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R&J i’m so happy that your sales are great. I’m sure your other businesses are doing well with the season. Hope you have found new roasters to train by now. we were having a heat wave over here, but now the fog is back and it feels more fall like. I’d love to see the colors in New England / East Coast sometime. Unfortunately, even with my daughter out of the house, my husband and I don’t have the money to take the trip and of course now I’m recovering.
I had $250 in sales helped by a small painting I re-sold to someone local who said It belonged to her mother and I got donated by mistake. I accepted an offer and they seemed happy with it. I told them I was sorry that happened to their family. That’s the first time anyone’s contacted me with an issue like that and luckily they were just happy to get it back.
I still can’t sit at the desk, but I did manage to list a few items last week. I’m scouring the Internet for some super clearance prices and those are easy to list on my phone. I’m also able to do a few photos standing up and then list on my phone the silver lining of this recovery. Is getting used to listing on my phone. I hate the eBay AI descriptions, but I’m just going with that sometimes at this point I feel like I’m feeling a little bit better and I look forward to being able to do more listings routinely every day. Plus, I’m not up to sourcing so that definitely a good thing at this point since there is plenty ready to be listed.
I hope everyone has a really good week on eBay and otherwise.
The seller I mentioned on YouTube is super efficient because she only uses 90 days so through and she’s been selling for 20 years actually so she does sell other things that she knows do well. I don’t know that I would have the patience though to sit through scanning a wall of potentially discontinued beauty or cleaning products but she also sells list of things that she’s discovered and I’m sure she has some of them just saved in her mind by now. One thing about it is she is selling these old used cleaning products that nobody thinks is valuable and it’s just fascinating what people will buy on eBay.
this week I was listening to people reacting to the Poshmark fees announcement. The impression seems to be negative and some people were saying on Facebook that they’re gonna focus on eBay instead of cross listing so much so maybe it’s a good thing for eBay, which is ironic since they’re the ones charging the sellers the most and sticking with that.
Thanks everyone. I listed 2 last week and managed 10 this week. I can take pictures standing at my kitchen island and sit with my pillows and post. I can’t sit at the desk chair yet unfortunately.
Hello trash elves. I’m going to dictate this and I can’t really sit Comfortably at my desktop right now. I’m happy to report that I only had to turn my store off for a couple days I had about $350 worth of sales last week while I was hospitalized which I did manage to pack and get out on my return. My store is back on. I’m just giving myself until the weekend to get things out so that my husband can help me if I need to move boxes. Everyone keep your fingers crossed that nothing sells that I can’t find easily. I’m going to be out of live selling business probably for at least six weeks. I do have some things to sell on Facebook marketplace with porch pick up and I really hope I can get back to listing on eBay within a week or two right now it’s just too uncomfortable with back pain.
Survivor is my guilty TV pleasure don’t under normal circumstances I don’t watch much television. And I was thinking of a parallel between that and online selling. On Survivor they’ve been talking about the new generation of players and I feel like it’s time for new generation sellers on eBay, there’s a lot more focus on sell through rate now – definitely more of a fast nickel situation for a lot of people is working better. I do believe some of that is changes They’ve made over time to the algorithm, which is not to say you can’t have a long game still and make it work with quantity. For me with the amount of listing that I am able to do, I feel like I need to be careful not just picking up things that are vintage cute but check into sell through rates a bit more because there is just so much quantity to be had when I’m able to source physically again And I only have so much room in the garage.
There’s an efficient person I’ve been watching on YouTube. I’ve mentioned her before tuition ain’t cheap. She only looks at 90 day sell through rates to make her decisions and looks a ton of things up. I’d really like to move things more quickly like that. My other thoughts stem from live selling where I’ve been able to watch people and see what they connect with. I feel like there are two types of vintage. Some people enjoy looking at, but it’s really not practical in their lives or they don’t feel the need to bring it home even if it’s intriguing, then there’s vintage that people feel fits into their lives. Lastly, it’s been interesting to hear about the young people having grown up with all that gray and plain business and now there are into Victorian style and romantic items. I hope well being laid up I’m able to catch up on some more trends.
@VL thanks! I had bought a little bit of cool stuff for decoupage Halloween projects and booth sales. Boo. I did get to do a little Fall display booth before this happened. I love changing it up. During my break from live sales I will turn my focus to accessible ebay items, updating old listings and probably can do some Facebook Marketplace. Will miss the booth! Hope you are having better days yourself. Will be figuring out what I can handle and it will be more gradually.
Life took a major turn this week. 😑 I listed 16 Halloween items before that. Not really death piles. Had to cancel my live markets. I’m home from the hospital now and figuring out how much ebaying I will be able to do for the next month. It’s a real shame because I was looking forward to getting my EBay act together after kind of over sourcing. And needed to finish freeing up part of my garage. But I’m relieved I have some capacity to do it after this. Hopefully by November, it will be back to normal. It’s a good time to go through old listings. We were kind of at an empty Nester transition time, but having an event helps you get into perspective, wanting to leave your house literally in order. Seems like I have a sourcing ban comimg. Needing to work on time management.
I had a zero week again. I sold some death pile artwork at the booth for sure but probably not 20 items.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/334802437494 Very happy this sold while my sales were not running for best offer $250.
I went in deep on some Mid-century paintings from an estate sale. A friend is going to give me some cleaning tips. https://www.instagram.com/p/C_4ARfJS5Jb/ I have about 9 of these now, and if they are left at the end I’ll get a good deal on the rest.
Total Items in Store:
Items Sold: 7
Gross Sales: $660 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $442 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $51
Highest Price Sold: $250 (dog art, thrifted for $14)
Average Price Sold: $94
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $275+ (art at estate sale and flea, Anthro sale)
Number of items listed this week: 0Grateful for the sales this week since I didn’t list. I also grossed about $360 at the vintage market with a half size booth of mainly art. My pop up seems to be morphing into vintage and used art only, as that is what the shoppers seem to respond to, rather than the decor items. They also like tiny critters.
The pop up has been fun, but I need to really list on Ebay. I’ve been doing way too much sourcing and other things and we straight up need the cash flow.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/334913104421 Very happy to sell this very old listing.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/234916931681 This was a Goodwillfinds.com flip. Good sale.
Happy also to sell a couple of Macys.com flips and old items.
I bought two Midcentury paintings today at the flea market for $25. One is by Ruby Civish and one by Ann Bradley. There is a famous Ann Bradley but the signature is different unfortunately. I found listings for Ruby earlier and can’t find them now. However, they are nice pieces and I should do ok.
Wow you are really talented! I am not crafty but created some succulent planters in 60s low pottery planters with Temu mushrooms and I’m working on creating some match holders out of mini bell jars with pretty paper on the lids and a strike sticker on the bottom. I also ironed on some cute patches to my daughter’s sweatshirts for resale. If you would have told me I’d be doing this stuff a couple of years ago I would have thought you were nuts.
I have my mom’s nice sewing machine and I’m following some makers on Instagram who use vintage fabrics to make simple things like tote bags. Maybe someday I’ll get slow enough to give some of that a try. I’m horrible and have no patience for threading the machines but my husband will do it.
We only have about 3 heat waves a year this bad, and it’s really nice now to have the ocean on-flow cooling us off again at night. I watched a lot of tv those evenings and felt guilty about it.
I’m running a clearance on summer clothing at the market this weekend and I should sell enough art to meet the 20 item DP challenge, but maybe not make up for last week. My husband really wanted me to get the car back in the garage and it almost fits, but the hard goods that I’m not taking back to the market need to be dealt with because they are still encroaching a bit into the car area. He’s being really patient with me.
Total Listings in Store: 858
Items Sold: 9
Gross Sales: $577 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $353 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $141
Highest Price Sold: $90 Two new pillow shams from summer Anthro clearance
Average Price Sold: $64
Returns: 1 (Buyer said arrived chipped. I’m pretty certain this new item was not chipped in an obvious place when purchased but I used a stock photo 🙁 They did not report an INAD at least.)
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $150+
Number of items listed this week: 0Glad your store and coffee business is going so great! I have just had a lot of life interruptions going on and have been sourcing too much in between and having trouble just sitting and listing. I’ve been spending a lot of time with family and friends, which is nice, and taking care of a lot of health maintenance check ups. This weekend I’m going dancing for the first time in forever to a great local 70s funk band with we old Gen Xers. I just realized how little time I have the last week and a half in September. Two college friends are meeting here for a couple days, I’m seeing the comedian Alli Wong with my baby group friends, then going to the Bay Area to help babysit for a single mom friend who adopted a special needs kid. Whew. All in all, fun but I do need to list in earnest this week and could use the cash!
I have two markets coming up the next two Saturdays and I’m going to shift to a smaller footprint of 6×6 and focus on art and very small items. The heat wave is over and I need to get my butt in the seat and list. I have a lot of great items to put up!
I have been making some local dealer connections both ways – buying from older sellers and upselling to higher end sellers. I had an awkward exchange this afternoon where a dealer offered me a bunch of art for sale. It’s really ugly and she was very enthusiastic about it. She said she has other art, I think my excuse will be I am only picking up very small art. :/ Meanwhile from her neighbor at the flea market I got two listed artist paintings for $25. I love one off guys selling their mom’s stuff.
Hope everyone has a great week on Ebay.
