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Total Items in Store: 1214
Items Sold: 18
Gross Sales: $860 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $580 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $115
Highest Price Sold: $166 2 used Pottery Barn pillow covers- one from the bins!
Average Price Sold: $48
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $180 (RA) + $20 thrift
Number of items listed this week: 9 + 9 FB marketplaceMade about $70 profit on Facebook with 3 used Pottery Barn items. 0 District sales, one small Mercari sale.
Had a solid week of sales but it felt slow for this normally great time of year. I’m able to sit at my desk and list for a while without back pain, so that’s great. Hope to get a lot of listing done this coming week. Still not 100% but getting more comfortable doing some things.
There is a lot of podcast and Facebook chatter about Ebay and other sites being slow for long time sellers. People mention the obvious suspicions – the election uncertainty, debt, cost of living, etc. I’m grateful for the sales I have and will just keep on listing. I need to be disciplined about avoiding buying much. The retailers having been running extra discounts which I don’t remember this time of year. Maybe they are nervous about sales as well. My Halloween item sales weren’t that great, and those were inexpensive items.
Hope everyone had a good week. R&J glad you found your roasters and got away for a trip.
P.P.S. I also like District because I think there are a lot of older collector women on there, unlike Mercari for example and unlike my live market customers. That is a good market for my type of items.
PS. there is a way called “magic comments” to sell your district listings through instagram.
https://district.net/u/retrodecorandmore
i got in to join Niknax early on. I have a weird selection of items listed because there used to be weekly themes. Had not been posting three for a while but just had a great glassware sale for $140. The YouTubers bring their followers over to the marketplace. It’s popular for live sales but also not as flooded as eBay with merch and no algorithm. Each store within the Niknax mall has its own flavor. Easy to cross post.
I have items that have been languishing for a long time. On Mercari it’s all freshness – you can’t sort so things get buried and there’s not a really easy way to relist that I know of. Maybe that is intentional design.
Update: I have about 900 listings that were imported as drafts and I’m starting to work on them. Mercari grabs all of the photos, titles and description and does a pretty good job setting up the drafts. I hate UPS now so I’m having to change the default shipping and sometimes need to modify the category. Clothing sizes and hashtags are not generated automatically. It’s going to be a pretty easy process. I still need to see if the condition notes are included but I don’t think so.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235051396901 Super happy to finally sell this very old listing item. It was from one of the first estate sales I let myself go to, if not the first. Took forever but it’s a good feeling when something like that sells out of the blue.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235406879460 Another nice sale last week from the $1 flea market guy. I gave my cousin in Bend the matching duvet and shams but the sheets still sold. I love sharing my finds with friends and family. In case you haven’t heard of it, Garnet Hill makes really super quality bedding. I don’t find it often. I gave my Polish friend a bunch of really cute serving dishes she saw on my instagram thrift haul.
I made it out to one of our larger thrift stores last week. Didn’t buy much but I was surprised that they already started trickling out their saved up Christmas. Not listed yet but comps look good for this. I had to pay up a bit at $14
@Vintagelacy I hope Charlie is doing well now. So sorry. It is scary. I missed your post earlier.
My listings last week were recent pick ups (pre-health stuff) and RA, so I don’t really get death pile credit. I have a bunch of smalls on my desk that I will probably get to first to tidy up. However, I do have some Christmas stuff that I would consider death and I’ll be listing that shortly after I clear the desk.
I only managed 13 items on EBay but listed about 8 more on Facebook marketplace (mainly large pillows).
Total Items in Store: 1174
Items Sold: 15
Gross Sales: $1056 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $728 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $98
Highest Price Sold: $556 (watercolor cat painting 80s)
Average Price Sold: $70
Returns: 1 cancellation for a hard to locate $75 item – I can’t search in boxes easily right now 🙁
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $240 (RA fall clearance and Target RA)
Number of items listed this week: 20Good sale on Niknax.net $145 Empoli covered dish. Paid $14
Good week on Ebay for me. I need to list as much as possible as we can use the $ and there is great inventory lying around. I miss vintage sourcing but silver lining of recovery is it’s not tempting. I was surprised to find some nice RA bargains this time of year. Those new items help my store in 4th quarter usually.
Recovery is slow and it’s frustrating but I’m getting used to just using just the app from the sofa. I wish Ebay would make the “what others charged for it” a more reliable easy link to Terapeak solds.
This week I got stung with a huge upcharge adjustment for Fed Ex on a tube. 4x4x24. $40 for “special handling”. Weight and measurements were correct. Is this just a Fed Ex thing to avoid them with shipping tubes? I don’t see any way to contest it through Ebay.
Happy for you R&J about the Fall business! It would be so nice to come and hang out at your coffee shop in the season. Lots of people are reporting slow sales this month on Facebook, podcasts. Also hearing reports of Ebay tinkering with the app.
Have a great week.
Ps. In other random drumbeat news, someone reports discontinued new old stock items crossposted on bonanza sell well due to suspected preferred google results. I’m not certain but eBay I think chooses what to send to Google? If so, they would not probably send these household items.
Interesting topic on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFiZfVJvaos&t=805s
I have a lot of items that could go in the collectibles or home categories. I think there are bonus listings in collectibles, so maybe I should consider using that category more often. Their point is potential favoritism to niched down sellers.
I bought and listed a brand of Target reselling, and sold a bunch of items in that category the next day to different sellers. Could have also been because I have a pinterest board, but sill makes you wonder about the works of things.
