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I listed 17 items, mostly death piles.
Actually mostly vintage pyrex I had stowed away in a hard to reach kitchen cabinet. Only keeping one set of pyrex Butterprint and one really cute set of hazel atlas. Some of the less desirable stuff I just put on facebook. Good luck with the packing and move VT. I can’t imagine how disruptive to Ebay after just packing the kitchen…Total Items In Store: 457
Items Sold: 16
Cost of Items Sold: $154 + $64 free shipping + some items were my kids’ ($0 COGS for $230 in sales, items sold at a loss)
Total Sales: $807
Highest Price Sold: $172 (New bedding set, paid $85 9-12 months ago)
Average Price Sold: $50
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of Items listed this week: 17 plus several on Facebook
Mercari update: 0 sales still, about 26 items listed.Nice week on Ebay after turning my store’s full vacation mode off and trying to list while the free listing offer happened. Plus I also ran a 20% off sale. I had some Pyrex and Hazel Atlas stowed away in our kitchen so had to list it as we are remodeling. Some of the patterns and condition I shouldn’t have picked up for the hassle to ship, so put those on Facebook. If they don’t sell I might swing them on to Mercari. Spent some time recounting and relisting all of my multi-quantity since I had an issue with that. I have 26 items with one photo, which means I got hit by both the June and July glitches because I only had 12 in June. Still need to swing back and fix those.
I’m down to about the last 25% of my retail arbitrage items and not buying much more at all. Makes me feel a bit vulnerable, but there is some cool vintage stuff in the piles. It is also harder now to get the deals I once got at the main retailer I shopped with. Haven’t been listing on Mercari but I’d sure like to get a sale over there. I’m hoping with back to school that my daughter’s clothes sell per my experiment.
I was distracted listening to the podcast but thanks for doing it. My takeaway is that leadership is trying to do a lot at once, know they are having issues and saying the right things to reassure sellers. I suspect though that maybe the employees who they are able to get and retain are simply not up to executing it well and quickly in this old environment. Despite their issues with growth and investors I think they would be unwise to continue the path of biting off more than they can chew. Making unnecessary and incomplete changes right now like shipping labels is super lame.
As a seller, the thing I’m most concerned about though is the product pages. I don’t want it to be easier for buyers to make price comparisons and not have my listings seen. No bueno. Plus their catalog sucks even for brand new items and media. Hopefully they will back off this for used or at least vintage items and have a hybrid system. I’d also like to see Etsy advertise and pick up vintage buyers to make a greater time investment over there worthwhile. Etsy should for sure step up and try to capitalize on Ebay’s issues. Have a great week!
Not much happening since I just got back from true vacation. But I did get a couple of nice vintage sales when I turned my store back on.
This was a weird item I wasn’t even sure about buying at $2. Sold for $55 in a couple of months and buyer was anxious to get it. Go figure.
These 60s trays I got at a rummage sale for $5 and I’m very happy to get $70 for both sets to the same buyer!
Have a great weekend scavengers!
I posted about this problem before. I called Ebay and the foreign rep told me they are super fine with the buyer being undercharged. I haven’t had time to go back and review all of my multi-quantity listings but need to because found count off on one. There is so much going on with Ebay – temporary issues – that begs review. I only got Smartpost off half of the listings after the rates shot up. Haven’t fixed the missing photos yet. I’d rather just focus on creating new merch. Love selling on Ebay but… sigh.
T-Satt, I like how you summarized this at the bottom. Love to learn from those selling higher quantity. Heavy and very small I would think USPS flat rate boxes. Assuming a buyer is not very near to a seller, can you boil down the size box and weight that makes Smartpost a winner vs USPS. It doesn’t take much weight to make USPS expensive in non-flat rate, even with parcel post. I took Smartpost off as my first option and never added it back, so will need to think this through and adjust listings (again!). Thanks!
Zero for me. We just returned from vacation. I just bought two items to resell while away. The house is a disaster due to the remodel and my daughter has a pretty short day camp, so listing will be a challenge. But, we’ll see… We don’t have home air conditioning in my town because the weather is very mild almost year round. Only a handful of weeks in July and October that it gets really hot and this is one of them. Doesn’t help with the motivation. Stay cool friends.
Hello from Bend, Oregon. We are on vacation scavenger style staying free at my cousin’s house. It was a soft week on EBay before I left.
R&J congrats on your purchase! It must be exciting to help shape the future of your little town. It would be cool if the lower half became a coffee shop / beer & wine destination you could cross market to your guests. Having no familiararity with it, it makes me wonder if this is a riskier endevor than your previous projects. Perhaps you might stick more closely to a budget this time if true. This says the person spending mucho to redo a kitchen as we speak. 🙂
I’m the noodge who keeps suggesting you to go to urban garage and estate sales. I think some may be busts, crowded or expensive. But I still believe it would pay off in more premium inventory that sells faster. Shopping in Bend and some other places makes me realize how good I have it at home. Too much new made in China crap here. At home, lots of baby boomers and elderly, lots of rich people who donate nicer brands, and busy younger people without time to scavenge. I can’t wait to clear the piles and go to estate sales as my reward!
I liked it when Will / Terminal 99 compared pipeline selling to the coin drop game @ minute 9 of his interview.
I agree with Steve. The fun “game” element is learning to find value where others don’t see it. That’s the hook.
Love the graphics on that vintage box of tissues. It should be pretty fun to brag about selling a box of tissues for $40 too! Nice.
Sometimes I feel like Ebay is a slot machine because you never know what’s going to sell when. I attribute this to so many potential buyers being on the platform. It also feels like a slot machine in that sales often seem to go in spurts. It used to be that I would post 5-10 listings and within a couple of hours a couple of other previously listed items would go and sell. This pattern is less noticeable though lately. On the other hand, I have started listing holiday and seasonal items 2-3 months ahead of the event instead of just randomly throwing things up at any time. It worked out better for me last year with that process.
Not too busy but a couple of fun sales.
Sold this 1950s Vintage Cartoon Art Book to prop house in Brooklyn. Maybe paid $1.
Sold these embroidered quilt blocks. Paid up a bit @ $12 but they sold very quickly after listing. The old ladies at the indy thift love this kind of stuff.
You can’t beat dogs playing poker I paid a buck because the old ladies at the indy thrift hate this kind of stuff. Prices were kind of all over the place for these prints, so I’m happy with $65.
Finally, 1950s paper hankies are the kind of thing I probably shouldn’t bother to pick up, but can’t resist. Glad they sold.
This week I had a wave of death-pile-wouldn’t-ever-buy-again cartoon coffee mugs move out. Very pleased and it’s a nice reward for being stubborn about listing the early stuff I bought when I was new to Youtube. Have a great weekend.
Feel free to count Etsy listings for sure. Mercari is so quick and dirty and I’ve still had not sales, so I’m not counting. It only took me an hour and 15 minutes to post 30 listings, where I’m much slower on Ebay. So just an experiment.
Happy news that I am selling off some death pile coffee mugs I listed a couple of weeks ago! Yeah! Maybe I’ll list some more after we get back from vacation. I’m out of the contest next week and going on full vacation mode.
Hi Tina,
Like you I’m also missing a few listings as well as having this problem. I’ve ended my multi-quantity listings for now unless I am sure it is showing correctly. I haven’t had time to call ebay, but I’ve been advised by someone in a facebook group that there is a setting for this – resetting quantity to original at renewal. So, possibly the setting got changed. I noticed last time I listed that my preferences were gone. I mistakenly created a 7 day listing, free shipping box checked, etc. after I made something live. Good luck.
