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Oh that’s right, that was an interesting trial. I feel like I’m just going to give in to Ebay and run sales and offers with the hope that my outflow is better this year. So I will need to watch the buy in prices as I have been mentioning…
So are you still doing 2? Sorry if I confused that. The seller guy on the podcast kind of seemed to indicate you would get buried if you didn’t at least do the 2.
Wow that’s brave. On the eBay for business podcast I heard the guy say to do st least 2%. But maybe since you know EBay tricks it won’t affect you. Let us know what you think later!
@Craig I would look into rummage and church sales in your area. They have more volume and typically price better. The volunteers also organize things. My experience here is that many garage sales are busts but occasionally there is one where it’s really great. Sometimes the run of the mill neighborhoods built in the 50s or 60s have the best old stuff. We have it a little better because my town did not have a lot of made in China stores until the recent past to shop at. When I go out of town I see a lot of that. Our goodwill is full of Home Goods art prints now.
As long as you are still excited about it, that’s what counts.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235921146983 I love this MCM set of Denby dishes. Goodwill had the larger plates priced at $7.99 per so they sat and the manager just repriced them for me. Plus it was Monday so I got an extra 25% off.
My daughter, her friend and I went to the bins this week and I found the following for about $20-25: a vintage Franklin Quest leather organizer barely used, an expensive small leather bag that needs cleaning, a Fossil small leather wallet, a Bona hardwood cleaner pad refill, a couple of vintage frames, a dog bed for the pup (now sanitized, but barely used), an Oneill sport bag that looks new, 2 BMW whisky glasses, a set of placemats and napkins from World Market, a Pottery Barn sham, and a hardback book for staging. Lots of randomness. I’d like to try the bins in the morning on the flea market day (during the work week). I think many of the bin pickers flip there and might be missing? It was less crowded this time but the bins also seemed emptier.
The flea was fun but didn’t buy too much.
@Craig I plan to do end and sell similar more often. I did a big one right after the election and got to make so many offers. January is flying by for me but I enjoyed a lot of family connection time. I should do sell similar on some things in February, historically a bad month for me.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335776716602 Estate sale find. Artist was located on Instagram as a major small timer so I priced low and it sold immediately.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335777097162 This went to Asia and sold in like minutes. I should have priced it higher because it was fairies but I only paid a buck, so great flip.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335658551233 This took a while to sell but almost $30 for vintage dixie cups!
These last couple of items are definitely bolo sleepers. I sold some Strawberry Shortcake stationery once for $70
Total Items in Store: 1150ish
Items Sold: 23
Cost of Items Sold: $208
Total Sales: $1028; Net $685
Highest Price Sold: eBay $112 (Art tile)
Average price: $45
Returns: 0Number of items listed this week: 31
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $300ish: pulling in some more new clearance – this is probably the tail end of it. Also went to the flea and spent $25ish, thrifted 2x probably $50, estate sale $60.
Sourced a bit much last week. Kid 2 is out of the house so I did go on a listing tear this weekend. I listed 6 days, the most days I have ever listed in a week. I tried to do at least three easy items every morning. I think my sales would have been worse had I not been keeping up listing more often. They usually are horrible between now and through February. I’m trying a new thing where I am adding a couple of custom item specifics to the end of some listings with decor styles, colors, etc. I hope it might get me more hits.
It is very cold here for us (low 40s at night) and we finally got some rain so I didn’t feel at all like organizing in the garage. The next few days will be in the low 60s then warmer. It would probably be good to focus on listing for now.
I hope you all have a good week. @RT I stuck with my system of like items. I have the new separated entirely from the old, the smalls are located in smaller boxes so they are easier to find. Then I have bankers boxes labeled with painters tape that I can easily tear off and reuse. One thing I like about it is being able to see what’s really moving. A couple of my boxes are pretty worn out. If I used a sku I would be afraid I would misplace something. I know some sellers like to do sku but also group like items. Anyway, I hope your sort goes well. @Sharyn good job with the 2024 death pile challenge and listing!
I got really distracted by the live selling but my health issue last Fall made me want to get my stuff together. I look forward to putting together a new routine and it will involve more regular listing and less thrifting, maybe shifting to garage sales or the bins even more often. All of my thrifts here seem to be trying out higher prices. I went to most of them Monday and the numbers just didn’t make sense on a lot of the items I picked up. I’m making myself look a lot of things up now.
I listed 31 items, and a few of them sold right away!
VT: So glad! I’d love to meet up then. If you follow me on insta you can message me there later if the forum is down. https://www.instagram.com/retro_decor_and_more/
Total Items in Store: 1150ish
Items Sold: 24
Cost of Items Sold: $208
Total Sales: $924; Net $594
Highest Price Sold: ($88 new pajamas, day after xmas sale, paid about $30)
Average price: $38
Returns: 1 fit
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $250 + (RA + Flea) Losing track tbh
Number of items listed this week: 26Solid MLK weekend. Most holiday weekends are not, but this one was good for sales. Since then sales are definitely slower. I forgot Monday was a holiday when I started my sale, so unfortunately I didn’t run it Monday. Sold a couple of smalls on Mercari. Nothing on district and I haven’t been listing there.
I’ve been doing a lot of clearance shopping and going heavy on one retailer. I also kind of had a big haul at the flea market last week. Not so much thrifting but I need to list more this week as I am bringing in more. All the RA is listed quickly. I’m trying to list at least a couple of items in the morning so I look consistent for Cassini. I hope it helps. Sale is down from 20% to 10%. My 40% off Christmas sale is about to expire.
Kid 2 goes back to her apartment this weekend and I need to work on habits and schedule. Also working in the consolidation of listed inventory and organization of unlisted. I have listed about everything that was in the house and haven’t got on to the dreaded linens yet, which I should really do. Also need to make a point of listing some nice jackets we have from my family.
I’m taking my daughter and her friend to the bins today for fun. Would be better to go in the morning but they get up late.
Have a great week everyone.
@retro yes, the Pure Hustle guys still make references to SL all the time. On this week’s podcast they discuss the photo to draft listing on Ebay not being great yet for vintage. Orlando must be part of the beta.
@Craig it’s a smallish market that starts at 8. I get there about 8:30-9 because I”m there for the late one-off people and the $1 clothing guy who doesn’t get there and unpack until 8ish. A few dealers show up really early but not worth it to me.
I was digging in boxes and unwrapping things to look at them. He was a chatty fellow so we were talking and then he started offering. He offered to other dealer early birds and they declined. I knew there wouldn’t be many booths cheap enough to buy things from so I stuck around. In the end I got about 15 quality pieces at less than $5 each and pretty much first pick, so definitely worth it. I’m following him on insta now. You never know what being nice and forming relationships will get you.
I heard on a couple of podcast that eBay is now revealing your auto decline amount. If the buyer sends an offer that gets auto declined eBay will send them a message saying try this amount instead, this amount being your lowest offer accepted. I have auto decline on all my items so I like this feature.
I’m enjoying getting into my bag of Split Decision coffee! FINALLY I got refillable Kerig pods. It’s so much more affordable to use them than the prefilled pods. Thanks to you guys for keeping the forum alive for now. Miss hearing from you and hope all is well.
