Scavenger Life Episode 415: Importance Of Being Honest As A Business Owner

2019-06-09 – 2019-06-15

Total Items In Store: 3016 (was 3013)
Items Sold: 18 (16 ebay, 2 Bonanza)
Cost of Items Sold: $ 60
Total Sales: $ 680
Highest Price Sold: $ 170 (Betamax vcr)
Average Price Sold: $ 37.78
# Items Listed: 19
Money Spent on New Inventory: $ 36

Gut Sales Report for the week: Sales were ok. Big surprise was the activity on Bonanza. 2 sales and a few inquiries. Hope that keeps up.

Challenge of the week: Trying to get items listed.

Scavenge of the week: I went to a thrift store that I hadn’t been to in awhile. They had a much better selection now of non-clothes and got some really good items.

Mark S

Good early morning all, so nice to have Pod Buddies to hang out with while packing and shipping…
slow, soft, quiet, however you want to describe it, sucky week! I did more eBay sales yesterday, Sunday, than all of last week and with almost as many items sold. You never know.
Back to the garage now to slap on the shipping labels and hit play again on your latest installment, so many thanks, will post da numbers once settled across town at the regular job. Blessings.

Week June 9 – 15, 2019

Items in store: 4010 Listings for 6043 Items
Items Sold: 97 Transactions for 110 Items
Gross Sales: $5058.11
Highest Price Sold: $175, Hugo Boss Suit
Lowest Price Sold: $3.24(shoe laces)
Average Price Sold: $45.98
Cost of Goods Sold $397, Plus consignment
Number of new items listed this week: 142 items
$$ spent on new inventory this week $130
Repeat Customers: 7

Haven’t really been out sourcing in several weeks. The main focus in the summer when the weather gets nice and thrifting gets slow is the life-pile. I typically grow it in the winter to about a 10-15 week supply, to get me through the slowest months. I also still have about 1/3 of a 300 lb consignment shipment to work on and more on the way.

This week on Wednesday, I was putting the packages out on the porch for pickup and noticed the neighbours were having a yard sale. Picked up 17 Nintendo DS games with original cases, booklets and advertisements for $10. A few of them should bring in $50 each, while the others made nice small lots. I expect to sell them for in the $350 ballpark when it’s all said and done. Also picked up a Troy-Bilt Tiller to add to my fleet for $60. It was only used for one season and still retails at Lowes for $419.

3rd Saturday in June every year we have an antique festival in town where they shut the street down and there are vendors everywhere. Most stuff is usually a little too pricey for flipping, but I always walk home with a little something, typically in the leather category. This year was no exception. I grabbed a nice vintage leather camera bag large enough for 2 full kits. It needs a little repair, so I will see if I can do it myself quickly, if not, it sells as is. I also got a cloth lined brown leather bag. It was locked and I couldn’t get a look at the inside, so I talked them into knocking $20 off it. You just don’t see many in brown. Took me about 2 minuted to pick the lock when I got home. It’s not perfect, but still sturdy and suitable for carry or display.

Finally the scavenge of the week was from the same dealer as the doctors bag. Very early Hanover shoes, definitely the oldest I have seen….and I’ve seen a ton. We live a few miles from Hanover and the old shoes pop up quite often. My mother in law and her sister both worked there in the 70s sewing shoes. Anyway….these are mens button boots, likely the first decade of the 1900s. The label had the price stitched in $3.50. Hanover Shoe strategy was quality shoes, factory direct, for a more affordable price. In 1900, their prices started at $2.50. So cool, I’m a sucker for antique and vintage clothing, especially for local stuff….and it’s so rare to find mens shoes that old.

Here are the shoes. https://www.ebay.com/itm/303189789297

While I was at the festival, I popped into the chamber of commerce and got info on setting up a booth next year. Every year the festival gets smaller and smaller as antique dealers and interest sputter out. I could easily truck over a load or two of vintage clothing and antiques, and it would only take a few sales to cover the cost. Can’t wait!

June 6 to June 15, 201

Total Items In Store: +/- 105
Items Sold: 5
Cost of Items Sold: $15.50
Total Sales: $ 179
Highest Price Sold: $ 55 (art print)
Average Price Sold: $ 35

Gut Sales Report for the week: Sales were very, very soft, but it was the last week of school and I didn’t have a ton of time to work on eBay… so it was okay.

Challenge of the week: Getting some death piles listed! I want to load up the shop over the summer so I head into September/next school year with a shop of at least 250 items of decent value. Because I have problems with inventory management/organization, a super-large shop doesn’t work for me, so I’m trying to go higher-dollar with each item. I think about 250 items will be manageable.

Scavenge of the week: I found some art deco silverplate which might be more valuable than I expected. Apparently it’s a scarce line by a niche designer. The first day I found 6 cups, but then researched them and realized there are other pieces in the set (a tray, a pitcher, etc.) so I went back to the shop every day for a week hoping more pieces would emerge. The second day I found 2 more cups, but that’s it. I’m still keeping my eyes peeled and will probably list them mid-week if nothing else shows up.

Happy Birthday @Ryanne, I’m rounding the turn in a few months as well.

Week of 06/09-06/15
Total Items in Store: 3,250 (Up 44% YOY)
Number of Items Listed: 70
Number of Items Sold: 78 (Down 1% YOY)
(Includes 1 Etsy, 3 Poshmark, 0 Bonanza, 0 TrueGether)
Weekly STR: 10% (Down 5% YOY)

Total Product Sales: $2,047 (Down 1% YOY)
Sales Volume Variance to Prior Year: Down $26
Sales Price Variance to Prior Year: Up $4
Cost of Items Sold: $332
Cost of Labor: $50
Highest Item Sold: $105 – Daniel Cremieux Suit
Competition: Highest Priced Sale: Troy wins the week and Veronica leads for the year 13-12.

Clothing
# Listed: 1,925
# Sold: 50
STR: 11%
ASP: $24.27

Shoes
# Listed: 730
# Sold: 18
STR: 11%
ASP: $32.77

Hard Goods
# Listed: 595
# Sold: 10
STR: 7%
ASP: $24.35

EBay
# Listed: 3,250
# Sold: 74
STR: 10%
ASP: $25.94

Etsy
# Listed: 230
# Sold: 1
STR: 2%
ASP: $12.85

Poshmark
# Listed: 786
# Sold: 3
STR: 2%
ASP: $38

Veronica is doing well running the show by herself while I am up here in Montana. She had a great day sourcing on Saturday and had a solid 70 new listings last week. I’m getting ready to stack hay early this week and rehook up the main water line to get water going on the pastures again once the hay is off. Got lots of other small projects to do around here as well.

Listing will be a vacation when I’m back in Colorado… 🙂

Happy birthday, Ryanne!!!

Week June 9-15, 2019

Total Items in Store: 1006
Items Sold: 30 (1 Amazon, 4 FB)
Cost of Items Sold: $246.49 (21.7% of sales)
Total Sales: $1,135.66
Highest Price Sold: $99.99 (1960s Sterling Silver Torah Pen)
Average Price Sold: $37.86
Returns: 2 (1 started & received, 1 not yet shipped by the buyer)
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $370
Number of items listed this week: 19
Promoted listings test: 13 sales, 340.42 (30% of total sales), $16.55 fees (4.9% of sales)

Really great week for me. $1000+ weeks are usually reserved for the holiday season for me, but this is an awesome shot in the arm for the summer! Volume was high (avg about 17-18 sales/wk), avg price was good (exactly half of my sales were above $30 and half below $30).

The high dollar sale was one of 2 of these pens that I bought at a high end estate sale about a month ago. Didn’t even know what they were when I picked them up, just noticed that they were very detailed, likely vintage, and both sterling silver. Paid $30 for 2, sold the first for $100 so I’m pretty pleased so far. Other good/interesting sales included some of my old bread & butter items: bottle of Guerlain Samsara (BOLO for everyone out there, Guerlain just changed the bottle & formula for Samsara, so even though this style bottle isn’t very vintage, it will become sought after), 1960s French Cruise playing cards, and a briefcase backgammon game (ALWAYS pick these up for under $5 at yard sales if they’re clean & complete).

On my way home to PA to see my dad for Fathers’ Day, swung by a records store that I had heard about but never went to in person. It’s in a very random & depressing area, inside of a run down & sad mall where even the Old Navy went out of business (you can see the outlines of their letters on the wall).
Ended up finding some very difficult to find original pressings including Beastie Boys License to Ill, Depeche Mode Violator, Foo Fighters Nothing Left to Lose, and Soundgarden Down on the Upside STILL SEALED! These are the types of albums that you usually have to settle on recent repressings. This place will likely now be on my must stop list anytime I’m out that way.

Played the pod-cast this morning and Susan was listening and she say’s thanks for the Shout Out and appreciates your thoughts. She even got up for a few minutes after the pod cast and asked what all was backed up in the office. Think you guys got her mind off the pain and thinking about something else.

On another note: Jay you talked about Sales being low and that it happens. Well if you remember you had a longer thread going last year about the 30 day / end the listing / and relist for another 30 days in order to have Ebay-Cassini see each relisting as a brand new listing to keep the stores fresh and not being seen as going stale or having stale listings with low views and no sales.

Well interesting that now that Ebay has converted over to all GTC and eliminated the short listing options, according to Craigslist Hunter, he says he and other larger stores have been talking about there Sales sliding drastically since this Ebay change.

Since you like data, experiments to prove the cause and effects and the results of those experiments, take a look at this. He did an experiment using his two stores and talks about the results. Then the other large stores did the same thing and got the same results and there sales have bounced back.

To also set the stage for this video he did, he talked about sales starting to slump a few videos earlier and said then that he would contact an experiment to find out what was happening after years of stable, consistent sales, why suddenly Sales tanked.He said earlier that it would take him a few months to run the experiment in both stores and gather the data then he would produce a follow up video.

Well this is the video of the results. It is about 10 minutes, but very interesting and seems, in my opinion, to support the list, end and relist process. I am not going to call this process a “theory” any longer after someone actually doing what you have always wanted someone to do to verify their actions. Well this convinces me.

The good thing is it can be done automatically within SixBit. I am currently working with SB tech support to see about what it means to keep ending Ebay listings and then auto creating a new listing and uploading and how that may interfere with Etsy which is on a $.20 fee for 90 day listing. Troy and i both use the SB Enterprise edition which we use to cross post to Etsy so that could be a problem by causing Etsy to end early and relisting and getting charged triple $.20 charges. But sure we will work that out.

BUT.. as to your questioning last year of the value to list / end / relist every 30 days, well these guys think that the Ebay GTC change is the culprit of causing older listings to be seen as stale and thus the work around to it is to use the 30 day list / end /relist to over come it and has seems to run enough of a test to seem to prove it.

Check it out and see if this could actually be some of the culprit to low sales on top of the seasonal slow down we all see. interested in what some of the follow up opinions are on the list / end / relist at 30 to 60 day cycles now.

TTFN ..

Mike at MDC Concepts, Inc.
MDC Galleries and Fine Art
SmartParts Small Equipment Parts

@ Troy:

Hey buddy good to hear that you are getting a handle on the ranch stuff for your mom.

Just FYI.. Based on the above video by CraigsList Hunter I came across a question for the SB Tech Team and have an open ticket / question to them on the needed allocation plan to accomplish the list / end / relist and how it impacts the 90 Etsy cycle.

I am waiting for the reply from either Steve or Dustin and will shoot that on along to you so you can see what they say.

Catch you later after you get your feet back on the ground

P.S. you running a computer that doesn’t have Windows 10 on it? Doesn’t that slow down SixBit for you also? Just curious.

mike at MDCGFA

June 9-15
Total Items in Store: 2326
Items Sold: 27
Total Sales : $1026
* ABOVE yearly average of $894
Highest Price: $350 (Set of Four MCM Stanley Dining Room Chairs)
Average Price: $38
Returns: 0
Cost of Goods Sold: $94
Costs of Goods Purchased this Week: $41
Number of New Items Listed this Week: 51

I had a great week this time around. Thanks in part to a nice sale of some Mid Century Modern dining room chairs that took forever for me to list. They took me some time to clean up and finally take some decent photos, but it only took less than a month to sell for full price. The only issue is that the buyer can’t pick them up until July, but he’s paid already so I don’t mind babysitting them.

We tried shopping at the outlets on Friday but I really didn’t find too much. Goodwill outlets can be great some days and completely lousy other days. But at least it was nice to get out of the house. Later that day I went to an afternoon estate sale and bought a mystery tote of electronics for $25. It wasn’t really a mystery as you could look inside and examine what you were buying, but it was elbow to elbow in this little house and I didn’t want to miss out so I just grabbed it. Well anyway, I got burnt. It was mostly empty electronics boxes and instruction manuals. I’ll probably at least make my money back on some of the old software that was inside. It was a gamble that I lost, but a lot of times the risk is worth it.

This week I’ll be listing more flatware and odds and ends. I’ll also need to get started on installing this sink in my basement sometime soon. I’m procrastinating because I really know nothing about plumbing. But I’m finding that that’s one of the joys of owning your own house… learning new skills along the way.

Items in Store 1203
Items Sold 23
Total Sales $577.00
COGS $47.00
Total Profit $530.00
Average profit $23.04
Average sales price $25.09
New Listings 49

Summer goal
Week Goal Actual Difference
6/10/2019 875.00 411.00 -464.00
6/17/2019 875.00 577.00 -298.00

Currently $762 behind goal pace.

This week was setting up to be terrible. Typcically most of my sales come Monday-Thursday and my weekends suck. This week I was dead all week then had a great weekend.

I am still off of my summer goal I have set for myself, but I am moving in the right direction. All the listing I am doing will start to pay off and I can build some momentum to make up ground. I crossed 1200 listings for the first time. Hopefully that leads to my items sold per week trending upwards as well.

This weekend yard sales were fairly disappointing. Lots of junk sales, but there were a few good ones. Typically I load up the back of my van, but not this week. At one sale there were 3 pair of Miss Me Jeans laying out among the clothes. This was almost noon, so I figured they were asking a ton for them to still be there. I almost didn’t ask but I figured what the hay. I asked the guy how much for them and I didn’t hear him at first. I asked again and he said “a buck”. I asked if he was sure and he said “yep, I want to get rid of ’em”. There were 4 other women at the sale that audibly gasped. I scooped those things up as quick as I could!

Listing wise, this weekend was video game weekend. I listed a bunch of video games and accessories that I’ve had for a while. This was a great first test for my daughter to photograph for me. I showed her how to photograph one item and walked away, just to see how she would follow instruction and adapt if something changed.

She did wonderfully! She followed my instructions and asked good questions when she got to different items. Her photos we all well centered and focused. She’s gonna make some good money this summer.

Just had a Whoa Nelly! Moment. For anyone that is doing a longer term “Promoted Listings” campaign. I think you may want to check it out and see if you have this situation on your listings.

We usually run short Flash type sales and when we do promoted Listings we usually do it for a 1% over the trending average and run it for a month or so and then it ends, and we do it again.

Well we decided to do a longer time frame for Promoted Listings and do the same 1% over the trending average, but this time run it without and ending date by using the on “Continuous” until we would decide to stop it manually.

Well the thought just popped into my mind to go and check and I discovered something I had previously just assumed but was surprised that I was wrong.
For anyone here at SL that is running a long time period for Promoted Listings, go to the Active Listings on your seller dashboard. Then when they all pop up, usually about 200 per page [we have approx. 1,200 listings]. Then look at the column titled Promoted Listings” and if you don’t see that column make sure you use the blue “Customize” link and click on “Promoted Listings” to add that column to the page view.
Now as I looked at this column and scrolled down, I saw the following, which was not something I expected because of this assumption.

I assumed when I started the Promotion about 3 or 4 months ago and selected that I wished to use the 1% over the trending rates that both numbers, the trending rate, as well as my 1% over that were both floating numbers. Meaning, If the rate went up, then so would my 1% above that trend go up accordingly. But I also assumed that if the rate went down, that my 1% above the trending rates would decline along with it. WELL, NOPE!!

Here are a few examples of what I am seeing.
Trending rate My Rate
6.3% 7.3% what I would expect [1% above the trending rate] BUT next the surprise,
5.7% 8.9% = 3.2% above the trending rate
6.2% 8.1% = 1.9% above the trending rate
9.8% 14% = 4.2% above the trending rate
6.7% 9.9% = 3.2% above, etc., etc.

The first thing that pops into my mind is that while the trending rate will and does fluctuate up and down with the trends, that when I set the amount I wanted to pay for promoted listing [1% above the trending rate] locked in at that moments current trend rate and becomes a “fixed” percentage.

That means if the rates go up then I would guess as I originally presumed my rate would go up right along with it, BUT if the trending rate drops, then my 1% number sits as a ‘fixed” number and does not drop or lower as the trends go down. HuH!!

I would like to ask if any SL member is currently running a longer term “Promoted Listings” campaign, that you check this out and see if you are having or seeing something similar. Have any of the trending rates gone down while your percentage, if it was ‘tied” to the trend rate such as a 1% above trend, is “stuck” at the original percentage. If so, then I think we have an Ebay glitch that will need to be reported and fixed, unless I missed something or assumed the 1% above was a floating number tied to the floating up or down of the trend.

In the meantime, I am ending my Promoted Listing campaign and will start another later once we get some clarification on this.

Thanks,
Mike at MDC Galleries and Fine Art in Atlanta

Thanks for the podcast

Here are my numbers for the week:
Total Items in Store: 3087
Items Sold: 38
Total Sales: $1112
Cost of Items Sold: $127
Average Price Sold: $29.25
Average Cost of Item: $3.35
Highest Price Item Sold: $119.95 Magnavox Freetimer D8040 Vintage Boombox
Number of items listed this week: 78
YTD Sales: $23046
YTD sales compared to this time last year: +16%
Average age of items in store (in days since listing): 373
Average number of days between listing and selling this week: 203
Median age of sales (in days, between listing and selling): 87
Sell-through rate (for the week): 1.23%
Hats sold this week: 20 (52% of sales) worth $365.48 (32% of sales $)

Another decent week for me especially for this time of year.

Regarding eBay returns, I started my own return on eBay this week (June 12). It was a relatively cheap item that was defective. The seller must have had the RMA option switched on because as of today (June 17) I still haven’t received a shipping label. Ebay has given the seller until today to provide a shipping label. The seller has been messaging me telling me that If I close the return (as “changed mind”) they will refund me. Obviously trying to skirt the INAD defect. Super annoying that they aren’t forced to resolve this more quickly.

My find of the week this week was a toy that reminded me of something that Frank from American Pickers would find. It’s a 1960s Japanese robot. Like new in the box. Apparently worth around $200. I found it at a garage sale.

Hope everyone has a great week!

First week of full time and easily my best week ever. Total profits after all expenses/fees checking in close to $2500.

Top sales:
Autographed Harry Potter 1st Edition Sorcerer’s Stone sold for $1000 – found for a dollar at estate sale and paid $100 for authentication
Two consignment sales – Klipsch Cornwall Speakers and a vintage McIntosh 4100 receiver. My share of the sales was $800.

Woke up to a nice $200 sale for a lot of three Motorola Rugged Cell Phones that I got in an auction box lot for $4.

Best recent scavenge at a garage sale – big box of new in box medical stuff. The guy selling told me that if I didn’t know what it was, then it wouldn’t be of any use to me. I offered $20 for the box and he was surprised and took it. Sold 6 units already for $25 each with at least two dozen left to sell. Still don’t even know what they are…

Understanding that this was a rare week, but felt good and the wife loved it!

Happy Birthday, Ryanne! You can join my family in celebrating milestones that are evenly divisible by 10 this year. My sister turned 50 in February, my husband’s and my 20th anniversary was on the 6th, and my dad turned 80 on the 7th. (Yes, we actually got married the day before my dad hit 60).

I also thought about this meme I’ve seen on Facebook:
Welcome to your 40s. If you do not already have a mysterious ailment, one will be assigned to you shortly.

Week of Jun 9 – 15
* Total Items in Store: 1372, eBay, 3 Etsy
* Items Sold: 20 eBay
* Cost of Items Sold: $17.70 + $4 Commission
* Total Sales: $340
* Highest Price Sold: $30 – 1966 Facit typewriter nonworking
* Average Price Sold: $17
* Returns: 0
* Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
* Number of items listed this week: 7

I actually had a good number of items sold, but nothing was over $30.

Regarding travel golf caddies, they sell quite well. My dad gave me two over a year ago, and they didn’t take long to sell. Because they are meant to withstand rough handling, I just wrapped them in thick black sheeting, taped it up, and added the shipping label. Easy peasy, and definitely a BOLO.

Happy Birthday Ryanne!

Happiest 40th Birthday Ryanne! Welcome to the club. 🙂

About Webinterpret using an email I received from their sales rep

Lot’s of birthdays this week, mine was on the 13th 🙂

Below a message I received from Webinterpret a coupe of weeks ago, it answers some of the questions raised on this episode.
Does not precise whether it is a quantity amount or a percentage amount, but it is good for clarification.

From: Alleya Khan <alleya.khan@webinterpret.com>
Date: May 29, 2019 at 2:57:44 PM EDT
To: Paulo H
Subject: You’ve made $398 this month, make even more by listing ALL of your items

Alleya here with Webinterpret!

I was just taking a look into you Ebay account and It looks like this month you have made a total of $398 with us… I’m excited to give you this opportunity to grow your business and increase your sales by upgrading your account to a plan.

Take into consideration we only listed a fraction of your eligible items, right now you can unlock all of your eligible items by selecting one of our plans!

Because you have sold 2items, I would recommend the Pay as you Go plan listed here https://www.webinterpret.com/us/pricing/, scroll down until you see Ebay & Amazon and check out the Pay as you Go option.

Let me know your thoughts!

REMEMBER WE SYNC EVERYTHING!
The stock levels, postage rates, prices, item specifics, and content of your domestic listings are fully synchronized with your free international listings.

So any changes to your US listings will automatically reflect on your international listings every 24 hours. And any changes to the item’s inventory count are updated in real time, eliminating any risk of selling products that you no longer have in stock.

SET-UP AND CHECKLIST

To help you set up your account for the best chances on being listed internationally with us check out this doc here:
Account Set Up

To manage your international listings, please visit
app.webinterpret.com > then ‘login with eBay’. There is also our helpdocs that can be found here to help you with your ebay integration and tips and tricks to help you along the way with us

For any other requests, please don’t hesitate to contact us !
Happy Selling!

Alleya Khan
Sales Executive

Yay, good thing I copy/pasted that long one…it got eaten by the thread again.

Happy belated birthday, Ryanne

Happy Birthday Ryanne!

I had a great father’s day – we camped for 4 days in the Cypress Hills. No cell coverage, so ebay kind of ground to a halt, which was a nice break.

Nonetheless I had a very good week on ebay.

Sales: CAD$2325, 12 items, COGS: $593 –> Item profit: $1356
Expenditures: $637 –> Cashflow: $1312
Hours: 6, $219/hr (packing mostly happened this Monday)
Listed: $1030, 14 items
Notable sales: another microscope $490, medical film to Germany $200 (2 packs, paid $10 for 33 packs).
Listed: bought a few good auction lots. One is a total flyer, a huge lot of protective sleeves for directional drilling pipes. I have no idea how to price these – are they worth $20, 200, 2000? Can’t find a damn thing. I put them up for $500 each, no takers so far. I’ve got about 50 of them. This will either be a huge score or a giant pain in the ass that never sells.

I agree that a small business owner needs to be honest with themselves. It’s really hard to do, maybe it’s the hardest thing to do. We want our businesses to be successful, and we especially want our time not to have been wasted. Sunk costs can drag you down indefinitely.

I try to ask myself from time to time, if I was somebody else and was suddenly teleported into owning these assets – would I still do what I am actually doing with them, or something else?

Speaking of fallacies …

@Jay was watching the Youtube channel managed by your friend Pete (TheCraigsListHunter) and he recently made a video about the mandatory good ’till cancelled change.

In that video, he explains why he himself is being impacted by this issue, in a nutshell, because he has a 7/10/30 day process to review and update items.

The reason he states is that, according to him, eBay algorithm de-prioritize listings according to how much a store has been updated, or the less you list, less priorities for your listings.

We talked about this dozens of times across the years, however he uses his store data (it is humongous) to demonstrate his point, comparing months he did not list versus those with constant updates or new listings.

sighs …

items sold: 43
sales: $1,023.66 (i don’t include shipping revenue)
average selling price: $23.80
cost of goods: $164.26
returns: 0
purchases: $243.
store listings: 1016
inventory $ risk: $3,860 (what i paid for all existing inventory)
listed this week: 58
ebay hours: 20

what’s on my mind: I removed best offer from all but 25% of my listings. I only turned on best offer 10 weeks ago, so I am committed to keeping it off for at least 10 weeks & see where I am at with it.

June 9-15
Total Items in Store: 1364
Items Sold: 14
Total Sales : $603
Highest Price: $160 (VTG Stetson Hat)
Honorable Mention: Auction listing, a Nirvana Bleach Cassette Tape that sold for $48. It looked like it had different art on the cover from other listings. Glad I didn’t list it for $10, lol.
Average Price: $43
Returns: 0
Cost of Goods Sold: $51
Costs of Goods Purchased this Week: $70
Number of New Items Listed this Week: 34

Hello all!

Feeling a little better this week thankfully. And sorry Jay I didn’t get respond back! Yes, it’s so much better being at home trying to recover from a cold. I would have most certainly had called off a couple days if I was at my last job…

Like Doubly mentioned, we went to the Goodwill Outlet last Friday. I managed to get some things, lots of shoes lol. But they upped the prices on shoes so that was a bummer. Unfortunately since I was still feeling yucky I got tired super quick. But I found some nice Nike’s, Vans a pair of Dr Martens and a Patagonia jacket. And I found a 1977 The Shining Hard-Back Book Club Edition. Which I guess will so go for a decent amount. So that was fun.

Also, Happy Belated Birthday Ryanne! 🙂

Have a good week all!

Hi everyone – I know I’m late to listening to this one, but I just had to write in about the routing yard sales or thrift stores thing discussed late in the episode. You can do this in Google Maps, which is what I used to use, but you are now limited to 10 locations. So these days I use mapquest which allows around 25. It is a pen and paper method, you simply write down all the addresses you want to go to and then you organize them for efficiency by looking at the map. Then re-write your optimized list. I have a word doc with lines just for this purpose, and it has a place for the date and what you spend at each sale (FOR TAXES!!) It would be nice if a computer would organize for you but this method still works great for me. Happy Scavenging!