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https://www.ebay.com/itm/334913104405 Grateful for this sale. Another Ebay (seller) made fun of me for listing it high. I did drop the price at one point and took an offer of $485. Paid $14 at my favorite indy thrift before they started raising their art prices.
https://district.net/product/d6850232-8f0e-48ef-bb5f-a5c930f8fbaa?variantId=dac0a939-2e10-4571-98b7-f98e9d53508c Finally got a BIN sale on the alternate platform I had kind of given up on. Sold for an offer of $145. Paid $14 at my favorite indy thrift.
Recent scavenge (listings) of the week came from a little lady at the flea market who decided to dump all her stuff at 11:30 announcing it was free! gratis! https://www.ebay.com/itm/335611424142 https://www.ebay.com/itm/335608610718I ended up giving her a few bucks and bought a banker’s box full of stuff, still some to be listed.
20 new listings for me. Some was RA clearance I just ordered, some was Thanksgiving I’ve been saving up. A fraction was death pile items.
Hoping to list more this week.
@sharon thank you. Last couple of days I definitely feel improved. Even made it to one thrift store today and walked briefly around Target. still uncomfortable in the car.
@Sharon thank you. Unfortunately I had a cardiac event that caused me to pass out and fall. All fixed up now. This week I’m improving and was able to stand and take photos and then sit on my pillows and list on my phone, which was encouraging.
I’m getting used to listing on the app now and I kind of like using the dictation feature. I also like the app version of Terapeak. It’s pretty easy to change the period of comps and it calculates sell through for you, at least on very common items.
@Retro ha! The day EBay starts an actually effective smart marketing campaign I’m buying more stock. This will be another missed opportunity no doubt.
Sold an adorable baby owl painting by a known artist. Offer accepted for $160 https://imgur.com/gallery/vJgrkBB
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.
