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06/21/2024 at 5:29 pm #103395
Let’s blame it all on the heat. Gdamn is it hot outside. Sales have really picked up for us over the past month or so. Definitely selling a lot of low
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06/21/2024 at 6:11 pm #103398
I thought I might miss your post again this week, but here I am; probably first to respond!
I had another slow week that was helped a little bit by one decent sale. The set of 8 plates had been listed on my old Ruby Lane store. I have just about all that inventory relisted, but about half a dozen are still scheduled. I’ve also decided to take some gold jewelry in for an appraisal before I relist.
Week of May Jun 9 – 15
Total Items in Store: 1634 eBay, 33 Etsy
Items Sold: 6 eBay, 0 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $10 + $5.50 Commission
Total Sales: $137.57 eBay
Highest Price Sold: eBay $75 for Set 8 Valley Forge Dinner Plates
Average price: $22.92
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 22-
06/22/2024 at 9:33 am #103408
Are you still listing items on other sites now that Ruby Lane is done?
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06/22/2024 at 9:49 am #103409
Just eBay and Etsy. If the Ruby Lane store had taken off, I was thinking about closing Etsy, but now it is here to stay.
I spoke to the lady who owned the Persian rug. I’m going to list it on Etsy without the word Persian or Iran and see where it goes. In the meantime, I’ll look to other avenues.
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06/21/2024 at 9:54 pm #103399
My numbers are on my work computer so I’ll post those Monday. Yes, crazy hot! I have an arcade cabinet that I have pending sale on FMBP but I told the buyer there is NO WAY I’m unburying that thing from my shed this week! He’s fine with that – we’ll get it next week.
I’ve been pulling items from my inventory shed after 11pm and STILL sweating my butt off.
Jay, what is your process to list 20 items? Is Ryanne still doing ebay at all or is she full time coffee master? Do you have a reliable helper? It would be awesome if you could find someone super reliable that could run the ENTIRE show in 4-5 hours 5 days a week. All you have to do is keep supplying items to list and let the money compound. Is that a possibility? If you are pulling in $1400 net a week then paying someone $500 a week is not too bad at all.
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06/22/2024 at 9:32 am #103407
Yeah, we’re in the same region. I cant believe the heat’s going to continue for at least another week. No sign of cool is coming. It was 80 degrees at 10pm last night.
Ryanne is really the one who holds our store down. I help source and provide the physical labor of moving stuff/organizing, we have a helper take all the photos and start drafts, and Ryanne lists and ships.
We still find so much random stuff that it takes a person with a huge knowledge base to list and price properly. The sellers who have created little empires with employees seem to focus on very standard/consistent inventory (jeans, mens clothes, shoes, video games, any item with a barcode).
Like we sold this yesterday: https://www.ebay.com/itm/235548412763 Not sure a 19 year old student (our current helper) would know how to list properly.
We may just be overvaluing our experience. We’ve always been slow to change. If anything, teaching someone to ship would be the biggest help. But again, we sell a lot of delicates and oversized items that takes skill in packing.
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06/23/2024 at 12:52 am #103419
The Tesco supermarket’s started selling rolls of a strong paper packing tape for £3 ($4) a roll. I bought a few rolls- they had an offer of three rolls for £6- after I found it’s far superior to the normal brown packing tape.
The firm I buy my packing stuff from doesn’t stock it at the moment- they say they can’t get hold of any. I did buy some 1-metre-long cardboard “corner protectors” from them. I can cut them up and glue them inside the corners of boxes.
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06/22/2024 at 7:36 pm #103417
Total Items in Store: 890
Items Sold: 9
Gross Sales: $395 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $245 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $29
Highest Price Sold: $98 Halloween decoration
Average Price Sold: $44
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $200
Number of items listed this week: 1We are in transition and I took some time off last week after the crazy week prior. I’ve been remiss not doing Ebay photos. Have a bunch of listings in the queue. I have to say I don’t have a lot of Ebay mojo but I had better find some.
The vintage market booth was not great on fathers day – grad weekend. Disappointing and for us it was hot – 90 degrees. I’m doing it again next Saturday and hoping it is better for sure.
At the flea market this week a QVC addict had her employees liquidate her storage unit. I should have about $700 in listings from that, mostly bags and high end art sets (paid $85 for three moving boxes worth). There was also the college recycling sale today – I made it first to the cosmetics table and bought a bunch of water filter parts just to flip. Overall, again too much sourcing and not enough listing. It should be a good week to list I hope this coming week.
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06/22/2024 at 7:53 pm #103418
hey, maybe that flea market will be a great place to source. Always good when you can fill up the car for cheap.
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06/23/2024 at 9:56 am #103421
There are three types of sellers at the flea market. Only one type I can and want to buy from: the house clean out people who arrive late. The other two are pallet people and antique / vintage booth sellers, who have higher prices most times than I want to pay. We also have produce and flowers, neither of which are a very good deal vs Trader Joes.
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07/05/2024 at 12:15 pm #103511
Caught a break this week and found two ranch workers in a Uhaul selling off stuff. It was mostly old books but I got a Levis jacket for $1, a large coach purse for $5, Nirvana hoodie (keeping) for $1. I probably should have picked up some old books for color stacks. These are the best flea market sellers to buy from. Amazing! They could care less what they get and just want it gone. I also found the most amazing 70s vintage velvet painting of a wizard with a crystal ball. So bad it’s good. Then I managed to rip it in the face inside my bag. Womp womp.
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07/05/2024 at 6:06 pm #103514
Amazing finds. Those were all original, genuine items?
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07/06/2024 at 5:00 pm #103523
Yep. The jacket I just laundered – fresh off the ranch and it smells a little bit – so I’ll have to wash a few times. The Coach bag is authentic. I actually bought like 4 Coach items at the Indy thrift and a yard sale. I will probably put them in my live booth or list on Mercari, as I don’t want to risk my Ebay account with VERO / faked name brands. I don’t usually do handbags, but it’s hard to pass up. Based on the sources I believe they are authentic but I should probably watch a video. I’m familiar and do have some vintage 90s coach myself that I should sell off.
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06/24/2024 at 7:56 am #103426
Items in Store: 2866
Items Sold: 29
Total Sales: $1,012.00
COGS: $137.00
Total Profit: $875.00
Average profit: $30.17
Average sales price: $34.90
New Listings: 50
Items scavenged: Alot
2024 weekly new listings Avg: 28
2024 avg gross weekly sales $1,389.00
2024 Avg weekly Items Sold 32
2024 ASP $42.90
2024 projected total sales $72,228.00Well looks like focused ebay work will slide another week. What a fun softball weekend though! My daughter’s team made it to the winner’s bracket final of the league playoffs but lost to the juggernaut team that went undefeated all year. It was a heartbreaking loss as they were winning near the end but couldn’t finish it out. That meant they had to come back through the losers bracket. Something clicked in those girls though – they all showed up, had positive attitudes, encouraged and cheered each other. The next game they 4 inning shutout mercied the other team in the loser bracket final. Then on Saturday in the Championship game they mercied that undefeated team! That meant they would play the decisive game on Sunday….at 1pm…in near 100 degree conditions. What did they do? Just play tremendous team ball and MERCY them again to win the Championship! To top that off, my daughter was selected for all stars. It was a pretty cool (but hot and exhausting) fathers day.
So more practices and a game next Saturday as well for allstars. This is her last year playing and I am over the moon that she will always have these tremendous memories. I cherish my youth baseball memories to this day.
I was able to get a lot of work done during breaks/lunch at work. I also tried to do 5 items photos each morning before going to work. The work paid off with 50 new listings.
Yard sales were just ok until I got to a very special one. I pulled up and the sale was LOADED with 80’s toys. I looked over at the seller and realized I knew them! This couple used to run a local vintage toy and card shop that I regularly brought my kids to prior to covid. They also used to sell on ebay. They were clearing out some garage space with old unsold inventory. We talked for a minute and I explained that I’m a pretty serious ebay seller now. I built up a huge pile of stuff since the prices were dirt cheap. Then when it was time to settle up I told the guy to go ahead and round up his price. He said “ does $100 work?”, so I handed him $200. This is a connection I want to cultivate. I want to be the guy he calls when he wants to move stuff. He’s also a picker at heart with a lot of connections so he may even send other folks my way.
This is actually a connection I’ve been dreaming of making since they closed their toy store in 2019. I’ve always wondered what they did with their stuff and/or what other stuff did they have that wasn’t in the store. I’ve seen them both around but I didn’t want to broach the subject casually.
Profit wise on the haul, I will make plenty of money. Likely several thousand once the work is done and things start selling. A lot of it will sell pretty quick.
Premium Hoarder update:
Sold 5 items for $407.
I kept focusing on getting drafts done this week and did get some up and listed. Still hovering at 200 draft listings awaiting photos.
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06/24/2024 at 3:27 pm #103432
Even in a heat wave where the apartment was unbearably hot during the day, I made steady progress again with my eBay store. It feels good. I should hit 300 listings later this week which is a nice round number. Then, it’s on to 400. My new team lots have been selling very well and helping me organize my inventory space better, so it’s momentum on top of momentum. The end of the month is coming up, and it feels really good to approach July with things building and building.
6/9/2024 to 6/15/2024
Items in store: 270 (up from 232 last week’s thread)
Items sold: 32 — 17 via best offer, 6 via seller initiated offer, 22 via promoted listings
Gross sales: $1409.76 (down 18% from one year ago)
Net sales: $899.06 (down 19% from one year ago)
Average sales price: $44.06 (down 3% from one year ago)
Highest price sold (net): $114.79 — DeMar DeRozan locker room nameplate from the NBA All Star Game
A rare non trading card item, this would fall under sports memorabilia and it’s the second of these nameplates that I’ve sold with four other players in stock, and I’m already comfortably in the profit on all of them. Always nice to step outside the comfort zone a little bit, and see it pay off.
This one turned into a bit of a saga, the package was originally misdelivered to the buyer’s neighbor. Obviously it had a happy ending since I know what happened, and sure enough the day after it was scanned delivered, the neighbor dropped it off to the buyer. I try to remain very zen about this sort of stuff, not just because of eBay’s buyer protection policy, but because I don’t see the point in getting worked up over $100. I will sell something else to make up the difference if I have to refund a buyer or something gets lost. I can sell something at a little lower margin or even a slight loss if I really, truly need the money. There is always going to be more stuff to buy and sell.
The buyer was very chill and calm the whole time, and left me a really nice feedback once their prize was finally delivered.
Lowest price sold (net): $10.23 — Gabi Butler 2021 Goodwin Champions autograph with inscription
There are a few modern card sets which do autographs with random subjects, not just all the key rookies/star players/legends in that particular sport, and I have realized recently that these types of items sell for slightly higher prices in my eBay store than through consignment because I can add all the keywords to the title that an algorithm (or person with less knowledge) doesn’t know. Despite this realization, these $12 to $15 individual card sales are becoming less and less a part of my store as I’ve realized I can sell 10 cards from the same team at a slightly higher price with (ideally) a slightly higher net profit. The link is to Denver Broncos because they have been my most popular the last few weeks. One happy repeat buyer + making new lot listings with quality cards has led to quick sales. I have one Denver Broncos lot to pack up tonight and another on the desk to get scanned and listed, and if recent history is a guide, then it will be sold by this time next week.
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06/25/2024 at 1:58 pm #103455
I can see where your knowledge of teams is valuable when you make “mini collections”. New collectors especially must love the convenience of purchasing a whole team from a single year.
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07/04/2024 at 4:41 pm #103495
Jay, I think my favorite part about making these lots is picking out a few bonus cards to send with each order. It helps that I have gotten so much more organized in the last few months, it makes the whole workflow a lot smoother and I pick out the bonus cards as I’m sorting out the next lot I make to replace the one that sold. I get a lot of lengthy feedback comments too, which is cool. Here’s a few of the positives I’ve received in the last few weeks:
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<div class=”card__comment”><span data-test-id=”fdbk-comment-17″ aria-label=”Best purchase ever! Awesome seller, super quick shipping, cards all in great shape, great deal, sweet extra cards!!! Very happy, thank you so much!”>Best purchase ever! Awesome seller, super quick shipping, cards all in great shape, great deal, sweet extra cards!!! Very happy, thank you so much!</span></div>
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<div><span data-test-id=”fdbk-comment-19″ aria-label=”Great seller! Made my son one happy boy for doing so well on his report card. Thanks”>Great seller! Made my son one happy boy for doing so well on his report card. Thanks</span></div>
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<div><span data-test-id=”fdbk-comment-23″ aria-label=”Not sure if those extra cards were supposed to be sent or not but I appreciate it if you did send extra it was great doing business with you and if you have any more good Washington lots contact me if you can I’d love to get a deal going thanks again have a blessed day!”>Not sure if those extra cards were supposed to be sent or not but I appreciate it if you did send extra it was great doing business with you and if you have any more good Washington lots contact me if you can I’d love to get a deal going thanks again have a blessed day!</span></div>
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<div><span data-test-id=”fdbk-comment-19″ aria-label=”So awesome!! Cards were exactly as expected and in perfect care. Fast shipping and even an extra couple cards..WHATTT!! Definitely will be back again. “>So awesome!! Cards were exactly as expected and in perfect care. Fast shipping and even an extra couple cards..WHATTT!! Definitely will be back again. </span></div>
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<div>It feels a little bit like old school eBay from 10 years ago to receive comments like this, especially since most buyers (myself included) don’t really leave feedback anymore. I would say about half of the buyers who leave comments like this end up buying from me again. Because sports teams are always changing, it takes quite a bit of research and time to stay current and make sure I’m not including cards of a player who got traded last year or that rookie who blew the game last week. But it’s fun work, especially when I change up the cards in a lot and it sells very quickly.</div>
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<div>I am really curious to see how these lots will sell as we approach Q4. I’ve been making them off and on for over a year now, but really stepped them up this year to where they’ve become a solid chunk of my business. I don’t know what the upper limit is for how many I can make or sell in a week, but I’d love to find out.</div>-
07/04/2024 at 4:50 pm #103497
It sounds like you’re having a lot of fun. You also seem to have a strong bond with your eBay customers. That love of collecting!
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