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eBay Store Week Feb. 12 – 18, 2023
Total Items in Store: 1170
Items Sold: 9
Gross Sales: $201.58 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $107.82 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Goods Sold: $16.00
Highest Price Sold: $39.95 (Vintage Army Flight Team Coveralls)
Average Price Sold: 22.40
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $76.00
Number of items listed this week: 10This was a very slow week for sales and a slow week for listing. Although I purchased several items for inventory at a garage sale and a thrift store, none of those items have been listed.
In fact, I did a bare minimum of listing … and it shows.eBay Store Week Feb. 5 – 11, 2023
Total Items in Store: 1187
Items Sold: 12
Gross Sales: $429.54 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $252.34 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Goods Sold: $67.00
Highest Price Sold: $49.95 (Harley-Davidson Orange Disc Brake Lock)
Average Price Sold: $35.80
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: 23
Number of items listed this week: 20eBay Store Week Jan. 29 – Feb. 4, 2023
Total Items in Store: 1,175
Items Sold: 17
Gross Sales: $476.89 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $196.65 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Goods Sold: $56.00
Highest Price Sold: $59.95 (UGG Boots)
Average Price Sold: $28.05
Returns:0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $80.00
Number of items listed this week: 29This was a good week for footwear. In addition to my highest selling item (UGG Boots) I sold a pair of Olukai slip-on shoes and a pair of Peloton cycling shoes.
I had picked up a vintage framed pen & ink & watercolor drawing of an Old West windmill and water tank. I had it listed for years and recently sent out an offer to a watcher. It finally sold to a buyer in Arizona.
In true scavenger style, I spotted an old Char-Broil gas grill dumped in a Sam’s Club parking lot. I circled back and harveted the 2 wheels, the 2 feet, 2 control knobs, and the piezo flame igniter – all without tools. I gotta admit, I was thinking of Jay & Ryanne as I was doing it! I cleaned them up and listed them that day. I already sold one of wheels to a buyer in Puerto Rico.
I’ve noticed I have been selling to quite a few buyers in West Virginia lately. I don’t know why, but I certainly welcome their business!
This past Saturday started out cool and breezy (for Florida) and we had too many yard sales for us to go to them all. At least two of those sales were in communities with many people selling in their drive-ways. That was my main sourcing venue for the week. I also popped into a thrift store on Tuesday and bought 8 older books including Electronics guide books published by Radio Shack back in the 1990’s.
eBay Store Week January 22 – 28, 2023
Total Items in Store: 1161
Items Sold: 19
Gross Sales: $616.38 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $382.02 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Goods Sold: $83.00
Highest Price Sold: $80.00 (BATES Black Safety-Toe Tactical Boots)
Average Price Sold: $32.44
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $126.00
Number of items listed this week:31Received a link from eBay for my 1099-K this morning – Taxes…Ugh. I’ll be appointing myself to getting all my numbers together. I will meet with my tax guy on February 7. I’m a recently retired small fry and I have not set up a plan to pay any taxes quarterly. Time will tell what kind of a bite I will see this year.
This was a satisfactory week for me. A couple of sales over $50.00, which for me is remarkable.
This past weekend was a good one for sourcing. My wife and I hit several yard sales and one thrift store. Now I have a sizable hill of items to process.Certain thrift stores I go to have astronomical prices. Others seem to go through phases where prices are high for a month or two, and then everything seems more reasonable. I credit this to the people behind the scenes doing the actual pricing. When I see the prices are lower, I assume there is a new person doing the pricing – and hope they stick around for a while!
Ryanne, congratulations on placing so well in your competition. When you pour your heart and soul into something, it feels so good when your peers see and acknowledge that. We’re proud of you!
Hope all of you are doing well.
eBay Store Week January 15 – 21, 2023
Total Items in Store: 1,161
Items Sold: 19
Gross Sales: $607.92 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $397.35 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Goods Sold: $62.00
Highest Price Sold: $200.00 ( Lot of 5 New Old Stock, Out of Print Books )
Average Price Sold: $32.00
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $109.00
Number of items listed this week: 39I am seeing my numbers moving up across the board with one exception. Gross and Net numbers are up. Average Price Sold is up. But what is down is quantity of items sold (down by 1).
There were lots of sales in my area this past weekend. Temperatures in the upper 70s and sunny skies. I scored a bunch of kitchen knives at one sale, and some new coin collectors supplies at an estate sale.
I am still trying to learn the Quality over Quantity lesson. I bought many items for $1.00 or less that each may sell for $10.00. I didn’t find any “home-runs” this weekend. If I am going to be sitting on an item for weeks, months or years – better it’s a $1.00 item than a $35.00 item.
What are your thoughts?This was an okay week for me, and an improvement over recent weeks. I sold some items that were listed for years, and another item sold within hours of it being listed.
I had 3 bottles of vintage Gillette after shave lotion listed for a while. A buyer from Canada asked if I would sell him just one bottle. I ended the first listing and relisted the items separately. Wouldn’t you know they all sold shortly after that. Always learning!
eBay Store Week January 8 – 14, 2023
Total Items in Store: 1137
Items Sold: 20
Gross Sales: $551.95 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $299.87 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Goods Sold: $80.00
Highest Price Sold: $50.00 (Lot of 14 “Plants vs. Zombies” Graphic Novel Comic Books)
Average Price Sold: $27.60
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $215.00
Number of items listed this week: 9eBay Store Week January 1 – 7, 2023
Total Items in Store: 1141
Items Sold: 13
Gross Sales: $349.86 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $180.43 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Goods Sold: $45.00
Highest Price Sold: $44.95 (Pettibon – Chiropractic Head-Weighting System)
Average Price Sold: $26.91
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $11.00
Number of items listed this week: 1My net sales were 44% of gross sales this week. That seems too high to be a good business model. I was giving some good deals to blow things out the door.
One DVD sold and I could not lay my hands on it, so I did something I learned from Resale Rabbit on his YouTube channel. I purchased another copy from an eBay seller and had them “Drop-Ship” the item to the buyer. In this way my buyer got the item they ordered, I did not have to disappoint them with news that I could not fulfill the order, and I did not receive any “demerits” from eBay for canceling an order (that’s a thing, right?)
Happy New Year, Ya’ll!
eBay Store Week 12/25 – 12/31/2022
Total Items in Store: 1154
Items Sold: 14
Gross Sales: $486.21 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $295.39 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Goods Sold: $90.00
Highest Price Sold: $60.00 (G Scale Model Train Freight Car)
Average Price Sold: $34.73
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0.00
Number of items listed this week: 18With other things going on in my year-end calendar, I did absolutely no sourcing this week. I did make time to list some items from my death pile, and even a few items from my personal collection that I’ve had for about 30 years.
One of the reasons I started selling on eBay 4 or 5 years ago was to minimize my possessions. I’m getting older, and I suppose it is natural to want to pare down one’s excess accumulations with age.
Ironically, because of eBay, I now have more possessions than ever before in my life! The only difference is, instead of calling it my “Collection”, I now call it my “Inventory”.Happy New Year!
eBay Store Sales Week of December 18 through 24, 2022
Total Items in Store: 1158
Items Sold: 11
Gross Sales: $282.83 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $154.29 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Goods Sold: $25.00
Highest Price Sold: $39.95 (EIB Radio Network – Rush Limbaugh Coffee Cup)
Average Price Sold: $25.71
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $10.00
Number of items listed this week: 23I have tried retail Arbitrage before without much success, but this year I did pretty well with a grocery item (ALAGA cane syrup) used in baking. Found at my grocery store’s clearance shelf, which is typically the first place I look each time I do the weekly grocery shopping.
eBay Store Sales Week of December 11 through 17, 2022
Total Items in Store: 1144
Items Sold: 10
Gross Sales: $256.66 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $145.53 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Goods Sold: $15.00
Highest Price Sold: $19.95 (Rodgers and Hammerstein Anthology for Easy Piano Songbook)
Average Price Sold: $25.67
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $36.00
Number of items listed this week: 28Although I’ve been a Forum member 3 plus years, and have been listening to Ryanne & Jay for awhile, including relistening to older podcasts now, last week was my first posting of my weekly numbers. I guess it helped motivate me to get some listing done. I’ve been powering through my death pile and have already made a few sales from my newly listed items. Funny how that works.
Merry Christmas to all!
Borderrooster eBay Store Week December 4, 2022 thru December 10, 2022
Total Items in Store: 1111
Items Sold: 12
Gross Sales: $277.61 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $147.62 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Highest Price Sold: $49.95 (Ford F-150 Floor Mats)
Average Price Sold: $23.13
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 10
I picked up a Hurom Slow Juicer at a thrift store a few months ago for $12.00. Finally got it cleaned up, photoed and listed for $175.00!
Also parted out a Hamilton Beach Juicer I bought for $5.00 into 7 listings totaling over $75.00. Hat tip to Ryanne for the idea!
Another of my listings this week was actually a relisting of an item that sold but was never paid for. eBay automatically relisted after it was timed out and canceled by eBay.
