The Numbers: Week October 13-19, 2024

[Jay]

We had a good week of sales but this current week has dropped off a cliff since we put our store in “time away” mode since we’re traveling. The algori
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[ChristineR]

Total Items in Store: 1214
Items Sold:  18
Gross Sales: $860 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $580 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $115
Highest Price Sold: $166 2 used Pottery Barn pillow covers- one from the bins!
Average Price Sold: $48
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $180 (RA) + $20 thrift
Number of items listed this week: 9 + 9 FB marketplace

Made about $70 profit on Facebook with 3 used Pottery Barn items.  0 District sales, one small Mercari sale.

Had a solid week of sales but it felt slow for this normally great time of year.  I’m able to sit at my desk and list for a while without back pain, so that’s great.  Hope to get a lot of listing done this coming week.  Still not 100% but getting more comfortable doing some things.

There is a lot of podcast and Facebook chatter about Ebay and other sites being slow for long time sellers.  People mention the obvious suspicions – the election uncertainty, debt, cost of living, etc.  I’m grateful for the sales I have and will just keep on listing.  I need to be disciplined about avoiding buying much.  The retailers having been running extra discounts which I don’t remember this time of year. Maybe they are nervous about sales as well.  My Halloween item sales weren’t that great, and those were inexpensive items.

Hope everyone had a good week.  R&J glad you found your roasters and got away for a trip.

[Retro Treasures WV]

Items in Store: 3116
Items Sold: 31
Total Sales: $1,133.00
COGS: $189.00
Total Profit: $944.00
Average profit: $30.45
Average sales price: $36.55
New Listings: 0
Items scavenged: 0
2024 weekly new listings Avg: 39
2024 avg gross weekly sales $1,609.02
2024 Avg weekly Items Sold 35
2024 ASP $46.03
2024 projected total sales $83,669.24

I turned on my time away Thursday to go on vacation and it definitely turned off the faucet. Something felt awful familiar about how sales took a nose dive this october. I went back and revisted my numbers from 2022. October ’22 had the worst sales of my entire history on ebay. This same week in 2022 I had 12 sales for $212. I see minor app changes and minor changes on the website and I think the same thing every year – why in the WORLD would ebay be tinkering in Q4? They do it every year. Blows my mind. Who knows that changes that we can’t see.

Premium Hoarder update:

Sold 8 items for $510.

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