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Sorry that you had to evacuate. It’s so disruptive and can be expensive too. We are up in Santa Barbara. Were feeling good until the night before last when the fire ran 6 miles West overnight. Then last night, not much movement thank goodness. I’m thrilled the power is still on.
PS. Our poor postal workers are working in serious ash with masks. Amazing.
Total Items in Store: 406
Cost of Items Sold: $149
Total Sales: $681
Highest Price Sold: $75 (Limoges Plate – $1.99 at GW)
Average Price Sold: $32
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 37 (mostly multiples)A good week. Super funky and distracting because of the nearby fires. School is cancelled so could either be a good or bad week for listing depending on the power and internet reliability and kid factor. I will make very little money at my other job this month, so that’s a bummer. Ebay will help a little. Have a great week everyone! Fingers crossed for me for good weather conditions here.
Simon, do you see any patterns or draw any conclusions from your stats aging inventory? Congrats on your sales. Those numbers are nothing to sneeze at, even in the Bay Area.
I really wish they did too. Never know for sure without asking but there are a couple of clues sometimes. Like 0 feedback. You can also see a spike in outside Ebay traffic (the dark blue bar) on certain days that is noticeable if you don’t pin all of the time. Anyway, smart of you to pin an item like that. Hope the sale works out.
Ryanne, any indication your buyer might have come from Pinterest? Just wondering.
Love the Delphite. I know I’ve never seen it or for sure I would have bought it. Also love Doubly’s color wheel find.So an interesting week for me with the unfortunate fires nearby. I had to move some cloth items out of our garage because we actually had significant smoke INSIDE the closed garage. Crazytown. School’s cancelled and so are all my daughter’s extra performances, so time but not much listing until today I hope. Everyone is inside or wearing masks. We are still getting mail service and luckily the power is back on consistently.
I took a best offer of $75 on this rather rare French Plate I had a collector tell me she had never paid that much for a used plate except in Paris, yada yada, and inquired about the wear. I took her offer because I bought it for $1.99 and fingers crossed that she is not a terribly fussy buyer. It was up for a couple of months too so I’m ok with shedding my crazy price.
Promo Pyrex always good. Paid $8 at a moving sale with a lot of great midcentury stuff. Unfortunately had free shipping checked mistakenly.
I know Steve sold one of these Lord of the Rings Game on a video. Forgot what he got for it. I paid $10 at the amazing Indy Xmas boutique, sold for $60 and wanted it out of my guest room at holiday time.
Happy to get my money back on this shirt that I didn’t realize was slim fit and removed the tag before I figured out it wouldn’t fit my son or husband. Patagonia Tee Used Patagonia sells super quickly for me so far but I hardly ever find it thrifting now that I am looking for my growing son in the clothes. Our GW has serious clothing pickers due to its very high turnover rate. I went during the afternoon and found two like new Kuhl shirts for my son at $6 each. Literally right behind me was a whole group of fresh young pickers sounding like they might have come from out of the area. Score one for the old lady!
Simon, do you see any patterns or draw any conclusions from your stats aging inventory? My garage probably looks like your garage. My husband does not love the recycled packing material. Thanks.
I’m busy also and like both RA and vintage goods. I find good online deals early in the morning (8am east coast time). I get email and facebook notices when the sales begin so I can shop the best selection. If you are not already, I suggest that you check the price adjustment policy. I often get additional percentages off when a sale runs within 14 days even if the items are then out of stock. I just need to remember to email customer service.
In our area there are a handful of monster rummage and charity sales. If I had a partner I would like those even more. Perhaps if they coincide with estate/yard sale season in good weather, that would be a strategy for an experiment.
Re the threat of porch piracy for the moving caller, I asked our postman about a box. He found it ludacruis that I would expect them to maintain keys. You can protect incoming small to maybe medium size packages with an Elephantrunk. Elephantrunk
• Total Items in Store: 364
• Items Sold: 16
• Total Sales $528
• Highest Price $100 (Paid $1 Giant Vintage Santa Litho
• Average Price Sold: $528
• Cost of Items Sold: $107 + $33 free shipping
• Cost of items purchased this week: Maybe $100 online RA
• Number of items listed: 8Congrats on the new building getting up. I’m sure it will feel pretty amazing to rework your inventory organization and move to a system. I’m really curious to hear later about how many listings have dropped off and how you choose to organize. I’ve sold enough this season to see some empty spots in my storage areas. My father-in-law gave me some matching bins and has more so I’ll be doing a mini-version of your process in the new year. I’m the kind of nerd who enjoys organizing.
Glad you are considering longer sourcing trips to the cities. Maybe get a locking camper shell? I don’t know anything about auctions and – to clarify a fine point – I wasn’t suggesting you go looking for very expensive and antiqueish items. I think you will find that you can hit moving, garage, estate sales and thrifts like you do in your area, just with faster moving and more in demand product coming into your pipeline. I was thinking more middle ground stuff that you have the eye and brand knowledge for but is sourced higher than a buck or two.
Computer is fixed but crazy again and no time for new listings. Have a great week.
Crazy week outside of Ebay. Today I’m catching my breath. Sharing some used item Ebay sales. For my small store going into my third year of reselling, I’m definitely starting to think more and more about a seasonal approach.
I sold my second and (sadly) last one of these. Paid $1 at storage unit hoarder thrift shop. These lithos got a lot of attention and offers. Sold BO $100. 1950s Jumbo Santa Litho I have a stash of ephemora. These poster sales make me want to list some more. I just grabbed this one to list because it was xmas. Hey, paper goods are easy to ship too.
These sales helped me feel better about binging at the indy thrift holiday boutique. Paid for more of the items I bought. I paid $20 for this two weeks ago. New Williams Sonoma Textiles Paid $12 for these Pottery Barn Stockings
If I find more vintage Christmas items I’ll be picking them up and saving them for next season. This sold in a month. I paid $1 or less at a garage sale. Vintage Christmas Topper A recent listing showing that I’ve given in to photographing everything on my dining room table just to save time and get more stuff up. There is a big window but the lighting sucks.
I thought this was great but it took forever and a day to sell. Someone finally discovered it. In the meantime I found a bought another one in the piles. Paid $7 thrift (too much). Vintage Mold
My dad dabbles in picking for me. Often he finds stuff with condition issues. But, he gets a little thrill when I sell it and he got it free or for a buck. Fun. Vintage Mushroom Trivet
For some reason, this thread reminded me of a great old tv show (from the 1980s) called Ethics in America. For those you enjoyed this debate, you might enjoy listening while you list. It’s free here Ethics in America Episodes Video Link
Total Items in Store: 432
Items Sold: 20
Cost of Items Sold: $263 + $35 free shipping
Total Sales: $932
Highest Price Sold: $170 (Plates from last year’s day after Christmas sale Plate Set
Average Price Sold: $47
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $250+ (Part 2 Indy thrift Xmas boutique plus some online RA)
Number of items listed this week: 16Great week for me, though some days were completely dead. Saturday was the best day. Friday felt like no sales. This time of year is so busy it’s like whack-a-mole. What do I need to take care of next? The post office drop bin is always full and people drive like crap. My kids also inadvertently downloaded a bunch of bugs in our computer and my credit card number was relayed. Still trying to fix that and we are not techies. So, ground my listing to halt and I’m shipping on the phone and posting this at work on a break. Enjoyed the shopping binge up to Thanksgiving and now plan to keep sitting out until the day after Christmas clearance. So busy with the kids, relatives I missed a couple of price adjustments on RA – doh! I hope this is a good week for everyone on Ebay and that I can get back to listing on a clean machine this week. The phone is so small to list, I need the keyboard.
Regarding the jacket, I almost didn’t comment. But, I decided to say that I hope you don’t let the discussion get you down. It’s easy to just write whatever on the internet. At the end of the day, we’re all learning and growing.
