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k – I only got 9 items listed, one was multi. Hope to do better this week with multiple listing sections. Also spent most of Saturday literally getting my house back in order. I listed a bunch of breakables, so I need to pad those and put them back in storage.
Amatino, keep it up with your purge. Sounds like you had a lot of stuff hanging around that wasn’t worth selling. I don’t have any inventory in our living space except the guest closet, but still it feels really good to see space opening up.
Total Items in Store: 271 Ebay, 45 Mercari
Items Sold: 3
Gross Sales: $85 Ebay
Cost of Items Sold: $26 + one item ours
Highest Price Sold: $45 New platter (paid $24 on clearance)
Average Price Sold: $28
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $56
Number of items listed this week: 9I love to find and sell the starglow china in your thumbnail! Rough, quiet week on Ebay and surprisingly busy week outside Ebay. I allowed myself to go to to a rummage sale for the first time in a very long time. I discovered bought a few pieces of Franciscan Silver Pine – very cool atomic china. Someone donated brand new Pendleton bath sheets ($5 each). It was a nice little thrill. I woke up early and listed almost all of it the next morning. Now back to the piles this week. I’m very into listing because quite frankly we could use the money as my work has been slow. I don’t normally rely on Ebay money, but life my other part-time income was off the last couple of months.
Wishing you the best R & J with cash flow and your new business adventures. Have a good week!
I just wanted to second this. College is 1.5 years away for us and it’s daunting. I know you are very serious about hustling for that tuition. Great job!
I find Chris to be a mixed bag. He’s how I found out about Mercari and at the time they had a lot of money flowing into Google search results. On the other hand, sometimes he seems very immature. IDK
@autumn do you use the 365 setting in Terapeak under the research tab? Being mindful of auctions, which can produce low prices on longer tail items, that seems like enough data for most things. If it hasn’t sold on Ebay in a year, then you might have something special to price high with best offer or try an auction with a high starting bid. Good luck!
Thanks Amatino for sharing. I think #4 is the downfall for me. I list to list in big chunky time periods. It kind of goes against my nature to cram it into the day here and there. Sometimes it’s a struggle to fit Ebay listing into my life, but certainly I can do better.
I have to say too if you get yourself into a hole, you need to take breaks from sourcing unless you’re pretty productive at listing or hire help. Maybe it depends on how deep is the hole you made for yourself and how fast you want to climb out of it. If you keep sourcing, you need to list that stuff first and be honest if you can’t keep up quickly with those new purchases.
I would add one more – that it helps to group like items that you will bring in small batches for yourself to list. The silver lining on piles is that you tend to pick up similar items and it’s usually faster to list related items in one sitting.
I don’t really have a cheap outlet for getting rid of a bunch of inexpensive smalls together, other than donating. I know some people have local low end consignment stores. That would have helped with some of the early stuff I picked up that’s still in the piles. Some items just aren’t worth today’s shipping prices (eg. many mugs).
I second the party supplies. I’ve been that mom overpaying for some theme that is no longer in theaters/big box stores, like How to Train your Dragon. So, I pick up party supplies if I can get multi-quantity and it’s something I think will do well. I once found a whole bunch of Harry Potter stuff and did very well with most of that.
This seems really smart. I wouldn’t really want to trust Ebay with a sku or box #. And, you can do a lot of sorting.
@Amatino some is better then none! I found about 3 items last week that were not worth listing and without hesitation I threw them in the donate pile. So, I’ll just thin as I go along for now. Got some thanksgiving up.
@Seam thanks! We had 21 years on 9/28 (celebrated late – trip instead of gifts). Happy anniversary to you too. Your numbers are amazing btw.
Listed 17 items this week, 12 unique. VT, good luck with kitty. Mine lived 19 years too. She was a real pain, but still sad.
Total Items in Store: 263
Items Sold: 5
Gross Sales: $159 – all Ebay, 0 Mercari (off part of week)
Cost of Items Sold: $12
Highest Price Sold: $100 Christmas stocking craft kit (paid $3)
Average Price Sold: $31
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $4
Number of items listed this week: 17Thanks for the Sunday release podcast! Listened on our way back from San Diego for an anniversary weekend getaway. Sorry to hear about the glitches for clothing. I saw new item specifics in Home and Garden last week but did not seem to have issues. I did not catch on that they were not all mandatory. Some seemed excessive or unrelated but I just typed not applicable to fill something in.
Good luck with your inventory project R&J. Seems like it will be time consuming but will free you up in the end. I’m working away at the death piles but thrifted San Diego for an hour in Point Loma. Seemed very picked over but I bought this Marushka fabric art in brown and thought of you Ryanne.
@SilverFox I basically took the summer off too. I’m curious to see if you think listing is going faster for you lately than before summer?
I use the desktop and then add photos in the app. There is a glitch with promoted listings (I can only pick trending rate in the app), but otherwise I’m pleased that the photos are loading faster and generally listing unique items seems better. Also loving Terapeak 365 day sales record access.
