- This topic has 8 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 2 weeks, 4 days ago by
.
-
Posts
-
-
Items in Store: 2973
Items Sold: 19
Total Sales: $754.00
COGS: $86.00
Total Profit: $668.00
Average profit: $35.16
Average sales price: $39.68
New Listings: 57
Items scavenged: 15
2025 weekly new listings Avg: 22
2025 avg gross weekly sales $1,246.15
2025 Avg weekly Items Sold 24
2025 ASP $51.27
2025 projected total sales $64,800.00Still a decent week all things considered. I was able to really get some listings in. I also rebuilt one of my former coat wardrobes in my inventory shed with new shelves so I can put an additional 12 bins in that space. Putting about 400 items that sell year round in the space where I put 40-50 coats that only sold roughly 5 months of the year (and not well at that) is a HUGE game changer. I’ll get this space filled up right quick with clothes and shoes.
This week I want to keep the positive momentum going and try to get as much listing as possible again. April is always a very busy family month so I need to do while the doin’ is good. My daughter will be graduating this month and afterwards I’ll see if she wants to get back to doing listing clothing since she’ll have plenty of free time. Hopefully it goes better than last time (judging by her ability to do chores….I don’t have high expectations).
Some things are in flux at my day job right now. Odds are I’ll be in some form of management/supervision sooner rather than later so I’ve decided to stop doing ebay work at my desk – be more professional and all that. That kinda sucks as I have listed a TON of clothing at my desk over the last 18 months, but I should get a good raise and enter a much more lucrative bonus plan so it will work out well. I have a meeting next week where I’ll see how all this shakes out with my boss moving into a hybrid site manager role, but still keeping his engineering manager role.
Nothing stopping me from listing in my van though – I’ll keep doing that on breaks/lunch. Shoes and small misc items work great this way. Clothes don’t but I’m sure I can figure something out.
-
-
-
I think any discussion of a slowdown or eBay being slow should always come back to what, I, personally, am trying to accomplish with my eBay store on a day to day and week to week basis. For example, if I want to move inventory that’s older than a year, I have a few options at my disposal:
I can end and sell similar, modifying prices/offers downward as I do this. For the relatively small time investment, and boost to these items within eBay’s search algorithm, this is always my #1 option.
I can send offers to interested buyers, run a markdown sale or create a coupon. Markdown sales are easier now than ever: just a few clicks and you’re done. The features with coupons are even better, since you can group buyers around specific eBay or store categories and then send them a targeted coupon. But make sure your coupons/sales aren’t just a paltry little discount. I get little to no engagement unless I go to 20% off or higher. People are inundated with coupons in 2025.
I can send items to auction. This is the most extreme, but depending on your niche and your expectations, it can work well as long as your expectations are realistic. I deal in a lot of small collectibles like sports cards, and auctions have been part of the hobby for 25+ years. Some buyers only search auctions. I don’t recommend starting your auction below the absolute minimum you’d accept for the item. I usually go 50% of the buy it now price I had the item in my store, and I accept offers over the minimum bid price. I ran 235 auctions this week since it was the end of the quarter, which seemed like a good time to reassess my store. I’ll be happy if I get 35 sales from these auctions. I’ll be thrilled if I get 50. Then I’ll get a few more over the next few weeks when I return the unsold items into my inventory.
This is all kind of a reflection of the nature of reselling in 2025. The name of the game is still the same, but how we get there has changed. It’s not enough to just post a listing and wait, wait, wait anymore. Some buyers only like auctions. Some buyers are waiting for you to cut the price 25%. There are a lot of websites beyond eBay to get a deal, and what sold well last year isn’t necessarily going to sell well today. If you have items in your inventory that you haven’t “touched” in 6 months, my recommendation would be set aside a few hours and really go through these listings. End and sell similar is great, but what’s even better is to actually analyze your inventory: take a look at similar actives and solds, make sure your pricing makes sense and that there’s actually demand for your items. If there’s not, consider if there are other ways to sell this stuff. eBay is not the best platform for every type of item anymore, but the profit from a sold item adds up no matter how you sell it.
Whenever sales slow down for me on eBay, it’s typically because I haven’t been listing as much recently or I wasn’t listing a few weeks ago. Sometimes, with hindsight, I can see that the things I listed weren’t very high demand or weren’t priced correctly. Obviously politics and the economy are factors in all of this, but if this podcast taught us anything, it’s to focus on the things we can control.
-
Absolutely true! I hadn’t been listing for multiple weeks and the piper came to be paid with slow sales. I started doing end/sell similar and I started listing again to get things moving again.
Items I list that have high STR still sell quickly, so selling in-demand items is the key to immediate success. I know when I list shoes that the sale could happen quickly, but most often will take months or YEARS for the right buyer at the right size/color to come along. Those items are a pure numbers game which is why I have around 1000 active shoe listings.
It’s alot of work and alot of inventory space, but last year I sold:
467 pair of shoes for $36904.
Now granted that dollar number is skewed up from the premium hoarder shoes. The total number on those was:
117 pair for $16306 – $140 a pair.
So non-hoarder shoes I sold 350 pair of shoes for $20598. $59 a pair.
That is why I do shoes. Sheer volume of listings (and focusing on higher ASP) leads to significant and high ASP sales, even in slow months. Everybody needs shoes year round!
-
-
-
Yes, March has been very slow for me; however, I haven’t been listing. For this past week, I was on Time Away from about Tues through Fri, so that was a significant factor for my measly three sales. I will start listing soon, but it won’t be at a significant rate.
Week of Mar 23 – 29
Total Items in Store: 1327 eBay, 33 Etsy
Items Sold: 3 eBay, 0 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $0 + $17 Commission
Total Sales: $102.90 eBayy
Highest Price Sold: eBay $60 for Versailles Mantel Clock by Schmeckenbecher
Average price: eBay $34.30
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0 -
-
-
I have been kind of slacking on posting my numbers over the last month, but no better time to get back in the habit than right now. It’s been a bit of a grind so far this year selling on eBay, but my card consignment business numbers have been extremely consistent. A lot of that comes down to optimizing certain processes, for example, the company I use introduced live auctions this year and I submit a consistent number of items to the lives every week. It’s become part of my life. Assuming that doesn’t change, I can throw some extra energy towards figuring out the same thing with eBay.
Organization has been a huge key for me. I have so many less unlisted items and random shipping/storage/collectibles supplies than I did a year ago. It’s been nothing fancy to get to this point, just doing the work week after week.
3/23/2024 to 3/29/2024
Total listings: 322
New listings this week: 27
Items sold: 23 — 11 via best offer, 6 via seller initiated offer, 7 via advertising
Gross sales: $998.52 (down 49% from one year ago)
Net sales: $656.55 (down 50% from one year ago)
Average sales price: $43.41 (down 56% from one year ago)
High sale of the week: $56.64 net, about $30 after COGS Sadaharu Oh 2000 Baseball Magazine Japanese baseball jersey card
-
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.