The Numbers: Week May 5-11, 2024

Total Items Listings in Store: 927
Items Sold:  14
Gross Sales: $747 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $468 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $140
Highest Price Sold: $142 (Two new throw pillows)
Average Price Sold: $53
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0

Glad you enjoyed some time away and vacation sourcing R&J.  Sounds like you are happy with your life choices and I couldn’t be happier for you.

I was sick all week with a potent but run of the mill virus.  Turning the corner now and getting mildly productive.  Fingers crossed my family doesn’t get it.  Ebay sales continued to be ok.  It’s nice that some of my Mercari flips are selling.  Overall, I did pretty well on those bundle offers.  About half were canceled by the sellers – probably crossposted and sold elsewhere.  But the remaining items have done ok and sold for more on Ebay.  About half  of my sales were new items, which is a little concerning because I have a lot more used items listed and haven’t been doing as much RA in the last year or two.

I’m getting excited about live selling at the pop up market, though the market I think could be publicized better and seems to wane at times with only 6 sellers turning out.  Hopefully, my plan of waiting until tourist season will work out ok.   The guy who runs the market also set up a new indoor vintage mall.  https://www.instagram.com/p/C6bjkU0r9JW/?img_index=1  I’m not sure what they are charging for rent but it will be a good connection made in case I feel like my family life is settled enough to indulge myself in a regular booth.

Hoping it’s a much more productive week this week.  Praying my son gets a tech internship.  He just got back from Stockholm in time for Mother’s Day.

I’ve been very busy backing up my Ruby Lane store so that I can close it. They will have a significant increase in the cost to have a store next month, so I had to “hand” save all the photos to folders and copy and paste all the descriptions and information in a file for listing later. What a pain.

My big sale of the week had been my father’s mats in his new car. He wanted fabric, so he gave me the rubber ones that came standard.

Week of May 5 – 11
Total Items in Store: 1630 eBay, 25 Etsy, 63 Ruby Lane
Items Sold: 11 eBay, 0 Etsy, 0 Ruby Lane
Cost of Items Sold: $8.70 + $19 Commission
Total Sales: $267.64 eBay
Highest Price Sold: eBay $110 for OEM Lexus All Weather Mats Set
Average price: $24.33
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $82.60
Number of items listed this week: 13

Items in Store: 2853
Items Sold: 20
Total Sales: $1,028.00
COGS: $134.00
Total Profit: $894.00
Average profit: $44.70
Average sales price: $51.40
New Listings: 30
Items scavenged: 25
2024 weekly new listings Avg: 27
2024 avg gross weekly sales $1,484.89
2024 Avg weekly Items Sold 33
2024 ASP $44.50
2024 projected total sales $77,214.53

Just plugging along this week. I was able to get some photography/listing done this week. Yay! I’ll keep chipping away at listings and inventory storage in the spare minutes of my days until my schedule clears up a bit. I’m still creating listings. Even with 30 listings last week I still have a draft bank of 150 items ready for photos.I do a lot of listing while sitting in my van on breaks/lunch. Sometimes I bring items into my office to list or photograph if they are smalls. I have 9 bins of listed items that need moved into the inventory system. And then I have 6 bins of the 150 draft bank items that will follow shortly behind.

My older kids are working to finish up their school this month and baseball will wrap up early in June. Then they’ll be free to help me more and clear out that backlog. They’ve expressed interest in doing another $10 ebay challenge this summer.

Or maybe they’ll just play video games all day. It remains to be seen.

Premium Hoarder update:

Sold 5 items for $432.