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Slow week but we’ve also on vacation. So we’ll take these sales while our store is on autopilot. We’re having a lot of fun scavenging in a new town. W
[See the full post at: The Numbers: Week October 20-26, 2024] -
Items in Store: 3091
Items Sold: 24
Total Sales: $1,045.00
COGS: $147.00
Total Profit: $898.00
Average profit: $37.42
Average sales price: $43.54
New Listings: 0
Items scavenged: 0
2024 weekly new listings Avg: 38
2024 avg gross weekly sales $1,599.40
2024 Avg weekly Items Sold 35
2024 ASP $46.06
2024 projected total sales $83,168.56I was on time away until Friday of this week. Ugh…I have alot of shipping to do this evening. I’m actually quite happy with these sales! We were at the beach in SC and the weather was absolutely PERFECT all week last week. Beautiful blue sunny skies, 78 degrees, and picturesque sunrise and sunsets all week. Booking vacations in hurricane season can be risky but when it works out there is no better way to go to the beach. Hardly any people so you can do whatever you want whenever you want with no wait. Sit in whatever chair you want, and sit wherever you want on the beach. If you’re staying at a place with alot of amenities, you basically get them all to yourself. In our case, lazy river, pools, gas fire pit, etc. There are typically a few Canadian families there this time of year that our kids play with in the pools and on the beach. If you’re a dog person you can even bring your dog on the beach after labor day.
This week we have our haunted house to finish. After that is done my two oldest kids will be helping me list a bunch of commodity clothes. I’m wanting to go BIG on listings goal for the remainder of the year. I’m talking 1000 new listings in the last 9 weeks of the year – mainly clothes. Is it doable…meh, probably not. Especially with my kids track record of sticking with a task. But even if I’m 50-75% successful of that goal that will be a huge increase in business.
Premium Hoarder update:
Sold 7 items for $635.
I had one cancellation because a person didn’t understand that Louis Vuitton shoes are always in UK sizing so they bought the wrong size. $150 sale vaporized. Ow…
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I hope you guys are having a great vacation! Since you mentioned it as a “new town”, I assume this is not your yearly NY trip.
I finally got around to listing a bunch of vintage Lionel train cars and accessories. This was one box I hadn’t listed since it requires some research, and originally I thought that I should test it, but I decided against that since it has been lying around for a year or two. Once everything was listed, the best item (the locomotive) sold in a few hours. This is still part of my commission sales for my neighbor.
I think sales are slow in general for this time of the year.
Week of Oct 20 – 26
Total Items in Store: 1829 eBay, 41 Etsy
Items Sold: 9 eBay, 0 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $11 + $31 Commission
Total Sales: $215.43 eBay
Highest Price Sold: eBay $63 for Vintage Lionel Steam Turbine Locomotive Engine Train
Average price: $24
Returns: 0 (one immediate cancellation)
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 24Here are my numbers for the previous week:
Week of Oct 13 – 19
Total Items in Store: 1814 eBay, 41 Etsy
Items Sold: 12 eBay, 0 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $14 + $10 Commission
Total Sales: $332.07 eBay
Highest Price Sold: Etsy $90 for Pair Bose Jewel Double Cube Speakers
Average price: $27.67
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 13 -
Always fun to source out of town. Sometimes I decide I really have it good here at home but it’s always fun to look at fresh places. Have a great trip.
Total Items in Store: About 1200 (I keep forgetting where to find this number)
Items Sold: 15
Gross Sales: $663 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $445 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $72
Highest Price Sold: $99 Set of 4 Alice Hadley pottery plates
Average Price Sold: $44
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $80 (RA + online vintage arbitrage) + $3 flea market
Number of items listed this week: 26It was a decent week on Ebay selling and listing (for me). I was feeling quite good but seem to have gone downhill the last couple of days for some reason. I have 9 packages to pack this morning that I wasn’t up to yesterday. I walked around the flea market and only bought a couple things from some late arrival house liquidator but it was nice to get out just the same.
I sourced a few small vintage items from another seller on District.net (Niknax) who is an Amercian living in rural Sweden. It’s interesting to watch the lives. I don’t think it’s for me, but who knows? Some top people on Niknax.net are making an absolute killing on their lives, selling things super fast and furious. One just sells straight out of a hoarder house garage (or her garage after raiding a house.)
I got a little tired of listing this week at one point and need to give myself a swift kick because I need to get this stuff up. I did get all of my Christmas RA up for sale. I believe the good retail sales are over until maybe right before or after Christmas.
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It has been so crazy since my last posting.
Our tenants moved out of our “volunteer” rental house. Fortunately the timing was just right that we were looking for a place to grow out my wife’s acupuncture practice a bit, so I spent about month refreshing the finishes and setting it all up for her. Was able to get it all ready for her to smoothly just start taking patients at the new location with no down time (for her).I had a consignor drop off 16 jumbo boxes, the same day we had a large solar array installed on our roof. As a former draftsman, I had reviewed the drawings prior to installation and became aware that it was being installed incorrectly about half way through the project. The installers brushed me off, and it took a weeks to get a response from the project manager. Then when they came to fix the installation, they failed to tighten the brackets down on several panels and forgot to turn the system back on. I ended up doing the remainder of the work myself, rather than have the installer come back a third time. For these 3 or 4 weeks, our attic had to be emptied and all the displaced storage items was clogging up my entire work flow….I hate that.
Meanwhile those 16 boxes just sat…..and then the same consignor brought 12 more boxes in 10/15. Sheesh such a pile. I was able to get 160 items listed before we headed out of town, most of it was Ralph Lauren Purple Label.
I was also on vacation for part of last week. We finally got to visit one of Jay and Ryanne’s houses for a few days of relaxation for our 17th wedding anniversary. I wish we could have stayed longer, but we will surely be back now that my wife’s studies and testing are finished and we will have more opportunities to get away…..plus its only about 25 minutes drive beyond my normal thrifting radius.
I don’t care for the time away feature since I think ebay pushes those listings down, so I still just change my handling time.
Oct 20-26, 2024
Total items in store: 4424 listings for 6812 items.
Items sold: 59
Gross Sales: $5699.51
Net sales: 4441.51
Cost of items sold $1279 ($195 mine / $1084 consignment)
Highest Sold Item: $640 Ralph Lauren Purple Label Coat
Average Price Sold $96.60
Money Spent on new inventory: $128.70
Number of items listed this week. 60-
160 Purple label items. JEALOUS!!! You ever get tired of that consignor make sure to send them my way!
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About 100 of those were RLPL, but yeah, I hear ya. These shipments are uncommon. He’s hit and miss, but he called me in advance on this deal and I’m glad he did. Though, many times I have advised him to pass on stuff and he shows up a few weeks later with it anyway.
Off the top of my head was 150+ pairs of leopard print fur heels from a closing macys…..during the pandemic. They were flooded on every platform. I was able to finally dump the whole lot on another flipper at my garage sale for $5 a pair.
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Definitely slow sales for this time of year, but I expect that to change after the election…hopefully. No better time to focus on what we can control.
In my neck of the eBay woods, this meant that last Thursday I went through almost all of my inventory (everything without a significant number of watchers or open offers), ended all the listings, repriced some of them and sell similar. This led to one big sale (my high sale of the week below) and about a dozen other sales in the last five days. On the big sale and some of the others sales, I dropped the price and my offer settings, but on some of the others I just did an end and sell similar. I don’t think eBay’s algorithm likes when items sit in your store for a few months.
I’ve typically been averaging one to three sales on most days for the last few weeks, so I was pretty happy with the outcome of this little project. I can’t think of a better way to spend an hour or so on eBay unless you’ve got a death pile to tackle…which is on my to-do list for tomorrow and the next few weekends.
10/20/2024 to 10/26/2024
Total listings: 386
New listings this week: 34
Items sold: 19 — 7 via best offer, 5 via seller initiated offer, 4 via advertising
Gross sales: $1304.62 (down 31% from one year ago)
Net sales: $918.32 (down 27% from one year ago)
Average sales price: $68.66 (up 97% from one year ago)
High sale of the week: $248.84 net Denver Broncos PSA certified coin from the coin flip — purchased in July, my COGS was $25
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That’s a really nice sale! Paid $25 and sold for $250. Did someone just not know what it was worth? It’s wild that items on eBay can be that undervalued.
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Bought it from one of the biggest card consignment auction sellers in July. eBay auction like all my buys. These consignment companies (mostly) all love their auctions! It’s such a fun way to buy.
The original listing had the title <span class=”onboarding-tourtip onboarding-tourtip-2-3-resultTable search-results-tourtip-wrapper”><span class=”onboarding-tourtip onboarding-tourtip-3-2-activeTab”><span data-item-id=”375510707624″>National Football League NFL Official Game Coin Breast Cancer Awareness</span></span></span>. I didn’t realize the value at first, but I always double-check oddball listings from these big card sellers because it’s learning, which I like, and often I can make a profit, which I also like.
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Whew! Sales fell off a cliff since I last wrote. Since the election is now behind us quickly, I’ve done a full store sell similar reset this morning and started a 15% sale. I also upped my promoted listings a little bit to 5%. Hoping to kick start things a bit. Fingers crossed.
On a personal note I’m not as surprised this time as the last time. So hoping people move on to shopping more quickly than 2016. The mood was like after 9/11 last time Trump won around here but I think people will get over it faster. Everyone knew this time Kamala might lose.
Unclear what all of this will do to the general economy in 2025 and beyond, but for the time being we will hopefully have a decent holiday shopping season. For us personally, we took a real beating on our taxes last time with the blue states SALT cap, and I expect we will suffer some more. So time to make some extra $.
I’ve been a little leisurely in rolling out my Mercari cross posts but did sell a couple of old Ebay listings over there during the last week and a half. One was an electronic item and it is probably a scammer who asked me to change the address. Hopefully Mercari will back me up.
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On a personal note I’m not as surprised this time as the last time. So hoping people move on to shopping more quickly than 2016. The mood was like after 9/11 last time Trump won around here but I think people will get over it faster. Everyone knew this time Kamala might lose.
Unclear what all of this will do to the general economy in 2025 and beyond, but for the time being we will hopefully have a decent holiday shopping season.
Hear you loud and clear on all of this, Christine. I’m very concerned about what the economy will look like 2-3 years, but I think we’ll have a strong next few months. I have an eBay/scavenging theory that the holiday season extends into at least January now. Probably as late as February this year, too.
I did well with a 20% off sale this past week (still one day to go on it) and will probably run the same again the last few weeks of January.
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@christiner BBC Radio 3 played Samuel Barber’s Adagio at about 3 in the morning. It was also played on the evening of 9/11 at the Albert Hall, in the replacement Prom concert.
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Well people are pretty upset at least on social media but not shellshocked as I expected. I have been able to send about 60! Offers since refreshing my store but no sales yet. I’m also running a 15% off sale, so it’s 25% total. Fingers crossed things start picking up soon.
@Antiquefrog glad you are thinking of us. 🙂 perhaps we are on the path to coming back together. 🤞
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@Craig I usually have a good first couple of weeks in January (selling new items) but a break in second or third week until the day after Christmas. February is always my worst month. I’m thinking of running a huge sale on my older items.
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