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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.
I scaled back my sourcing last week. My favorite find is a vintage 60s bold mod floral Swedish tablecloth. Gorgeous but has a small hole. Not listed yet.
A house clean out guy at the flea brought all of his artwork for me but it was not impressive unfortunately. I did get one old abstract painting and small ’60s floral oil painting from him. For the large abstract I am looking for an affordable place to get custom replacement glass. Someone on FB said they will do it at ACE hardware. It wouldn’t be worth it to take it to a serious framer, way to expensive.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335462517188 Yarn sold in minutes to basically “theyarnlady” handle on Ebay. $6 into $180. Original retail price was $300 for four balls.
Other notable sales were pieced out brand new make up set from the QVC lady haul selling off pretty quickly. https://www.ebay.com/itm/335455489832 https://www.ebay.com/itm/235621749936 I kept some of the brushes from the set (plastic packaging was already open and incomplete). Nobody like that at the flea last week unfortunately. The random drop ins are the best people to buy from and they are usually in the late arrival area.
Thanks @Retro. I ran into a guy at the flea market and he said he only uses the app but he sells only used action figures as far as I know. I don’t do clothing but there might be more things besides bar code items I could try in the app. I do like how it prompts fewer item specifics but then I need to look at Terapeak for pricing. hm.
Meanwhile I found a good discussion on Facebook regarding the List Perfectly AI function. Some love it, others report inconveniences for Ebay. They did mention that you can stop and start it at anytime for a pro rated fee, which is nice since I have periods of less activity. I think I will wait until they work out some kinks before trying it.
I finally got some of my photos taken. 19 listings. Knock wood should be a good Ebay listing week for me this week. The pop up is closed this weekend. I am also listing on Facebook Marketplace to shed some items. Facebook can be annoying but a lot of times it works out ok and things move out quickly. Summer of sales!
VL I hope your booth set up went well. I was invited to sell at a September market – 100 vendors and we only have 2 hours to set up. Ugh.
I have only 4 hours to make two car trips (3 last time) and set up. I’ve been running a tad late but I only have a 10×10 spot. It is getting easier as I go along, but I feel like the location is a challenge as well. It’s a lot of casual amblers, not people who came specifically to shop vintage. So I’m continuing to figure out what people are impulsively going to go on. My larger ceramics, etc. that I wanted to shed are not moving. Art is moving people, even if large. Tiny figurines are selling, along with clothing. I feel too like it is very weather sensitive – not too fogged in, not too hot (for us). Hopefully I will have a few good shows before the end of the summer. If tomorrow is bad that will stink. Everyone was so deflated at the last one.
I hope you have a great show! I found that my larger items weren’t selling except art. This week I am bringing a bunch of smalls to do $1, $3, and $5 bins. Hopefully will get rid of some of that.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C8r23HYpQnU/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== My art score from this week – oops hit wrong thread
