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Hi I’m back in. Please just put zeros for me on the weeks I missed. This coming week I should be able to get back to listing. Yeah! I’m also going to try to take a bunch of our better brand clothing to the flea market if it’s open this Thursday. I don’t love listing clothes or taking measurements. I’ll sort through it and maybe pull out a bin that’s worth listing.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235262500427 Super interesting flea market pick. Paid $3. I bought two more nautical theme ones.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335392834723 Sold this item my parents bought on their honeymoon in 1967. More stuff from their house and my grandma’s in the corner of my garage that I haven’t gotten to yet.
I’ve sold a lot of the bags from the QVC flea market pick up. I still have a few more to list. Just goes to show you that one yard sale or vendor can really spin off a great little pipeline. Another argument for not picking up a bunch of low dollar that takes up your space.
I’m back in the Forum! Ty @Ryanne. It’s been nice that you have maintained the Forums, since I retired from my day job after the Podcast ended. I’m sure that you are beyond busy so I appreciate it. The Pure Hustle guys are just ok, the one who moved to TX is pretty smart and it is a way to keep up with Ebay changes. I thought this episode was good in talking about how things have changed on Ebay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=157lzJfMrpc
Total Listings in Store: 890
Items Sold: 10
Gross Sales: $416 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $322 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $42
Highest Price Sold: $98 (BO new old stock Pottery Barn drapery panel pair from estate sale)
Average Price Sold: $42
Returns: 1 (resold immediately, drapes above), 1 item broke in storage (ugh)
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 0I left my store on vacation mode for the full 14 days. Had decent sales. Since I’ve been home I haven’t had time to list due to family stuff and hosting an event today, so sales are definitely dropping off. The weather here is perfect summer right now, but I’m excited for Fall and getting back to a routine once my youngest goes back to school. Lots and lots of items to list. I will probably do a small handful of vintage markets, but will focus on getting more listed on Ebay for the good season.
I’ve been closing my eyes and just running 20-25% off on my whole store this summer and for the most part it helped I think. I really need to shift to a more active store, fast nickel. There is no shortage of sourcing here so better to make some profit and get things moving, especially now that I am trying out estate sales and the flea market. I was stubbornly holding out for high prices for a long while.
R&J congrats on the sale of that purse!
@Craig, thank you I will try to figure out how to do that when I get a chance.
ugh loaded all the clothes for the fire and they had a special event going on so it was canceled. We have some kid going back to school stuff going on and a bbq for the college kids tomorrow before they leave. Then I hope to really make some traction on the business.
Hello, I’m still locked out of the forum on my desktop but sometimes can get in on my phone.
I’m back from my daughter’s graduation trip to New Orleans, Nashville and Dollywood. So interesting to be in a very different part of the country. The Goodwill bins in Nashville were just chock full of usable items but not a lot of vintage. My daughter enjoyed trips to the Buffalo Exchange clothing stores. Other than that, not too much thrifting.
Coming back I am realizing how I’m quite overrun with inventory. This year I have learned a lot about what to sell where, what is not worth shipping and selling online any longer, the value of checking sell through rate, what I’m tired of packing, the appeal of becoming a multichannel seller, and how to source less expensively. I’m moving away from the slow dime approach and I need to look at sell through and not just pick up what I love (like 50s pastel dishes for example). Live selling has been a fun experiment but it cost me a lot of listing time and I had to buy the equipment. There is a better monthly vintage market about an hour and 10 minutes south of me in LA that I might try later. The markets in my area have been a little disappointing but enjoyable. Today I’m going to the regular flea market with our used clothing. I’ll never get it listed so will let it go under value.
congrats @Retro on the birth of your baby!
I’m locked out of the site on my desktop still. Had sales of $600 but only a net of $300. Not sure what is going on there. I let my sale expire and asked went dead so I started a 20% off again today. The 25% off was more successful. Will be crunching listings until vacation in a week. It’s a long vacation at 13 days but I guess I will leave sales on probably.
Hi! I’m locked out of the forum on my desktop but I had a good listing week. Alas, not death pile items. We only have a week until vacation so I hope to clear more. I’m also organizing and we can get the car back in the garage but there is much to do.
I hate that eBay does this. I have had a few of immediate cancellations here and there. I do put it in prob just bc I’m a little OCD 🙂
Yep. The jacket I just laundered – fresh off the ranch and it smells a little bit – so I’ll have to wash a few times. The Coach bag is authentic. I actually bought like 4 Coach items at the Indy thrift and a yard sale. I will probably put them in my live booth or list on Mercari, as I don’t want to risk my Ebay account with VERO / faked name brands. I don’t usually do handbags, but it’s hard to pass up. Based on the sources I believe they are authentic but I should probably watch a video. I’m familiar and do have some vintage 90s coach myself that I should sell off.
Yeah I think Terapeak needs to pop up in the listing page for me to truly consider switching over. I list and photo in the room with my desktop so I guess I could try doing it for a few items and researching on the desktop while listing on the phone. Right now I am doing it just for barcoded items, though on older NIP items Ebay struggles often to find vintage barcodes. Since they are laying off customer service people I hope they can invest in tech people going forward. Mainly it’s frustrating what their priorities seem to be. It’s so much faster to list on the newer platforms.
Very streamlined! I can make a listing on Mercari in 1-2 minutes and it will autofill things with simple click buttons for the rest. They show you “what other sellers are charging”, which seems to be a little more accurate than Ebay’s comps in that function.
The Nurse Flipper is going to review the AI List Perfectly function after using it one month, but so far she reports that the cross-listing is going much faster. I’m wanting to hear from her more about how it does with Ebay from a photo.
Caught a break this week and found two ranch workers in a Uhaul selling off stuff. It was mostly old books but I got a Levis jacket for $1, a large coach purse for $5, Nirvana hoodie (keeping) for $1. I probably should have picked up some old books for color stacks. These are the best flea market sellers to buy from. Amazing! They could care less what they get and just want it gone. I also found the most amazing 70s vintage velvet painting of a wizard with a crystal ball. So bad it’s good. Then I managed to rip it in the face inside my bag. Womp womp.
@Craig different one I think but yeah it’s great when you get a fast sale. I’ll happily take a profit like that even if she flips for more.
Total Items in Store: 1150
Items Sold: 37
Gross Sales: $678 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $455 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $60
Highest Price Sold: $180 (4 skeins of yarn)
Average Price Sold: $45
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $0
Number of items listed this week: 20I’ve been running sales on Ebay – 20-25% off the whole store, even if I just listed it. I also have switched to using just the last year of Terapeak comps. A few of the older items are moving, but also brand new items. Trying to make it the “summer of sales” and just thin things out. In the past 6 months I’ve been able to source lower than thrift store prices, so it’s easier to do mark downs. I also have pretty much stopped doing RA for now.
The last live booth day was just ok. Art, clothing and smalls seem to do ok. I will probably hit up the flea market later or a yard sale with some other things I want to move out that are bulkier.
Need to hit the listing hard before our trip in two weeks. There is plenty.
@VL it was just ok. It’s a lot of work to set up for $250 net. I have made $500 and a little less than $200 the other two times. I feel like the host is charging too much for the traffic and lack of advertising. But I do enjoy being able to drive up, having a bathroom, music, etc. People did enjoy the bargain bins, especially my vendor neighbors. Due to our vacation, I will probably do it once or twice more during tourist season. We don’t have many other non-maker markets, but it is getting me invited to sell elsewhere. I also have examples in IG and connections if I want to take the plunge into an antique mall later on.
