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10/08/2024 at 12:03 pm #104023
Our eBay store feels like its fully back in business with consistent daily sales of all the weird stuff we find. Since we’ve been listing on eBay sinc
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10/08/2024 at 1:18 pm #104026
Items in Store: 3164
Items Sold: 45
Total Sales: $2,055.00
COGS: $209.00
Total Profit: $1,846.00
Average profit: $41.02
Average sales price: $45.67
New Listings: 0
Items scavenged: 4
2024 weekly new listings Avg: 40
2024 avg gross weekly sales $1,640.35
2024 Avg weekly Items Sold 35
2024 ASP $46.37
2024 projected total sales $85,298.20Not much ebay stuff went on this week. I kept my head above water on shipping – yay. No listing happened this week – a virus or something went through my house. I felt crappy all week and a couple of my kids had a 1 day virus. This weekend I barely did anything, much less ebay stuff. No listing or organzing this week. I don’t think I even created any drafts this week at work. I can’t even get help from my older kids as they have more going on than me. They’re finishing up their costumes for the convention they go to every year next week and also working on an even bigger haunted house than they had last year.
Maybe this week I’ll get something done other than shipping. Maybe not. We have alot going on the rest of this month so honey-do list takes priority. I did get a TV installed in the new passenger van. That was a stressful situation – drilling holes in a BRAND NEW very expensive vehicle’s head liner is terrifying. It went fine though – yay for TV!
Premium Hoarder update:
Sold 11 items for $1239.
I’m going on a few weeks without a big shoe sale. Thankfully this week I had a few big clothing sales. A $350 pair of Ralph Lauren Jeans saved my week.
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10/08/2024 at 1:56 pm #104027
R&J i’m so happy that your sales are great. I’m sure your other businesses are doing well with the season. Hope you have found new roasters to train by now. we were having a heat wave over here, but now the fog is back and it feels more fall like. I’d love to see the colors in New England / East Coast sometime. Unfortunately, even with my daughter out of the house, my husband and I don’t have the money to take the trip and of course now I’m recovering.
I had $250 in sales helped by a small painting I re-sold to someone local who said It belonged to her mother and I got donated by mistake. I accepted an offer and they seemed happy with it. I told them I was sorry that happened to their family. That’s the first time anyone’s contacted me with an issue like that and luckily they were just happy to get it back.
I still can’t sit at the desk, but I did manage to list a few items last week. I’m scouring the Internet for some super clearance prices and those are easy to list on my phone. I’m also able to do a few photos standing up and then list on my phone the silver lining of this recovery. Is getting used to listing on my phone. I hate the eBay AI descriptions, but I’m just going with that sometimes at this point I feel like I’m feeling a little bit better and I look forward to being able to do more listings routinely every day. Plus, I’m not up to sourcing so that definitely a good thing at this point since there is plenty ready to be listed.
I hope everyone has a really good week on eBay and otherwise.
The seller I mentioned on YouTube is super efficient because she only uses 90 days so through and she’s been selling for 20 years actually so she does sell other things that she knows do well. I don’t know that I would have the patience though to sit through scanning a wall of potentially discontinued beauty or cleaning products but she also sells list of things that she’s discovered and I’m sure she has some of them just saved in her mind by now. One thing about it is she is selling these old used cleaning products that nobody thinks is valuable and it’s just fascinating what people will buy on eBay.
this week I was listening to people reacting to the Poshmark fees announcement. The impression seems to be negative and some people were saying on Facebook that they’re gonna focus on eBay instead of cross listing so much so maybe it’s a good thing for eBay, which is ironic since they’re the ones charging the sellers the most and sticking with that.
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10/09/2024 at 7:48 am #104032
I don’t understand what in the world these smaller online markets are thinking with having the buyers pay the fees. That’s crazy!!!
If ebay execs have a single brain cell in their head they will jump ALL OVER this with advertisements saying “Come on over, we don’t charge you to shop at our site”.
The reality is that some bean counter at ebay will think “Hey, we can charge the buyer 5% extra too? SWEET! More profit!”
After all, you have to “be in alignment with current market practices”.
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10/10/2024 at 9:53 am #104037
@Retro ha! The day EBay starts an actually effective smart marketing campaign I’m buying more stock. This will be another missed opportunity no doubt.
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10/09/2024 at 12:54 pm #104034
“In an internal message, eBay CEO Jamie Iannone shed light on these impending changes: “We are also planning to introduce a buyer-facing fee in the UK in early 2025 alongside a set of buyer enhancements that provide additional value.”
(quoted in “Devon Live”, 6 October)
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10/10/2024 at 4:07 am #104036
This “set of buyer enhancements that provide additional value” won’t in fact be enhancements of the buyers. Jamie’s an “innovative technology leader, Jamie has more than 20 years of experience in digital pure-play and omnichannel platforms for some of the world’s premier consumer-facing companies”. He last saw pedestrians fifteen years ago.
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10/16/2024 at 1:26 pm #104067
UK eBay private seller tells me that although there’s no fees to pay, sales receipts are now only paid out four times a year. You can use your balance to buy on eBay.
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10/16/2024 at 6:40 pm #104068
Seems like you need to have a business account if you want to live off the money you make because getting paid four times a year isn’t going to cut it. I haven’t heard of anything like that being implemented in the US.
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10/17/2024 at 3:37 am #104070
The “sponsored items’ that appear below listings now display “private” or “business” in gray directly under the title. I think that’s a new thing, but I might be wrong. Seems eBay UK want buyers to be able to easily distinguish between the two.
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10/10/2024 at 11:09 am #104041
Glad to hear that your eBay and coffee businesses are all doing well. eBay is still slow for me, but I have had a few good sales recently. My numbers will look better when I report them next week.
My “career” job has been quiet recently due to a contract that has been on hold since May, but that may change if we win a few new jobs. I’m using the quiet time to get through my death piles.
Week of Sept 29 – Oct 5
Total Items in Store: 1809 eBay, 41 Etsy
Items Sold: 10 eBay, 0 Etsy
Cost of Items Sold: $13 + $0 Commission
Total Sales: $197.62 eBay
Highest Price Sold: eBay $29 for vintage Kmart Automotive Tool Set
Average price: $19.76
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 14 -
10/11/2024 at 12:11 pm #104045
Man ebay turned off the faucet on me this week. Sales took a nose dive overnight on Sunday. This week will not be good unless something drastic happens this weekend. I’ve only had 12 sales this week so far and they’re low dollar.
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10/11/2024 at 6:00 pm #104047
Same here. 16 items sold. mostly low dollar.
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10/11/2024 at 5:57 pm #104046
I can’t really say because my store is much smaller, but this week has been not too bad. Mostly, I had one big sale on Etsy and a couple decent sales on eBay. But, this is me, and I don’t have a great sell through rate to begin with.
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10/15/2024 at 12:03 pm #104057
Interesting topic on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFiZfVJvaos&t=805s
I have a lot of items that could go in the collectibles or home categories. I think there are bonus listings in collectibles, so maybe I should consider using that category more often. Their point is potential favoritism to niched down sellers.
I bought and listed a brand of Target reselling, and sold a bunch of items in that category the next day to different sellers. Could have also been because I have a pinterest board, but sill makes you wonder about the works of things.
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10/15/2024 at 1:35 pm #104059
Ps. In other random drumbeat news, someone reports discontinued new old stock items crossposted on bonanza sell well due to suspected preferred google results. I’m not certain but eBay I think chooses what to send to Google? If so, they would not probably send these household items.
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