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Items in Store: 2976
Items Sold: 29
Total Sales: $916.00
COGS: $128.00
Total Profit: $788.00
Average profit: $27.17
Average sales price: $31.59
New Listings: 32
Items scavenged: 6
2025 weekly new listings Avg: 22
2025 avg gross weekly sales $1,222.57
2025 Avg weekly Items Sold 25
2025 ASP $49.61
2025 projected total sales $63,573.71I’m really kicking myself for not accepting a $250 offer on a shirt that I have listed for $350. Hopefully they counter offer today and the negotiation doesn’t end. I could have really used that sale yesterday to get my weekly numbers above $1k.
I’ve started filling up the new rack with items but I have to go buy more bins today. I want to use the most space efficient bins available and not just whatever I have on-hand. I hope to have my backlog of listed items into inventory this week. Moving stuff to inventory is definitely the most tedious and seemingly non-value adding aspect to my business. I know I have to do it but unlike sourcing, listing, & shipping I feel like I’m not “making money” when I do it.
I also dealt with my Nerf gun death pile this weekend. I’ve had 2 overflowing bins of Nerf guns that have been kicked around/moved around for YEARS in my ebay space. A couple years ago my son and I tested them all out and we had a big Nerf gun battle royal for his birthday party. Then I put them all back in bins and banished them to a dark corner of my garage. Well now I’m dealing with that corner death pile. I wanted all of them either listed or donated. If a gun was low value with a horrible STR, I decided to donate instead of listing. Now I have one bin of draft listing nerf guns and a bin of donate to Goodwill guns. YAY! The drafted guns/accessories will get cleaned and photographed this week.
Yard sales were a wash this week – literally! Typically the first Saturday in April is good but we’ve been swamped in non-stop rain since Wednesday here.
This week I’ll just keep doing what I can in the time I have. There’s so much to do and so little time to do it. My oldest child graduates in 2 weeks and we’re trying to finish school for all of our kids this month as well. Typically we finish school at the end of May, so this is a bit of a stretch. Once school is over hopefully I can get more done.
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I had another low week, but I am listing finally. I might have an amazing week coming up should this one sale go through. I’ll talk about next week should it work out. COGS are a bit high because I sold an old iPhone 5c that was mine. Plus, my highest sale was a commission, so my costs are high in general.
Almost done with taxes as well. It’s like weeks/months just to get started, and then it takes a few hours to get it all wrapped up. But, I can never seem to start early. Usually doesn’t matter since We’re always paying Federal.
Week of Mar 30 – Apr 5
Total Items in Store: 1330 eBay, 33 Etsy
Items Sold: 5 eBay, 0 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $13.75 + $14 Commission
Total Sales: $102.36 eBay
Highest Price Sold: eBay $35 for Set 2 Vtg Lenox Crystal Champagne Glasses (commission)
Average price: eBay $20.47
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 7 -
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My sales were better than I thought. Gross $735 / net 396. Busy outside of ebay and I turned in my taxes…except COGS. I have not been listing at all on Ebay for like 3 weeks now. Listed some things on Facebook Marketplace. Getting ready for a big live sale. Got rid of the clothing and now I’m sorting all of the art work, frames, and unframed pieces. I looked up some artists and values.
I’ll be very happy when this market is over on Sunday. I was happy to be accepted but it’s a little stressful. It is making me tackle my hoard. I’m proud to say I have not been sourcing since shortly after I got back and blew off a bunch of sales on Friday and Sat. Just the flea last week and this Thursday and it was mostly booth display stuff. I’d really like to get my outflow a lot higher than my inflow and haven’t been good about that so far this year. There is a lot here and doing my taxes made me realize I’d like better cash flow.
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Like many of you, taxes are still at the top (?) of my to-do list. But I know the process by now. I will get it done, and it’s not as stressful as I pretend it is to justify putting it off.
On the eBay side of things, has anyone run a sale or coupon in the last month, and how did that go for you? I had really great success sending a 25% coupon targeted to previous buyers in specific categories last Saturday, and I would urge everyone to give something like that a try and check back in. Especially if you see lousy weather on a weekend like we have in the Northeast the last couple weekends. With the economy on its current downward shuffle, I think it’s so important to figure out what eBay tricks and tools work best for your inventory, and the numbers behind them. Coupons? Markdown sales? Adjust prices every 30 days? Auctions? If things start to slow down, mastering these tricks can net you some sales that you probably get from the old-school method of set it and forget it listings.
Within a few hours of sending out the coupon, I had four or five sales including a few buyers who bought multiple items. I used a long expiration date (June 30th) and turned on the option to let the buyer use the coupon more than once. The whole thing took five minutes. This turned an okay week of sales into a good one, and I’ve gotten more sales from using the coupon this week. Once taxes are done, I would really love to buckle down and crank out a ton of new listings by the end of the month, and then send out the coupon to those same buyer groups the first week of May.
3/29/2024 to 4/5/2024
Total listings: 236
New listings this week: 21
Items sold: 27 — 9 via best offer, 6 via seller initiated offer, 10 via advertising
Gross sales: $1288.49 (down 3% from one year ago)
Net sales: $875.12 (down 0.8% from one year ago)
Average sales price: $47.72 (down 39% from one year ago)
High sale of the week: $168.67 net, about $100 after COGS Justin Jefferson 2021 Panini Contenders Optic silver prizm autograph /50
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