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Listed a couple of big items on Craigslist and Facebook that are in the middle of our garage. We started tackling that and I realized I have more large Ebay and USPS boxes than I need so I’m cutting loose some of those loose. Unfortunately only got one item listed on Ebay this week, it sold right away and I’m pleased about getting the garage back in shape again. Will need another couple of stints in there and then we can get the cars back in.
Also, I have a new storage closet at my dad’s for backlog. I’ve put the boxes of fabric items in there and some original death pile Starbucks mugs. It helped to get those out of the garage so I can focus first on just part of the piles and get to the back row of boxes that came from my parents’ house. I don’t think I have much Christmas to list but I do have some winter items and some larger items that would be good to be rid of soon. My kids’ fundraiser is this week and then November should be pretty quiet by comparison. yeah! for listing.
11/04/2019 at 10:34 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 435: List and Forget, Still Works For Us #70014Total Items In Store: 257 Ebay, 40 Mercari
Items Sold: 6 Ebay, 2 Mercari
Cost of Items Sold: $39 + $3 free shipping + some items ours
Total Sales: $157 Ebay + $25 Mercari
Highest Price Sold: $54 New platter (paid $25 clearance)
Average Price Sold: $26 Ebay, $18 Mercari
Money Spent on New Inventory: $0
Number of items listed: 1 – sad face
Buyer issue: Pressure from a Mercari shopper to split a lot and then switch to free shipping on an $11 item “because other sellers will do it” (so to give her the item for free.) No thanks – silent treatment!Speaking of silence, it was cricketsville so almost all of these sales came from make an offer / promotion or a 10% sale on Ebay that I ran midweek. Definitely helps to stir the pot. I believe making offers to watchers is a very powerful tool. I’m so glad Ebay finally caught up on that. ASP down, but I need to move some stuff. Also I noticed this week on the Ebay app that it suggested three items to reduce price – it gives you a button to reduce by a certain amount. I tried clicking those. Got an offer right after on one of those, a tiki mug. I figure they must suggest high view items that are likely to convert.
Regarding the list and forget discussion, I don’t have time to relaunch stale listings but if I did I would. I do think Ebay generates results that are not necessarily totally logical and individual seller-friendly and I do believe that certain actions affect your listings’ treatment under Cassini. It would make sense that new listings are treated differently than stale listings. They pretty much tell you in the fine print they don’t show all of the listings all of the time. I don’t think anyone can say for sure whether or not it works for others. As discussed, it might depend on the types of items in your store and the pricing level vs. comps. Best for anyone interested to try it out, and for those who have tried it to share results. That’s what I love about this Forum. If you try it, be sure to watch your multi-quantity numbers resetting.
Question: will ebay override your charging sales tax for your own state or is it safe and necessary to take that off? I don’t believe that is clear. Also, for tax Paypal purposes, it seems like they should not have it create revenue for you.
Have a great week!
Going forward there is an affordable program ($40-50 per year) called Easy Auction Tracker for smaller sellers. You have to remember to upload your data at least quarterly (within 90 days).
10/30/2019 at 10:04 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 434: Do You Have A Business Destiny? #69779@Simon sorry you are affected by the power outages. What a mess with the companies. It seems like the State will have to take them over. Hope your area is missing the major wind event and out of danger. It’s passing South of us this time.
Personally I don’t have an issue making an offer, but I think I don’t do it as readily in person in the setting of a garage sale as I would online. I also think the public is getting more confortable shopping online and making offers. Certainly those that use other platforms like Mercari and Poshmark are probably expecting and looking to make offers. So, that would be an argument for higher with BO.
In the past the “listing me” is always wanting to get top dollar, but then the offers come in sometimes and the “selling me” just wants to move more product. I love having the Terapeak year data available now so I can price near the top and with best offer. I think reviewing that data keeps me from totally overpricing except maybe on rare and unusual items. I should probably be pricing more on the 60-75% of solds because I have so much backlog and sales are good with Cassini.
k – I only got 9 items listed, one was multi. Hope to do better this week with multiple listing sections. Also spent most of Saturday literally getting my house back in order. I listed a bunch of breakables, so I need to pad those and put them back in storage.
Amatino, keep it up with your purge. Sounds like you had a lot of stuff hanging around that wasn’t worth selling. I don’t have any inventory in our living space except the guest closet, but still it feels really good to see space opening up.
10/28/2019 at 11:11 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 434: Do You Have A Business Destiny? #69666Total Items in Store: 271 Ebay, 45 Mercari
Items Sold: 3
Gross Sales: $85 Ebay
Cost of Items Sold: $26 + one item ours
Highest Price Sold: $45 New platter (paid $24 on clearance)
Average Price Sold: $28
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $56
Number of items listed this week: 9I love to find and sell the starglow china in your thumbnail! Rough, quiet week on Ebay and surprisingly busy week outside Ebay. I allowed myself to go to to a rummage sale for the first time in a very long time. I discovered bought a few pieces of Franciscan Silver Pine – very cool atomic china. Someone donated brand new Pendleton bath sheets ($5 each). It was a nice little thrill. I woke up early and listed almost all of it the next morning. Now back to the piles this week. I’m very into listing because quite frankly we could use the money as my work has been slow. I don’t normally rely on Ebay money, but life my other part-time income was off the last couple of months.
Wishing you the best R & J with cash flow and your new business adventures. Have a good week!
I just wanted to second this. College is 1.5 years away for us and it’s daunting. I know you are very serious about hustling for that tuition. Great job!
I find Chris to be a mixed bag. He’s how I found out about Mercari and at the time they had a lot of money flowing into Google search results. On the other hand, sometimes he seems very immature. IDK
@autumn do you use the 365 setting in Terapeak under the research tab? Being mindful of auctions, which can produce low prices on longer tail items, that seems like enough data for most things. If it hasn’t sold on Ebay in a year, then you might have something special to price high with best offer or try an auction with a high starting bid. Good luck!
Thanks Amatino for sharing. I think #4 is the downfall for me. I list to list in big chunky time periods. It kind of goes against my nature to cram it into the day here and there. Sometimes it’s a struggle to fit Ebay listing into my life, but certainly I can do better.
I have to say too if you get yourself into a hole, you need to take breaks from sourcing unless you’re pretty productive at listing or hire help. Maybe it depends on how deep is the hole you made for yourself and how fast you want to climb out of it. If you keep sourcing, you need to list that stuff first and be honest if you can’t keep up quickly with those new purchases.
I would add one more – that it helps to group like items that you will bring in small batches for yourself to list. The silver lining on piles is that you tend to pick up similar items and it’s usually faster to list related items in one sitting.
I don’t really have a cheap outlet for getting rid of a bunch of inexpensive smalls together, other than donating. I know some people have local low end consignment stores. That would have helped with some of the early stuff I picked up that’s still in the piles. Some items just aren’t worth today’s shipping prices (eg. many mugs).
I second the party supplies. I’ve been that mom overpaying for some theme that is no longer in theaters/big box stores, like How to Train your Dragon. So, I pick up party supplies if I can get multi-quantity and it’s something I think will do well. I once found a whole bunch of Harry Potter stuff and did very well with most of that.
This seems really smart. I wouldn’t really want to trust Ebay with a sku or box #. And, you can do a lot of sorting.
@Amatino some is better then none! I found about 3 items last week that were not worth listing and without hesitation I threw them in the donate pile. So, I’ll just thin as I go along for now. Got some thanksgiving up.
@Seam thanks! We had 21 years on 9/28 (celebrated late – trip instead of gifts). Happy anniversary to you too. Your numbers are amazing btw.
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