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Week of June 15 – 21
Total Items in Store: 1100 eBay
Items Sold: 12
Cost of Items Sold: $110
Gross Sales: $570 Net $326
Highest Price Sold: $109 (New Pajama set)
Average price: $48
Returns: 1
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $80
Number of items listed this week: 5Eventful week on Ebay. I got an INAD from a buyer who went a little nuts in the messaging. She bought a hand painted item and didn’t like a small detail about the paint strokes meeting up on the back of the item (an area not in my photos unfortunately). I could have (and probably should have) just ate it but I decided to report her to Ebay. Unfortunately we live close together so the item will be back to me this afternoon but after calling Ebay twice with no good results (you aren’t allowed to talk to the people who can fix this) I’ll have to wait until they want to deal with it to refund her unless I want to give her shipping back. She’s told me she’s a seller and she knows she will win this case as a buyer. She almost threatened to leave bad feedback (apparently not realizing I will get a ding for the INAD). It’s coming for sure. I wish I could feel like Ebay will have my back but I feel like I’m going to get hosed. Stay tuned!
Strangely enough, this kind of motivated me to get listing that day.
I have been finishing my reset with offers and ran a sale this weekend that didn’t seem to help much. I’m calling it “the summer of sales” and pretty much taking offers and making lower offers on my inventory. Any sale is a good sale.
Regarding offers, I feel like Ebay maybe just changed something. I got offers below my floor I think, and also sent an offer to a buyer who messaged me but he couldn’t accept it until I changed the price. LMK if you noticed anything.
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Week of June 22 – 28
Total Items in Store: 1320 eBay, 33 Etsy
Items Sold: 5 eBay, 0 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $4.44 + $11.50 Commission
Total Sales: $85.53 eBay, $0 Etsy
Highest Price Sold: $25 for Merkur 38B Safety Razor
Average price: $17.10
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0
@ChristineR – You know that you can get bad feedback removed if she threatened you.Obviously, from my numbers above, I’ve been accepting offers, some of them kinda low, and I had no higher value sales. I did retake the Etsy photo I mentioned last week to show that one of my vintage blue glass items is actually uranium glass.
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Ebay did decide in her favor, which is really frustrating. Also I reported her violating the return policy and they have no record of the report, yet am blocked from filing another report. No feedback yet. She just got refunded. I went on this lady’s feedback page and there is good feedback but a few IN ALL CAPS craziness and other sellers reporting problems with her, including her using profanity. I should have just taken the hit. 🙁
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This was one of my stronger weeks in a while. Sold a few more items than usual and a pretty decent average sales price. We’ll see if it continues into July.
Christine, how high (or low) are you going with your percentages for sending offers and running sales? I’ve found 20% offers get some response, 25% gets a few more. If I run a July 4th sale this year, I might go 30% off to see what happens. Maybe even 35 to 40%? That seems crazy, but how bad do I want to sell things right now? A summer of sales sounds awfully nice.
The marketing tab in My eBay has seen a lot of changes this year. I’ve had some success with using buyer groups, where you can send a coupon tailored to buyers who purchased in specific categories. I think that’s more effective at retaining buyers than sending a 25% offer if they watch another one of your items.
I noticed there’s now a new tab for offers within the marketing tab. This tab allowed me to see that I had somehow automated offers set up on about 20 listings, and I don’t want that, so I turned off automation with one click. Thanks, new offers tab. It also shows how many offers have been sent and received. I have 26 items in my inventory where I’ve sent out 10 or more offers, and they still haven’t sold! I’m not sure what that means, but I like seeing the data all in one place. Definitely worth taking a few minutes to look at your offers tab and see what’s going on with your own items.
6/22/2025 to 6/28/2025
Total listings: 317
New listings this week: 27
Items sold: 26 — 14 via best offer, 6 via seller initiated offer, 7 via advertising
Gross sales: $1331.89
Net sales: $928.33
Average sales price: $51.23
My gross, net and ASP are all up 23 to 31% from this week last year. Love to see that.
High sale of the week: $146.52 net Matthew Stafford PSA DNA certified 2009 Topps Rookie Premiere autograph
This was from a group PSA submission back in December. This was one of the better cards that I submitted, a solid net profit just under $100.
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@Craig it depends on how long it’s been listing and what I paid for it. Anywhere between 15-33%, a few 50%.
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Y’all I’m losing it a little bit this morning. I just got my second INAD in a row on a brand new item. Had sent the buyer pictures of the item all around in messaging. She took an EXTREME close up of the item (painting) and called it scratched. If EBay sides with her too, I might as well do free returns! My other buyer found some restraint and has not yet left feedback.
I’ve had one INAD before these in all my time (also false). It took a year for that negative feedback to fall off.
Need to listen to Jay’s old podcast discussions to be reasonable.
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