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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.:0 just got hit with this. I KNOW this GTC listing was correct pretty recently because I was down to my last one and I sold well over the amount I have left. All of the colors had quantity again. Didn’t sell similar and it wasn’t a counting error.
Sat down 4 times to list – yeah! Listed some on Mercari that I’m not counting. Listed 24 on Ebay, 9 from piles.
I know about the bibles but just can’t get into them. I usually pick up the ones my kids owned or liked. Here’s a couple of mine (incomplete 70s, 80s series) and some others I have sold in the past. You could google young adult series or go to Amazon, etc. and check out what’s popular. Or reverse it and wait until you find a whole set together and scan it.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/332689322016
https://www.ebay.com/itm/232809509320
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Pendragon-Young-Adult-Fantasy-Book-Series-Lot-of-10-Complete-HC-PB-Awesome/273281218649?hash=item3fa0d47859:g:-mIAAOSwxllbHYoy
https://www.ebay.com/itm/10-Book-Set-Alex-Rider-Series-1-10-Complete-Young-Adult-Spy-Anthony-Horowitz/202361380128?hash=item2f1dad9d20:g:h78AAOSwQQlbFseE
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Crank-Complete-Collection-Set-1-10-Young-Adult-Fiction-Series-by-Ellen-Hopkins/181935803423?hash=item2a5c380c1f:g:uh8AAOSwLzdWT2XD
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rainbow-Magic-Fairies-HUGE-LOT-of-72-Chapter-Books-by-Daisy-Meadows-Some-NEW/253505271326?hash=item3b0617761e:g:0QAAAOSwSKtadNHVTotal store items: 424
Number of items sold: 5
Ebay sales: 137
Cost of items sold: $34 + $3 free shipping
Highest price sold: $71 (New 25 purchased on clearance for about $25)
Average price sold: $27
Returns: 1 ($40 new pillow returned without new packaging)
Money spent on new inventory: $0
Number of items listed on Ebay this week: 22Mercari: 31 items listed, 0 sales, 14 listed this week (some Disney cross posted – super fast to cross post)
Soft week definitely despite listing, pinning, and running a 20% sale as soon as they lifted the 14 day restriction. In the past sales have worked well for a bump and I usually got 1-2 immediate sales right after a listing session. I think summer plus all of the back end stuff is probably affecting things at least for some. I got used to the reward for my efforts – like a slot machine, so it’s a little bit discouraging.
Getting likes on Mercari but no sales yet. I’m checking out the solds now and then to see what is moving. Prices are definitely lower, solds are more pop culture and younger brands it seems. Picking inventory for Mercari is key I believe. I’m going to throw some Pyrex on there when I get back from vacation as shipping will be less expensive and that is a popular vintage category on Mercari. If you are in an area where it’s difficult to source (seasonally at least), you might check it out. Some cool things move there for cheap, and Mercari has a simple system encouraging sellers to promote by dropping the price 10% and notifying shoppers who have liked the item. They also encourage offers. Plus it’s so quick to list, people could do a higher volume business and let things go for less.
Going to be a very busy week outside Ebay, followed by our summer vacation, so hoping for some sales before we go. I got a response after about 5 days on the Ebay Facebook page to my request for a fee break. They asked me to submit all of my info and some listings with missing photos. By the way, you were mentioned on Ecommercebytes as first bringing up the pay per click beta discussion. Have a great week!
I like to sell popular children and young adult series (complete if I can get them all) as a lot. Good item to look for at yard sales. It’s a deal for the buyer vs. buying them individually. I also stumbled on to this vintage out of print phonics set recently. Crazy prices because some famous home school teacher endorsed.
About 2% of my items. I’ve noticed several missing two or three different times. So, less than 2% of what I have ever listed because some listings have been sold without incident. One of the newest missing was a very expensive item though, so glad I picked that up.
Hi All, I’ve been working on consolidating my inventory this week. Have plenty of time since I don’t need to be -ahem – shipping out any sales this week. I’ve noticed quite a few missing listings that have dropped off. I only do good til cancelled, and don’t relist every 30 days. They are not vero things either. Not sure what happened but I’ve found three today. Luckily I have the photos in the Pinterest links. Just thought I would share this in case you have the occasion to check out your inventory.
I sent a message asking for a break on the Facebook Ebay for Business site. No answer after a couple days so far…
I didn’t do very well picking this year. You know those times when you can totally tell that the volunteers have been able to pick before it opens to the public? Yeah, that was it. But, I did still find a few practical items for our family and two $15-20 items for resale.
This is fun thread. I’ve definitely made some of these errors.
My favorite is to see a really cool vintage item, buy it and then look it up at home only to find that a bunch of other sellers have the item in better condition, complete with the rest of the set, etc. Case in point:
These cute midcentury aqua! apple bowls
Here’s the complete set, which only sells for $20-30.
