The Numbers: Week of August 27-September 2, 2023

It happened about 6pm.
“Uh oh, ” I said “We just sold a $1500 purse.”

This should be great news. Why shouldn’t we be over the moon to sell a vintage Chanel purse? Because if you’ve sold on eBay long enough, you know that large purchases are fraught with “problems”. The buyer had sent an offer, we accepted, and they even immediately paid.

So we waited to see if we’d hear from the buyer. An hour later, we get the first message.
Buyer: “I am so sorry but I messed up when I put in my offer. I meant put offer 1050 not 1500. Is there anyway you could cancel this offer?”
What do we do? We’re very hungry for this sale.
Us: Hi, thanks for messaging me. I could refund you $200 if that would help. Let me know, thanks.”
Buyer: “I’ll have to end up returning it anyway if it’s sent to me. It’ll be a hassle to have to go through that for the both of us. Please understand.”

At this point, the buyer is already discussing returning the item. We just canceled the sale. Easy come, easy go. These are the ups and downs of being an eBay seller.

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Our Store Week August 27-September 2, 2023

Total Items in Store: 9541
Items Sold: 12
Gross Sales: $669.30 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $488.60 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $47
Cost of helpers: $80
Highest Price Sold: $180 (wool rug)
Average Price Sold: $40.71
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 50
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(Your numbers can be found here: https://www.ebay.com/sh/performance/sales)

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- 09/06/2023 at 9:26 am #100972
  Jay
  Keymaster
  Location: Virginia
  @jay
  It happened about 6pm. “Uh oh, ” I said “We just sold a $1500 purse.” This should be great news. Why shouldn’t we be over the moon to sell a vintage C
  [See the full post at: The Numbers: Week of August 27-September 2, 2023]
- 09/06/2023 at 2:04 pm #100980
  ChristineR
  Participant
  Location: Southern California
  @christiner
  Delete if repeat pls
  
  Total Items in Store: 842
  Items Sold: 10
  Gross Sales: $804.09 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
  Net Sales: $516.35 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
  Cost of Items Sold: $121
  Highest Price Sold: $365 (Vintage bookends)
  Average Price Sold: $80.41
  Returns: 0
  Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $90
  Number of items listed this week: 30
  
  Solid week for me on Ebay. I got my second Vero from Williams Sonoma for photos and I need to fix a couple of other listings as they clearly are trolling for stock photos. I’ve been very lucky lately to be selling one higher end item in my store each week. I don’t have many at all over $100.
  
  This weekend I went to a flea market near Downtown LA with my friend’s Gen Z teens. All clothing and much of it denim and graphic tees. It was fascinating to see what they were wearing. Lots of cowboy boots on the girls, small tees and baggy jeans, doc martens. The graphic tees are so random that they think are cool – pop culture, music, but also things you could just find at any thrift store, priced between $20-95+ a tee. I mentioned the Costco trend, and they looked at me like I was nutters. The son’s girlfriend was wearing a toned down Stevie Nicks outfit.
  
  Then I got to try out the bins on my way home for the first time. It was a chill Sunday night before closing and there were a fair number of shoppers but no new bins so pretty mellow. Nobody being territorial thankfully. I bought some sheets, vintage and brand new, and a handful of other things for 2 pounds, $15. It was a good arm workout looking through the fabric bins. Once again, everyone just passing over the linens.
  
  Have a good week!
- 09/07/2023 at 9:21 am #100991
  Retro Treasures WV
  Participant
  Location:
  @retro-treasures-wv
  Items in Store: 2595
  Items Sold: 40
  Total Sales: $1,738.00
  COGS: $197.00
  Total Profit: $1,541.00
  Average profit: $38.53
  Average sales price: $43.45
  New Listings: 61
  Items scavenged: 24
  Listing 2023 weekly Avg: 40
  
  I was in Columbus for the long weekend celebrating my wife’s Birthday. Got all my listing done by Friday evening. Saturday we did some yard sales and then hit the road. I learned last week from a youtube reseller that scheduling listings is now FREE. I don’t recall this ever being announced in any update. So since I was not going to be listing over the weekend I scheduled some listings for Saturday and Sunday.
  
  Going forward I will continue to use the scheduled listings. My strategy is that quick sales or high dollar items will be listed immediately. Low dollar bread n butter listings will get scheduled out so I always have listings going live every day.
  
  I scavenged a bit on Saturday and Monday in Columbus. I only bought 5 items across 2 stores – twas not a good scavenging trip but that wasn’t really the reason I was in town. Normally I spend alot more time scavenging. Two of the items are potential homeruns though – car radio head units. If they both work after testing will sell for $300+ each. I love selling OEM radio head units. If you have the capability to test them they can sell for big bucks. Even not working they’ll bring $50 each so I can’t really lose.
  
  Premium Hoarder Update:
  
  I sold 9 items for $832. Two pair of shoes sold for $250+. One shirt sold for $120. A couple items were low dollar items like a pair of Sperry Flip flops that sold for $10. I wasn’t gonna list them but what the hay…glad I did. $10 is still $10!
  
  My total hoarder sales topped $7000. After fees that comes to $6075 so I’m still a bit shy of my break even point. BUT, a $325 sales of shoes I just had this morning officially put me in the profit after fees. Woot!!!
  
  I did get some more of the new in box shoes listed. I’ve been picking/choosing ones that are lower end and more likely to be authentic. Only had one pair that were clearly fake that I’ve set aside in this batch.
- 09/07/2023 at 9:36 am #100992
  Sharyn
  Participant
  Location: Central NJ
  @sharyn
  I had a really poor week. Low dollar too. It did give me some time to list.
  
  Week of Aug 27 – Sept 2
  Total Items in Store: 1710 eBay, 30 Etsy
  Items Sold: 5 eBay, 0 Etsy
  Cost of Items Sold: $7 + $10 Commission
  Total Sales: $93.47 eBay, $0 Etsy; includes fees but no shipping
  Highest Price Sold: eBay $24 Set 5 Homer Laughlin PASTORAL Bread Plates
  Average price: $18.69
  Returns: 0
  Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
  Number of items listed this week: 18
- 09/07/2023 at 3:19 pm #100993
  Temudgin
  Participant
  Location: Jacksonville FL
  @temudgin
  Week of 8/27 – 9/02
  Total items in Store: 383
  Items Sold: 10
  Gross Sales: $261.91 (w/o eBay fees, shipping, or taxes)
  Cost of Items Sold: $94.24 (including consignment commissions but not the original cost of family castoffs)
  Highest Price Sold: $89.59 plus shipping (1969 US Army OD Green Jungle Fatigue Pants)
  Average Sales Price: $26.19 (not incl eBay fees, shipping, or taxes)
  Returns: 0
  Money Spent on New Inventory: $0
  Number of new items listed: 12
  
  Fair to middling. At least I listed more than I sold.
- 09/08/2023 at 4:59 pm #100995
  Lukastreasure
  Participant
  Location: Chevy Chase, MD
  @lukastreasuretrove
  Week Ending 9/2/23
  Gross Sales(w/o shipping $ tax): $206.70 (eBay $73 / Etsy $134)
  Net Sales: $177.51
  Total Items Sold: 8 (eBay 4 / Etsy 4)
  Total Items in eBay Store: 1185 / Etsy Store: 509
  Cost of Items Sold: $12.25
  COGS Percent: 6.90%
  Highest Price Sold: $49.95 Judaica Bookends
  Average Price Sold: $25.84
  Returns: 0
  Money Spent on New Inventory: $0.00
  
  Average Days Listed: 584
  Longest Listed: 2131
  New items listed: 8
  New Listings Value $1,144.00
  
  Definitely sucks to lose such a big sale, but you’re right to cancel than deal with the hassle.
  
  For some reason I’ve stopped getting notifications for new posts for the numbers. Just unsubscribed and resubscribed so hopefully that will fix it.
  
  My “big” sale of the week was a set of Dayagi Bat Mitzvah brass book ends. Everything made by Dayagi sells well.
  
  Pretty sad week overall. Etsy hasn’t had many sales lately, but showed up on this slow week. Hopefully, the summer doldrums are over and we can start seeing the start of the Christmas rush.
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