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I’d like to hear from people who start using this. Once I decided to open a FB business page to claim my store name. I didn’t realize that it would link to my personal insta with pictures of my daughter, etc. and wound up closing it. I couldn’t seem to shut that off. I don’t really have a handle on how the whole privacy thing works.
Johnny Was is a favorite. Nice finds.
Ugh that spider looks big.
Bottom box contents I’m happy to report that I finished the bottom box from the front row of piles. Yeah! My day job is dead this week so trying to list a lot before the holiday weekend.
@Jay right? I have been hit by every one I think, including Equifax. Target, Home Depot, our mortgage broker, you name it. We just got an email that some of our kids’ info was lifted from a program the school district uses. š
I get Scotch at Costco $2 a roll plus tax. Someone else on Youtube said they also have soemthing similar at Sam’s club.
05/18/2020 at 3:16 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 463: The Painful Gaze Of A Boss vs The Freedom To Do What I Want #7753605/18/2020 at 1:18 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 463: The Painful Gaze Of A Boss vs The Freedom To Do What I Want #77525Total Items in Store: 298
Items Sold: 15 Ebay, 4 Mercari
Gross Sales: $770 Ebay, $67 Mercari
Cost of Items Sold: $220 Ebay, $12 Mercari plus some items ours on Mercari
Highest Price Sold: $125 (upholstery fabric, 4 yards)
Average Price Sold: $51 Ebay, $17 Mercari
Returns: 0, $5 partial to make a non-reader buyer complaint go away on chipped item sold as described
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $150-200 online RA clearance sale
Number of items listed this week: 28Good week on Ebay for me with a lot of new, discontinued and/or hard to find items selling quickly. I have so much in the used piles and now you are saying your coffee mugs are doing well. I canāt decide what to list next. My day job is slowing and hope to hit it while covid sales are still good.
We are still locked down here as there is a federal prison in our county with a giant outbreak. Iāve been reading about transmission and Iām feeling ok to drop off at FedEx so Iāve reactivated the larger items. They even have the door propped open. One of the indy thrifts is doing curbside sales and posting on Craigslist and Insta, but itās mostly furniture and large stuff (not that I need to source). Our personal choice is not going anywhere that isnāt necessary even though cases are very, very low in our city and we plan to continue that course of action. In terms of buying things, you can let items sit for 2-3 days and ācool offā, shop very quickly, wash your hands carefully after picking, wear a mask, and avoid touching your face. We bought disposable gloves on Ebay. Flea markets seem like a better option outside. However, Iāve seen a couple of youtubers do it and other scavengers are crowding them to look at the goodies and forgetting about social distancing. You canāt really control other people who are supposed to be protecting you.
As a buyer on Mercari, I am having some issues. They used to use weight ranges, but now the sellers need to weigh the items after the last USPS rate increases. Many sellers apparently routinely get away with sending 1 pound plus items with first class labels in priority boxes but not at MY post office – they are having none of that s*it. I had several items show up with major postage due. Also had an item break this week that was poorly packed. There are some good deals to be had though.
I listed 28 items, but only 19 unique items. Have my box out from the bottom of the piles to do next.
05/14/2020 at 10:44 am in reply to: Magnavox stereo, Vtg Time N Date Wall Clock, Leather bound Bible, Table lamps #77422Still working on my video making skills.
@Amatino that sounds perfect!
I took a couple of days totally off this week. I’m determined to make it a better week. I realized too that I let interruptions kind of sidetrack me, plus my son has been studying in the dining room at times when I want to list in there. I listed 27 items this week but only 21 were unique.
I pulled out a bottom box from my piles to list. It’s a lot of randomness – no easy multiples or similars but better pile items. I figured we can just get a whole box of whatever we have done, with brownie points if more than one bottom box gets done. Or we can count the items for the week to really get a winner. @Amatino why don’t you decide on that for us?
Total Items In Store: 279 Ebay, about 70 Mercari
Items Sold: 8 Ebay, 2 Mercari
Cost of Items Sold: $109 Ebay, Mercari items ours
Total Sales: $377 Ebay, $18 Mercari
Highest Price Sold: $95 (Small painting, paid $7.99)
Average Price Sold: $47
Money Spent on New Inventory: About $60 RA
Number of items listed: 27I hope all of my fellow mom scavengers had a good mother’s day yesterday. I had a couple of lazy days Ebay and workwise this week, including yesterday. Intend to tackle a couple of good weekday listing days in while the kids are still involved with school. I just finished listing my single annual self-permitted rummage sale haul and now I’m back into the piles and excited to list. I’ve been working on a what sold video to share this Wednesday. Things slowed up a bit this week but still good sales for my little store in May.
I got the managed payments email a few days after most of you. I’m still inclined to wait until July for any bug fixes and will read all of the posts so I can charge my expenses to a cash back card. Thank you to the forum member who posted that Easy Auction Tracker is able to handle managed payment info.
Re grocery shopping, I’m at it once or twice a week. You are so lucky to have free trunk delivery service at Walmart! I’m volunteering once a week with my son to shop and deliver groceries to the elderly. I can make it two weeks for our stuff then I need to get my dad’s prescriptions. We have some stores that are doing things very well at this point but you still need to pass by others in the isles, it’s unavoidable. Masks are required and enforced here luckily at the stores we are using.
Your future coffee shop sounds like a nice place to hang out. I’m starting to get email travel deal offers and feel wistful about going somewhere but it doesn’t seem likely to be this year.
@Retro I have those same questions. I just got the July notice too.
How about items from a box on the bottom of your death piles for June?
05/08/2020 at 11:26 am in reply to: Cub Scout books, Inter Milan soccer uniform, Pioneer Stereo, Wet N Wild hat #77233Love the fun flamingos. I’m surprised they don’t go for more. A few houses around here have them out front.
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