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I sent 235 of my store listings to auction this past week, which was about 2/3 of my active listings. With so few active BIN/BO listings, I didn’t expect much in terms of sales this week. Hitting new listings hard would have helped, maybe, but I didn’t really do that. I created 4 new listings on Monday, 4 on Tuesday, 7 on Wednesday and then took Thursday and Friday off before creating 6 new listings on Saturday. That’s not nothing, but it isn’t much. Most of the new listings were my card lots along with a few random oversized items that I got motivated to photograph.
Surprisingly, my overall sales for the week were strong, with 27 items sold for $1288 gross and $875 net. I did sell one expensive individual card, this autograph of the great Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson for $168 net. It had been listed about a month. My COGS was 3000 Panini rewards points, which cost me around $60, plus a few bucks shipping. But even if we exclude that sale, I had a strong week.
Two of the oversized items that I photographed sold to the same buyer the day after I created the listings. They were 11″ x 14″ glass framed autographed patch “cards” of Bryant Johnson and Dewayne Robertson from the 2003 Upper Deck Sweet Spot By the Letters set which sold for $60 each. Absolutely wild numbers for autographs of these guys, but right in line with Terapeak solds from this strange little set. I priced at $70, the buyer offered $50 and quickly accepted my counter of $60. I bought these in January 2022 for the opening bid of $0.99 from a terrible consignment listing. My shipping on that order in January 2022 was $45, spread across a few framed items like these and some cards which all sold a long time ago.
I had an international order from Australia where the buyer started with buying one listing and, after inquiring about combined postage, added another listing and then one more. In sum, about $60 net worth of cards, and I moved a couple more soccer printing plate sets and this Tupac card from one of the 2024 GAS sets. The quality of unlicensed cards has gone way up since the pandemic and there are random little sets for almost anything you can think of. It’s not something I track heavily, but it makes sense to buy and sell singles when I find them at good prices.
Adding best offer to my auctions (which is free) always leads to a few sales before the auctions end. I set my minimum offer a few dollars above the minimum bid price, and sometimes it leads to sales like this Kentucky basketball card lot which sold for an offer of $30 when I had my minimum bid set at $20. I usually like to get $30 for these card lots, which I fill with $8 to $12 worth of cards, so this worked out nicely. I cleared out a lot of college basketball in the last few weeks, which feels great because college cards in general are not collected nearly as heavily as pro cards. But I believe that those who are into college cards are really into college cards, more collectors than flippers. Almost all of the buyers of these card lots are local to team or have clear markers in the user ID or feedback left that they are a fanatic of the team.
I created a 25% coupon on Saturday and sent it to targeted buyer groups, which was such a wild success that I hope you’ll take a look at the coupons page if you haven’t done that anytime soon. It had changed dramatically from the last time I used, and in my opinion it’s much, much better. You are able to send coupons to buyers in specific categories, which is huge because then the note you send with the coupon can be much more tailored to these buyers. I sold 9 items to 7 buyers using the coupon, most within that first day. One of my favorite sales was this Pokemon World Championships ticket set for $30 to someone who had previously bought sports cards. I also sold another copy of this Deommo Lenoir Panini Contenders rookie ticket auto to a buyer who’d bought one a few months ago and a few card lots to buyers who had already bought cards of teams from the same city or region. I put a long expiration date on the coupon (June 30th) so it might make sense to resend them to these different buyer groups again at the beginning of May. I would love to know how these coupons work for those of you with a larger store and wider variety of items than what I have in my store.
What did you sell this week?
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/267200406641
Dragon Age Origins Ultimate Edition (Sony PlayStation 3, 2010) PS3 Complete
I picked this up a couple weeks ago at a pawn shop I rarely can get to a town over from where I work for $4. They have alot of video game stuff and I can find some cheap gems there. It’s kind of a pain because everything is in glass cases or in bins behind the counter so I can’t just go through everything hands on. I scanned the case edges and picked out the items that looked unique or sounded like RPG’s. This was one of them and it turned out to be a homerun. I’d LOVE to be able to go though everything and do some barcode scanning. I bet there were more goodies in there other than what I got that day.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/267200409202
Vortex Mark McGwire Air Pressure Power Baseball Bat Red MLB Plastic 1998 Vintage
Cool vintage bat sold for $40 on offer. I paid $1 for it I believe.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266433830815
Rock Band Wii Harmonix Guitar Controller Fender Stratocaster 19091 – NO DONGLE
sold for full price and I was NOT in the mood to ship this thing last Friday night. But…it sold. I have a large death pile of guitar hero/Rock Band gear I really, really need to get listed. It’s in my way. I hope to get to this death pile after I take care of the Nerf death pile.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/267007334745
Marvin Richards Vintage Suede Coat Size M Animal Print Lining Women’s
Sold on offer for $50. It’s that time of year where I sell 50% off offers on coats. I was incredibly happy to get the sale.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/267206386012
Canon SELPHY CP1500 Compact Photo Printer Black Color Ink Paper Bundle
Picked this up at Goodwill a couple weeks ago for $9. Sold within a few days on offer for $130. I had two competing offers and sent a counter of $130 to both people saying “I had multiple competing offers and this was my best price. First to accept gets it”. One was quicker on the draw than the other!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266899341425
Fitflop Varya Pink Glitter ballerina slip on wedge flats Women’s Size 11
Paid $6 at Goodwill. It took about 8 months to sell but sold for full price. Sometimes the best shoes are unassuming at first glance like these. I pick up every pair of Fitflop I see, but these are at the top range price wise. Fitflop is a great BOLO shoe brand.
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Fitflop, that’s a good name to file away in the memory banks. I wouldn’t have known those were ballet shoes just from the pictures, but now that I know I can kind of see the difference. Really great info…
Love the McGwire bat! Can’t believe I’ve never seen one of those before. Amazing that it survived until today, let alone in good shape like that. My sports equipment from when I was a kid does not look that good!
That pawn shop set up with everything behind the counter or under glass sounds so wildly inefficient. It’s amazing to me that places like that stay in business…but I’m sure video games are just a small amount of their overall sales.
If you’re taking 50% offers on coats, try creating some coupons and sending them to specific buyer groups. This process has changed a lot since I last used it, and I was pretty impressed with how easily you can drill down very specific groups and send them discounts with a personalized message. I set up a 25% coupon last weekend and have already gotten 12 sales from it. I feel like you could do really well with a public coupon offering such a large discount, or setting up automated offers of 35ish% to buyers in specific categories.
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Well they aren’t actually ballet shoes – it’s just shoes that look like that are called ballet flats.
The most expensive ballet flats are a brand called Tieks. I’ve still never found a pair of them in the wild.The location of this pawn shop is in a high foot traffic location near some unpleasant parts of town. If they didn’t keep them in cars or behind the counter they’d be stolen like crazy.
With the addition of AI, I would REALLY hope eBay would come up with a method to encourage multiple sales to buyers.
for instance, a person buys a pair of women’s size 8.5 athletic shoes from me. A screen pops up saying “this seller has these other size 8.5 women’s athletic shoes as well. Why not buy another pair and get 10% off and combined shipping?That would be FAR more targeted and likely to get another sale than the ridiculous spray and pray approach to promoted listings that appear at the bottom of every screen.
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With the addition of AI, I would REALLY hope eBay would come up with a method to encourage multiple sales to buyers.
for instance, a person buys a pair of women’s size 8.5 athletic shoes from me. A screen pops up saying “this seller has these other size 8.5 women’s athletic shoes as well. Why not buy another pair and get 10% off and combined shipping?That would be FAR more targeted and likely to get another sale than the ridiculous spray and pray approach to promoted listings that appear at the bottom of every screen.
I really doubt the eBay elves are still scouring this site, but if they are, this is 100% an idea they should steal. I have bought from a few companies who had that exact checkout approach and wouldn’t you know it, I can think of a time where it even worked on me. I’m a scavenger! I’m supposed to be immune from these marketing tricks! But the offer was a decent discount on something I was thinking about buying anyway, and I had the money in my budget for it.
I’ve noticed promoted listings creeping more and more at different possible points of purchase. It’s turning me off from the program a little bit. It’s not yet at that point where it’s making me reconsider how much I use the site, but it’s on that road.
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The worst example of worthless PL impressions is when I have to change from mobile to classic view in safari on my phone. It takes me FOREVER to get to the bottom of the page as more and more keep loading. I have to keep swiping down like 10 times before it stops loading more random items.
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