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Sorry Amatino. It’s hard to lose a pet. Thanks for giving her a better life.
I’m way out of touch with Ebay and zero listings again as I work on my dad’s condo reno. Traveling to his old house this week and going to be a bust Ebaywise. Sales were really, really dead too this week.
Apparently they cut back on advertising in the first quarter and they are not running those flash % off sales so much.
Total Items in Store: 277 Ebay, About 50 Mercari
Items Sold: 7 Ebay, 1 Mercari
Gross Sales: $214 Ebay, $15 Mercari
Cost of Items Sold: $75 + $3 shipping included + one item ours
Highest Price Sold: $95 New Tote Bag (Paid $27 on clearance)
Average Price Sold: $30 Ebay, $15 Mercari
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0Again, grateful for the sales as I’m sick and super busy with non Ebay stuff and contract work. I feel very removed from my Ebay business so glad to be shipping some items out. My store is down from almost 400 items.
Read the Ebay first quarter results and some statements by the CEO. Looks like many sellers are going for promoted listings so revenue was up but sales were down. One wonders if some Ebay sellers going for trending are not really paying attention to fees and the bottom line. IMHO Ebay fee statements are not completely straightforward. Will be interesting how this all flushes out but I’m pleased they haven’t been having all the tech glitches they used to.
I ship a lot of plates. I highly recommend using packing foam like this between the plates, then I wrap into a bundle with stretch wrap. Then the whole bundle goes in several turns of large bubble wrap – three each direction. Then I skip the cardboard double layer. I’ve never had any plates break. I have had one odd shaped teapot crack. That was thinner than many I sell. If thin porcelain vs. stoneware, you might want to use the cardboard wrap technique described above. Also I got some of thicker packing foam used from someone who moved. It’s the bomb.
Smaller, well done paintings
Some Williams Sonoma and Pottery Barn items
Catherineholm enamelware, vintage Danish items, Dansk
Hawaiian Koa wood items
Premium stitchery kits, a reliable seller and easy listing and shipping but I usually get them cheapSales had been very minimal but picked up a bit the last two weeks. I also read online that is true for retail generally. Here’s a few used item sales I had in the past few weeks.
This item I found when I went very late to an estate sale run by people who totally know their stuff. Still found a couple of things. It sold immediately after I sent an offer to buyers for $30. I paid like $3 I think. Vintage Tiki Tapa Placemats I actually like this kind of 50s-60s tiki stuff for my house but thought I probably wouldn’t get around to using theses placemats. If anyone has a tablecloth like this, then we’re talking.
This 60s fiberglass bowl I got an an estate sale around the corner from my house – nobody was looking in the kitchen cabinets. Paid a buck. This also sold make offer to buyers for $20 (five bucks off). Head’s up that the tiki tapa pattern of this Traymold brand serving pieces I have found in the wild (and kept and use) and it sells really well. Here’s another seller’s listing: of that pattern.
I paid $4 for these NOS Disney linens at the indy thrift. I’m resisting vintage linens lately unless it’s still in the package. They sold pretty quickly.
Finally another offer of $30, but took a couple of years to sell. vintage patriotic print drapery fabric.
Have a good weekend trash elves.
@Jay right on! I’m so glad to hear that you did that. Yes, I tell my kids the ice cream only tastes so good because we don’t have any at home so we only have it once in a while.
@ebaymom Thanks it’s good to know we aren’t alone! #goptaxscamstories I’m driving my old paid off minivan too in a better public school district. Don’t want to dwell on it, but it was a bitter pill to swallow. You should be getting $2k credit (not deduction) for each kid who is 16 or under on 12/31/18 to help offset the loss of deductions. Luckily, that was a last minute add on to get one of the final majority votes.
Total Items in Store: 277 eBay, 50 Mercari
Items Sold: 6 Ebay, 0 Mercari
Cost of Items Sold: $40 + $6 shipping included
Total Sales: $185
Highest Price Sold: $75 (Used Anthropolgie Tea Set, paid about $25)
Average Price Sold: $30
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 8An ok week on Ebay. Limping along here selling of existing inventory. I’m feeling cautiously optimistic about Ebay’s future because after that public beat down of management, I sense they are doing a bit better with technology management and progressing toward a modern app. It doesn’t seem as disruptive as it used to be. This week is a bit dense with non-Ebay but the taxes are filed and the weekend might be good for listing.
With our high cost of living, I don’t really ever feel like I’m waltzing around with significant disposable income to worry about spending or investing. My husband has been socking away pre-tax money for retirement like a madman and that plus our housing, taxes, and other cost of living keep us keeping up. Probably some of the people who don’t have kids can afford to be a little bit loose. Why not treat yourself a bit I guess in that instance? If we do have “extra money” we will stay somewhere nice on an annual vacation or spend it on experiences together – good memories. I do feel like there has to be some kind of balance with the frugalness and living your life while you are relatively young. (Our moms passed away in their early 60s.) Most people need a little treat now and then to stay motivated at the grindstone. But fancy cars and collections of things don’t appeal to us.
My condolences Sharyn on your tax bill. We really got hammered here too and paid thousands more. Fortunately, my estimates were good and I paid it quarterly. It’s really difficult to not be bitter about it. Apparently there isn’t much sympathy because many people don’t get it’s hitting people living a middle class lifestyle in an expensive, high tax area. Some of our friends with a full time instead of part time second spouse like me actually didn’t get hit as hard because they had already been phased out of some deductions. We were right in the sweet spot. š On the other hand, some people have it worse because they are paying for kids in college to boot.
I am running “Full version” 5.30.0.1518 IOS on an iphone 8
It’s not working well today. Some items are repeats from the last couple of days and it’s not bringing up any new ones after I make offers. I sold two vintage bread and butter $20-30 items at a small discount, one has been listed over a year.
I watch items I like but don’t want to pay the price, then I usually forget about them (more true on Ebay than Mercari). Often when I get an offer from a seller it’s still more than I want to pay so I don’t accept but it does bring the item back to my attention. I think it’s an awesome tool. You’re not entirely at the mercy of the algorithm this way.
No action yesterday but one offer did get accepted right away today with a little better discount, like 20 percent off. I was only able to send offers on about 7 items today for whatever reason. I think I read before that weekends, especially Sundays are a better time to try this.
