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Total Items in Store: 1224
Items Sold: 21
Gross Sales: $1,015 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $640 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $202
Highest Price Sold: $133 (New throw)
Average Price Sold: $48
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $50ish
Number of items listed this week: 16 + a few on MercariNice sales Sharon. I also really liked the items you posted on sale of the week.
It didn’t feel as good as it looks on Ebay. It’s complete crickets right now. I started a 10% sale but I don’t think that moves the needle for people. I’ve been a little uneven about listing every other day or so.
Have my first neutral and it’s just for color of the item. I asked the buyer to revise and asked Ebay to remove and they told me to suck it up. A little frustrating.
I signed up for a bigger live market only because I finally got into that one. It’s in March and I have a lot of organizing to do. I’m going to donate some clothing and other things to a charity garage sale.
Have a great week!
@Ryanne thanks! I’ve been so lazy about doing this with a credit card and looking into external shipping. My goal is to start selling some larger art work online so I need to step it up later if I get to those larger items. We could certainly use hotel points!
@Craig I just kind of eyeball the solds and # of items available to set my bottom offer and always use auto decline. In the online world, I don’t like to go back and forth either as a buyer or as a seller. Ebay is now telling the offering buyer what your bottom line is so I feel like it’s good to have that on. Generally it’s still only 15-20% off, 10% on new items I have to pay up for. Then I run sales at around 15-20% but will make deeper offers on old items if I get the chance. My only change has been pricing at 1 year terapeak market value on new listings (rather than the highest comps) and then offering deeper discounts. On my stale items though I haven’t gone back to reprice at current solds.
I promote everything right away at at least 2.5%. Depending on the actives and item desirability, I will go up to %5 if more competitive and then 9% if I think it is a potentially really long tail item, lesser known brand or clothing. I don’t adjust these % when I do sell similar.
I think my stuff in general is harder to price accurately and slower moving than your niche.
I do get to make more offers after sell similar but it was much less effective this time around than in November. So I’m wondering if I should time it again for an upswing season.
@Sharon, I’m totally down for the packing but I want to list larger art works on Etsy and I’m not sure I will get the cost right. Plus I may have some packed. It’s just so much easier with calculated.
Williams Sonoma is usually a solid pick up. I break up all of my china by item type so I don’t have to pack a big mixed lot.
@Craig you get used to it. I have a big roll of packing foam and use large bubble. Never need to double box. A lot of people avoid plates, which I think are super easy.@Ryanne are you saving any money with pirate ship on packages that aren’t bigger than 14” cube?
Probably no one here is interested, but Mercari is taking a turn for the better again. They have the Japanese CEO taken over the US operations now. I believe they are working on fraud issues. They have removed most of the fees from the buyer check out.
Over time I’ve been adding lower end items and very stale items from eBay. I have managed to sell a few and have watchers on some better brand items. I think I will keep rolling out the drafts that I had already imported. Just this week Mercari announced they will have discounted USPS ground advantage shipping, which is great because the preference before was for UPS. Allegedly the discount will be 40% off retail rates. I had already imported my ebay listings at one point to Mercari using their free tool.
I’m scavenging in my own garage lately mainly https://www.ebay.com/itm/335817474112
This is a hard to find piece to a popular vintage Italian pottery pattern I should have gotten listed long ago. Paid $10. Not really any solds, someone else is asking like close to $400 but I’m not seeing any serving pieces at that level. Just in case I priced it a little high but with a pretty low offer floor.
23 listings for me last week. I hope to maybe double that this week. @VL glad you enjoyed the show.
@Craig I noticed obvious trends in sales when I stopped listing for a few days and started again. Also clearly seeing a preference for newly listed items. I know some sellers either don’t promote or don’t make offers on new listings, but I’m going ahead with both due to my observations. I price competitively and do that. I really should go through my old listings and reprice things but when I get motivated I like to add fresh stock instead.
My sale of the week was a bundle of two kids Christmas items from Pottery Barn Kids and discontinued new salt and pepper cellars from Target RA to a fire victim.
Total Items in Store: 1218
Items Sold: 10
Gross Sales: $584 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $367 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $84
Highest Price Sold: $167 (Bundle of three items for LA fire victim)
Average Price Sold: $58
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $30
Number of items listed this week: 23Had one really solid day of sales this Saturday after getting back to listing but it’s been fairly slow otherwise. I’m noting that my sell similar reset did not work as well as when I did it after the election. So I broke the Pinterest links kind of for not a lot of return. I probably will wait longer to do a reset. Also perhaps reset at times of the year when sales are starting to ramp up after a slower period, rather than when fewer people are shopping. I did sell a few older items and some items I had just listed.
This week is a particularly uneventful week in our lives and I hope for a great listing week! The puppy accidentally hurt my finger while we were playing so not a great week for sorting the “money piles”.
@vl good luck with your sales and Niknax lives! Ty I’m thinking of putting art, completed stitchery, and higher dollar decorative table or shelf decor on Etsy. The art on ebay doesn’t move if it’s an unknown artist. The whole free shipping thing is daunting.
Ugh I only listed 6 items last week.
I did also finish putting up some cross posting listings on Mercari that were auto loaded from Ebay. I have had a few Mercari sales of very cheap items I want to get rid of since they changed the fees after the new year. I’m cool with unloading my mistakes over there since I’ve already done the listing work. I earned enough to purchase something on Mercari I’ve been wanting for the house.
Have not been listing on District.net. Thinking about starting a curated Etsy store later in the year.
I have been suffering from RLS at night and insomnia but taking some vitamins that should help. I do feel a little bit of my Ebay mojo has gone. I’ve been listening to some podcasts while walking or driving to try to get motivated but it’s not helped too much. I know how important consistency is, but just feeling low energy. Still some family stuff to take care of too.
On the flip side I’ve been enjoying sorting my unlisted inventory. Lots of great items.
I went to two smaller rummage sales, both supporting youth with good prices. One was a bit disappointing but I did grab these items I listed for $1 or less https://www.ebay.com/itm/335807360727
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335804369159
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335804348150
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235950084508
Also found this at goodwill this week for only $7 https://www.ebay.com/itm/235950096796 plus I got 25% off, along with someone’s rejected Christmas present, priced at $12.99 https://www.ebay.com/itm/335799043079
Too much sourcing, not enough listing! Need to right the ship. I wrote myself a note to only go to the flea next week. Maybe GW on sale day.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235844030103 I found three Glassybaby candle holders in a row at a thrift store. Luckily they are still a thing. Paid $4
