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Week 3
# items listed 35
# times listed 8! (sometimes only got like 2 items done, but I tried often)
items from death piles: 31
% from death piles: 91%Current week is insanely busy and my numbers will be tiny.
Regarding the golf club caller:
I don’t often shop on Ebay, except for shipping supplies. I had virtually no sales the first two weeks of January, then a huge week this week. I compared the bumps in sales vs. purchase dates. It’s not a direct correlation to all of my purchase dates but the holiday weekend I sold most of the items and also bought several items. Inconclusive, but interesting and maybe I’ll just experiment with sprinkling my purchases as I build my daughter’s wardrobe in this size to see what happens.Total Items in Store: 465
Items Sold: 17
Cost of Items Sold: $366 + free shipping $68
Total Sales: $1,253 (Less $40, buyer not likely to pay)
Highest Price Sold: $381 (New Duvet and two shams, paid $110 about 9 months ago)
Average Price Sold: $73
Returns: None, but two no/slow pays so far – ouch.
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: Maybe $20
Number of items listed this week: 45Yeah! Someone turned my store back on this week. 🙂 I sold a beautiful Hudson Stripe vintage new old stock blanket for BO $200 and the buyer hasn’t paid for a few days. Also had another $40 sale and that payment is not coming I can probably safely say.
I’m working the backlog, just went thrifting once at my favorite place. Worked on a box of Dasnk dishes and tableware this week, plus a bin of vintage bedding that I really did not enjoy listing and found a bunch of light stains on half of it. I’m going to reward myself by switching to ephemera, which I do like listing and find really interesting. One good thing about a backlog is that you can sort and switch types when you get tired of dealing with something.
Headed to LA for girls’ weekend and slammed at my other job, so probably will be light progress this week. Looking forward to listening to the podcast. Have a great week everyone.
My cousin turned me on to this trick and an app for finding deal details. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/happy-hour-finder-find-local-food-and-drink-deals/id321327691?mt=8
Santa Barbara, a small coastal city of about 90k. Montecito you are seeing on the news one of two uber-wealthy enclaves / suburbs at the South end of town. Between the December fires and the mudslides, the local economy is definitely affected.
Week 2
# listing sessions 4 yeah!
# items from piles 32
# Items listed 41
% from death piles: 79%. I listed all of this week’s thrift buys so did not add them to the piles.
New inventory purchases: $20 thrifted plus one online RA purchase $150. I did treat myself this week to a stop at my favorite thrift. Needed a treat by Saturday. Also didn’t do much RA after Christmas because the discounts were stingy, so picked up some multiples this week when they did additional mark downs.Two boxes of death up and down the stairs this week! Partly got done because my other job was spotty due the freeway closure. I will have less time this week.
Total Items In Store: 429
Items Sold: 5
Cost of Items Sold: $30 + $6 free shipping
Total Sales: $128
Highest Price Sold: $34 Dr. Seuss Hallmark Figurine; Cost $0, a gift received long ago)
Average Price Sold: $25
Returns: 1 $93 RA pajamas – Didn’t like
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: About $20 thrift stop + RA additional markdown sale $150
Number of Items listed this week: 41Well a weird week and not a good one at all for making money. We have the tragic nearby mudslide that is very disruptive to my day job plus Ebay was dreadfully slow. RA items are not moving at all compared to a great January last year. Not sure what is up with that. No politics but between absorbing the flood news, the national political news, and handling some kid arrangements I found myself very distracted and disturbed needing to absorb it all. On the bright side I did sit down to list 4 times this week and got through a couple of boxes of death piles. Just keep listing, just keep listing…
I met one picking friend who has an antique booth and likes harder and bigger Steve type items – instruments, midcentury furniture and audio. I keep telling him about SL. He knows two ladies who have booths at this place who they like ALL of the same stuff I do. They do thrifts but mainly estate sales, so they are my future nemesis. I have actually flipped a couple of items from their booths, but the prices are too steep generally. There is some guy who tries to get everyone to save the tiki stuff for him – grr. He must be quite successful because I never see any of it. One of the estate sale companies lets all of the dealers in the day before the public. 🙁 Still, I’ve been to other cities where it is way more competitive or the stuff is new made in China mainly, so I’m grateful. It’s expensive to live here and very gentrified so we have far more donors than pickers.
Most of the regulars here are a decade or two older than I am, so I stand out and get noticed even thought I’m very part time. One lady was whispering to her partner about me recently because she saw me turn up at another location and he was like – “don’t worry, there’s so much stuff”. Lately I’ve been seeing young people in their 20s together in packs working the clothing and sometimes fumbling around in hard goods. It’s pretty amusing sometimes to listen to the newest guy pickers evaluate the merch.
Wow some cool items in here this week and some in amazing condition for the age. TFS everyone.
Ida – that Pacific Northwest Art Print Pendleton blanket is on my unicorn list. I’ll never find one so should probably pay up or ask Santa next year. Awesome garage sale find!I’m not selling my new RA items this month like I did last year when I felt like people were shopping for themselves or with Christmas gift money. The most recently listed items are selling for me lately in my small store. Earlier this month it was items I marked down to move out.
I know a thing or two about piles. I’m eating all of my vegetables determined to list what I bought, even the cheap stuff. I suggest doing lots of like items and rotating. When you get really tired of testing, cleaning or listing one type of item, switch to the other. I physically move a box full and when I take it back down listed to store it, it makes me feel good. Good luck!
