sold: $109 Ebay, Mercari items ours
Total Sales: $377 Ebay, $18 Mercari
Highest Price Sold: $95 (Small painting, paid $7.99)
Average Price Sold: $47
Money Spent on New Inventory: About $60 RA
Number of items listed: 27

I hope all of my fellow mom scavengers had a good mother’s day yesterday. I had a couple of lazy days Ebay and workwise this week, including yesterday. Intend to tackle a couple of good weekday listing days in while the kids are still involved with school. I just finished listing my single annual self-permitted rummage sale haul and now I’m back into the piles and excited to list. I’ve been working on a what sold video to share this Wednesday. Things slowed up a bit this week but still good sales for my little store in May.

I got the managed payments email a few days after most of you. I’m still inclined to wait until July for any bug fixes and will read all of the posts so I can charge my expenses to a cash back card. Thank you to the forum member who posted that Easy Auction Tracker is able to handle managed payment info.

Re grocery shopping, I’m at it once or twice a week. You are so lucky to have free trunk delivery service at Walmart! I’m volunteering once a week with my son to shop and deliver groceries to the elderly. I can make it two weeks for our stuff then I need to get my dad’s prescriptions. We have some stores that are doing things very well at this point but you still need to pass by others in the isles, it’s unavoidable. Masks are required and enforced here luckily at the stores we are using.

Your future coffee shop sounds like a nice place to hang out. I’m starting to get email travel deal offers and feel wistful about going somewhere but it doesn’t seem likely to be this year.

Thanks for the podcast. Perhaps I will go and sign up for MP as well.

I just packaged up all my sales from the weekend, and I found that eBay has fixed two GSP issues. One is that my buyer (from Malta) was able to combine two items into one purchase. The other is that I was able to buy a label along side all my others in the Bulk Shipping page. Happy days!

Week of May 3-9
* Total Items in Store: 1365 eBay, 33 Etsy
* Items Sold: 33 eBay
* Cost of Items Sold: $41.69 + $132.70 Commission
* Total Sales: $688.35 eBay
* Highest Price Sold: $150 White gold ring (commission)
* Average price: 20.85
* Returns: 0 (1 NPB)
* Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
* Number of items listed this week: 2

Lots of sales this week. Except for my one big sale, all the others were mostly lower prices. A few in the $25 to $40 range.

I sold four technical books (one listing) for $10. I looked through my inventory four or five times and could not find them. I think I had decided to donate those books with some old textbooks, and somehow they got relisted. I contacted the buyer and offered a refund or anything in my store $25 or less. She was very understanding and picked an item for $19. I ended the item, and I’m shipping it out today.

On Saturday, I relisted all my auctions. I list items I want out of inventory in an auction until they sell or I donate. I almost relisted the item that my buyer chose instead of her books. So, now I think I know how the books were accidentally relisted. User error for sure!

I’ve been tearing through my death piles. If I keep it up, all will be listed by mid to late June. For a few years I’d think to myself, one day I’m going to get through all of those bins and now is that time. I’ve been listing almost entirely clothing which is a grind but once I’m death-pile free I’m taking a clothing break! It’s too time consuming & there are too many instances where I did not see a flaw to the item until after I bought it.

To stay motivated I’ve been posting the # of items listed to the weekly Listing Challenge forum. It really has helped, even times when I’ve only listed 2 items – it was 2 more than I would have listed that week if not for the accountability of posting to the forum. I also get an endorphin kick seeing an item sell that had until recently been wasting away unlisted in a bin.

Thanks for interesting podcast.

Here are my numbers for the week:
Total Items in Store: 3858
Items Sold: 60
Total Sales: $1154.22
Cost of Items Sold: $143
Average Price Sold: $19.24
Average Cost of Item: $2.39
Highest Price Item Sold: $62.97 Odyssey White Hot Golf Putter
Number of items listed this week: 67 worth approx. $1395
YTD sales compared to this time last year: +19%
Average number of days between listing and selling this week: 349
Median age of sales (in days, between listing and selling): 222
Sell-through rate (for the week): 1.56%

My sales numbers came down this week to approximately where they were 5 or 6 weeks ago. As others have said, this might be an indication of things starting to return to normal.

Regarding the podcast, You’ve given me something to think about with Managed Payments. It feels like it’s going to safe to switch. Despite what they ebay said in the beginning though, it doesn’t seem like it will actually save us any money in the end does it. From a fee perspective it sounds like it’s much the same.

I was interested to hear about Jay’s ideal retirement (hanging out in his own coffee shop). Did Ryanne say what her equivalent is? If it was said, I might have missed it.

May 3 – 9
Total Items in Store: 3,972
Items Sold: 48
Total Sales : $1,432
* Above yearly average of $945
Highest Price: $152 (Chanel Antaeus Pour Homme 100ml Eau de Toilette Fragrance)
Average Price: $32
Returns: 2
Cost of Goods Sold: $114
Costs of Goods Purchased this Week: $0
Number of New Items Listed this Week: 48

I had a fantastic week of sales. I’ve been packing like crazy this whole week. I think our mail carrier hates us for all of the package pickups, but that’s okay. She can cuss all she wants as long as she doesn’t damage our boxes

I finally got my GoDaddy Bookeeping issue resolved. I received an email from tech support explaining that I would need to de-list my PayPal account and re-add it so that the changes they’ve made on the backend can update. Essentially, the problem was that GoDaddy was pulling in sales tax into my sales numbers when it shouldn’t have been. If anyone wants me to post the email explaining in more detail how to fix this, let me know.

05/03/20 – 05/09/20

Total Items In Store: 803
Items Sold: 11
Cost of Items Sold: $ 39
Total Sales: $ 366.13
Highest Price Sold: $ 85 (Mayan Ocarina)
Average Price Sold: $ 33.28
Money Spent on New Inventory: $0
Number of items listed: 8

This week was a blur. Nothing fun to report. No big scavenges and no real listing. Boo!

I did finally get around to painting 4 wooden mail sorters I have had sitting around. I painted them pink! Not usually my style, but I figured that’s a color you can’t find many places and good for baby rooms and they look fab with some vintage wallpaper I’m trying to sell. So hopefully will sell them for more than the $5 each I have invested. I had to give one to my grandmother for Mother’s Day though so there goes my profit margin 🙂

I liked hearing about what your long term goals are, the imagine of Jay just hanging around a coffee shop and watching the town go by was great.
I think it’s really important to always keep the long term goals in the front of your mind, time goes by so quick that it seems like in the blink of an eye age will become a factor for doing some of mine. My main goal is to be more diversified, some property buying and selling which I have done well at over the years here, some property holding like a storage place, and some passive banking investments, and of course buying and selling online to keep the lunch money coming in. All of these have to be self sustaining and kick off money to get the next thing going.

Decent week here, on mercadolibre I sold a barbie gymnastics doll for $50, a pocket knife for about $30, a set of ten cigarette cases for $85.
On ebay I sold a decent lot of 11 corded barcode scanners for $159 plus shipping.
Overall decent week, nothing crazy but seeing as we are basically stuck home we aren’t spending much either…

Total Items In Store: 2876
Items Sold: 93
Total Sales: $2472
Selling costs: $812
Highest Price Sold: $115 Hemmingray insulators
Average Price Sold: $ 26.58
Money Spent on New Inventory: $1170
Number of items listed: 99

I’m looking forward to managed payments due to the number of 0 feedback buyers I get. I think this will make ebay less of a barrier for google search purchases. Also really want to get every penny on CC for the rewards as you mentioned. I cannot for the life of me find my EIN and the IRS is closed…so I cannot get a separate checking account set up right now. That’s really the only reason I haven’t already made the switch.

Struggling to source used inventory. Bought designer purse overstock for $1170. Recouped half the investment in 4 days. Decided to try List Perfectly for myself. Got 100 items cross posted to Mercari and about 150 to Poshmark. Made 3 sales the same day. Discovered extreme low balling is rampant there and decided I have to list higher than eBay pricing.

Sold nothing this week with free FB shipping labels, but also cross posted the Poshmark inventory there. Had several flagged and deleted for violating policies..I think it is due to keyword spam in the ebay titles I am copying so I toned that down.

I like the idea of buying a coffee shop so I have a fun place to sit that won’t kick me out for loiterring!

Total Items In Store: 14,820
Total # of orders – 134
Total # of items sold – 149
Gross sales – $3,319.80
COG – ~$20 maybe? I dunno, it’s super late and I’m beat. I’m pretty sure most of my brain functions shut down like two hours ago and I’ve just been listing on autopilot.

Some cool sales, Weekly World News with everyone’s favorite murdering cannibal, Jeffery Dahmer on the cover – $75

Birth of Venus engraved proof, basically a large single page print – $75. Interesting thing about that piece is that it came from a book that people sell for a few hundred bucks. The book is full of these engraved proofs. So I just pulled the proofs out and listed them individually for $75-125 bucks, this is the third or 4th one I’ve sold over the last two-ish years. There are several books in the set, but not all of them have the proofs.

More interesting is that just typing that out reminded me I should check Ebay out to see if anyone has one of the engraving books listed for cheap and they did, for $14.95, sweet.

Anyways outside of that, my favorite thing in the world, combined orders. Several over $200. So all in all busy week.

I seriously have no idea how you guys manage all your other businesses on top of Ebay. Every day is just a blur to me, working from when I wake up until insane hours like this. All to be back up again in 5 hours to pull yesterdays orders. Just over and over again, until infinity. The thought of spending my older days at my own local coffee shop sounds freakin’ great. Besides the daily grind packing/picturing/listing on Ebay, I’ve met way too many people who don’t think this is a real business.

I also just think there’s a different level of satisfaction in owning an actually brick and mortar business, helping revitalize your old town, over just selling dead peoples stuff online.

Well, I got 2 of my wisdom teeth yanked out last Tuesday and have to go back once the pandemic is over (whenever the heck that will be) to get my other 2 out. In case you’re wondering what the new normal will look like when it comes to medical procedures, I can give you an idea – I had to sit outside of the office for an hour while I waited for my appointment (they were running late) because they weren’t allowing anyone to sit in the waiting room. Other people waiting waited in their cars. Since I don’t have a car, I just sat on the grass and watched people walk by. It would’ve sucked if it was raining out, but it was a bright sunny day. It would’ve been nice if I hadn’t had to go in the midst of a pandemic and watch people walk by in masks. Ugh.

When they finally called me into the office, I had both my temperature taken and had to use an oximeter. I was fine. It was an easy procedure. I just slept on and off from Tuesday evening through Thursday afternoon. I think I was legit exhausted from both the extraction and the workload of Ebay/Amazon over the past few weeks.

We got restaurant delivery for the first time in two months on Thursday when I was finally feeling better. I just couldn’t eat pudding or mashed potatoes anymore, and I couldn’t deal with quarantine food that day. It was totally worth it and tasted so good because I hadn’t eaten anything outside of my house for what seemed so long, haha.

With the decline in cases here and leaving the house for the extraction, we’re feeling more comfortable with venturing out a little more if necessary. My husband went out to the pharmacy to pick up my prescriptions and then later in the week went to our local corner stores to pick up groceries. He said the bodegas now have plastic shields up and the people behind the counters are wearing face masks and gloves. After waiting weeks for grocery delivery time slots, it was weird to be able to go out the same day to get food. At least the stores were relatively empty of people because everyone is too fearful here. They used to be so crowded pre-pandemic that people had to wait outside the door to get in during certain times.

Sales are still brisk here. We only did ship-outs last Monday, Tuesday and Saturday. We shipped out 107 packages for all 3 days. For sales this week so far, we’re at 88 orders sent out for yesterday and today. I already have another 20+ prepared to go out tomorrow.

I’ve been thinking more about how this pandemic is going to shake out my ability to source this year and next. Since I don’t drive, I had to take an Uber both ways to get to my appointment last week. The drivers were nice, wore masks and had exceptionally clean vehicles. Since I have been using them over the past few years to haul my buys home, I’m thinking that they’re NOT going to be comfortable if I choose to fill their trunks with boxes of random stuff during the pandemic. I feel like even if I want to source out in person (which I don’t), I won’t be able to. I’ve been taking cabs to haul my buys around for the past 16 years, but I don’t think I’ll be able to until some point in 2021 at the very earliest.

I’m listening to the podcast now. My 2nd Ebay store with 350 items in it got the email about being forced into managed payments by July. However, my main Ebay store with nearly 14,000 items in it is NOT being forced into managed payments by July. I suspect this is because I have inventory in the “prohibited” categories that are not accepted under managed payments. So no, not everyone is being forced into managed payments by July.

Are you doing all the packing? My wife does most of the packing, I do spend a few hours pulling items each morning for her though. My listing amount has actually dropped the past few weeks, as I have been listing less daily and doing other things with the business. I think like any other business, there are times when you ‘hustle’ and times when you take it easy. We have a goal we’re trying to meet, so right now we’re just going full gear. When we reach it, I’ll be able to relax and take it a bit easier.

Also, screw Gary V.. Anyone who’s legit trying to push the dead 2014 reseller meme of “Mug Life!” is full of it. He doesn’t make much money at all reselling, he’s in it for most of the reasons other youtube resellers are, marketing.

While I’m guessing some prohibited categories will remain prohibited, I’m pretty sure ebay has been clear that sellers of coins and Adult Material will be accommodated….the issue is Adyen, not ebay, and ebay has been working on it with them. I really don’t think ebay is going to throw away the money to be made in those categories.

Hi folks.

Another good week on ebay. Like you said, it won’t last forever but let’s make hay while the sun shines.

Sales c/w shipping: CAD$3146, 22 sales, COGS: $663, Fees: ~$435, Postage: $441 –> Gross profit: $1608
Expenditures: $0 –> Cashflow: $2270
Sold an icemaker for $400 locally, very glad to get that out of storage. Also a surveying instrument for $700.

Didn’t really scavenge… again.

Ah, that explains why I haven’t had the managed payments invite yet. I sell some used auto parts that my partner finds. Never tried selling adult magazines tho I used to see them at yard sales.

I think most of the youtubers (scavenger life, excluded) are all about selling their program or course. “I can tell you what to do for $500”. It’s ridiculous.

5/2/20-5/8/20
Total Items In Store: 2039
Items Sold: 40
Gross Sales: $1121
Highest Price Sold: $90 (Allen Bradley Industrial Switch)
Average Price Sold: $28.04
Returns: 0 $0
Money Spent on New Inventory: $0
Number of items listed: 11

• Pretty steady sales all week, back over $1000 after a small drop last week.
• I’m still struggling to find new inventory to list, although I didn’t work too hard at it this week. My teenage son (who also has an eBay store) did buy $300 of inventory from an online auction that was 2 ½ hours away. He underestimated the size of some of the lots he bought and had to make 2 trips to get it all.
• After hearing the info on this week’s podcast, I am also considering pulling the trigger on managed payments. I need to call the bank this week and add a separate checking account to my accounts, though. The nice thing about PayPal was having the business account separate from my normal checking accounts.

Hey Guys… Just some personal FYI news.

Some of you know that my wife Susan was diagnosed with endometrial cancer April of last year. She has had to go through 36 weekly treatments of Chemo, 2 operations before radiation and then 36 daily treatments of Radiation and finally 3 last treatments of targeted, intense internal radiation.

Well I would like to announce she finished her complete treatment plan this Monday and graduation from the Cancer Center and got to “Ring the Graduation” bell as she left.

Now it is going to be a CT scan to establish a base line, then follow up doctor visit every 90 days for another year, then every 6 months for the next two or three years.

God willing, she will make the targeted survival goal of 5 years at which time, they will make the declaration of Cancer Free. The ratio they gave her was a 75% chance of making that goal.

So we will see. The many side effects of all types has been tough for the past year and all 4 of the doctors say it will be another year before most of the side effects will subside to a point of feeling normal again.

Susan has been mostly bed ridden for the past year and not involved with the online stores at all except for a little sourcing when she was feeling up to it. I, along with our helper Lisa have been maintaining the Ebay and Etsy stores and almost completed our third store which will be our own Shopify Store.

So here is looking forward and hoping the country and heal itself along with Susan and maybe in a year or so we all will be doing much better.

Take Care all and “Keep on Truckin”

P.S. Jay and Ryanne, how about getting a recipe or formula for roasting something close to a Southern Pecan Flavor!!!

The team at MDC Concepts, Inc.
MDC Galleries and Fine Art
Michael, Lisa, Susan

I personally have not taken any of the courses, but I also don’t see anything wrong with paying to learn from someone else’s experience. I never even heard of those youtubers before this post! I’ve looked around, but all I ever seem to come across is very basic info or haul videos which are generally a waste of time IMO. I would love to have another podcast type that was worth listening to, but I have yet to find anyone besides Jay and Ryanne that has not felt like a total waste of time. I like to listen while driving, I cannot see myself sitting down at a computer watching hours of pointless videos.

Onto the topic of P&L: I know this is not completely ideal, but you could certainly go into the to Performance Metrics > Selling costs and copy/paste right onto a spreadsheet. That would get you shipping/ebay fees. You can list 200 items per page, so for most of us that would be 1-2 pages per month. Again, not ideal but a possible solution that would not take a ton of effort like manually entering each item.

Mike- I wasn’t going to jump back on this thread, but I realized I took so long to click submit that I completely missed the post about Susan’s good news. I am sure that is a huge relief. Hopefully life can return more normal for the both of you soon. Ebay is such an afterthought compared to all of that. Reminds me why many of us choose this lifestyle–to spend as much time as we can with those we love.

Thanks TopNotch.. We are hoping for returning to working together again like we used to. Susan has come up to the office only twice in the past year where she used to be up here almost every day. The stairs are too much for her. Not much leg strength left due to side effects and not being able to feel her feet. She calls it “Hobbit Feet” coupled with her Arthritis on top of everything else.

She likes the replies here on SL and I am showing them to her as they come in. Makes her smile.

Thanks again,
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art

Mike – Such good news about Susan! Just awesome. My wife has had cancer 3x so I have small understanding of what you were dealing with. But she didn’t have as serious recovery period as your wife. Anyway, glad to hear things are looking up for her.

Greg

Mike, great news! It’s nice to hear some good news these days.. Susan, stay safe! No crowds…..Brian

Mike, glad to hear that chemo is over for Susan. Will be keeping her in my thoughts as she recovers! Glad to hear you are making changes to the business that should be good for both of you.

About this past week for me: Work has been busy, busy, busy since mid-March, not leaving me much energy for my reselling side-hustle. But I got a burst of energy about a week-and-a-half ago, and listed about a dozen items. It was a good jump start, and at least half of those sold. I’m working to tackle the death piles, and am accepting offers that I would normally turn up my nose at.
Some of my sales that have been exciting for me are:
– Cans of dented but new Epoxy
– Six dozen vintage pencils (sold for $75, literally scavenged)
– Book about Sitting Bull from 1891, sold for $60
It seems that collectibles, clothing and hardware store type items are all in demand.

I also decided to start selling some of my elastic, which is in demand due to people making masks. It’s not an item I would normally bother with, but I’ve figured out how to at least keep it affordable and efficient to ship. Once I run out of shipping supplies, I’ll have to figure out something else. But for now, it’s a good way to keep eyes on my store. I’ve made multiple sales on eBay and Mercari since listing this weekend.

My goal is just to keep listing what I can. My sourcing in the last week (and the only sourcing for the last two months) has included an auction for new-with-tags swimwear. We’ll see if I wasted my time and money. I’ve listed about 25% of it. It’s not a high-dollar items, but there are several items that are multiples, and therefore easy to list. I also scavenged some curbside electronics items in the neighborhood.

As always, thanks for the podcast. I’m re-evaluating “what we’re working towards” these days. The 9-to-5 seems less stable, but even the relative stability is very valuable. And I really wish we had invested in a “place in the country” where we could escape what has become a very mundane stay-at-home existence. It’s important to keep the short-term goals and the long-term goals in view.

Hi everyone! Postal worker here. We have been hit hard by the virus. Plenty of us have been sick or off for virus related stuff. Add in the EXTRA amount of things being sold online and we couldn’t even move around in my facility for the last 6 weeks or so. I have had several things I mailed out the beginning of April just sitting… I came in Tuesday and things looked a little better at work and my things that were sitting started getting scans again. We are still swamped but headed in the right direction. Thanks for all the patience and support! We deliver for you!