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I had a light week of sales in terms of quantity sold, but I had a big sale of $300+ of vintage baseball photographs (example) early in the week and that made my numbers work. I did a thorough end and sell similar on my store on Friday, which should perk up sales this week even if I don’t grind much at creating new listings. It has been unbearably hot this summer, and cooler weather can’t get here soon enough
7/20/2025 to 7/26/2025
Total listings: 291
New listings this week: 25
Items sold: 19 — 5 via best offer, 10 via seller initiated offer, 11 via advertising
Gross sales: $1024.63
Net sales: $706.58
Average sales price: $53.93
High sale of the week: $86.07 net Nick Kurtz 2023 Leaf Metal 1/1 autograph printing plate, about $60 profit after COGS, purchased last July for around $25
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I started doing my numbers, but I was light in both sales and values, so I decided not to bother.
I am doing better so far this week, but the price point is still low.
@Craig-Rex – I was in Philly on Sunday to see the Savannah Bananas at Citizens Bank Park. They are similar to the Harlem Globetrotters but for baseball. There was lots of merchandise, but mostly shirts and caps. Looks like they do sell baseball cards. I expect that they won’t be worth all that much unless you hold onto them for a long time. -
Total items in store: 1201
New listings this week: 22
Items sold: 8
Gross sales: $466
Net sales: $300
Average sales price: $58
High sale of the week: $120 Framed art prints
Well it’s a good week to do numbers because despite listing off and on and running a sale during the later part of the week and weekend my store seems like it died. I had one item to ship out on Monday. This week is quiet too. Sold a couple of Christmas items last week.
A Youtuber I watch mentioned something I didn’t know before – that you can customize the % of the shipping “savings” Ebay negotiates with your buyers. I thought about this since shipping costs just went up again and are expected do so later this year. So I went and calculated how much of my annual shipping “profit” from last year went to final value fees on shipping receipts. I found after fees I was made about $1400, which is a little more than I paid in non-recycled total shipping supplies ($1000ish). So I’m pretty close to breaking even on shipping, which has been my goal. I don’t think I want to pass on any discount because I’m not sure giving them maybe 10% would move the needle for anyone or if they would notice I did that. I guess you would potentially come up higher if your item was priced competitively and the buyer uses sort by total cost. I’ve been making offers at a deeper discount and making 5%-10% off on sale items so I think I will stay with that offer and perma-sale centered approach.
I gave up on selling on the District platform. It was easy to cross post but sales were not there. I’ve heard the platform in general is suffering with only a couple of big Youtubers’ stores in that mall doing ok. It really seems like it morphed into a live selling thing. Kind of a shame that these other well designed sites (compared to clunky Ebay) don’t make it.
I am still selling lower dollar stuff on Mercari but sales have been pretty bad and my listings are stale on there. Mercari just leaves the freshest stuff up top. Mercari has a brand new function for new listings and updated listings they will pick the cheapest shipping I believe for you – not totally clear to me yet. They seem to have deals with UPS first, then Fed Ex just a little higher, then USPS maybe not the best deal. It’s annoying to me to go to UPS with a small Mercari package so I’m going to keep picking Fed Ex with USPS doing the last mile as long as that lasts. Very unfortunately most of my items are over a pound, and Mercari’s next level charges at their 3 pound USPS rate, currently $12.99. I still have some imported stale Ebay drafts I should get around to launching on Mercari.
I’ve noticed a trend of people just bailing on or getting sour on the non-Ebay platforms. The fee experiments have definitely not helped them. I’m hearing more and more that people are just going to focus on Ebay. Would very much like Ebay to hurry up and get their “magical listing tool” to the point that it will actually save time. A good holiday ad campaign would also be helpful.
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