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Total Items in Store: 334 Ebay, about 30 Mercari
Items Sold: 12
Gross Sales: $788 Ebay, $63 Mercari
Cost of Items Sold: $283 + $27 Shipping included + some items ours (loss)
Highest Price Sold: $365 Bedding set from summer clearance to NYC (paid $145)
Average Price Sold: $66 Ebay, $31 Mercari
Returns: 1 started for $150, buyer mistakenly thought would get an additional item with order.
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $11
Number of items listed this week: 3 EbayI still follow a few Youtubers and hear the same couple of get rich quick cheap production guy commercials nonstop. Super young kids in tank tops encouraging drop shipping or some other scheme on Amazon. I hope other youngsters don’t fall for that stuff and get into debt.
Still crazy in life. A lot has to do with kids. Even if you don’t have little kids, life can be demanding and there can be not much time left for Ebay. I’m still taking offers like a madwoman on existing inventory. I can’t believe it’s holiday time already. Feels like it was just summer.
Got trolled on Ebay with $5 offer on a $300+ item. Who bothers with that? Overall, my offers have been pretty reasonable and I’m glad I turned it back on. Continuing my 1% promoted listing experiment. Thanks for those who have been reporting about that.
Halloween plates link
Steve, as always great sales. Congrats on your numbers of late.
Even though they are lower dollar, I still pick up vintage Hallmark cards NIP. Super easy to list and ship. Sold Harry Potter Card Sets for best offer $25 with shipping included. They did take a while to sell. I paid $1 per set. This is one of those times I really should have gone all in. We had a thrift that was storage locker clean out items. They had a bunch of Harry Potter items from a Hallmark store including displays. I don’t know why I didn’t offer to buy it all. Doh!
I had these Halloween plates up too high at $60 through the holiday. I like to take down my holiday stuff after if I can’t liquidate it since I’m over my 250 basic store subscription listings. But, I usually wait a month or two. Took a best offer on these of $30 plus shipping. I thrifted for $8 last month at GW.
Took a best offer of $20 on this 50s Cake Tinbecause it’s so big and I want to move things out of my garage and consolidate. I paid $3 at a church sale, and was relieved to get great feedback because it did have some wear for sure.
Finally, sold this vintage cookie cutter pin. These folk art molds can do pretty well. I’ve sold a board style as well. They are to make Springerle, a German holiday cookie. I got this for $2 at my favorite indy thrift. Speaking of vintage cutters, I think this is an often overlooked item. vintage tin cutter lots can do very well. Also, discontinued Martha Stewart by mail cutters do great.
Have a great weekend! Please send your rain to us California. We need it badly.
@VintageTreasures hope you get your Ebay mojo back!
Total Items in Store: Ebay 331, Mercari about 35
Items Sold: 9 Ebay, 1 Mercari
Gross Sales: $275 Ebay, $51 Mercari
Cost of Items Sold: $92 + $10 shipping included
Highest Price Sold: $51 Patagonia Vest on Mercari (Thrifted for $25 and my daughter wouldn’t wear)
Average Price Sold: $30 Ebay
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0I’m very grateful for these sales. I haven’t listed for weeks really on either platform. I have been dropping prices on items in carts on Ebay and promoting to likers and delisting old stuff on Mercari. Taking offers on used stuff I paid little for. Fundraiser is midweek, then I hope to get back to it. Calendar looks pretty clear until the holiday! Whew.
I went to Palm Springs Friday for another 50th birthday party. I had some free time and hit the true thrifts (not consignment or estate liquidators). It was quite fruitless. Everyone knows the value of the good stuff out there. Left in the thrift stores was one decade – 1980s pastel home decor and dishes. LOL. Makes me appreciate my home turf and I came home with all of my cash.
@Amatino Thank you for all of your hard work keeping the numbers and threads up. I have to say I’m proud of myself for curbing the shopping habit this year. I’m also excited to see some room opening up, slowly but surely.
I’m definitely a bit disappointed in my number of listed items, but it just makes me realize that I don’t have a lot of time in my life for this, so I need to be very, very careful picking going forward. I still have a significant backlog to work through, plus some items from my parent’s house. So, I’ll keep on truckin’. I should take new death pile pictures after I finish consolidating. It will definitely be an improvement over last year when things were kind of spilling out of boxes.
Perhaps we can just have a death pile support group thread for next year and throw a little party on here for people who clear the piles and graduate. No need as far as I’m concerned to keep tracking if you don’t have time. Good luck packing for your trip.
Much of the types of items I sold this week I have posted about before. However, I did sell embroidery floss for the first time. BO $10. I’ve passed over huge bags of this stuff before, so thought I would mention.
Also sold Quimper this week full price to Sir somebody Hemmingway (his Ebay name). This is the first one I have found without the man or woman pattern and a different color scheme.
WSJ Article on the FIRE Movement
Usually on my ipad or Facebook I can read a few articles without a subscription.
Hi Joe, as buyers we went and found one of the top producers at the firm that had the most listings in the area we are living in. That broker was pleasant but assertive and very experienced. She found us our house before it was officially put on the market. Also, someone else in her office had a large number of the local foreclosure listings and was in the know on that in advance.
There is also a local website where realtors exchange “needs and wants” – agents trying to put buyers and sellers together without going full on the market to minimize their costs and labor.
We bought another house FSBO and used our loan broker / licensed realtor to write up the contract for cheap, got a great inspector and escrow did most of the work. But as Jay said, agent is free to you, so you might as well get a good one. Good luck!
As a lover of vintage and retro items I enjoyed the marketplace video. Thanks for sharing. Last time I went to an event like that I was looking to pick, but next time I will know to just look and learn vs. looking to buy at those prices. It’s fun to see items in complete sets or staged and grouped skillfully.
Amatino, thank you for keeping track of the numbers all year. I don’t really feel like a winner since I still have quite a bit of piles to get through. I’m focusing on listing Christmas this week. I only have one and a half boxes since I liquidated last year except my new items. I listed 6 items this week, two from death piles.
I really enjoyed hearing your perspective. I’m glad you joined the forum because you are where I think I’m headed with this being way more selective. I’m also interested to hear where you source.
Total Items in Store: 364, 50 Mercari
Items Sold: 5 Ebay, 1 Mercari
Gross Sales: $123 Ebay, $10 Mercari
Cost of Items Sold: $8 + $11 (Shipping included) + some items ours
Cost of helpers: $120
Highest Price Sold: $65 Christmas craft kit, paid $2 thrift
Average Price Sold: $24 Ebay, $10 Mercari
Returns: 1 $10 broke in transit (supposedly); buyer sent nasty message so I refunded immediately since I was busy and it was cheap
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 6 EbaySlow week on Ebay, busy week outside Ebay. I’m working a performing arts school fundraiser. Went to the giant rummage sale at the fairgrounds before opening to buy baskets we needed for the fundraiser. It was really hard to be in there and not go back to shop but it’s time to keeping working the piles. Husband wants to get the holiday stuff into the garage. I have some consolidating to do so that will help. Don’t feel too sorry for me though because I got more baskets at the thrift store one day and picked up a Le Creuset dutch oven for $12.50 (to keep).
My goal is to test run some NIB Christmas items (Papyrus 90% off clearance that didn’t sell on Ebay last year) on Mercari this week and also list some items on Ebay. Glad you had a couple of free days in SF. Have a great week everyone!
I have been hunting a bit myself for used Patagonia on Poshmark, Ebay and Mercari. At least what I am looking for – light puffer vests and jackets – sell at pretty strong prices. Sometimes things go at pretty good prices on Mercari fast, you might put a search out there. I see the solds (you have to filter them out on Mercari) and it seems people are quick to snap up good deals on there.
Funny thing is I have no interest in selling clothing on Ebay for profit. I didn’t want to do measurements and get into specifics too much. I know some brands but it just doesn’t excite me even though it is easier than vintage hard goods to ship. This is our stuff on Mercari that I would have handed down in the past or donated. One other drawback of Mercari is that they don’t let you charge sales tax and I can’t export into my spreadsheet program so will have to use paper records and collect as I go.
It will be interesting to see. I think there is a pretty good chance Mercari might take off for the reason that I like it – it takes very little time and effort to sell and promote to likers on this mobile app. Most people don’t have a lot of time but are on their phones a lot. It’s also different than Ebay because there are a lot of younger people on it I suspect and Mercari needs to adjust to the American “customer is always right” way of thinking. Google treatment is important too and it’s so different and better than local pick up sites. Your audience is much bigger. So, we’ll see.
I’ve actually gotten pretty strong prices for our used Patagonia stuff and some death pile Disney mugs – pretty close to Ebay pricing. My daughter’s Gap clothes didn’t sell well, even with mark downs. So prices depend a lot on how good your items are. I’d estimate I get about 10-30% less on Mercari than Ebay but the velocity is really nice. There is no shortage of items to list – it’s the time that I personally am short on. I’m leaning toward moving more merchandise out at better prices. Serious collectibles though I think still would be best on Ebay or Etsy.
