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Hello there. I’ve been all over the place and doing anything but listing on Ebay.
I plan to list hard this Memorial Day weekend but my husband wants to get my college son’s car back in the garage so tons of work to do there. Ugh.
Reminder to bargain hunters that now is the time to shop Memorial Day sales with most retailers for the best selection.
Sales $416/net $279. I haven’t listed in a month. The next two weeks will be busy with non Ebay and trying to make some sense of the garage storage and inventory. I hope to get some listings in as well. Ebay is the angry mistress giving me a smack down. I also have a pop up on Mothers Day in a pretty good location.
Had a last visit to the flea market before it closes for the fair for a few weeks. Didn’t buy a whole lot but had a good time. I went thrifting and was good and passed on some items priced way to high. (that store doesn’t run sales.) There is a funkier religious store that is very hit and miss. They give you dollars to spend on the next Tuesday and the ladies think I’m 65 (ouch) so they give me the senior discount too. I got some Denby plates and another set of china plates deeply discounted, plus some brass candlesticks. I need to get listing pronto.
For whatever reason, my sales are pretty much all RA while I haven’t been listing. Some are mother’s day gifts.
Zeros for me. Hope to get back at the computer this week before guests arrive. Sending healing thoughts for your husband VT.
Ebay sales: 756 gross, $512 net. Did not feel even that good.
No listing for 3 weeks + now.
Did a big live sale at a farm just down the coast and inland bit: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIcKmXLT5tr/ I was a little bit intimidated but did really great @ $1900 gross. Got rid of a lot of hard to ship Pyrex and Fire King, some country related stuff, some family crocheted items, lots of smalls, etc. Things that don’t sell well at my urban markets where I live. People really came to BUY, rather than just casually browsing. It was awesome but taxing. I’m kind of reflecting on what kind of items I want to sell as a curated shop. I follow a couple of Youtube people that have me thinking of an aesthetic. One thing I like about pop ups is that everyone has a bit of a different take on vintage. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRgucPJ_Gc-Go0l868WCcAw https://www.youtube.com/@leftcoastrevivals and the rest of the Portland crowd. The antique booths are so expensive and hard to get into here, but someday it would be really fun to do a curated booth and not have to move around.
Have company this coming Thursday and a lot of reorganizing to do, but hope to get in some listing. It’s interesting that generally only my new and similar two categories of items are selling the last two weeks.
From my Facebook groups it seems like others are slow. Uncertainty really isn’t helpful for sales.
From the podcasts, I hear that the “Ebay Magical Listing Tool” (in beta) sucks and doesn’t work well or save any time. Ebay once again is lagging behind it’s competition in programming. There is talk of Mercari having a photo-to-listing tool in a better working order but I haven’t tried that. Just when I think I’ll bail Mercari, I remember how fast the listing is. If they have photo based listing first, I will at least be throwing my low dollar items on there. Right now I just want to get some listings up but I think I may move some low dollar off Ebay intstead of crossposting. I’m at 900 listings or so now.
My sales were better than I thought. Gross $735 / net 396. Busy outside of ebay and I turned in my taxes…except COGS. I have not been listing at all on Ebay for like 3 weeks now. Listed some things on Facebook Marketplace. Getting ready for a big live sale. Got rid of the clothing and now I’m sorting all of the art work, frames, and unframed pieces. I looked up some artists and values.
I’ll be very happy when this market is over on Sunday. I was happy to be accepted but it’s a little stressful. It is making me tackle my hoard. I’m proud to say I have not been sourcing since shortly after I got back and blew off a bunch of sales on Friday and Sat. Just the flea last week and this Thursday and it was mostly booth display stuff. I’d really like to get my outflow a lot higher than my inflow and haven’t been good about that so far this year. There is a lot here and doing my taxes made me realize I’d like better cash flow.
Glad you did well with March Madness and ladies cards @Craig. I posted my Boston haul. Not much shopping since I’ve been home but going back to the flea tomorrow and I can’t wait.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235819215589 This was one of those estate sales where I went late. I personally like this kind of pastel 50s kitchenware very much but it hasn’t overall done well for me. However, I got a great price for these eventually. China can be an awfully slow seller but then again the Denby got scooped up really quickly.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235867827626 This was an oddball purchase. I posted the other bear I sold. Should have bought them all for $15-20 apiece. I hope to get my hoard down enough so that I can pop on a good grouping like this was instead of worrying about where I’m going to put it and feeling guilty.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335799043079 Never heard of this brand but I could tell it was quality. An unwanted Christmas gift at Goodwill. Paid $12.99Thanks @VL. Pricing is definitely an art. I’m definitely considering those same things but often don’t take the time to look on eBay first.
Right now I’m a bit more interested in having a successful market day than getting top dollar. Very much interested in moving larger pieces out. Last time some younger people did not move on things maybe because of price (2 left and came back) but I did have a couple of brick and mortar dealers scoop up multiple things, which I’m totally ok with. So maybe I’m sort of on the lower end but it’s also fun to share the finds.
I’d like to see if people would pose with their choices for my Instagram but it’s not really my style to ask that of them. I hate having my picture taken. Maybe if they are really chatty and excited I will. The clothing sellers do that all the time.
Sales while in vacation mode were 334 gross /273 net. Definitely slow for me for this time period, but I wasn’t able to list much the week before I left. Hopefully will pick up this week when I start listing again.
Yes definitely slow for me and I’m hearing others. There is a lot of uncertainty with the economy of course. But I also have not been listing. I will probably up my sale percentage. Times like this I miss the SL podcast.
Zeros for me last two weeks. I’m just trying to get my orders out.
@VL hope you have a great market.
@Retro for some reason Google maps doesn’t do a good job with finding outlets. I went on the local goodwill site, which was quite in needing of updating, to find the outlet location in Boston. I have also found that Google doesn’t always distinguish between donation centers and stores.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHtJgLOM9KN/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
My cute little Boston vacation hall. Boston was awesome. Goodwill prices were lower than here but not really cheap. The Goodwill bins we only got to at the end of the day and a lot of this came from there. It was a small one and not crowded but I got an arm workout with their super deep bins full of large junky items. Not pictured is a few vintage rosewood frames I picked up. I tagged the sailor painting on imgur and it turns out it’s a listed artist. https://imgur.com/gallery/rescued-from-boston-goodwill-bins-4Tz5mqc You can see people’s comments here – they had fun with it.
Someone mentioned this site devoted to bad art – so funny https://museumofbadart.org/collections/
