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https://www.ebay.com/itm/235426535201 Not an extremely profitable sale but a rare example of a discontinued Costco item flip.
The best part about last week’s sales was the old stale items selling. I also sold several estate sale items that I paid almost nothing for.
Agree. Great job Craig Rex! I would kill for that sell through rate.
Thanks Jay!
They built it…now will they come? Some regulars came up from LA for this show. I don’t have the vehicle to do it but the LA monthly markets are a big deal and would be more profitable. Santa Barbara is a strange place in that there is major wealth here but most people are more tightfisted than LA. I don’t think they did a good job advertising this to locals but it was just the first one. Also the organizer shared that he thought he might have had a little too much going on with all of the adjoining spaces full. Hopefully in July I will get accepted to sell on one that is more of an artisan thing and on the main street.
It’s a labor of love but I hope to shed some inventory this summer as well. Fun to meet people for sure.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C70l9b1xb4K/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
This is the competition – a lot of sellers, not enough shoppers.
Haven’t heard much yet about the results of the big Mercari experiment. One seller on a FB Mercari group says they are beta testing bundling items as a seller. I hope they roll that feature out. I started this week moving some of my lowest dollar items over from Ebay since I am butting up against my 1000 basic store listings – I had marked them down to $5 but not sure they are even being seen at all on Ebay anymore.
Mercari got rid of the returns for any reason policy pretty quickly. So, their changes were all pretty much pro-seller. As a buyer, I don’t like the added fees but I have still gone forward with some bundles on there.
Total Listings in Store: 891
Items Sold: 12
Gross Sales: $402 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $224 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $80
Highest Price Sold: $58 New RA pajama pants
Average Price Sold: $33
Returns: 1 cancellation – couldn’t locate – ugh
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $160 (travel thrifting vintage linens + in SF forgot to put on last week I think.)
Number of items listed this week: 0Glad you had a better sales week R&J.
I don’t know what it is about this year, but time is flying by it seems. I can’t believe it’s June. As far as my Ebay business goes, I have been shopping too much again in 2024 and need to right that ship. Part of that was weather related, part of that is just lack of listing discipline, and part is because I was preparing to launch the live summer selling season. One of my kids is also struggling again and the other is having a hard time getting his first internship. I’m forever distracted by kids’ struggles and try to help them out in various ways.
The live selling was really fun but a bit disappointing. I reported elsewhere that I have some adjusting to do and due to the booth location and glut of sellers it was not super profitable. My rental fee was waived though as this was the first night market experiment.
It was interesting though to see Ebay browsers come alive in a sense. Young people discovering vintage objects they hadn’t seen before and being drawn in by the clothing rack, men flipping the art racks, drunk people buying animal art reminding them of dead pets, people considering prices. I got a ton of compliments and invitations to start an inside booth and pop up elsewhere. https://www.instagram.com/p/C7ptgZJvTOj/ I brought too much and will scale back a bit when I do the daytime market this weekend. Hopefully the tourists are out already. Pricing is a bit tricky to figure out. Definitely prices are better online but then you often need to wait to get those.
For the live sale I pulled some items from the death piles where I have multiples (playing cards, mini ceramics, glass trinket dishes) and also large items I don’t want to ship. I bought a lot of the supplies secondhand, but had to pay up for a few things so I’m not in the black yet most likely. I started ramping up Ebay listing again yesterday. There is a ton of recent purchase backlog and good stuff. We have a lot of extra expenses lately and need the money. A lot of the work into the market is now done but I have price tags to do at set up this Saturday.
Hope it’s a good week on Ebay for everyone!
Zero for me. I was working on the prep and live booth selling this week.
I need to step up on Ebay listing and make some money! I do feel motivated.
I did pull out some death piles for the live show. I had a whole box of playing cards that I’m not excited to list. Bought them eons ago. Some large pottery vases, vintage tablecloths. From the Mercari boxes some of my daughter’s cast off clothing. Sold a few things.
I am selling again on Saturday but hope to do much more listing on Ebay before then. A lot of the prep is done for the Saturday booth now.
@VL hope you feel better very soon! Happy for everyone who has been traveling. I am taking my daughter to Nashville and possibly New Orleans for graduation this month.
Glad there was enough great stuff left for two more van loads!
Here is a link to my vintage booth on Instagram. First attempt. Brought too much stuff. It was fun in a lot of ways and I’ve been invited to go inside the mall and to pop up in another store nearby sometime. People enjoyed my stuff. Sales were a bit lackluster at this first event. Tons of sellers and not enough shoppers, plus we were down at the end. It was a learning experience but a little deflating to bring most of it back home after…
https://www.instagram.com/p/C7ptgZJvTOj/
@Steve I’m so sorry to hear about your beautiful doggies passing. Our dog has cancer but it is painless for now fortunately. So hard to lose our pets.
I also have had some pretty good luck with FB marketplace. I tend to list early on Sunday morning.
Total Listings in Store: 900
Items Sold: 16
Gross Sales: $698 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $466 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $85
Highest Price Sold: $67 Harry Potter lap desk (my daughter’s)
Average Price Sold: $43
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $120
Number of items listed this week: 0?I had vacation mode on though the holiday weekend so grateful for the sales. Whew I’m up to my neck in prep for my very first pop up sale tomorrow evening. Hope everything goes ok. I decided to go ahead of schedule because the location tomorrow is better and I hope that more locals will be there who might buy larger items. I might also get dealers shopping my booth. But my expectations are low. It’s a new event on the edge of the area. Fingers crossed.
Picked this up in Seattle because it was Disney https://www.ebay.com/itm/335320261840
I’ve found a few profitable items in the bags, which I wasn’t looking in until I decided to try live booth selling.
Sold this vintage NIP sheet set https://www.ebay.com/itm/335252634297
This print seemed less valuable than some other Mickey sheets I have seen before used.
I did do much sourcing this week. I was in San Francisco over the holiday weekend and we did hit one thrift. Lots of people with their phones out, store was busy. However, in the very back room (full of men’s clothing) there were two large bins with linens mostly in package. I bent over and dug and pulled out 10 vintage sheets with cute prints of 70s butterflies and flower power. The prices were a little high, but I will do ok.
Total Listings in Store: 915
Items Sold: 9
Gross Sales: $494 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $339 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $100
Highest Price Sold: $79 New serving platter
Average Price Sold: $55
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $125+
Number of items listed this week: 2I was just super fatigued last week and still recovering from the virus. Helping the kids with some things, they are struggling with some life transitions and getting opportunities. I did get out sourcing once to a community yard sale in my own neighborhood and did very well, especially with linens. Some people had quite high prices on their clothes and even tagged them individually. Some people were so kind and just gave stuff away or charged a buck. I bought a pair of supposedly real ruby earrings for $5 for my daughter. Based on the stuff at her sale I think they actually may be real. They didn’t have a lot out and I passed over that one once. The best part is that all of these houses were close together and they had quality stuff, like 40+ sales. Wonderful!
The weather here is super fogged in, which is not uncommon but since we had such an unusually rainy year, it feels like summer is delayed. I hope it clears when I start the live selling next month. Looking back, all of the community sales and rummage sales got stacked up. I’ve been doing too much sourcing and not enough listing for sure.
I listen to several other podcasts. A common theme right now is getting rid of lower dollar and lower demand stuff weighing down your Ebay store. People are also discussing how you need to work harder and take lower offers to make the same as pre-Covid. For me, I’m trying to get myself to check ending listings. I kind of shut down Ebay-wise and was still working my day job during the Covid outbreak, so I realized I was pricing my items too high. Now when I sell similar I only look at the past year of sales and I’m finding I need to drop some prices. Some of my items that have been selling lately are price adjusted items.
Feeling better now and working both on pop up booth prep and getting back to listing. However, I’m in San Francisco this weekend for my daughter’s last choir competition, so won’t be listing much after today. Next week hopefully I’ll be killing it?
Had another item from the Macys RA experiment sell. That is going slowly. Had a couple of items sell which I had lowered the price recently on a sell similar of ending listings. https://www.ebay.com/itm/335392835458 https://www.ebay.com/itm/235533408878 I really need to make that part of my routine. Had a Mercari outlet seller flip sell for a $48 profit https://www.ebay.com/itm/235276370259. It felt like sales fell off a cliff at some point this week, but looking back they just trickled in once a day. Ebay felt quiet last week.
