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@Craig I usually have a good first couple of weeks in January (selling new items) but a break in second or third week until the day after Christmas. February is always my worst month. I’m thinking of running a huge sale on my older items.
Well people are pretty upset at least on social media but not shellshocked as I expected. I have been able to send about 60! Offers since refreshing my store but no sales yet. I’m also running a 15% off sale, so it’s 25% total. Fingers crossed things start picking up soon.
@Antiquefrog glad you are thinking of us. 🙂 perhaps we are on the path to coming back together. 🤞
Whew! Sales fell off a cliff since I last wrote. Since the election is now behind us quickly, I’ve done a full store sell similar reset this morning and started a 15% sale. I also upped my promoted listings a little bit to 5%. Hoping to kick start things a bit. Fingers crossed.
On a personal note I’m not as surprised this time as the last time. So hoping people move on to shopping more quickly than 2016. The mood was like after 9/11 last time Trump won around here but I think people will get over it faster. Everyone knew this time Kamala might lose.
Unclear what all of this will do to the general economy in 2025 and beyond, but for the time being we will hopefully have a decent holiday shopping season. For us personally, we took a real beating on our taxes last time with the blue states SALT cap, and I expect we will suffer some more. So time to make some extra $.
I’ve been a little leisurely in rolling out my Mercari cross posts but did sell a couple of old Ebay listings over there during the last week and a half. One was an electronic item and it is probably a scammer who asked me to change the address. Hopefully Mercari will back me up.
eBay
In an email to Chain Store Age, eBay announced its first global brand campaign in nearly a decade: ‘Things.People.Love.’ The campaign is designed to answer the question ‘why eBay?’ and shows how eBay supports buying and selling all kinds of things – from motor parts to vintage luxury to rare collectibles.
Creator and influencer Emma Chamberlain is among the celebrities eBay has recruited to share their personal stories, with a 15-second promotional spot airing from Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024 across linear and digital platforms highlighting vintage handbags.
Other influencers who will be featured in eBay holiday promotional spots include designer Nicole McLaughlin and celebrity fashion stylist Maeve Reilly. The campaign, developed in partnership with JOAN, includes dedicated assets across the categories of fashion, motors and collectibles, which appear across out-of-home, TV, digital and social feeds worldwide.
A forthcoming spot that convenes all of these categories will begin running later in November 2024.
“Things.People.Love. is the latest major marker in eBay’s commitment to modernize the brand and engage our customers in a way that truly resonates,” said Emily O’Hara, eBay global head of brand. “With this global brand campaign, we are reigniting the connection with eBay as the home for passions, setting the stage for our continued evolution as a global leader in e-commerce.”
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235813846265
I bought this antique bowl for $6 at the flea market from a guy who had closed a brink and mortar and was over it let me tell you. The rest of his stuff I wasn’t really interested in unfortunately.
Should have got this listed earlier. Paid $4 https://www.ebay.com/itm/235809871165 indy flea. Remember to vote if you haven’t already! 🙂
21 for me. Not exactly death piles but I have gotten a lot of the stuff listing that I sourced before my injury. I also crossposted some more onto District this week.
@Debits I’m hoping they do an ad campaign since sales are slower than expected. But I guess they would probably highlight enthusiastic buyer categories (auto, cards, etc.) instead of being able to find anything on Ebay or gifting.
Yes. Economy is concerning. I think the credit cards floated spending for a while and now people are really feeling strapped. But yesterday I sold one used pillow sham for $67. Thank goodness for those buyers.
My favorite premium brands have been running fall sales so they must be slow and concerned as well.
<p style=”text-align: center;”>https://apple.news/AIdFUVBfiS0Wo6Gb3HbmpEw</p>
eBay sales projections 4th quarterhttps://apple.news/Aax9kR_7IRmCpAtNuOyz2Gw
they could really use a smart ad campaign
I really need to refresh my store with sell similar but I think I’m going yo wait until after the election and fallout absorption period, then do it. In the meantime running 3-4 day sales.
congrats to everyone on their numbers. The garage is an absolute disaster and I have boxes in the dining room of listed and unlisted merch. I should t really be lifting boxes yet but I can pull them down to grab things out. My live booth stuff is all out. I can’t wait until I can reorganize and consolidate. Everything feels like a big death pile right now all over the place.
Congrats VL on such a great show! I miss the live selling. When I’m in a hurry packing up my stuff is not well organized after but you probably have a good system.
There is a pop up organizer who is doing an empty space in the downtown mall for the holidays. I’m not sure how that will work but I hear his rent is expensive even for outdoor pop ups. We’ll see…
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235805440315 This is a pre-injury pick up that I got listed from my piles. My box is messed up and full of tape (thanks Goodwill) but this set has sold in the past year for $75.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235804419260 Sharing a sleeper. This came in a big bag of recipe cards that was cheap. I found out they are actually a little hard to come by online when I was trying to pick up an online lot to add to my tin vintage boxes for sale.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335636616053 Can’t remember if I mentioned I found my second Glassybaby candleholder in the wild for $2. This color I think is still for sale new for $65. Hope to get a sale in the $40 range.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235303340030 Not at all a typical pick up for me but I find metal art does pretty well.
@Sharyn interesting Corningware sale. My mom had one of those with chickens. I’m surprised at that price.Always fun to source out of town. Sometimes I decide I really have it good here at home but it’s always fun to look at fresh places. Have a great trip.
Total Items in Store: About 1200 (I keep forgetting where to find this number)
Items Sold: 15
Gross Sales: $663 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $445 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $72
Highest Price Sold: $99 Set of 4 Alice Hadley pottery plates
Average Price Sold: $44
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $80 (RA + online vintage arbitrage) + $3 flea market
Number of items listed this week: 26It was a decent week on Ebay selling and listing (for me). I was feeling quite good but seem to have gone downhill the last couple of days for some reason. I have 9 packages to pack this morning that I wasn’t up to yesterday. I walked around the flea market and only bought a couple things from some late arrival house liquidator but it was nice to get out just the same.
I sourced a few small vintage items from another seller on District.net (Niknax) who is an Amercian living in rural Sweden. It’s interesting to watch the lives. I don’t think it’s for me, but who knows? Some top people on Niknax.net are making an absolute killing on their lives, selling things super fast and furious. One just sells straight out of a hoarder house garage (or her garage after raiding a house.)
I got a little tired of listing this week at one point and need to give myself a swift kick because I need to get this stuff up. I did get all of my Christmas RA up for sale. I believe the good retail sales are over until maybe right before or after Christmas.
