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Week of Mar 2 – Mar 9
Total Items in Store: 1237
Items Sold: 12 Cost of Items Sold: $110
Total Sales: $557 Net: $334
Highest Price Sold: eBay $90 (Oil painting)
Average price: $46
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $40ish thrift + some old RA clearance rolling in
Number of items listed this week: 25Last week Sunday was a fairly good sale day. This week was horrible. Traffic and listing views look pretty normal but people I guess not pulling the trigger. I did look back while starting my taxes and last year it seemed to pick up in early April, not in March as was my original recollection. Always good to look at the numbers.
I’m getting a little nervous because I have a lot to accomplish before we leave on the 20th. I need to finish my expenses, COGS, and charitable deductions for taxes, and COGS usually takes hours. Then, I have a market to prep art for this Saturday. Lots of randomness going on as well. Daughter has been struggling a lot and home more often. 🙁 Luckily I’m sleeping much better so I feel like I can accomplish a lot. Hope to list consistently as well and maybe squeak out a few more sales. Sheesh.
I also had a few more sales on Mercari. Some of it is just recovering my money on very cheap items, but notable that Mercari is livening up. I don’t think Ebay will try charging buyers after what a disaster it was for Mercari and Posh. Unfortunately shipping is still expensive on Mercari USPS. They say they get 40% off retail rates but that must not be the weight that I commonly have to ship (1-2 pounds). I’m approaching 1000 on my Ebay basic store so I may move more low dollar to Mercari only later on. I’ll continue to clean up and post the listings I imported a couple of months ago. District (Niknax and VAMP) are super dead.
I’ve been following the news because I can’t look away. Some are speculating that tariffs may help US sellers of used goods. Fingers crossed. Another opportunity for Ebay to run a good advertising campaign. Ebay reported numbers and their push to get existing buyers / serious niche collectors to go deeper does not seem to be working so I am hoping they shift to trying to grow their user base in general or putting more on Google search.
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Another slow week, but I used the time to complete my MaxSold auction. I ended up with 104 lots which is enough for a decent auction. I need to review the lots on the desktop, and then I can set it up to go live.
In unrelated news, a friend of mine self published a book in February. It is available for purchase on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. She texted me asking about how her book ended up on eBay, so I took a look. It seems to me that a few drop shippers listed the book and added a few dollars onto the price. Thing is, she raised the price from what she originally listed it at once she got some reviews in. So, the jokes on these drop shippers who will probably have to pay once eBay’s fees come into play.
If she ends up with excess stock after the few events she is running, I can sell the book on eBay and beat the price from the other sellers. Perhaps I can sell them signed. I wouldn’t ask for my normal 50% commission since she is a close friend.
Week of Mar 2 – 8
Total Items in Store: 1343 eBay, 35 Etsy
Items Sold: 5 eBay
Cost of Items Sold: $0 + $24 Commission
Total Sales: $123.77 eBay
Highest Price Sold: eBay $30 for Vintage Sterling Salt Pepper Shakers NOS
Average price: $24.75
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0 -
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Thought I’d try to participate in this one again:
Week of Mar 2 – Mar 9
Total Items in Store: 486
Items Sold: 2
Cost of Items Sold: $15.00
Total Sales: $310.00
Net: $286.00
Highest Price Sold: eBay $250 (Mercedes Gear Box Valve Body)
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0 — I didn’t get out to any estate sales last weekendvery slow at the moment. selling this fairly expensive car part helped. I definitely notice better sales when I’m more consistent on listing. Need to work on that.
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Week of Mar 2 – Mar 9
Total Items in Store: 997
Items Sold: 28
Cost of Items Sold: $28
Total Sales: $966.35 = $811.59 (Ebay)+ 38.58 (Bonanza) + $75 (FB Marketplace) + 41.18 (Metal scrapper)
Net: $715.91
Highest Price Sold: eBay $255 (Law School books) and FB Marketplace $75 (Longhorn skull)
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0New Listings: 80
This week felt so dang slow until the law school books sold. Then everyone woke up and started spending money. Unfortunately, my kid’s tuition bill also hit this week, so all that money is already spent. Ah well.
We bought 2 storage units the day before Thanksgiving and have been selling inventory mostly from then. One of the units was the size of a 2 car garage and had not been touched in at least 10 years. I’ve hauled about 1200 lbs of scrap metal out of that unit. I *think* we’ve finally rounded up the last of it.
I’m really glad the longhorn skull sold. It had been in my dining room since Thanksgiving and I was very much over it.
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Week of 3/3-3/9/2025
Items in Store: 2915
Items Sold: 24
Total Sales: $1,250.00
COGS: $171.00
Total Profit: $1,079.00
Average profit: $44.96
Average sales price: $52.08
New Listings: 0
Items scavenged: 0
2025 weekly new listings Avg: 18
2025 avg gross weekly sales $1,441.50
2025 Avg weekly Items Sold 27
2025 ASP $53.39
2025 projected total sales $74,958.00My large inventory is really carrying me through this rough stretch. My family has been sick one virus after another since the beginning of February. I’ve been through 2 sets of antibiotics and a heavy course of steroids. Now we all have the flu. I’m very thankful my day job is flexible and I can do most of my work from home. I’m also thankful that my ebay store is robust enough to keep on chugging even when I do the absolute bare minimum.
There is also some management shuffling going on at my day job. A regional manager unexpectedly left the company so our site manager is moving up earlier than expected to fill the gap. My boss is now the interim site manager. While he is still technically the engineering manager for now, odds are high that I’ll end up being asked to become the engineering manager at some point this year. I don’t really want to be a manger. We’ll see how it shakes out.
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