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11/05/2023 at 4:02 pm #101558
My numbers last week were my worst in over two years. Just nine items sold all week.
But I’m not a gloom and doom type, so I’m going to use this post to explain why the sky is not actually falling.
1. I sent over 200 items in my store to auction last Sunday, ending this Sunday. So more than half of my inventory was not going to sell via BIN/BO — though I did have best offer on all my auctions. I sold one or two items that way, which seems to be about the norm for adding BO to auctions. Maybe I’ll try a flat buy it now in my next auction batch.
2. I didn’t list much at all last week — a few new listings one day, a few new listings another. No big listing days and it was all low dollar stuff. My focus was on life stuff and on my consignment trading cards, since the site I use runs a big Black Friday sale. I have over 14,000 cards in my port, and I hope to get that under 10,000 by the end of the year. Maybe even by the end of this month? So I’ve been spending a lot of time repricing, running sales, and shipping cards to and from my port. This definitely cut into my eBay time this week. But that’s fine! Part of selling online is learning to use different platforms to your benefit, something I never tried at all until the last two years.
3. I’ve mostly been listing in two categories lately — trading card singles and trading card lots. It makes sense to me that other items are not selling, but I’m going to try and take a day this week to take pictures and create listings in other categories. I have a few bins worth of stuff ready to go, and I hope this week will be the week where I spend a good few hours getting those items photographed and organized for listing.
4. My previous week was one of my strongest in two years, which made me think the sky was the limit. Then this horrible week. But by the numbers, my last two weeks are about 28% down from last year — which is actually a good sign, since my store is 1/3 the size it was a year ago. So the sky is…about the same as it always is. I’ll list a little more this week, and we’ll see how things go. No sense in future spiraling.
If I have to pick something for sale of the week, it’s probably this out of print Bernard Lonergan book of theology essays for a net sale price of $10.75. I found a pile of Bernard Lonergan books at a book sale maybe a year ago. I paid about $10 for the pile and I’ve made over $100 on them. This is the third or fourth book that has gone to the same buyer and I’m sure they’ll buy my last one in a month or two when they finish this one.
In the trading card world, I sold this Ray Lewis card with a piece of a football from the Super Bowl for $131. Paid about $60 for it and it took a few months to sell. Not a huge profit ($40 or so) but a fairly easy flip in the sense that I had a good idea what it would sell for, and my hunch was correct. It was a gory week of sales even with this one, but it would have been a true fright fest without it.
Give me some good news. What did you sell this week?
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11/06/2023 at 10:55 am #101568
@Craig sales were definitely not great for me either. According to Youtube we are not alone in this.
I had two sales of about 6 items from my parents’ set of china. https://www.ebay.com/itm/335095724486 sold for $35 and https://www.ebay.com/itm/235276361817 well used plates sold for $30. I’m proud of myself for getting this listed, as I brought it over to my house last year about this time and did not get it up.
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11/09/2023 at 12:01 am #101582
Did you change your eBay username and store? Or have you always had multiple stores?
Good on you for getting those longtail items listed and sold! I have a few boxes of china (well, most of a set) from a summer thrift store haul. Too cheap and decent sell throughs, I had to go for it. I have a few more trading card monster box death piles to get through, then it’s on to the china and other weird stuff that I may or may not ever actually get interested in really selling. But it will be fun to try. Especially when things get slow and the weather is still cold in early Q1.
I hope this week’s sales are going better for you!
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11/15/2023 at 8:58 am #101650
@Craigrex no just one store. I sometimes post other people’s listings in my scavenge of the week if I haven’t listed it yet.
Good luck with your china when you get to it. Mostly I focus on 50s-60s pottery dinnerware rather than sets of China but occasionally I go in on serving pieces of porcelain or china. As someone said I don’t want to be a replacements.com. It’s really nice now that Google images is pretty good at identifying patterns.
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11/14/2023 at 3:55 pm #101646
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266288851618
DENIM & SUPPLY Ralph Lauren Jeans Men’s 32×34 Slim Fit Tan
A bread ‘n butter Premium hoarder pants item. Took an offer of $85. Paid $7.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266371172915
SkylinkHome GB-318 Smart Button Universal Garage Door Opener Remote
This is an example of a lower dollar item I still buy. It was cheap ($3). Super easy to list/store/ship, and had a great STR – sold in less than 90 days for $25.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266471244335
Rollerblade Fusion Inline Skates Men’s Size 9 27 Vintage Original Box Light Use
I was hoping to get more for these originally. I paid up at $20 at goodwill. When I listed them it became apparent they were used – I thought they were new. Still, $60 is nothing to sneeze at! I lowered the price and took an offer as I’ve really wanted to move larger hard goods recently.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/265817610988
Sonic the hedgehog 1993 SEGA candy figure RARE Complete
This came from a huge lot of old happy meal style toys I bought at a yard sale summer of 22. It’s always neat to find an item in a lot that turns out to have value that appears to be junk. Took an offer of $30 – cost was practically nothing.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266371664790
C.E. Schmidt Fit For Her Workwear Insulated Bib Overalls Women’s Size XL Short
Paid $5 at a yard sale this summer. Sold for $50 on offer. It pays to be willing to shop/list/ship practically anything.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266445915574
Winnie the Pooh Disney Flips Plush NEW Pooh To Honey Pot Disney Parks Large
Same story here – always give plush a look. I always scan plush looking for something that catches my eye for a further look into comps. This was a death pile item that I finally listed. Sold quickly for full price.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266480534569
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266477179190
Sold two pair of Prada shoes from the hoarder collection. Both sold for over $400 each and within days. I wish all the shoes sold within days!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266453550821
Versace Classic V2 Shirt XXL Classic Button Up Long Sleeve Mens Blue
Sold for $50 on offer from the premium hoarder collection. Versace is overrated. I’m glad someone wanted this shirt. I’m not a fan!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/266438112302
Sansone EUROPA 5 Liter INOX 18/10 Stainless Steel Oil Wine Water Fusti Tank
Also from the premium hoarder collection. Sold for $90. I think the sticker price was $5 or $10. While waiting on them to add up and bag my items I grabbed this and a few other hard goods in a box that hadn’t been put out yet. I made a couple hundred off of these hard goods items already – basically free money!
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