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When we started selling on eBay, it was 2008 when banks were collapsing across the country and hundreds of thousands of people were losing their homes
[See the full post at: The Numbers: March 12-18, 2023] -
Items in Store 2071
Items Sold 20
Total Sales $595.00
COGS $61.00
Total Profit $534.00
Average profit $26.70
Average sales price $29.75
New Listings 0
Items scavenged 0
Listing 2023 weekly Avg 25Had some sick kids this week and alot of baseball practices. The time change left us in a daze all week as well. ebay wasn’t high on the priority list.
It looks like I will lose my top rated ranking for a month as my late shipment rate is at 3.05%. Have I done anything wrong – nope. It’s just that my total transactions over the last year have dropped. I’m selling less so the percentage goes up. LAME!!! There is no reason why that metric uses a year worth of data.
I have another week of shipping and patiently waiting for better weather.
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@retro-treasures-wv – What is your handling time? Maybe increase it to 2 or 3 days?
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I have 2 day handling. I don’t want to set it to 3.
I was expecting my shipping rates to go up on ebay and was ready to use pirateship for everything. Did they do away with the shipping penalty for not being top rated? My rates did not go up. I still used pirateship since I was there and mentally prepared. Was able to use cubic rates on a few packages I normally wouldn’t. I also get all those extra bonus points on my credit card. Win win!!
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03/12/23 – 03/18/23
Total Items In ebay Store: 4727 (was 4730)
Total Items In Etsy Store: 715 (was 698)
Total Items listed: 5442 (was 5,428)
ebay Items Sold: 16 items for $ 932.97 Net $ 664.30
Etsy Items Sold: 4 items for $ 269.13 Net $ 224.91Total Gross Sales: $ 1202.1 (last week: $794.54 / including eBay\etsy fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $ 889.21 (last week: $537.84 / minus shipping, and taxes)
Items Sold: 20 items
Highest Price Sold: $ 120 (Goblets)
Average Price Sold: $ 44.46
Money Spent on New Inventory: $ 74.73Number of items listed: 14 ebay, 20 Etsy
Gut Sales Report for the week: Sales were much better this week. Hope the trend continues.
Fun Fact : I went to an estate sale. This sale was massive. They had a director for the whole sale. Also, each room had a guide to assist you in that room. The rooms were huge. One was about half the size of a football field, or so it seemed. However, I was not allowed to purchase anything because this estate sale was a dream, not real life – bummer.
Scavenge of the week: Picked up a nice pair of Steve Madden Boots.
Thoughts for the week: Sales came back on Etsy this week. Great to see that Etsy is back in the game. I need all the help I can get during time of lean sales.
Mark
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I was on vacation last week, so I hardly sold anything.
Week of Mar 12 – 18
Total Items in Store: 1770 eBay, 30 Etsy
Items Sold: 3 eBay, 0 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $0 + $0 Commission
Total Sales: $44.08 eBay, $26 Etsy; includes fees but no shipping
Highest Price Sold: eBay $18 for yellow polo shirt
Average price: $14.70
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0 -
@mark-s I love estate sale dreams!
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@mark-s I love estate sale dreams!
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Total Items in Store: 730 (over 700 for the first time)
Items Sold: 6
Gross Sales: $834.67 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $589.13 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $36
Highest Price Sold: $500 (two new old stock bed sheets, paid $12)
Average Price Sold: $119.24
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $30
Number of items listed this week: 12Very good week on Ebay. I sold the recently posted scavenge of the week Ralph Lauren sheets for $500 best offer to the same buyer. I also sold my first Goodwillfinds.com item, for about a $50 profit. Raining here again and I hope to list quite a few items today. R&J just keep listing I remember you used to say. That still works.
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Week Ending 3/11/23
Gross Sales(w/o shipping $ tax): $1,561.42 (100% eBay)
Net Sales: $1,255.97
Total Items Sold: 17
Total Items in eBay Store: 1167
Total Items in Etsy Store: 495
Cost of Items Sold: $271.52
COGS Percent 21.62%Highest Price Sold: $1,000.00 (Art sculpture)
Average Price Sold: $91.85
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory: $724.65
Sold via promoted listings: 9Average Days Listed: 135
Longest Listed: 1041
New items listed: 9
New Listings Value $402.50A single sale accounted for 2/3’s of my sales this week. Always thankful when one of the higher dollar items sells. This was the strange sculptural brooch that I posted about a few weeks ago. I had hoped for much more, but with things being so slow I opted for the bird in hand and accepted a 50% offer. I paid up for it, $228, because I knew it was valuable, but still happy with the short turnaround profit.
Acquired a lot of new inventory last week via auctions, one online and one in-person. This was my first in-person auction and it was quite and experience. I spent a good portion of my week researching pricing for the items I hoped to bid on, which is why my listing numbers are so low. Fortunately, they posted pictures of a lot of the items online ahead of time so I could estimate pricing.
Having never been to an in-person I really didn’t know what to expect. I imagined sitting back in a chair with my sign to wave, but instead it was room full of tables crammed to overflowing with items. The auctioneer moved through the room one table at a time and the buyers would crowd around the table and hold up what they wanted and the bidding would begin. Once the table was picked over, they auction the leftovers as a lot. Very fast paced and confusing at first, but I got the hang of it. I missed a few items I wanted because the bidding would end before I even realised it had started. Most amazing sale of the night for me was a first edition Gone with the Wind that ended up going for $5. They announced it as “an old book” and no one bid on but the person who held it up. Other items that were seeminly worthless sold for hundreds.
Between the two auctions I ended up with a lot of great stuff. Now for the less exciting part.
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That’s exciting you went to your first in-person auction! I really miss them. Every good in-person auction I knew of has gone online.
I love the scrum of the crowd around the tables and the fast-paced bidding. Ryanne and I are a good team because I’ll do the bidding and she’ll start boxing up the tables we win.
I’ve started bidding again at my favorite auctions that have gone online. People are continuing to pay outrageous sums of money for items. I can only imagine its boomers? with a lot of money that have realized they can build their collections this way.
No way people are paying these high prices to resell.
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@Jay – definitely a team effort needed. Since you get your stuff as soon as it ends, I wouldn’t have been able to keep bidding unless Cecile was there to assist.
The craziest bidding was for a bunch of Halloween items. Many were vintage, which I know can sell for high prices, but they also bid up the cheap plastic junk that looked like you could get it at Target. Lots of plastic pumpkins went for $150. Maybe there was something in the bottom of the box that was hidden that I didn’t see.
Some things that I had priced ahead of time went for 3 times what I knew I could sell it for, or buy on eBay. I guess some people really get caught up in the fever of the auction.
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Auctions we went to were mostly regulars who had thrift stores or were sellers of very specific items. I found that many of them were bad at pricing.
But now you see how its easy to load up on inventory when you buy tables/boxes of items. If you dont mind selling long tail items, it is (was?) a good source of inventory.
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A couple weeks worth of numbers here as I try and get back to an eBay routine. It’s amazing what eBay can provide even when you don’t have a lot of time for it. I haven’t had as much time as I would like this month to branch out from my individual trading card listings, but I add new listings every day or two from my backlog of photographed items, and these last few weeks had 1 or 2 sales from listings in other categories. Nice to see.
3/5/2023 to 3/11/2023
Items sold: 21 (12 via best offer, 9 via seller initiated offer, 12 via promoted listings)
Gross sales: $998.90 (down 59% from one year ago)
Net sales: $673.82 (down 62% from one year ago)
Average sales price: $47.57 (down 6% from one year ago)
Highest price sold (net): $121.09— Malik Monk 2017-18 Panini Dominion gold autographed patch rookie card #01/10
Lowest price sold (net): $16.01— 10 card lot of Atlanta Falcons football cards
3/12/2023 to 3/18/2023
Items sold: 26 (14 via best offer, 11 via seller initiated offer, 15 via promoted listings)
Gross sales: $1874.15 (down 24% from one year ago)
Net sales: $1308.76 (down 21% from one year ago)
Average sales price: $72.08 (up 39% from one year ago)
Highest price sold (net): $196.97— Ja Morant 2019 Panini Prizm Draft red black snakeskin shortprint PSA 9
Lowest price sold (net): $11.47— St. Louis Cardinals Topps Museum 4 player jersey card
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