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11/06/2022 at 9:18 am #98288
Ryanne posted about her trip to Vermont for the regional US Cup Tasters Championships where she came in 4th place. This is a huge deal since Ryanne we
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11/06/2022 at 2:20 pm #98300
Congrats @Ryanne on your performance, we’re all rooting for you in the next round! And thanks to you, I finally learned what the hell regionals are!
I had an incredibly slow week of sales, but I did it to myself. I have 550 auctions ending between tonight and tomorrow. It’s not a fire sale. I was very deliberate about setting the minimum bid price at the absolute lowest I would accept for that listing. I wouldn’t recommend doing auctions any other way. A lot of listings, even those that get watchers, just sell for the minimum bid.
I have plenty of unlisted inventory at this point, both trading cards and other items, so I figured I may as well take some chances over the last few months of the year. This week, once I get all the unsold auctions listed, I will try a public coupon or markdown sale. I have to think about what I want to do for Black Friday. I’m hopeful eBay will offer some kind of eBay bucks promo, but maybe that program is dead.
So far, my favorite item to receive a bid is this antiquarian religious book. I had it listed at $50 or best offer for over a year. I only paid a few bucks for it and books are not a main source of my income, so I’m really happy with any sales over $20.
10/30/2022 – 11/5/2022
Total items in store: 1255 (up from 1157 last week, but this number is only higher because I relisted 150 auctions which went unsold from my last auction batch a month ago)
Items sold: 25 (1 via best offer — which I don’t think is right, so maybe this feature’s broken?, 6 via seller initiated offer, 10 via promoted listings)
Gross sales: $1441.22 (down 61% from one year ago)
Net sales: $781.18 (down 71% from one year ago)
Average sales price: $57.65 (up 20% from one year ago)
Time spent searching through online auction listings for new trading cards inventory: 16 hours (down from 20 hours last week)
Highest price sold (net): $125.25 — Cristian Javier 2021 Panini Select auto jersey button prizm rookie card #/5
This sold the same day that the Astros pitched a no-hitter in the World Series. I had the card listed at $70 for the last few months, but I saw the score in the fifth inning and no hits from the Phillies and decided to double the price of the card. It still sold immediately after the game.
I have another Javier autograph in my auction batch that ends tomorrow. It’s not quite as nice as this card (higher serial number, no jersey or button relic) but has still been bid up to $46. It will be interesting to see how high it goes.
Lowest price sold (net): $12.59— 10 card lot of New York Giants cards
I buy in large enough quantities that I often end up with cards which are not valuable enough to list on eBay individually or sell on consignment but not completely worthless, so I thought I would experiment by making a few lots of “hot” teams to see if they sold. Last week I sold 4 out of 7, so that’s a promising start. I’d love to figure out a system where I could list 10-20 of these lots in a week without it becoming a huge time sink.
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11/06/2022 at 8:29 pm #98304
No numbers for me right now – eBay is on hold. Please keep my family in your prayers. I’m currently at the hospital with one of my children. She has RSV and pneumonia. My wife is currently en route to the hospital with two more of our children who have gotten sicker and sicker the last 24 hours.
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11/06/2022 at 9:26 pm #98305
We’re rooting for you guys
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11/07/2022 at 3:06 pm #98314
Ugh. So sorry you are dealing with another emergency like this. I have you and your family in my thoughts.
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11/10/2022 at 11:26 am #98330
Thinking about you. Hope you and your family are doing well today. Take good care of yourself.
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11/10/2022 at 4:35 pm #98332
@Retro – Sorry to hear your children are not doing well. I hope they are on the mend. Will keep you in our thoughts.
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11/07/2022 at 8:01 am #98307
@retro-treasures-wv Sorry to hear this, your family will be in our prayers tonight. Sick babies is the worst feeling. 🙁
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11/07/2022 at 8:33 am #98309
@Retro thinking good healing thoughts for your little ones. Keep us posted.
looks like my numbers post was lost on editing.
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11/07/2022 at 12:52 pm #98311
Praying for them, Retro.
Week of 10/30 – 11/5:
Total items in Store: 310
Items Sold: 8
Gross Sales: $400.60 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $244.94 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $42.59 (including consignment commissions)
Highest Price Sold: $99.99 plus shipping (1950s Romanian rifle bayonet, complete)
Average Price Sold: $50.08
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $27
Number of new items listed this week: 2Listing took a back seat to a busy week in other matters.
It was announced last week that Easy Auctions Tracker is going out of business. The 2022 version will be their last spreadsheet issued and they will be shutting down support after April 15, 2023. I guess it was inevitable; at $40 a year with unlimited support I don’t know how they did it. I found it to be an incredible time-saver in multiple ways, not to mention making consignment bookkeeping very easy. At least I’ve got some time to find a replacement.
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11/07/2022 at 12:56 pm #98312
It was announced last week that Easy Auctions Tracker is going out of business.
I bet the owner just just sick of answering questions. I thought it was a pretty amazing business model. Make one spreadsheet and just sell it. All the work up front.
Owner should have charged per hour for the support.
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11/07/2022 at 5:19 pm #98317
I was using it but with managed payments I don’t need it any longer. You can download your Ebay numbers for the year now.
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11/07/2022 at 6:16 pm #98320
Good week in volume, but no so many higher value items. I did peak up over 1800 listings.
I have a strange situation with a buyer from 2020. When I have time, I’ll discuss it in a separate post. So far, I’m dealing with it by radio silence.
Week of Oct 30 – Nov 5
Total Items in Store: 1802 eBay, 32 Etsy
Items Sold: 19 eBay, 0 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $19 + $100 Commission
Total Sales: $372.93 eBay, $0 Etsy; includes fees but no shipping
Highest Price Sold: eBay $44 Wood frame
Average price: $19.63
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
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11/10/2022 at 4:45 pm #98333
Week Ending 10/5/22
Gross Sales(w/o shipping $ tax): $532.10
Net Sales: $441.96
Total Items Sold 14
Total Items in eBay Store: 1087
Items Sold eBay: 10
Total Items in Etsy Store: 283
Items Sold Etsy: 4
Cost of Items Sold: $40.06
COGS Percent 9.06%
Highest Price Sold: $74.95
Average Price Sold: $38.01
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory: $613.00
Average Days Listed: 388
Longest Listed: 1256
New items listed: 26Steady but mild sales. Still looking for that xmas bump.
Have started sourcing seriously over the past two weeks and have been busy cleaning, researching, taking pictures and creating listings. Won several auction lots full of good stuff including a mountain of Christmas ornaments that I hope to get posted over the next two weeks. Six storage containers full, so I’m up to my ears in them. Usually Christmas ornaments are Cecile’s thing but she’s too busy with her day job.
It’s only two weeks worth of data, but it seems the tide may be turning on pandemic homebound people driving up the prices at auctions. I won a lot of great items at low prices in4 separate online auctions in the past two weeks. Feels like old times. Now to keep the nose to the grindstone and get everything listed.
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11/11/2022 at 8:56 am #98335
It’s only two weeks worth of data, but it seems the tide may be turning on pandemic homebound people driving up the prices at auctions. I won a lot of great items at low prices in4 separate online auctions in the past two weeks.
I really hope this is true. I haven’t purchased items at an auction in the past 18 months. I miss affordable auctions.
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11/10/2022 at 4:46 pm #98334
@Ryanne – congratulations on the contest placing. Exciting that all your time investement is paying off. Must be fun.
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11/14/2022 at 9:08 am #98357
Items in Store 2065
Items Sold 11
Total Sales $223.00
COGS $35.00
Total Profit $188.00
Average profit $17.09
Average sales price $20.27
New Listings 16
Items scavenged 0
Listing 2022 weekly Avg 39What a week this has been… The week prior (the week of these actual numbers) my whole family was pretty sick with a bad cold. Last weekend I had to take one of my children to get checked out due to some breathing issues. She ended up being transported to the hospital via ambulance and admitted. Later that day my wife brought two more of our children to the hospital for complications as well. One more was admitted and the third was released after a few hours with some medications(questionably). My wife and I stayed at the hospital from Sunday until Thursday with two kids. Our oldest child cared for the one released from the hospital at home while my mother-in-law oversaw the household.
Meanwhile, my wife and I have been hit quite hard again since we were compromised by Covid last year. We’ve both been on steroids and various breathing treatments. I also have the wonderful pleasure of being debilitated with severe cramps when I take steroids. Any muscle, anywhere on my body – if I tense too much I get full on cramps. The worst are the abdominal cramps.
The diagnosis – RSV & Parainfluenza. It’s not just a baby virus anymore – it’s come back with a vengeance.
If you have small children, have a pulse oximeter on hand as well as a device to clear their sinuses such as a nose-frida along with some saline.
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