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Did try my first estate sale this weekend, but it ended up being a bust. The one item I was really looking forward to was gone (I got there the hour after it opened, so I get it). Most of the prices were too high to make money for the items that I sort of knew, but not all sales are the same so I haven’t written it off. Just need to try and understand which types will be a better use of time.
Nov 27 – Dec 3rd
Total Items in Store: 124
Items Sold: 4
COGS: 51.10 (One item was a 50 dollar buyout)
Sales: 135.97
New Listings: 11Second week in, we did list about a few items but our seller limits are slowing us down and we can’t seem to get ebay to bump them (no live people to ask). Still, not bad at all and this week appears to be headed down a good path as well. Fingers crossed.
I know so little about art, I’m trying to figure out what type this is oil versus watercolor. There’s no signatures and I can ‘feel’ the paint so I’m thinking it’s not a print. Any help would be appreciated.
Can’t get the link or image thing to work but here it is hard wired 🙂
https://imgur.com/a/Fvi2VSo after listening to the podcast, there was a feel that some of these books do sell on Amazon, but the fees for storage are a concern. If books sell better on Amazon, wouldn’t it be worth it to do the ‘vendor fulfilled’ stuff on those?
I know it was mentioned that why do that if you’re already utilizing Ebay in that way, and putting it on Ebay, but if a particular type of item sells significantly better on one site, wouldn’t that be a determining factor to push it over?
Sorry, I know so little about the subject but that question has been rattling around since the talk of moving away from FDA. I guess the experiment is to see if the books sell just as well on Ebay?
We live in the Oshkosh area so a trip to Appleton isn’t a major drive. I’m glad your experience seemed like a good one. We spent all weekend this week listing the stuff we had accumulated and we’re only about 2/3rds of the way through that. Want to finish that up before going to hard into acquisition mode as we need some sales revenue to do so.
But yeah, I’d be down for meeting other people for a Goodwill run if you don’t mind a newbie 🙂
11/20 – 11/27
Total Items in “Store”: 111
Items Sold: 4
Cost of Items Sold : $3.62
Total Sales: $68.97
Highest Item Sold: $24.99 Fur Real Chimpanzee
New items up: 87Nowhere near the numbers of anyone else, but I did hit my first Ebay goal (sell five items).
GW bins are ok, depending on what you’re looking for. There’s a bunch of people that seem clued into the vintage toys but we could pick good shirts/shoes all day.
St Vincent’s opened up something similar, selection is less but it’s pbp and it’s sorted out. Less people, I was the only one there for about a half hour and it’s sort of out of the way.
