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This was our week of $15 sales. As much as we like to fill our store with “high dollar” items (aka $30+), we do have a number of lower dollar items th
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11/13/22 – 11/19/22
Total Items In Store: 4706
Items Sold: 25
Gross Sales: $1,381.87 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $1176.44 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Highest Price Sold: $ 160 (Camera)
Average Price Sold: $ 47.05
Money Spent on New Inventory: $ 277Number of items listed: 10
Gut Sales Report for the week: Sales were much better this week. Shipping was annoying, so I know I am doing well.
Focus for the week : Trying to enter all my items that I have bought. I still haven’t been able to do that for the about 175 items I bought at one place last week. I need to find a new photographer.
Scavenge of the week: I went to an estate sale with very old items. And by old I mean some went back to nearly the Civil War. I rarely see items this old in Michigan. I love going to these sales because you just never know what you will find. It happens that the lady lived so long (I am guessing late 90’s based on what I saw) that she outlived her whole family and had no one. So, you left you house to her neighbor that cared for her in her old age. Here is a short list of the more interesting thing I found at the house:
A 1936 Monopoly game that was in very good condition for $6.
A Vintage Fordson Tracker Metal Tool Box in excellent condition.
A 1868 Flute hard cover book in good condition.
A working Stained Glass Rooster Lamp – awesome looking.A History of the Civil War Book from 1912 in near perfect condition – this should sell in the $150-$200 range.
Also, they were giving away wood hangers. I found two from Detroit General Motors Building in excellent condition – will ask around $60.
I also picked up a very nice Pendleton Sports Jacket for $8 at the thrift store.
Thoughts for the week: In my experience, the estate sales start to fade out in early December. Oh, you still find the sales, but not very good ones. So, I will use that time to process all the great items I have found lately, and there are many.
Mark
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Did you figure out how to list all your items on every selling platform? How have the results been?
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Yes, I have figured out how to list all my items on every selling platform. However, I have not had the time to do it.
For List Perfectly, you have to copy all the items you want listed to LP first, then list them to the platform you want. This will ensure that LP has the reference number (item number for ebay) for each platform. Then when an item sells, you mark it as sold and it gets delisted on every platform where it is listed.
So far, I have copied all of my 1800 vintage items to LP. My next step is to list them on Etsy. I would expect to gross about about $700-$800 per month on Etsy per average month. I have about 2000 clothes and shoes to list on Poshmark. Then I would list nearly all 4700 on Facebook.
In the end, I would hope to double my current sales from doing all this. However, this will take probably most of 2023 since I have very limited time.
Mark
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If you are cross-listing to Etsy, you should look into SixBit. It is pricier than List Perfectly, but it’s a real time saver. Not only does it make cross-listing (relatively) pain free, it also manages your inventory. When something sells on one platform, it is automatically removed from your other platforms. And you can use it to track the location of each item in your inventory and print a pick list when you are getting ready to ship out. It’s so nice to know exactly where to find each item. SixBit has a learning curve, but once you figure it out, it is an amazing piece of software. I upgraded to the highest functionality plan, so I now sell on eBay, Etsy, and Shopify. If you are interested, let me know and I’ll give you my referral code.
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Zach,
During my research I found that Sixbit supports only these sites:
https://www.sixbitsoftware.com/EN/Site_Differences.htm
Looks like it is 4 – ebay, etsy, amazon, and Shopify.
It doesn’t have these other 3 that I would like:
Mercari
Facebook Marketplace
PoshmarkLP is only $70 a month for the highest functionality plan. It supports about a dozen sites in case I want to expand further.
Mark
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Shopify has free integration with Facebook Marketplace (which I am doing). FYI: Facebook Marketplace has really sucked for me. Maybe if I ran paid advertising it would be good, but it’s pretty pathetic sales so far with just organic traffic.
And I think Amazon only works with Sixbt if you are “grandfathered in.”
But yeah, it doesn’t have those other sites you mentioned, unless you could find a Shopify integration tool.
Still, you could probably get your whole eBay store on Etsy in a day rather than a year.
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Zach,
It is not a year for Etsy. It may take up to a year to get all the listings I want on all the sites. It only only takes a min or less to cross post, but I have nearly 5000 listings and not much time. That is why it may take a year to get on Etsy (1800 listings), Poshmark (2000 listings), and Facebook (4500 listings).
Mark
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Week Ending 11/19/22
Gross Sales(w/o shipping $ tax): $1,942.10
Net Sales: $1,655.25
Total Items Sold 27Total Items in eBay Store: 1098
Items Sold eBay: 20
Total Items in Etsy Store: 304
Items Sold Etsy: 7
Cost of Items Sold: $280.67
COGS Percent 16.96%
Highest Price Sold: $749.95 Stanley Wood Plane
Average Price Sold: $71.93
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory: $0.00Average Days Listed: 444.59
Longest Listed: 2339
New items listed: 43This was a week of records for me: 1) Highest $ sales week of the year and most items sold (interestingly highest since the same week last year), 2) Most new listings in a single week this year, 3) longest tail item to sale ever at 6.4 years (a learn to draw Mickey Mouse book for $12.95).
I’m not sure what happened on Friday, but that cha-ching just wouldn’t stop Friday an Saturday with 15 sales over a two day period. That feels like another record for me. I sold a bit of everything. The big sale was an antique Stanley No. 55 combination plane for $749.95. I picked this up at auction back in September for $221. I knew from past experience it would be a good sale so paid up for it.
The coolest sale this week was 25 vintage beer cans that I sold to the Yellowjackets TV show. This one took a bit of coordination as they wanted me to ship it overnight to Vancouver, BC using their Fedex account, which seems to be common for shows. It was an Etsy sale and was confusing trying to figure out how to sell it to them without shipping charges. Etsy is more difficult than eBay in this respect. Finally I just had them pay the shipping and I refunded it. I ran it to the Fedex store Saturday afternoon and looks like it is in Vancouver this morning and out for delivery. I haven’t seen the show but will have to take a look to see what they use the cans for. It was a nice $60 sale.
Two other cool sales were a Flowbee hair cutting system for $119 and an antique brass fireplace cover for $149. I picked both of these up from the same Maxsold auction just a few weeks ago for $7 total.
It is always interesting to see the ebbs and flows of eBay sales.
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@Jay – you never know what you’ll end up with in those lots. I’m like you that I won’t actively purchase lower dollar items anymore, but I can’t resist listing something that was essentially free in a lot I bought for something else. Several of my sales over the past few weeks have been from sub-$20 items that just happened to be at the bottom of a lot. Free money is hard to turn down even if the $/hour to list might not be the best.
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Agreed. We list just about anything. The key is to not purposefully scavenge low dollar items and challenge ourselves to scavenge the gems.
You showed a great example with that wood planer. You’d have to list and sell 50 items for $15 to make the same amount of money on that one item. That’s working smart.
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Total Items in Store: 513
Items Sold: 12
Gross Sales: $886.18 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $613.08 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $72
Highest Price Sold: $219.00 (Set of 6 new clearance plates, paid $4.99 apiece last winter, sold in one day after listing)
Average Price Sold: $73.85
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 18Good week. I had it on time away and today is annoying shipping. Hope good sales last for a while. Quite a few of the items sold I just listed right before I left. I feel like promoted listings is a part of the equation now and I’m still at 4%. Ebay just sent me some offer about advanced, but I’m only going the minimum that I think I need to do for my listings to get special treatment. Some Youtubers said you don’t want to go all in and then drop back, because it kills your sales. I also feel like the sell similar helped and I got to make offers on my stale stuff, some of which has sold.
We just got back from a 200 strong choir of high school kids from all over Southern California. And I can’t help but think, what a great way to get Covid. Also have two family members flying in. So fingers crossed.
I went thrifting in the town in San Bernardino County. There were many other shoppers and lots of made in China junk. A couple of higher end thrifts with high prices. It made me grateful I live where I do. Always fun to look through all new junk just the same – there were like 7 thrift stores in a 5 mile radius. I just got a couple of items, which is good since I have piles here.
Happy holidays to everyone!
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Items in Store 2035
Items Sold 19
Total Sales $796.00
COGS $90.00
Total Profit $706.00
Average profit $37.16
Average sales price $41.89
New Listings 2
Items scavenged 25
Listing 2022 weekly Avg 38We’re all feeling much better this week and I’m able to get some work done now.
I only listed one item this week but it is a doozy.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/265998798545
We got a new plotter at work. The stand for the scanner would not work with the new plotter and every department was whining and didn’t want to have the scanner in their work space. The scanner only gets used a few times a year, not really worth keeping around. I half jokingly half seriously told my boss “I have a perfect place for the scanner – the back of my van!”.
After my boss talked to the site manager he told me to take it. This thing is HEAVY!!!
I did agree to adopt a christmas child with some of the proceeds. After getting it home, doing the research and realizing the price I could get, I’ll think I’ll be shopping for several christmas children if I can get this thing sold quickly.
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I also had a nice week with higher than average sales price. I had two items $100 & $125. I usually find that I track Jay & Ryanne’s store, but this week was different. Last week was when I was complaining that all my low value items were selling.
I have way too many low value items in my store, but I seem to not be able to help myself. My neighbor’s stuff includes many of my newer low value, but he has plenty of higher value as well. I guess I’m taking the good with the bad. He is using his profits to donate to some of his favorite charities, so it’s all good.
On freecycling last week, someone was offering some USPS boxes that he no longer needed, so I took them. On the not so good side, there were lots of S/M/L flat rate that I hardly use, so I have been taking those back to the PO little by little. I’ll bring the last of them today. On the good side, I now have some Regional B and 12x8x8 in the older, larger dimensions.
I had one returned package due to an incorrect address. I decided to refund the price of the item + tax and not the shipping. In the note area, I told them to repurchase it if they still wanted the item.
I am currently running a 25% markdown on my whole store. I do this occasionally for a holiday week or two, and this time I have it to the end of the month. Next month, I may try promoting my listings until about Dec 22nd using eBay’s $30 promotion towards fees. I’ve never really used that function, so I will see how it works out.
Week of Nov 13 – 19
Total Items in Store: 1812 eBay, 33 Etsy
Items Sold: 17 eBay, 1 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $10 + $130 Commission
Total Sales: $505.47 eBay, $11.25 Etsy; includes fees but no shipping
Highest Price Sold: eBay $125 Small Dresden urn with lid; $100 train set never used (commission)
Average price: $28.71
Returns: 1 + 1 returned due to incorrect address
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
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After what had been a very slow year for sales, this last week sales were crazy. I had one sale for $1400, so that made up a big portion of this. It was for some new industrial AC drive motor (I’m honestly not sure what it is used for). Then I sold a lot of other random items, many of them over $100.
Nov. 13 – 19, 2022
(sales numbers include shipping)Total Items in eBay Store: ~2,180
eBay Sales: $2,900
eBay Orders: 13Total Items in Etsy Store: ~1,170
Etsy Sales: $366
Etsy Orders: 7Total Facebook Items in Shop: ~1,900
Facebook Sales: $100
Facebook Orders: 2Total Sales All Channels: $3,366
Cost of Items Sold (rough guess): $260
Shipping Cost: $152
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Week of 11/13 – 11/19:
Total items in Store: 331
Items Sold: 12
Gross Sales: $399.33 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $275.34 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $86.50 (including consignment commissions)
Highest Price Sold: $101 plus shipping (M1895 Chilean Mauser rifle bayonet)
Average Price Sold: $33.28
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $12
Number of new items listed this week: 26I was on a roll listing the week before Thanksgiving before I headed out of town for the holiday. I traded relatively sunny Florida for gray and rainy (and cold) Texas and family time. Interesting reports from you all this week, from an incredible estate sale in Michigan and 25 beer cans going to a TV show to a $3500 free work scavenge!
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