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Me too. Every year when I was little I got my dad an old spice soap on a rope for Christmas.
You’re excited to get a label printer for Christmas and take it as a deduction.
I listed 16 unique items.
I will work the day job a bit this week and be pretty much off next week. I hope to continue with the early morning listing shifts while the kids are out and sleeping in.
I’m continuing with the piles. The last box was small framed original paintings, Starbucks mugs, a Pendleton purse and some linens. Most of my unlisted items are boxed by type, but apparently not all of it. Slow to list a hodge podge. Some of the mugs were a bit scratched up. Kind of makes you wonder if it’s worth it. I’m trying to make myself list $15 minimum on Ebay, $10 on Mercari (because it’s faster).
The garage looks pretty good. Pretty much everything waiting is boxed up. I was able to consolidate some half empty boxes of sold and unsold so the perimeter of the garage is looking better. I also tidied up my shipping supplies. I hope by summer things look even better and a lot more is listed.
Total Items in Store: 297 Ebay, 45 Mercari
Items Sold: 7 Ebay, 2 Mercari
Total Sales : $247 Ebay, $21 Mercari
Highest Price: $60 BO Vintage Atomic Platter, paid $2
Average Price: $35 Ebay, $10 Mercari
Returns: 0 – USPS paid asap on last week’s claim, including shipping reimbursement.
Cost of Goods Sold: $52 Ebay, $4 Mercari
Costs of Goods Purchased this Week: $7
Number of New Items Listed this Week: 14 Ebay, 2 MercariThanks for the Sunday podcast. It is truly amazing how you do manage to keep everything going. I’m glad you were able to find employees with high standards where you are located.
Mercari cooled off this week. I never did shut off my stores. My husband had surgery so not a great listing week.
I’ve not been buying much at all for RA this year, but the vintage items did quite well this month with good ROI. I probably only have about $800 left in brand new inventory. I grabbed a death pile box and found some of the items were scratched up. Kind of second guessing myself on making myself list all of the piles, but I’ll keep plowing through I think with few exceptions. I have a list of what might be good to list during different months of the year, so will try to keep that in mind going forward. Garage is looking good. Not many loose unlisted items any longer.
Happy holidays to the trash elves. Goal for 2020 – keep after the piles.
Cool finds up there. TFS. I haven’t posted in a while so sharing some vintage items I sold in the recent past.
Just took a best offer on this Hawaiian Art Pottery Vase of $50. Took a long time to sell for some reason. Went back to Hawaii. Picked up at a thrift store for about $8.
Took a / made a best offer of $60 on this retro Silver Pine Atomic Franciscan Platter . Love it. I found an odd lot of this china on my second pass at rummage sale, $2 apiece. If I had found the whole set I might have kept it to use.
A tiki mug! I love genuine tiki but hardly ever find any because it’s very popular here with other pickers. I almost kept these but really I have a small collection of mugs and don’t need any more. Found at GW, $3 apiece. Sold quickly offer to watcher @$25.
Multiquantity Target Goodwill find. Elf on the Shelf Clothes Paid $1 on sale day and $2 after that when I went back for more. Sold super quickly on Mercari and Ebay. Should have gone all in on sale day but didn’t because it was a boy outfit. This is the second year I’ve found these elf accessories at GW. If you don’t have kids, the poor parents need to change the elves each day so new outfits are in demand.
Happy picking!
I have too much stuff already, but I know some people buy on Mercari from people selling their own stuff to flip higher on Ebay. I have searches on there for things I want to keep and sometimes things go very fast and low.
A lot of YouTube channels do have some good information, but it sometimes feeling like I’m panning for gold to find it
Yes! It’s been a challenge to ferret out the ones who are actually sharing useful new-to-me identification / valuation about things I like to source or talking about what’s no longer fetching good prices. I’m down to three or four channels. On a couple of those, I have to watch 15 minutes of other footage with a gem thrown in here and there. Those are ones that have morphed into QVC-style selling to their own subscribers and have incorporated their less talented significant others – pet peeve. I don’t really watch tv any more so Youtube is kind of down time. I miss Sheldon and Mad Maine.
Happy birthday VT.
I listed 11 unique listings last week. My day job is slow, so hoping to get more listed this week.
* Total Items in Store: 284 eBay, 40 Mercari
* Items Sold: 13 Ebay, 5 Mercari
* Cost of Items Sold: $81 + $12 free shipping + some items ours
* Total Sales: $239 Ebay, $50 Mercari + $20 Facebook
* Highest Price Sold: $43 Best offer Fitz and Floyd Dogs, paid $20 rummage sale in November.
* Average Price Sold: $18 Ebay, $10 Mercari
* Returns: 1 broken item 🙁 – claim submitted. Plenty of bubble but in flat rate box.
* Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: <$10
* Number of items listed this week: 8 Ebay, 7 MercariEnjoyed the podcast. A good sales month, but this week’s theme was definitely low dollar. I’m really in the mood to move things, so that’s ok. A lot of recent listings are selling off.
Spent a small amount of time consolidating bins of listed items. Little by little my garage is looking better and the perimeter is starting to clear out. There are still plenty of piles and parent house boxes, but I definitely see good progress. I’m also doing a little bit better with popping up a few listings here and there during the week.
Not doing much sourcing these days, but I love love love the new manager at Goodwill. Just wants to get stuff moving and on the floor. He is pricing hard goods inexpensively. Unfortunately this weekend I just missed a huge lot of small, new looking Patagonia bags – some he stuffed inside the others. Some picker chick got them all literally right in front of me. Oye!
Have a great week!
I got an offer from a buyer the other day. Negotiation ended with “I don’t pay shipping.”
I knew some brands I liked and have a good eye for quality, plus I personally love 50s and 60s vintage decor. But, I added a lot of knowledge watching certain Youtubers – especially with sales reports videos – who specialize in the types of things I like to sell and are located in or near affluent areas similar to mine. For example, I like to watch ThePaperCastle because we have a lot of East Coast transplants and I learn about brands from the other side of the country. I watched a bunch of Youtubers and weeded out the ones who I didn’t learn from. On the lower end, I watch Cincinnati picker. Also, go ahead and partially peel those stickers back – everyone does it. 🙂 Happy picking!
Unfortunately only 1 listing for me last week. Working on a few this week. I’m going to try to list a lot in the mornings during the kids’ winter break like I did at Thanksgiving.
Total Items In Store: 265 Ebay, 45 Mercari
Items Sold: 14 Ebay, 7 Mercari
Cost of Items Sold: $208 + some items ours
Total Sales: $615 Ebay, $126 Mercari 🙂
Highest Price Sold: $129 (Used Pottery Barn Duvet and Shams, paid $35 at indy thrift Christmas boutique 2 weeks ago)
Average Price Sold: $43 Ebay, $18 Mercari
Money Spent on New Inventory: $6
Number of items listed: 1 🙁A great selling week on Ebay for me until the weekend was dead. Unfortunately didn’t manage to get much listed this week and I found another half bin of Christmas. I might try to pop some of that on Mercari quickly this week, though I will need to be aware of the shipping deadlines next week. Mercari doesn’t do a great job of letting the buyer know when to expect delivery before purchasing – there is no handling time.
I made another post about shutting my Ebay store off the week before Christmas. I was burned one year when Ebay let me sell something with Fed Ex shipping before Christmas and then wouldn’t let me print the label. At the counter it was $185 for two day. I think I will do the priority deadline of 12/21 but the Fed Ex deadline is 12/16 for home, which seems really early. Then I turn it on 12/24.
Have a great week.
This morning on the news I saw that Fed Ex Home / Ground cut off for Christmas is 12/16, which seems pretty early. I’ve been burned before with Ebay completing a sale less than a week before Christmas and I can’t print the Ebay label for Fed Ex. Just wondering if and when people shut their store off. I think I did it last year about a week before Christmas and then reopened on the 24th.
BTW, here are the dates from the USPS website:
Domestic Mail Class/Product Date (excluding Alaska & Hawaii)
First-Class Mail® Service Dec. 20
Priority Mail® Service Dec. 21
Priority Mail Express® Service2 Dec. 23
USPS Retail Ground® Dec. 14Here’s a pic from the end of our street. Luckily the wind blew it the other way after this early shot. Some neighbors left, some have been through it many times before, we just packed up. Yes, my relatives up there are getting hammered with the rain. The rain came to help put out the fire down here. Gotta love Cali though, except the taxes. 🙂
