Looks like Steve’s store is going steady, even in the dead of summer. Great sale on not only a turntable, but just the manual for $50!
Scavenger Life Episode 319: Being Adults, Making Decisions
This week was probably the busiest week we’ve had all year. It was our helper’s last 20 hour week, so the ebay push was on. Our renovation is down to the last many, tiny details. We started a big freelance video project for a new client. Lots of plates spinning. We were also planning on taking a trip to New York City in a couple days. Could we handle it all at once? Not really. So we decided to put NYC on hold. Something we’ve never done! But it had to happen. Boo!
Hope your week was great!
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Our Store Week July 9-15, 2017
Store #1
Total Items in Store: 5,771
Items Sold: 44
Cost of Items Sold: $67
Total Sales: $1,648.23
Highest Price Sold: $200 (vintage painting)
Average Price Sold: $37.45
Returns: 1
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $8
Number of items listed this week: 0
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Bonanza/Trugether:
Sold 1 items for $25
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Store #2
Total Items in Store: 1208
Items Sold: 6
Cost of Items Sold: $15
Total Sales: $288.11
Highest Price Sold: $60 (vintage swimming caps)
Average Price Sold: $48.01
Returns: 0
Number of items listed this week: 0
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What Sells On eBay: Red typewriter, Red Wing boots, cocktail glasses, pick up gun rack, gun cases, Mailbox, R-12 Freon, organ keys, Birkenstocks
What a beautiful Royal Firebird cherry red typewriter that Steve sold to Japan. A rare find!
Scavenger Life Episode 318: Spending Money Should Be Painful
As we’ve mentioned before, we’ve been spending all of our money on the new renovation which is about to be finished. We got an email this week that sparked the conversation about spending money and how it is, and should be, painful. What do you think? Hope you’re having a great week so far!
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Our Store Week July 2-8, 2017
Store #1
Total Items in Store: 5,820
Items Sold: 61
Cost of Items Sold: $151
Total Sales: $2,212.21
Highest Price Sold: $170 (vintage denim jacket)
Average Price Sold: $38.47
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $16
Number of items listed this week: 30
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Bonanza/Trugether:
Sold 0 items for $0
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Store #2
Total Items in Store: 1219
Items Sold: 6
Cost of Items Sold: $12
Total Sales: $202.08
Highest Price Sold: $50 (vintage lamp)
Average Price Sold: $33.68
Returns: 0
Number of items listed this week: 0
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What Sells On eBay: Cateye glasses, Merrell boots, paint pallet, devil costume, 1970’s steam iron, Carhartt jacket, concert T-Shirt
Love the sale of the vintage painter’s palette, complete with paint. I am pretty sure people actually just hang those on the wall as art itself. A great find!
Scavenger Life Episode 317: Scavenger Executives
We decided to take a mini “vacation” and rent a hotel room in the next big city over from us for a couple nights. We got a deal online, needed to do some stuff in town, so why not? Of course we still recorded the podcast! Just another reminder, if noreply@scavengerlife.com is sending your forum emails to spam, please unmark them as spam and your email provider should re-recognize our emailer. We’re working on a better fix, but for now, this is the best we can do!
Hope you had a great week. Happy 4th!
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Our Store Week June 25-July1, 2017
Store #1
Total Items in Store: 5,865
Items Sold: 52
Cost of Items Sold: $98
Total Sales: $1,987.15
Highest Price Sold: $150 (vintage hiking boots)
Average Price Sold: $38.21
Returns: 1
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $8
Number of items listed this week: 100
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Bonanza/Trugether:
Sold 0 items for $0
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Store #2
Total Items in Store: 1223
Items Sold: 14
Cost of Items Sold: $28
Total Sales: $584.10
Highest Price Sold: $65 (vintage bag)
Average Price Sold: $41.72
Returns: 0
Number of items listed this week: 0
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What Sells On eBay: Silver phone cover, old calendar, FM Converter, vintage Sony Cassette Recorder, super high end Amplifiers
Absolutely love the vintage silver telephone cover sale on Steve’s store. What a great find!
Scavenger Life Episode 316: Craigslist Road Trips- We Live For A Deal
This week saw us seriously scavenging high end furniture on Craigslist for our new rental. It took a lot of driving, but we think it’s worth it. Also, check your spam folders for forum messages. Gmail seems to think that noreply@scavengerlife.com is a spammer, oh no! We’re working to fix that. Paypal will soon allow instant money transfers to your bank. It’s about time. eBay reminds us via Youtube that they have a Community Forum. Hope they start to moderate it so it’s no longer a pit of gloom and doom.
Hope you had a great week!
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Our Store Week June 18-24, 2017
Store #1
Total Items in Store: 5,784
Items Sold: 56
Cost of Items Sold: $95
Total Sales: $1,614.51
Highest Price Sold: $100 (vintage cigar box)
Average Price Sold: $28.83
Returns: 2
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $18
Number of items listed this week: 75
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Bonanza/Trugether:
Sold 0 items for $0
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Store #2
Total Items in Store: 1233
Items Sold: 6
Cost of Items Sold: $24
Total Sales: $146.26
Highest Price Sold: $42 (vintage photograph)
Average Price Sold: $24.36
Returns: 0
Number of items listed this week: 0
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What Sells On eBay: Cosco serving cart, Speakers, Wear Ever pans, Trav L Bar, Vintage fan, and Norman won’t drop it.
Love all the vintage cocktail and barware sales on Steve’s store. Especially the vintage bar serving cart. So cool!
Scavenger Life Episode 315: Okay, you’re making money. Now what?
A couple weeks ago, we were talking about our backup plan to eBay. But many commenters on the forum were discussing that eBay IS their backup plan to their current job, which makes a lot of sense since so many eBay sellers sell part time on top of their W-2 jobs and families.
I guess a more accurate question we’re always asking ourselves is “what do we really want to be doing”? Scavenging bought us our freedom from having to work for other people. But once we realized we had created a steady pipeline of money on eBay that consistently paid our bills, was this enough? Did we want to just sell online for the rest of our lives? What did we really want to be doing?
The honest answer is that we don’t really know. I think a lot of us are unsure about what we want to be when we grow up if backed into a corner. Sure, we all want/deserve some leisure. A little freedom from worry. Keep a roof over your head. Be able to send your kids to college. Fix the car if it breaks down. But once you’ve figured out those things, what do you REALLY want to do with your time? What challenges do you want to take on? When you’re on your death bed, what’s going to make you feel at peace?
Our strategy is just to evolve step by step. We learned that we like using our extra eBay profits to renovate houses for rent. We love the challenge of taking a house in bad shape and making it awesome. Design is fun. Scavenging and re-using old materials is so satisfying. And then these rentals are earning us more money to evolve further. Every day isn’t glamorous, but it sure is an adventure of our making.
We talked about buying a new-to-us, used iPhone 5c on eBay (it’s pink!) and hooking it up on Ting. We love Ting, you should use Ting. Digital scavenging is fun!
Hope you had a good week.
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Our Store Week June 11-17, 2017
Store #1
Total Items in Store: 5,771
Items Sold: 59
Cost of Items Sold: $99
Total Sales: $1,857.20
Highest Price Sold: $110 (vintage brooch)
Average Price Sold: $31.47
Returns: 2
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $12
Number of items listed this week: 75
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Bonanza/Trugether:
Sold 0 items for $0
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Store #2
Total Items in Store: 1239
Items Sold: 9
Cost of Items Sold: $50
Total Sales: $366.68
Highest Price Sold: $90 (vintage record player)
Average Price Sold: $40.74
Returns: 0
Number of items listed this week: 0
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