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https://www.ebay.com/itm/335688139862 I sold a bunch of these local starbucks mugs last year for $35 each. Found one more hiding that I think I had planned to gift to my father-in-law. Sold for $250! Only one on Ebay. You bet I did not promote it.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235840668747 Used Christmas stocking kit for $92. Also sold quickly. Keep an eye out for this Dimensions Gold, especially Christmas.
Total Items in Store: 1200 or so
Items Sold: 29
Gross Sales: $1181
Net Sales: $704
Cost of Items Sold: $202
Highest Price Sold: $202 (2 x Anthropologie 2023 clearance xmas cream and sugar set)
Average Price Sold: $40
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $160
Number of items listed this week: 33Week of 11/10-16
Total Items in Store: 1200 or so
Items Sold: 27
Gross Sales: $1177
Net Sales: $648
Cost of Items Sold: $225
Highest Price Sold: $101 (1 of the creamer sugar set (one left now))
Average Price Sold: $44
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $160
Number of items listed this week: 33Good sales, though it has since slowed. Not a great weekend. I’m happy after my post-election reset of sale items I was able to make probably 175 offers. If the item is large or old, I’m sending an additional 20-40% off and it seems to be helping. I’m also running a sale 15% off. Ebay definitely likes the more regular listing, but I’m working hard to make money and getting lower prices.
I went to my favorite indy thrift’s holiday boutique, and just bought a few gifts and things to resell. Crowded and not as good this year IMHO. I have one more sitting of Christmas listing to do. Getting awfully tired of it but I burn my Christmas candle and listen to Christmas music. I have been doing a little RA here and there if the price is good enough. The new item velocity does help my store and I sell a lot of that right after Christmas when people tend to buy for themselves. I have TWO bankers boxes of flatware in the guest room closet. Maybe I should list that when I finish the Christmas pile I have left.
Mercari is doing a death spiral I’m afraid. I did sell two items on there in the last two weeks and Fed Ex finally returned my scammer item. As far as I know the buyer hasn’t yet gotten their money back from Mercari lol. District.net (Niknax, VAMP) is slow for me BIN. Niknax maker says she is going to work on how to do better with non-live items, VAMP is getting rid of the less committed sellers and they have always been exclusive so that’s cool for me. There are a decent amount of members. Misty invited me to live sell but I am super camera shy and tech phobic, though chatty as you can see here. You can do it in a team. There are a lot of young moms selling live and some more experienced people. It’s interesting.
Looking ahead, in the new year I plan to list a lot of linens – I have boxes. I may try crossposting on Poshmark, as I follow someone who does well on there with linens. However, I don’t want to do sharing so I hope to sell without sharing in a less competitive category. Sharing is why I never tried Posh in the first place. Over that.
Glad to hear about the roasting business! Congrats on your continued success.
Working on my husband to go and rescue a doggie before Xmas. He will come around. Everyone have a great Thanksgiving holiday.
@Retro that’s very interesting. After the Christmas rush I will reorganize. I do it by type, mostly in bankers boxes. However, when I do my COGS this January I’d like to add to my listings in the custom sku the price I paid (now recorded on paper). I found out I can ask Ebay to print that out on my yearly report. It would be nice to get a bump.
@Amatino no fees at all on Mercari now and never were listing fees. Just trying to get back what I paid if possible. Listed long ago. They aren’t really moving so probably will end up later at the flea market. I use a lot of recycled packing materials but do buy large bubble. Sometimes I find it at estate sales too.
Awesome work!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235823861916 I’ve sold these before used. Cute little bolo. Sold fast both times. There is far less Thanksgiving decor out there. I do well with it. These are common but always sell for me this time of year. https://www.ebay.com/itm/235805455951
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235819196240 Free item at the flea market. Thimbles can be good. I have a bag of them in my death piles somewhere…
I haven’t been thrifting much but not missing much it seems when I stop by. I think there is a post-election slump in processed donations. The Christmas throw up seems to be pretty much out at our two biggest and they are way overpricing some items at that local chain. I believe the flea market is also not happening this week. From my piles, it’s pretty much RA and bread and butter Christmas getting listed – nothing too exciting.
Total Items in Store: 1150 +/-
Items Sold: 15
Gross Sales: $996 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $687 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $101
Highest Price Sold: $160 Vintage eagle bookends
Average Price Sold: $66
Returns/Partial: 1 item broke in storage, was fixed, buyer and I agreed to refund half.
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $25 Thrift xmas throw up + $75 RA clearance
Number of items listed on Ebay this week: 18ish (a bit hard to keep track bc a few things sold right away and I did a whole store reset.1 small sale on Mercari, 1 small sale on Niknax.net, 0 Facebook
A good week on Ebay for sales. I was allowed to make a ton of offers after doing a sell similar post-election reset. I am concerned about the potential for poor 2025-26 sales (people feel poor, credit card debt is high, and we will have quick and possibly major changes by Republicans before the Midterms). So for that reason I am running a sale plus making lower offers (especially on seasonal or really stale items). The retailers keep running clearance sales so I am picking up a few new items to flip but being pretty picky. The thrift store Christmas throw up is trickling out from the back rooms and I have been very selective. I have about 25 Christmas theme items left to list, which I hope to finish this week.
I just discounted all of my gravy boats, not wanting to hold on to those for another year. I also have been cross posting a few Christmas items here and there on District.net (in Niknax and VAMP). On Mercari this week I removed everything that is more than $15-20 and will probably keep rolling out drafts on really stale and low dollar items I pulled into drafts there from Ebay. Reviewing these old Ebay items before launching on Mercari, I am kind of wincing and realizing a lot of it I would not buy and list now. Considering a 50% off sale maybe on the 26th.
I’m glad you are able to run on autopilot R&J while you are busy with other things. Everyone in my family has a Kerig machine but I just finally got around to ordering a cup insert to save $ so plan to order some coffee again. Thanks as always for keeping the forum alive.
On a personal note, we lost our doggie this week and had a couple of sad, unproductive evening. She was great company to me working at home and we hope to rescue again soon, maybe around Christmas. Hug your pet kiddos for me. They make life so much better!
Hm, so many things to pick from. Some sourced years ago. When I did my yard sales I went through almost every box but left some $12-15 items, including a lot of breakables. With the current shipping rates, I probably will take some of that to the local flea market when my back is better. I’m marking many of my Starbucks mugs down to $4 on Mercari…
I don’t know if there was a change, but I had cleaned up my business policies to five and slowly new stuff crept back in. I typically use automatic offers when I get the change so probably that is why for me, but the default should not have been changed.
I loved Maggie Smith. Such a talented actress in many beloved roles.
I’ve been having some sleep problems and up in the wee hours of the morning. Got some great RA deals this week at $5-7 on Anthro items at 4:30 eastern (1:30 am my time). Got all of the listed yesterday that’s arrived.
Haven’t been thrifting much and the flea didn’t happen last week so not much else to report. I’m listing Christmas, but it’s all smalls / bread and butter and not impressive.
These had a lot of character – aka pretty rough condition. Good sale over $100 https://www.ebay.com/itm/235819208766 Sold right after my store refresh.
Total Items in Store: about 900 listings, 1100 items
Items Sold: 9
Gross Sales: $400 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $183 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $103
Highest Price Sold: $75 (Just got my money back on some new Lulu joggers I purchased for myself)
Average Price Sold: $44
Returns: 1
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $120 (RA) + $40 Xmas thrift
Number of items listed this week: 21
————NOT a great week on Ebay, then totally dead this week before the election. After the election results, I started a sale and did a full store reset with sell similar. I’ve been able to send about 100 offers this week, with some sales of older items since Wednesday. I’m running a 25% discount total. I wasn’t able to list as much as I wanted last week due to some family stuff, but I’m really back in the mood to grind this weekend and week. I have a large box of Christmas left that I’m working on now. The big retailers keep running extra % off sales and I picked up a little more of that this week. Should have that all posted by today. Reselling seems tougher for me but I still love it.
Over on Mercari, had a huge problem with a scammer on a new pair of headphones my daughter didn’t want. Mercari used to be amazing and fast with their CS. Now, it’s a s+8!show. I won’t be listing any high dollar stuff on there, which is too bad. They removed easy fields where you can reach them, have technical problems, and it’s designed to make it harder to get help. Reps not good either. Sadly, I guess this is kind of the swan song which is a bummer since they made it easy to import items recently. Good for Ebay I suppose.
Have cross-posted some Christmas and glassware on District.net. No sales over there recently. I think I have about 80 total. Mid-December or late January I might post some lots for sale on Commons, the District store for selling to lots to other resellers. @Craig they have people selling your kind of stuff in there.
A few things at a time I’m able to lift and organize. When I’m all better I really need to consolidate boxes and do inventory, then take some low dollar to the flea market. While doing sell similar I happened to spot a ghost listing (and item I sold up for sale again.) A lot of my items are so old I forget if they are still around or not.
