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Thanks Terri! We went with cheaper bathroom faucets (with plastic innards) in our house only to have to replace them in a few years. I’ll check that out.
I’m basically on a hiatus as I help my dad transition and remodel his new place. 0 listings for me until I chime in with something else. It will be completed by mid to late summer I expect so at least it coincides with summer slowdown. Have a great week ladies.
Putting nothing in, getting nothing back. Sold one item on Ebay this week for best offer $30. I’m focused on my other job and renovating my dad’s new place, so Ebay is still on the back burner. I didn’t even manage to send any offers from the app but will this week. That’s a great feature.
Enjoyed the discussion of value and that is relevant to me now as I choose products for my dad’s place. And even as I choose what to update and what is not going to increase the value of the unit. I have expensive taste but I try to get bargains. My dad is the cheap swede and is out of touch with what things cost. “How much is a dishwasher? $200? Vanity $200.” Anything buried in the wall or labor intensive such as plumbing I’ll pay up for. I found out our Costco has Hansgrohe fixtures and they also had $50 off ceiling fans. Yeah for Costco! I have some time before he moves in so I will be hawking local sites and Habitat for some deals. Picked out nice stock tile this week.
Zero for me. And I picked up a set of china and seven more boxes of death pile stuff from my dad’s house which goes on the market this month. Ugh!
Thank you for the podcast. I listened while I was returning from my dad’s on a road trip. My husband and I don’t work together on Ebay and are very compatible, but our occasional trouble areas are: (1) he is very goal oriented and I’m not. I can see the big picture, get what I need to get done, and don’t overspend, but I kind of take things day by day and do my best; and (2) sometimes we are in agreement but don’t explain things the same way – it’s a bit hard to describe but it frustrates him. Another thought is that while I appreciate his zeal for retirement savings, I wonder if I’m going to live to enjoy it. I have a sinking feeling that I will look back and wish we had traveled more and saved a bit less.
On vacation and closed the store this week for peace of mind. Have eight more boxes of stuff to add to my death piles. Sigh.
Total Items in Store: 270
Items Sold: 2
Gross Sales: $40
Cost of Items Sold: $7
Highest Price Sold: $25 Craft kit
Average Price Sold: $20
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0Reporting to you from the dead zone this week. I’m amazed too about people who have like 3 or 4 kids, work full time and squeeze in Ebay. Hat’s off! I’m getting sandwiched between the older and younger generations through the summer on a reno / relocating project and honestly I have been a little bit on a tv binge lately, which is not like me so maybe to deal with the stress of it all. I guess I’m taking a hiatus from listing (and buying). Might as well make it official. My luck finally ran out this week getting $200 in sales despite that.
Still need to finish the podcast. Thanks for doing it!
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.
