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Maybe the Equifax hack is just making me paranoid but just got like three of these in a row today. I made two of them repurchase, the third was a low priced item. The last one emailed outside of Ebay, so we’ll see if they repurchase.
In my description, I encourage buyers to use the shopping cart and visit my store. I originally thought that the link I created internally in Ebay as a custom insert is requiring the mobile friendly checker / fixer. However, now I realize that I have also inadvertently copied in links while preparing my listings using outside sources for research. They have just started flagging the latter and putting in my Hub with a request to “remove contact info”. I’m thinking I’ll probably have to run the checker on all of my listings. There’s one benefit of having a small store I suppose.
Super slow here and I’m shaking the trees and listing. Kate I just found some hard placemats by Lynn Chase this week. I can’t believe the prices for the china but they it looks well made and beautifully designed. Will look for Juliska, thanks.
I’m in the minority here loving Goodwill. The Indys are my favorites but our GW is the only one in town and conveniently located so they get donations from all over. It is heavily picked, they run frequent sales, and they move things to regional stores, so things really move in and out of there giving you lots of chances to catch things they missed. My favorite overlooked items are art (priced lower than Indys), kitchenware, studio art pottery no one cares about, Target stuff (for us – there is no Target here in town), large Pottery Barn frames and under bed baskets (also for us). They also open right when I’m headed to work.
I noticed one of our regular pickers got a job there. He’s no dummy. Luckily, he’s a shoes guy, not my kind of stuff. The bummer is when you get an employee pricing or picking (like this original post). Another Indy has a pricer who likes EXACTLY the same things I do. That store used to be awesome. They also started selling on Ebay for the charity. Plenty of stuff abounds though. Way too much to process actually.
Congrats Tam and good luck with the death piles! I’m still nibbling at the edges of mine but making some progress.
Total Items in Store: 360
Items Sold: 7
Cost of Items Sold: $122 new + $15
Total Sales: $339
Highest Price Sold: $76 (New Platter – paid $36 spring clearance)
Average Price Sold: $48
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $18
Number of items listed this week: 33Had some time off my contract job and finally got some listing done. I’ve added more free shipping to first class items. Though my store is small, I’ve noticed it has helped move some RA new items that have been sitting. I’ve also tried promotions but have only sold a couple of those items. It looks on my bill that Ebay is only giving a partial refund for the promotion fees. I’m not sure how they calculate the rebate. I hope to list a few of our Halloween items and my kids’ old costumes that I’m ready to part with this week. I’m annoyed with the listing improvements functionality, but not going to rant about that again. I try to clean it out every day.
As far as vacations go, we definitely have been in the cocktail poolside group though we hate to dress up (from Cali) and don’t go to very expensive restaurants. Now that the kids are older and we like more space (to keep the peace) we do AirBnB and I cook a lot of our own food. We are also wanting to show them new cities before they start applying to colleges. Enjoy your down time R & J.
Paid 5.99 at Goodwill. Even after reading this https://www.dogmt.com/FAQs.html couldn’t tell if what type of print it was so I didn’t say (art amateur). Happy to get this price anyway and I think it was not a woodblock. http://www.ebay.com/itm/332165752027
Thrilled to sell this older item. I feel compelled to save these project linus quilts they make for hospital premies. I need to get over that affliction. http://www.ebay.com/itm/331870838680
Fun midcentury. Still sold even with a repair. Paid $3 each at indy thrift and the chip free one hasn’t sold. http://www.ebay.com/itm/331921826697
I should have gone all in on these at the storage clean out place. $1 each. Sold pretty quickly and some other picker had taken them all when I went in for more. http://www.ebay.com/itm/332234879051 He still has a lot of stickers and buttons from the 1980s metal era, but I have so much stuff to list.
Thanks for sharing sales Steve – that clock is so amazing and I’m still hunting for one to keep. There is not much on Youtube that I learn from and some of my old favorites have become inactive (Mad Maine, The Paper Castle, Sheldon). If anyone has other favorites for vintage sales reports, let me know in reply. Shout out to Karen Laebo – great keywords just roll over her tongue and she’s pretty active and located here in So Cal. Also like Terminal 99 and his pricing estimates and weird stuff.
Total Items in Store: 325
Items Sold: 6
Cost of Items Sold: $16 new + $14 used
Total Sales: $403
Highest Price Sold: $297 (Stephen Huneck Framed Dog Print – paid $5.99 at Goodwill 🙂 )
Average Price Sold: $67
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 8Slow this week and no burst of sales after the day I listed, but I’m very happy with my art sale. We are having record heat out here in So Cal. San Francisco was like 106 degrees earlier this weekend. It really zaps your energy. Not much buying either for me, either RA or thrifts. Hoping to put Ebay back on the front burner again soon. Love the pics of your new place. Travel safely.
I’ve found two Patagonia puffer jackets thrifting for myself essentially NWOT. One was one size too big, but black so I wear it anyway. It seems like our thrifts are more expensive out here in Cali for lower end items but there is a point where I think the indy thrifts are afraid to price too high. Some really quality, great condition items in the $20-30 range. However, they will go high on art – I guess they are more worried about it being secretly expensive?
I love to buy orchids and other plants at garage sales and Vietnamese glazed ceramic pots on Facebook or Craigslist. I’ve bought loads of children’s books and I’ve donated many to the school library when my kids are done with them. Not giving up on real books and I’ve sold a few complete series on Ebay lately.
Finally, my son is now a men’s large so I’m actually willing to look through the clothes and I’m building him a wardrobe. It’s really easy to find the same stuff I’d buy at Macys or a surf & skate so I can’t imagine paying full price.
Thanks Ryanne, that’s nice of you. I watched a bunch of tv last weekend and vegged, something I never do. Flea Market Flip, Project Runway, Game of Thrones. Today I got an hour to list so yeah!
* Total Items in Store: 350
* Items Sold: 7
* Cost of Items Sold: $125 new + $25 used
* Total Sales: $338
* Highest Price Sold: $128 (set of 5 new dog art plates, purchased a few weeks ago $74)
* Average Price Sold: $42
* Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
* Number of items listed this week: 0How fun to see your day in the life video. It’s like picking up the matching read along picture book to the record for the first time. You work SO hard and it will be a nice end of the year enjoying the spoils of the new rental. Everything looks super and we would totally rent it if we weren’t across the country. I recognize the Ikea duvet my daughter has and I love the art you chose, especially Steve’s amazing buffalo piece. I’ll keep an eye out for those 70s Marushka pieces – totally something I would pick up but I’m sure I’ve never seen any.
I’m hanging in with Ebay just shipping out. The kids are back in school but we are a household of sensitive people, half of us going through puberty, big schedule changes, and unfortunate pet deaths. The emotions are running high. Although I’m the adult I have to talk to myself out of feeling everything along with them. It’s an interesting but challenging heavy parenting time that has me resting instead of working Ebay in my time off. I hope to soon get handed a couple of weekdays off my contract job. Ah, to sit alone and list for a day and get some exercise. That would be amazing! Keep your fingers crossed for me trash elves. Have a great week!
Amazing find! When I’ve listed Italian Raymor I have had immediate interest, particularly from the U.K. I would price high on EBay with best offer for what that’s worth.
I also have this with 0 needing identifiers. I’ve been keeping my listing recommendations clean each day. Not happy to get this email since my bar codes are mainly retailer specific with fewer digits and have been rejected by EBay before. Also just helps eBay show my buyers lower prices from other sellers on my item. Hopefully they will cancel this again. Not much notice – 9/18.
Total Items in Store: 349
Items Sold: 8
Cost of Items Sold: $9 used + 79 new
Total Sales: $228
Highest Price Sold: $43 (Set of two new decorative hooks – paid $16 early summer)
Average Price Sold: $29
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 3 RA listings – added multiplesEclipse was partial and foggy here on the West coastline, so I have to admit I wasn’t really feelin’ it. Your photos and some on Facebook make it look much more interesting.
I’m scraping along here with some ok sales considering I’m still finishing out the crazy busy summer and back to school business. I did list a few multiples for new items. I’ve also been trying to at least clean out my listing recommendations daily since I discovered the option to put them off for 30 days. I have to say that so far I do think adding free shipping to some first class items has made a difference. I think I might be a convert. I watched a video on youtube and it made me realize that I had written off “sell one like this” in favor of using my own listings to start with because I had some boilerplate I liked at the bottom. Now I’m using almost no boilerplate (just encourage buyers to use the shopping cart and visit my store) and there are many more item specifics Ebay has added since then. So I plan to revisit sell one like this. Looking forward to seeing the new rental photos. Have a great week.
Total Items in Store: 335
Items Sold: 10
Cost of Items Sold: $4 used + $135
Total Sales: $316
Highest Price Sold: $50 new pajama bottoms (paid $24, listed 9 months but sold immediately after I added free shipping)
Average Price Sold: $35
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0A fairly good week, though I did make less than double on some older new RA items. I’ve started a free shipping experiment and did sell a couple of NWT items that have been sitting in my store for quite a while so that’s pretty interesting. One also had a promotion on it. The other I had dropped the price much lower before to try to move, but the free shipping (due to the timing) with a higher price I think really did it. The item only weighed three ounces. I’m definitely going to continue free shipping when I list new first class items and see how it goes. No sense in being stubborn about it now that I feel comfortable with estimating shipping costs. I consistently weigh at listing times but will have to think about my ongoing sales % and pricing. Overall, I need to see more movement out of the store since sourcing is so easy for me. Hopefully free shipping will help.
Another thing I’ve been doing is cleaning out my listing improvements page daily. This week I found a toggle on the analyze listing page where you could ask Ebay not to bug you again for 30 days. So getting some relief from the same ones popping up again and again with unhelpful suggestions. One day I only had one. Hit the toggle and cleared it. Then my store door changed from red to blue. Tin foil hat time.
I made another post in the forums about this summer just being chaos for our family. I look forwarding to school starting in the next couple of weeks and I’m hoping to get Fall and Winter pile items listed if life smooths out. Plan to keep shopping to a minimum and it will be hard because it’s rummage sale season around here. Have a great week!
