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My favorite scavenge this week was at the flea market. Randomly two different guys had new linens. https://www.ebay.com/itm/235700338867 Got 6 of these https://www.ebay.com/itm/335534098481
PS. I made a new friend in a guy running an estate sale near my house. I was selling on day one at the market, so I went on “blow out day”. They had some art left by listed artists (they had an expert come through and help with pricing so it was still there). Bigger than I would prefer to deal with but and I talked him way down because he started at half price and I was ready to leave without it. He sells at the oldest antique mall in the main drag with the cheapest rent so we gossiped about malls and such. Now I have to decide whether to use their Trader Joes enchilada sauce that’s quite past the expiration date.
Interesting. I have heard from various sources not to go down, or at least not to turn it off or you will be punished. New items are definitely favored as we know, so hard to say how much is due to the percentage of promoted.
I listened to Ebay’s podcast about fixing slow sales. He offered that he does only 2%. He said at least participate in PL. I used to do that but upped it to 4% to try to keep ahead of people doing the bare minimum. If there was some magical thing about 5% I’d sure love to know! I know that when I ran sales of at least 20% I did much better than 10-15% which was my standard before. Could be coded in there, who knows?
I created 6 listings this week.
I will work on the 20 items. I plan to take some items to the flea market but I’m not sure that counts so I will try to clear 20 other items by posting them on Ebay.
Total Items in Store: 1123
Items Sold: 10
Gross Sales: $216 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $87 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $15
Highest Price Sold: $48 (Scandinavian art glass bowl)
Average Price Sold: $36
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $85
Number of items listed this week: 6Terrible week on Ebay. I did get back to listing the RA items. My daughter is slowly moving over to her apartment. First night as an empty nester tonight. It’s just me and the doggo.
Speaking of dogs, the flea market was cancelled due to hosting the dog show, so I didn’t dump the clothing. However, I decided to try the vintage pop up in their new location. It went fairly well and it was a smaller and more curated group of sellers in a nicer space adjacent to the vintage mall. I cleared about $350 after rent and mostly it was all smalls, largely art. Decent traffic, many young people. I’m probably going to sell there again next Saturday because I’m hoping for overflow traffic from the nearby Pride Festival. Then this Thursday I’m taking clothing and some awkward items to the flea. Hoping to unload some bulk there. It’s good quality but not trendy cool stuff. I have some organizing to do before Thursday but I also plan to get back on track with Ebay listing. I’m overdue for an end and sell similar. I have promoted at 4%, except clothing at 9%, but it looks like 6.9% average on my Ebay report.
The new antique mall is struggling a bit – due to it’s large size and off the main drag location mainly – and the organizer said he would take some high end smalls from me on consignment. We haven’t talked about the terms yet, but I might take him up on that possibly. It would get some unlisted breakable things out of my garage. I need to see what his terms are and think about what makes sense in the space. Hm.
Hope we all do better on Ebay this week. Normally Septemeber – November are great for me, but I have much fewer new items in my store this year so we will see.
Total Listings in Store: 870
Items Sold: 8
Gross Sales: $300 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $194 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $37
Highest Price Sold: $45 (Lot of new Pottery barn kids basket liners – Mercari pick up)
Average Price Sold: $38
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $250Number of items listed this week: 2
I’m so glad R&J that you had a good stay in NYC. Word on the street (Youtube/podcasts) is Ebay will beat you up over stale items and buyers are getting cheaper. Nobody really knows for sure of course. The elementary students here go back next week, colleges start the week after. So some people are transitioning. I also go beat up since I haven’t listed much the last couple of weeks.
After badmouthing RA last week, I actually did hit a couple of sales up this week and a smaller amount of Target RA. I also did a ton of thrifting for my youngest’s apartment as I prepare to become an empty nester (at least a part-time one, she’ll be local). One thing about live selling is my schedule doesn’t always work with the dates. I did not make it to the flea market this week and the dog show is next week. Hope the following week is ok. It does give me more time to prep and organize here. I am selling at the same vintage market and have moderate to low expectations for that one, but I just feel like doing it.
My husband is driving across country with my son back to upstate NY. His friend in Des Moines is out of the country so they might go and see some of the south this time after Vail. If it makes sense any sense on their route I’ll have him check out your rentals. 🙂
Ebay is giving me the real smackdown after I have not listed following vacation mode. Very much lower dollar and bread and butter this week. I did have a Mercari flip. https://www.ebay.com/itm/235689900654 I gave a classroom teacher a pretty good deal though so just like a $20 profit. I’m saying yes to most offers at this point.
This week I had fun thrifting for my youngest kids’ new apartment. Really flexing my expert bargain hunting skills. I bought a fair amount of kitchen stuff from one of the indy thrifts. Then I went to Target to supplement, and each little item I got for $1-2 is $8-30. Got a couple things at Costco and a great deal on dishes at Macys clearance. The thrift prices in dishes (all price individually) is absurd. Plus, pulled a couple of Ebay preowned items from my inventory. So much easier when they are local to save a lot of money. I wasn’t confident she would move out when the college recycle sale happened, otherwise I could have saved even more.
Zero for me. My youngest is moving into an apartment (at least for weekdays). Didn’t help my listing last week but should be a boost to my free time to list in the future. My husband is also taking my son back to college Tuesday. Looking to get back on the horse this week. Also flea market Thursday with the clothes since I couldn’t do it last week. Death piles abound.
Fun! I’m working on my daughter’s new college apartment and will check it out. Thrifting with purpose this week.
Your rental link isn’t working for me.
we stayed at a really well designed boho Airbnb in Nashville. One funny thing though is that there were so many artificial plants everywhere I had to relocate a few of them during our stay. I also was really turned off by the ones who put two beds in the living room of a 1 bedroom (no sofa).
Sold is only 90 days and I use Terapeak for the last year on most items. Many use sold because it’s quick to use and check actives vs. 90 day sold to make a sell through rate calculation. Terapeak goes all the way back to 3 years, which is useful for rarer or slow selling items but can be less helpful due to the extraordinary Covid sales period.
I agree. I’ve been looking at RA during the big sales and either I’m getting cheaper or it’s not as good of an opportunity as it used to be, or both. I only bought a couple of things before the 4th. Macys.com did some deep discounting but those products have moved more slowly than my favorite brands so I haven’t tried that again. They put an outlet area in our local Macys upstairs but it’s like the TJ Maxx pricing, not stellar. My Target RA also stopped moving so quickly but it always sells over time. The designer basically recycles the same ideas for the most part so maybe it’s become saturated or people have just learned to grab it when they see it in the store.
Yeah, I’m shopping this flea usually and not really paying attention to who is there. I’m told the college kids come after they get up at 11. Want to try this before they go back to school. I’ve been told buyers here are cheap by the traveling vendors. It’s a lot easier to pack up with clothes and I’ll be allowed to put the cheap stuff on tarps.
I’ve been thinking more and more about Facebook Marketplace. I did really well flipping all that stuff I thrifted for my daughter’s outdoor movie party. We are pretty conveniently located and I have a covered porch. I just am not sure I really want people coming around to the house much and I definitely don’t want to deal with meet ups.
Enjoy your well earned vacation to NYC. I hope you find great stuff on the curb and at the West Elm clearance section! I had decent sales while on vacation but it has totally dropped off after returning. ASP down by half too. I wasn’t able to list this week but hopefully it will pick up again soon.
Total Listings in Store: 878
Items Sold: 13
Gross Sales: $285.60 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $21.59 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes) – this is due to shipping costs after vacation on the previous week’s sales.
Cost of Items Sold: $42
Highest Price Sold: $44 cabinet knob set
Average Price Sold: $21.97
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0I plan to do some live selling this week hopefully clearing some clothing in particular. The garage is in chaos with all Ebay out of the house! Definitely need to remedy that. It will be interesting to try the flea market on Thursday. The space rental is a lot cheaper vs the vintage market. Some things going on with the kids but plan to get back to Ebay listing. Ebay started sending me emails bugging me to finish my drafts about 3 weeks ago.
So sorry to hear of the health struggles in our nice little group here. 😢. I felt extremely lucky not to catch COVID when we just did that trip. Avoided flying through LA but we were in many crowd situations. Of course you still flinch when someone is coughing on the plane.
I have zero last week again. Literally the party is over and should be listing this week. The fairgrounds should be open for the flea and I hope to bring the clothing this Thursday. My husband has an elated because it came out of the bedroom. I may also do the vintage market on Saturday while the tourists are still here. They finished their construction.
Even though our weather doesn’t really change much here I’m looking forward to Fall. I like to cozy up and list with my scented candles. Also I love to shop the Halloween decor when the thrifts put it out 🍁🍂🎃
