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A few weeks back I was at a Goodwill here in Portland, OR and saw two cardboard boxes labelled Rejuvenation Hardware. I got excited and looked inside to find many vintage looking drawer pulls. However, I quickly realized that these weren’t new Rejuvenation reproductions (darn, those are pricey!) but instead actual vintage pulls that were probably replaced by the Rejuvenation ones that originally came in these boxes.
Doing more research I see that these vintage pulls sell for about $5-6 each on eBay. I ended up paying about .45 each for more than 50 of them. I’m about to list them all and wondered if I should sell them in groups of 4 or 6 or even 8. In the past, lower end vintage hardware that I’ve sold I usually do in fours but I’m wondering what other sellers do. If they were worth a lot each I’d sell them individually or in pairs, but this cheap it seems like a waste of time. I was even thinking of creating some listings with 4 pulls and some with 6 pulls so people could have choices.
Whatcha think?
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I would definitely list them in sets. I’ve listed hardware from sets of 4 through 30 depending on how many matching ones I had. People have needs from new pulls for a dresser to outfitting a kitchen.
If you have many of one design, you can sell them in smaller sets and put in that you have more than one set. For instance, if you had 30, you could sell a set of 5 and put in that you have 6 sets. Then if someone needs 10, they would buy two sets. You could also sell 3 sets of 10 or 10 sets of 3. If you wanted, you could price them individually and let the buyer buy as many of them as they wanted, but then you might get a bunch of $4 sales.
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You can set up variations in one listing, so folks can choose the style they want and the number they want of each item. eBay charges you for one listing, although you have 50 items listed.
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Replying to some old threads I started to have some closure. Amatino, I did set these up as you helped me with and unfortunately, none sold for a whole year, until this past week! Someone bought 4 in a bundle and one more sale like that I’m break even and the rest are profit. So these are obviously long-tail but that’s ok, I can wait! So thanks again Amatino!
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If they are the same pattern and size, I would put them in a single lot with the total quantity for that pattern. We picked up cabinet pulls once at a yard sale, and sold them from 1 at a time to 20 at a time. Just depends on what they need.
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They mostly are the same (50+ are with a few that are unique and will be sold separately). I wasn’t really in the mood to sell them one at a time for $5.99, but maybe I should get over that and list them as you and Amatino describe. Most of the time people will probably buy multiples any way.
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mickdog, it’s actually really easy. eBay is kind enough to make it fairly logical. 😉 You can’t do variation on auctions, but on Fixed Price, they have a little check box to select.
The only part that had me was the shipping. In order to create accurate shipping you MUST use Flat Rate shipping, with an “additional charge for each item”. What I do is work out the shipping for one item and make that the flat rate, then I recalculate for 2, 3, and 4 of them. Generally that gives you an idea of how much the shipping is going to jump. If it makes me move from, say, First Class, to Priority, I’ll put in a “handling charge” that is a fixed rate. Um… let me give you an example, using round numbers to make it easy for me, these are not accurate postages. I also used ounces, bc I figured your pulls don’t weigh much.
So, I have something that weighs 4oz. I work out the shipping to be $3.25. Two of them are 8oz, so it’s still first class, and the shipping will be $6.50. 3 of them are still FC and $10.25, but 4 of them will put me into Priority Mail. However, I can put 4 into a flat rate padded envelope by using that inner box, so the shipping for 4 will be $7.25. Now I have a range. So I decide to go for a $4.50 flat rate (for one, a little extra in case my calcs are out), with an additional $3.00 for each extra. If the person buys 4, I’ll get $13.50 and my highest charge (above) was $10.25. All good.
It was a serious PITA for me to work this out. eBay doesn’t explain it at all well and my first listing that I did this for I ended up with someone buying 7 of them at the shipping rate of a single unit. Killed me! LOL Now I create a shipping policy that is labelled for the item I’m selling. So my policy would be called Flat Rate Vintage Pulls, for example.
Here’s one of my listings that has multiple items https://www.ebay.com/itm/183035462904 As you can see, there’s a “quantity” box that allows you to put in the number of pieces you want.
Here’s a listing (not mine) that has both style and quantity variations https://www.ebay.com/itm/Stainless-Steel-T-bar-Modern-Kitchen-Cabinet-Door-Handles-Drawer-Pulls-Knobs/262775242502?hash=item3d2e9fff06:m:mgO4NQgsDX4T28wAzSh2v-w
Hope this helps. It’s a great way to get a bunch of items up quickly and save on listing fees.
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