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PS. The Insta video quality is poor – I had to rush in to avoid people in my booth! I was also running tired so it was kind of an afterthought posted late.
Total Listings: 877
Items Sold: 3
Gross Sales: $245 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $166 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $30
Highest Price Sold: $80 (new travel bag)
Average Price Sold: $81
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $240 (RA, thrift)
Number of items listed this week: 6I’m glad you guys had good weeks! I’m still in the doghouse with low sales. AND I totally messed up Friday. Went out of town – traffic was horrible coming home and I got dinged for late shipping. I’m going to have trouble getting back to TRS after those ghost listings in January. Not smart on my part to wait to ship after the morning.
On the plus side, I did the pop up vintage market again and grossed about $700 with a possible follow up $60 local sale to another dealer who saw this Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/C_FIVeHOSun/?img_index=1. No huge sales, just a lot of sales. It was really fun and I like my fellow vendors very much. I always bring projects to do and I got in 16,000 steps that day. I have an out of town wedding this Sunday but I’m really tempted to go again Saturday (Labor Day weekend), hoping a lot of people come up from LA for the holiday weekend. The tourists may drop way off after this weekend.
The dog show was this past week at the fairgrounds so I’m still planning to take the other clothes finally this week to the flea market. Selling live is kind of exhausting but fun. Most of my buyers are young adults, so I need to keep that in mind when sourcing. I’m learning each time what people will buy on impuse and look through.
I also went to the Goodwill bins once. It was less crowded since the high schoolers are back in school. It was interesting and I enjoyed it. Nothing to write home about but it was nice to have a little more time to look.
It’s going to be busy but I really need to list in earnest and do a sell similar on my store. It felt hard to go back to the desk again after such a long break.
https://www.ebay.com/mesh/ord/details?mode=SH&srn=4122&orderid=24-11972-01116&source=Orders&ru=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fsh%2Ford%2F%3Ffilter%3Dstatus%253APAID_SHIPPED Highest sale was part of that big flea market QVC lady pick up. Paid $1-2
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235650762633 I’m proud of this sale because I’ve been challenging myself a bit with clear glass lately. This sold quickly and the person was really happy to replace their broken bowl.
@Amatino thanks! Yes definitely having some issues with being tired and keeping my booty in the seat and listing. I only got 6 items up that day. Some things going on this week, flea market, vintage market and a wedding but I hope to have a couple of good listing sessions.
If we are counting the market, I’m good on the 20 items for sure. It was a great market. Got rid of a little bit of inherited costume jewelry, clothing, unlisted art work.
Ugh so hard to get going with listing after a long break. I just got a pumpkin spice latte (only one pump) to fire up. Hope you all are finding it easier.
My thoughts are no exciting sales of the week. However, I’ve been watching her channel https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tuitionaintcheap as I mentioned and picked up one of her commonly sourced items. It did sell super fast. I also needed a mop replacement for ours and couldn’t easily find it, and thought – I get it. https://www.ebay.com/itm/335465376150
If it has a bar code, I might think about picking it up again and listing with my phone even though it’s low dollar.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335083780171 estate sale find. Paid pennies and it took a couple of months to sell.
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.
