The Numbers: August 21-27, 2022

08/21/22 – 08/27/22

Total Items In Store: 4587
Items Sold: 22
Total Sales: $ 975.32 Total, 660.73 (no shipping included)
Highest Price Sold: $ 165 (Vintage Thunderbolt Horse)
Average Price Sold: $ 30.03
Money Spent on New Inventory: $ 225
Number of items listed: 42

Gut Sales Report for the week: Sales were still good, but not as strong as last week.

Focus for the week : Getting items over to my photographer so that I have an inventory of items to list.

Scavenge of the week: Got some great winter coats that I mentioned in another post – 6 coats worth nearly $800

Thoughts for the week: I ran into a guy at his garage sale that does storage clean. I had bought some decent shoes from him before. By Mikey’s terminology, a repeat offender (for garage sales). I found out he was basically throwing out the shoes because they took up too much space. I gave him my number for him to call when he gets enough shoes. I hope this works out.

My “deal” at the thrift store that I posted a while ago is still going strong. I believe I will have an incredible inventory for the busy season this year. So, in all, things are looking up and I am trying to grow my store with deals like these that make scavenging much easier.

Mark S

Total Items in Store: 381
Items Sold: 3
Gross Sales: $108.41 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $58.31 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: 24
Highest Price Sold: $60 (vintage art pottery)
Average Price Sold: $45
Returns: 1
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 18

It was a very slow week of sales for me.  Yarn is selling well and getting offers. I think it’s my favorite new thing to pick up.  Last week my post disappeared but it was busier than I thought.  I hardly ever have broken items or returns but I had one of each last week.   Also hard to get motivated for me post-Covid even though school has started.  Kind of just had the blahs.  So, I really, really need to kick myself into gear and get listing this week.  Today I have some good time to list.  My sales are usually quite good in October and November.

Total Items in Store: 3741 listings for 5717 items
Items Sold: 24
Gross Sales: $1861.75 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $1426.93

Cost of Items Sold: $748($46 mine / $702 consignors)

$Highest Price Sold: $220 Pair of Tulip Stands for Bose 901 speakers
Average Price Sold: $77.57
Returns: 5
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $30
Number of items listed this week: 0

Was on vacation all week. The humidity was not nice to my arthritis, but it was nice to be away.

Total Items in Store: 2388
Items Sold: 39
Gross Sales: $675.95 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $434.42 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $60-70
Highest Price Sold: $123 (vintage Tandy reel to reel audio tapes, lot of 19)
Average Price Sold: $17.33
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 35+

I’m not really sure how many items I listed, but I kept track one day because I was on a an absolute tear, and I hit around 30 in one day. I’ve worked every day this last week, so it’s probably closer to 40-50, but I’ll be conservative to be safe.

I don’t have my numbers for TCGPlayer as easily broken down as the eBay ones, so we’ll just stick with this side of the business for a bit. Sold a few PSA graded Pokemon cards, a bunch of found-in-a-dumpster items (copper chef skillet NIB, pair of Converse shoes, a pocket watch, some lotions), but my favorite sale of the week was 11 pounds of pre-1982 copper pennies.

I’ve been saving my pocket change for a year or two, and setting all the copper pennies aside. For $16.50 in face value of pennies, I got $40.76 after shipping. By the time you factor in fees and shipping, I pocketed $26 and some change, meaning I made $10 just by taking a few seconds every time I had money in my pocket to sift out the copper. Not too shabby, if you ask me!

Our Store Week August 21-27, 2022

Total Items in Store: 503
Items Sold: 9
Gross Sales: $529.39 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $360.38(minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $12
Cost of helpers: $0
Highest Price Sold: $177.12 (Antique Pair Robert Findlay Art Deco Wall Sconce Lights)
Average Price Sold: $58.82
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $24
Number of items listed this week: 8

Scavenge of the week: big set of Corelle dishes for $9.99 and a Hallmark Jan Karon Mitford Series House in the bottom of a $3 auction box.  I had no idea it was collectible until my intuition said check Google Lens!  It had a small chip on it,  but already sold this week for $75!! Google Lens has changed by ebay listing and research life!!

Week of Aug 21 – 27
Total Items in Store: 1660 eBay, 33 Etsy
Items Sold: 8 eBay, 0 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $4.50 + $7 Commission
Total Sales: $123.74 eBay; includes fees but no shipping
Highest Price Sold: eBay $22 for 1938 Book on Leonardo Da Vinci
Average price: $15.47
Returns: 1
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 2

It was a much slower week than I had realized. I just came back from vacation, and I was trying to get stuff listed for my neighbor. He is getting more serious about buying a home in an active adult community, so he needs a faster pace for cleaning up. His wife really was quite the hoarder. I am preventing myself from buying any new inventory so that I can make better progress.

Items in Store 2147
Items Sold 30
Total Sales $948.00
COGS $148.00
Total Profit $800.00
Average profit $26.67
Average sales price $31.60
New Listings 20
Items scavenged 0
Listing 2022 weekly Avg 48
Sourcing Allotment 15

Busy week this week outside of ebay. I was able to create a bunch of draft listings but only got 20 photographed and listed. I’m really surprised I didn’t crack $1000 this week as I had 3 $100+ sales. 12 clothing items sold this week for $362. One of them was a Baseball jersey for $140.  Must be some back to school shopping going on as that is alot of clothing in one week for me.

Finally got our taxes done for 2021, we overpaid by $15K. No wonder I’m so broke.

The first time it turned out I would get a refund like that was the last time I asked for an extension to file. 🙂  Still, congratulations on the bittersweet windfall!

It is exciting to see the new Scavenge of the week / Sale of the week forum to hopefully give us another thread for discussions throughout the week. Especially those of you who are reading but may not post your numbers every week! I am excited to hear more about everyone’s sales and what they find. I got more items listed than usual last week, and I’m sure that the forum being so active had a lot to do with why.

8/21/2022 – 8/27/2022

Total items in store: 1378 (up from 1358 last week)

Items sold: 41 (20 via best offer, 9 via seller initiated offer, 26 via promoted listings)

Gross sales: $2273.53 (down 40% from one year ago)

Net sales: $1625,77 (down 39% from one year ago)

Average sales price: $55.25 (up 21% from one year ago)

Time spent searching through online auction listings for new trading cards inventory: 16 hours (up from 14 hours last week)

Highest price sold (net): $189.83 — Derwin James Panini Select gold prizm autograph rookie #/10

Lowest price sold (net): $8.37 — Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan Volume 5 softcover book