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05/08/2024 at 4:07 pm #103117
We’ve been away this past week so have our store on “time away’ which sometimes feels like it affects sales. We do really like that eBay created the “
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05/08/2024 at 4:31 pm #103122
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Itemslistings in Ebay Store: 932
Items Sold: 16
Gross Sales: $1,214 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $803 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $228
Highest Price Sold: $236 (new duvet and shams set, paid about $110)
Average Price Sold: $76Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $100 +/-
Number of items listed this week: 2Facebook Marketplace: 1 sale of wooden cabinet $60 sourced for free on Nextdoor
District: Niknax / VAMP: 0 sales, 0 new items listed, about 30 BIN listings
I’ve been sick basically since the toddler visit last week but rallied last Saturday for a school rummage sale and a neighborhood sale, which was really fun. I’m really backed up now on listing and getting ready for my June live selling as I am hit with a rebound round of different symptoms. Luckily tested negative again for Covid. Really hoping to get back in the action again soon. I’ve been in bed a lot. I found a new scrappy youtuber to watch during my misery. Tuitionaintcheap I wouln’t pick up some of the things she does but still interesting. Her favorite pick up is perfume and cosmetics. If used, she puts it on Mercari.
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05/08/2024 at 5:22 pm #103124
Ps. I’m noticing much slower sales on most stitchery kits than pre-pandemic.
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05/08/2024 at 8:47 pm #103125
With all the talk of yard sales last week, I felt I needed to get out on Saturday. I spent about $25 on mostly bread and butter stuff. Nevertheless, it was fun, and I’m listing most of that stuff quickly.
I’m slowly backing up my Ruby Lane photos and listings. As I mentioned last week, they are raising the store costs excessively, so I need to close the store up. I will quick list enough items from my Etsy store so that they don’t charge me a store fee for this month, and then I will shut it down in about two weeks.
I did sell one item on Ruby Lane this week, but I don’t know if I would have done any less on eBay.
Week of Apr 28 – May 4
Total Items in Store: 1628 eBay, 27 Etsy, 61 Ruby Lane
Items Sold: 10 eBay, 0 Etsy, 1 Ruby Lane
Cost of Items Sold: $2 + $45 Commission
Total Sales: $203.42 eBay, $198 Ruby Lane
Highest Price Sold: eBay $198 for 1981 Sheepshead Bay High School Ring 10K
Average price: $36.49
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $25
Number of items listed this week: 9 -
05/09/2024 at 11:39 am #103128
Items in Store: 2842
Items Sold: 28
Total Sales: $1,035.00
COGS: $140.00
Total Profit: $895.00
Average profit: $31.96
Average sales price: $36.96
New Listings: 0
Items scavenged: No clue
2024 weekly new listings Avg: 26
2024 avg gross weekly sales $1,510.28
2024 Avg weekly Items Sold 34
2024 ASP $44.28
2024 projected total sales $78,534.44Spent most of my free time gardening with the family this week. We completely redid the flower gardens – adding a fountain, some ponds as well as all new plants. It was quite the undertaking!
The fountain is pretty sweet!
I put in a pond along with a small waterfall feeder pond above it. The filter discharge in the bigger pond is routed up to the waterfall feeder. Both ponds will get rimmed with slate this week. It will look like the tree fountain is feeding the ponds.
It was raining all morning Saturday so yard sales were…actually quite good! There were plenty of sales that were in the garage or under pop up shelters. I scored some really cool stuff. The highlight was a Sega Dreamcast and a Sega Saturn VIA the power of the ask. The rule I go by is if I see signs of cool stuff, I ask if there is more cool stuff. For example, if I see a video game I’ll ask if they have the system too. You’d be surprised how many times this results in a bin of more stuff coming out. In this case I overheard another buyer buying some loose dreamcast game case art. After he left I asked the owner if he had any more video game stuff. That’s when he brought down the systems. The dreamcast came with a new sealed VMU, which is $80-100 itself. I love that I can get cool toys & electronics at yard sales for cheap. Toys and electronics rarely show up at thrift stores now and if they do, they are priced to the moon.
Still no new listings added to ebay but my draft bank is up over 140. I’ll be busy most of May but then things will calm down a bit. And of course I’m looking forward to that 4 weeks of paid paternity leave later this summer. I’m quite surprised that even without new listing activity I had the best April ever by a WIDE margin outside April 2020. April 2020 is such a WILD outlier, anything that wasn’t bolted down was selling for top dollar!
I’m 4 days into the current week and I’ve started getting stuff in inventory and photographing/listing. Baby steps – just a couple items a day put into inventory and photographed.
Regarding the rest of the premium hoarder stuff I haven’t secured, I haven’t heard anything from the owner. Last I heard the estate consignor still hadn’t done the auction on all the outrageous hardgoods that I shared on here.
I’m kind of out of room right now so I’m not in any hurry. I’ve adopted the position that I will wait for them to reach out to me. I may just cherry pick once the time comes. I’m pretty confident I already have the best stuff, so if nothing else comes from it I can live with that.
Premium Hoarder update:
Sold 7 items for $473.
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05/10/2024 at 9:38 am #103131
After he left I asked the owner if he had any more video game stuff. That’s when he brought down the systems. The dreamcast came with a new sealed VMU, which is $80-100 itself.
You really have a skill getting the good stuff from people at these sales! How much did he end up selling you the systems for?
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05/10/2024 at 11:34 am #103132
$100 total for both. I also bought a tub of Xbox controllers for $10 that will MORE than cover the entire purchase. That was a good price for him untested, and a great price for me that I didn’t even need to consider negotiating.
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05/10/2024 at 9:33 am #103129
@Retro something magical about a fountain for kids. We never put one in, that or a clubhouse due to having to remodel our house expensively.
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05/10/2024 at 11:35 am #103133
It’s because of ebay that when my wife said “I want this” I was able to just throw it on a cart without having to crunch a budget. That’s why I do this.
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05/10/2024 at 9:37 am #103130
https://innovation.ebayinc.com/tech/features/ebays-mobile-app-offers-a-goldmine-of-insights-for-sellers/ Another good Ebay improvement!
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05/11/2024 at 3:00 pm #103135
Christine, the cynical side of me says boo, I hate change! I kind of liked not having Terapeak on the app.
But looking at it from a different perspective, having Terapeak on mobile will make it easier for people who are inexperienced at reselling to look things up. The type of person who scans everything at a thrift store, or the yard sale seller who uses eBay listings as comps. These people aren’t usually the type of resellers who stick around, or the type of sellers who we like to buy from, so not sure it matters.
Especially since “what does this sell for” apps are not exactly hard to find. Ultimately I think this is another move which makes eBay easier to use, which means (in theory) eBay remains the place for people will sell their weird stuff.
eBay also added eBay live functionality on their website (previously was app-only) and I will be curious to see how much more heavily they promote that and how it expands. The trading card consignment company I use does streams four days a week, and it has become a nice little source of extra income for me as I’ve figured out which cards sell well in lives and which don’t. So much of it is depending on who is hosting and who is buying in the stream that day. But, like all other types of buying and selling, there is a logic to it once you really start to pay attention to the patterns and figure out what’s going on.
I would love to see a random gewgaws live stream, or something like postcards run by our old friend spinach eater. Maybe eBay can incentivize new sellers with some kind of bonus similar to the old eBay bucks (RIP). It would not surprise me if there is an eBay elf in a boring meeting pitching these types of ideas, and I hope their boss listens!
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05/11/2024 at 5:35 pm #103137
As far as sellers go, they would need to have a subscription on EBay to see Taraoesk, right? So they will still need to look the old way if casual tats sellers. On the newbie flipper end, true that this might help the competition a bit but I think Google lens already spoiled that. Most new sellers are relatively young and know about Google lens I’d wager.
I’ve been sick but I’m looking forward to trying it. I hope it works quickly.
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05/11/2024 at 6:34 pm #103139
I was thinking about younger people and Google lens when I wrote that post. At one point, you needed a subscription to use Terapeak but apparently in April 2021 (three years ago, yikes!) they made it free for all sellers who use Seller Hub.
I have absolutely zero motivation to do eBay when I am sick, even bare minimum like shipping stuff out becomes a chore, so I hope you feel better and can give us some reports how it works soon!
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05/11/2024 at 2:47 pm #103134
4/28/2024 to 5/4/2024
Items in store: 156 (down from 178 last week)
Items sold: 15 — 9 via best offer, 3 via seller initiated offer, 10 via promoted listings
Gross sales: $1047.74 (down 29% from one year ago)
Net sales: $647.79 (down 15% from one year ago)
Average sales price: $69.85 (up 42% from one year ago)
Highest price sold (net): $273.66— CJ Stroud 2023 Leaf Pro Set purple autograph #9/10
CJ Stroud was the top rookie quarterback last year and the hype around his low print rookie cards and autographs has remained at ridiculous levels even though it’s the NFL offseason. I’m having trouble finding my purchase history of this card, but remember paying around $100 for it early last season or maybe even before the season. I don’t love spending $100 to make $150, but when you have a high confidence interval, the math makes sense. I still have two more Stroud autographs in my eBay inventory at very high profit margins, but at some point over the next few weeks, I’ll remove them so I can add them to my next consignment shipment.
Lowest price sold (net): $15.09 — Jordan Travis and Keon Coleman Leaf 1/1 printing proof card
This might be my highest priced low sale of the week in a year or more. One of the perks of a small store and having another stream of reselling income besides eBay. I’ve been really trying to avoid those $10 and $20 space filler listing cards. I send them to consignment or I put them in small lots with a slightly larger profit margin But there are some cases where listing cards like that makes sense, like this 1/1 card featuring two picks from the recent NFL draft who both played for the Florida State Seminoles. There is usually a small window to sell cards like these. There are always new sets, new rookies, new hype players. While it’s possible that Jordan Travis could be the next great QB or Keon Coleman the new top WR, and this card is more valuable down the line, it’s more likely that this card will sell for around $5 next year. It feels good to move it now, and on to the next box of cards and bin of random items to list!
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05/11/2024 at 4:47 pm #103136
I saw tat a player named, Sean Burroughs, died yesterday. Not to be morbid, but does that make his cards go up in value, at least in the short term?
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05/11/2024 at 6:30 pm #103138
I saw tat a player named, Sean Burroughs, died yesterday. Not to be morbid, but does that make his cards go up in value, at least in the short term?
When I saw that headline, I bought two Burroughs autographed cards directly on the consignment site for $2 to $3 each because I felt these cards were underpriced. I increased the prices by a few bucks. Burroughs career was quite short, just a few years, as he struggled with substance abuse problems which I’m sure contributed to his tragic passing way too young at 43. He wasn’t a star player and he happened to play at the beginning of the modern autograph boom, so he has autographs in about 40 different sets, which is about normal for your average player in the last 20 years and why every card show you can find a seller with bins of $1 or $3 autographs. The prices for Burroughs autographs on the consignment site are about 50% higher than they were 24 hours ago, but the vast majority are under $10 and I think the ones above $10 are very unlikely to sell at that price.
I might make $5 to $10 profit next week or month to a nostalgic Padres fan or someone who was moved by Burroughs life story and wants a few of his cards for their collection. Those buyers still exist, though I think they are the minority in cards compared to flippers and people who are closer to gamblers. I might not sell those two cards until the site’s big Black Friday sale and ultimately only make a couple bucks profit to another flipper. It’s just how the card market is now, and I try and take it all in stride.
Buying and selling cards of players who have passed away is a pretty regular occurrence for me. Whether the player is long retired or younger, the same patterns usually hold. In general, prices spike for a few weeks after the player’s death and slowly prices move back down to where they were except for rare cases like if the player didn’t sign much. Sports teams change year over year, and players card values change along with it. I don’t think it’s too morbid (though I get what you mean) but sometimes it feels strange that part of my job is reading the sports obituaries!
After a player dies, you can always tell the real amateur hour sellers because they put RIP and skull & crossbones emojis in the title of their listings, which is a real poop emoji and I think sellers like that give resellers a bad name.
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05/11/2024 at 7:27 pm #103140
We have some original Clint Eastwood movie posters that we’ve had priced high for over five years. I’m assuming they’ll sell when he dies (he’s 93!). No skull and crossbones on our listings.
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05/11/2024 at 9:15 pm #103141
I like that Honkytonk Man lithograph poster the most of all your Eastwood posters. What is the photo background? I don’t remember seeing that wood background before. But most likely it’s just slipped my memory. Amazing all you and Ryanne have done in the last five years!
Every so often, I check your solds and it is fun to see different backgrounds depending on how long you’ve had the item. Like a snapshot of your scavenging life. I like the ones where you used to model the clothes most of all.
You had a GREAT sale today and I’m looking forward to discussing it next week!!! No spoilers…
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05/13/2024 at 8:32 am #103149
We can tell how old an item is based on the location of the photo. I used to take photos for eBay on our kitchen table. If you ever see an item on a white sheet with bad lightning, that was fifteen years ago! I hope all those items are sold.
Yes, we had a nice furniture sale. I wish they happened all the time.
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