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It was nice to have 2 slower weekends in a row. Combining shipping days and not having to ship mail on Saturday made it feel like less work! Also took a couple of days off, so it was nice.
With less mail going out, I was able to get 40 items up from the last auction haul. I’ve also been working through the general backlog over the past few days to clear out space for the auction items. Most items are getting listed. I’m only tossing a few that I feel won’t sell or that aren’t worth listing. I’ve also been donating reject items as often as possible to clear out space. Most of the items I’ve been working on in the backlog have been from 2015-2018, so not too old.
A lot of the new items are going up on auction to save on listing fees and because I’m hoping for bidding wars. I realize this is a bad time of the year to be listing auctions, but I have to list stuff when I get to it. What’s nice about having such a big backlog and not picking out ALL of the best stuff first is that I’m finding valuable items mixed in with the bread & butter, so it’s keeping the listing interesting. If this was all just bread & butter I’d get bored quick.
I’ve also been listing in my secondary Ebay store, but not as much as I would like to at the moment because of working through the backlog for my main store. Sales are increasing on that store because I’ve been running a small sale and am getting a boost from having more active listings up. I’ve probably listed 50-100 items in it since late November.
No time to list on Etsy at the moment. I do have a few items I need to get up within the next week that I think will do well on there.
Here are my last 10 sales on the main Ebay store by their starting dates. These items sold from today through yesterday afternoon. I haven’t ended/started any listings since last July, so I am currently up to month 17 or 18 of potentially “stale” items.
Start time: Nov 19, 2019 12:10:27 PST
Start time: Nov 01, 2019 12:33:03 PDT
Start time: Jul 05, 2018 04:40:57 PDT
Start time: Nov 15, 2018 11:09:28 PST
Start time: Jul 10, 2018 03:57:41 PDT
Start time: Jun 17, 2018 04:20:49 PDT
Start time: Sep 23, 2019 14:44:15 PDT
Start time: Dec 29, 2019 09:12:18 PST
Start time: Jul 15, 2019 12:50:52 PDT
Start time: Jun 17, 2018 04:19:43 PDTYou know, that’s a good and sensible idea, but I’d probably end up tripping over something like that all the time when I’m not using it, even when folded. My basement is almost completely full at this point of both listed & unlisted inventory. I do having a metal folding chair that I could possibly use for the tall shelves, hmmm.
I am forever having books from my Amazon inventory fall on my head as I pull. I am too short to reach some stock, but I manage. I just cry for a minute, restack the books and continue working. The big safety upgrade for this year has been wearing slippers as I pull. I got the type that keep the feet warm and cozy too, so bonus.
I love the British way of adding commentary to everything, especially the additional text that appear under all the photos for Daily Mail articles. “SHE’S GAZING OFF INTO THE DISTANCE.” Okay, thanks for letting us know!
You’re listing Christmas ornaments on Christmas day because people are still hyped up and buying!
Ugh, that youtuber. Not a fan.
I clicked through that video to his youtube page. His featured video is “1 hour $1,400 thrift store haul ebay amazon big money thrift haul.” That video was posted 2 months ago, while the video linked to in this discussion was posted back in April.
Does he believe that thrift stores are bad for resellers? Or is he doing just fine with “big money” hauls and thrift stores are great?
Seriously, do not believe what people on YouTube have to say. They post contradictory information all the time in order to get views and I doubt a lot of them believe half of what they gibber on about for hours.
You make purchases based on the typical amount of room an Uber XL can hold and then cheer when everything fits in the trunk with an inch to spare.
The post office was more chaotic this morning than I have seen it during this entire holiday season. One customer yelled nonstop at the clerk, another shoved me and had an attitude about gift cards. What a time to be merry! I just walked home and picked up some donuts and got back to work.
It was refreshing this past weekend to have a lull in sales. 30 orders went out Friday, NO ORDERS WENT OUT ON SATURDAY, 15 orders went out today, 20 orders to go out tomorrow. Sales are picking up again today, so it should be a healthy amount to go out again on Thursday. When I was at the post office, my normal clerk didn’t say anything about the post office being closed tomorrow. If he had, I would’ve run home, did the 20 orders for today instead of tomorrow, and did a second ship-out today to get it all out before Christmas.
In an experiment, I spent $100 at an auction for items primarily outside of my niche. Vintage Christmas, a lot more artwork than I am used to dealing with, plates, vintage toys, etc,. I brought home roughly 13 bankers boxers worth of stuff, plus 2 additional bags of prints and artwork. I feel like I have developed my processes enough over the past 2 years for my non-niche, everything else store that I can handle working on this amount of stuff now. Last year, no, I would’ve been out of my depth. It’s fine though, overall 8 boxes of stock are outside of my niche and 5 boxes are items that will work perfectly in my main ebay store. This is also why I went from a basic to a premium store last week. I only have 330 items in my premium store, so I can easily fill the store with this bounty of stuff I just got in. Yay. I’ll try to add 10-15 items a day to each store when I have the time, plus a few items a week to Etsy to keep the store active. Luckily, I have just enough space to hold this much non-niche stuff, but it will become a crunch if this becomes more common. I’ll just see how this lot goes before I buy too much more outside of RA and thrift stores.
No need to beat yourself up over it. It will probably take a few weeks for the seller to even realize a return has been made once they see it on their invoice. Your return along with the expected Christmas returns. The seller will probably just shrug and not give it a second thought.
Most FBA sellers refer to the items they sell as units. Not clothing, books, toys, clothing. No individual titles. Just units. Just items that were scanned and shown to have a small margin of profit. That’s it. What it actually is doesn’t matter. Amazon is deeply impersonal, both the company and the bulk of its FBA sellers and returns are just the expected cost of doing business.
I think a lot of it depends on time, storage space, listing ability, packing patience, how much you already have to list, etc,. Considering that you can just list those 7 cans and make a huge profit off the lot, you could even throw out the other 1,993 cans and it wouldn’t make a dent in money earned.
Some questions to think about: do you have an anchor store to support an additional 2,000 listings? How much inventory do you have to process besides the up to 2,000 cans? Do you have the appropriate shipping boxes for that many cans? Even for multi-quantity purchase?
Are there any cans left that are worth $20-100 individually? Even listing those and lotting the cheapies will still leave a great profit.
I believe it was two or three years ago, maybe longer, that Amazon stopped allowing us booksellers to sell books as new. If you wanted to list them as new, you had to send them an invoice direct from the publisher. I had a few hundred listings that were brand new and still sealed that I had to change to “like new” condition from new when this happened. Still getting sales from those listings as “like new” to this day, so it’s not that big of a deal.
I believe part of the problem was newbies buying books that to them looked like they were in new condition, but in reality were just very good at best, but for the most part just in good condition per Amazon’s condition system.
Wow, I didn’t realize she was cheering her fans on to cause drama in the comments. I guess that also helps to keep them engaged, if they feel they must constantly defend her against her “haters.”
Her videos are incredibly boring to me because I don’t like antiques or the sort of collectibles she picks up, and she doesn’t seem that interesting of a person, at least to me.
What does crack me up is the impression she gives off that f/t resellers are constantly trawling through thrifts, antique shops, flea markets and spending $100-500 a day on whatever catches their fancy to just post online for sale seemingly like magic. Nah. I guess fans wouldn’t be as excited by videos of the process it takes getting all that stock listed & shipped. I can only imagine how many hours it takes to pack all those fragile items. No thanks!
Is drama still that popular amongst the youtube crowd? Thought it quieted down after the whole NS/SP fiasco a year or two ago? Interesting.
Makes sense about the “guest” spots. I guess they are not really “resellers” per se, more like talk show hosts or internet personalities that intersperse reselling amongst the random talk. Like panning for gold, as you say. This format was sort of perfected with the original “Serial” podcast a few years ago. People like hearing people talk about their lives in the middle of whatever thrifting or listing or shipping they’re doing.
I do agree with what IndySales said above about the youtubers being good or interesting. Even with hundreds of reselling channels to choose from, there’s less quality content out there worth watching. Similar to hundreds of cable channels, or streaming options. It’s just a lot of unnecessary talk.
You can usually read WSJ articles for free if you have Chrome and use the incognito tab.
I’m worried about these constant negative articles bashing 3rd party sellers from WSJ/NYT/etc,. All roads lead to just new items sold directly from Amazon and “authorized” 3rd party resellers in the future. Amazon will have to pull such a move to show that they have everything under control. It’s going to get ugly in the future.
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