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11/28/2018 at 2:18 am #52396
As Jay and Ryanne mentioned on the podcast, Cyber Monday may not be great for us one-off vintage sellers. For my small store this seems to be true as I average 1-2 items per day normally, and yesterday I sold one thing for $18.95, nothing special. However today (Tuesday) I had 5 sales for over $170 which is a great (and unusual) day for me!
So I began to wonder, after all the sales for electronics and the like are over, do people go back to eBay on Tuesday to buy those unique items at a higher rate? Did other sellers do better on Tuesday than Monday? I’d love to compile some data so feel free to post your numbers for Cyber Monday, and what I’ll name “Trash Elf Tuesday”, if my hunch is actually correct.
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11/28/2018 at 7:35 am #52404
We sold seven things Monday, but that was about normal. As we say, these kinds of buying holidays created aimed for us. It’s created for new merchandise.
I am interested to see if the holidays bring any boost to our sales. Its almost the end of November and we’re pretty flat and steady.
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11/28/2018 at 10:19 am #52409
It looks like (from going out and checking your store’s solds) that you only sold 2 things on Tuesday, which also shoots my theory down. Looking Sunday it appears you sold 4 things? So your number Sun-Mon-Tue were 4-7-2, maybe a small bump? Mine were 2-1-5. Just combining are two stores gives numbers of 6 – 8 – 7, which shows no effect from Cyber Monday and no rebound on Tuesday. It would be interesting to aggregate enough trash elves data together to see if there really is a bump at all or if there is a bump on another day.
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11/28/2018 at 8:12 am #52405
I sold 5 items on Monday and 3 items on Tuesday.
I certainly have an uptick in sales, but I’m down from the same time last year.
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11/28/2018 at 10:20 am #52410
Sharyn, what was your Sunday number? I’m just curious now as to whether we really see more sales on Cyber Monday as opposed to a weekend day or the day after.
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11/28/2018 at 10:32 am #52412
Sure, I might as well add from Thanksgiving through the weekend:
Thanksgiving – 1
Black Friday – 4
Saturday – 4
Sunday – 2
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11/28/2018 at 9:41 am #52406
Every year my sales peak after the holidays with Jan thru March consistently being my best months and March always being #1. I suppose its people using gift certificates, buying for themselves what they wish they’d gotten for Christmas & maybe people in the colder areas of the U.S. suffering from season’s long cabin fever staying inside surfing the net.
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11/28/2018 at 10:32 am #52413
Julie – I agree with you on March being the best month – however, I don’t do well in January…my best months are (in order – 7 years sales history) – March, April, October, November, September, August, February, December, May, January, July, June.
Just looking at the numbers quickly, my top 4 months have sales that are almost double my bottom 4, with the middle four months a slow decline between the two.
January may be an outlier for sales as I usually purge my inventory at the end of the year during the holidays, and I always have the fewest listings in January. The rest of the months should have consistent inventory available.
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11/28/2018 at 12:03 pm #52414
Thanksgiving – 6
Black Friday – 9
Saturday – 4
Sunday – 3
Cyber Monday – 6
Tuesday – 5If you have a lot of Q4 type items, you’re probably doing well. I had a lot to ship out at the beginning to middle of November, but it was all Christmas specific stock. It has completely sold out now. If I had any of it left, it would be selling REALLY well right now and my numbers would be way up. Since I am just down to the normal types of items I sell, it’s back to normal.
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11/28/2018 at 2:37 pm #52418
So, big swings. Below are our eBay numbers (I’m away from the house so I can’t see the rest):
Thanksgiving – 12
Black Friday – 19
Saturday – 6
Sunday – 13
Cyber Monday – 21
Tuesday – 7So, Cyber Monday may be up, but it also could have robbed from Tuesday (though Tuesday and Wednesday are usually our slowest days).
But we are actually down right now to last month by about 20%. Maybe the early birds hit eBay in Oct-Early Nov and then all the other Amazon/Specific Sites/Malls for a while. I know that we tend to peak betweeen the weeks of late November- early December for our best weeks of the year, but it changes which week each year.
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11/28/2018 at 2:49 pm #52419
Adding in my numbers for the whole weekend and putting in a running total (not including Jay/Ryanne numbers as they only included part of the weekend for now).
Thanksgiving – 3
Black Friday – 2
Saturday – 2
Sunday – 2
Cyber Monday – 1
Tuesday – 5totals so far with 3 people:
Thanksgiving – 10
Black Friday – 15
Saturday – 10
Sunday – 7
Cyber Monday – 12
Tuesday – 13So far, Black Friday was first, Tuesday after Cyber Monday was second and Cyber Monday was 3rd. Interesting, we need more data. Maybe I’ll start a separate, better named thread and ask for more input.
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11/28/2018 at 8:47 pm #52439
New updated numbers including T-Satt’s. Would love some more….
Thanksgiving – 22
Black Friday – 34
Saturday – 16
Sunday – 20
Cyber Monday – 33
Tuesday – 20Now black friday and cyber monday are in the lead…
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11/29/2018 at 12:53 am #52448
The day after Cyber Monday already has a name – Giving Tuesday. We should be seeing a downturn of sales on that day since everyone should be spending money on their favorite charities, not buying more stuff!
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11/29/2018 at 12:58 am #52449
That said, here are my numbers fwiw
thanksgiving 3
black friday 0
saturday 4
sunday 3
monday 5
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11/29/2018 at 7:40 am #52453
Thanksgiving Thursday – 0
Black Friday – 2
Saturday – 4
Sunday – 3
Cyber Monday – 7
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11/30/2018 at 7:45 pm #52512
updated numbers from 6 people total. It appears Cyber Monday and Black Friday do give a bump to even trash elves. All the other days are tightly bunched with Tuesday being third.
Thanksgiving – 25
Black Friday – 36
Saturday – 24
Sunday – 26
Cyber Monday – 47
Tuesday – 28
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