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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 🍁🍂🎃
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.
