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@Sharon ty! It’s fun. Will just be for the summer though I think. Maybe a Christmas pop up. Works well because Ebay is slow in summer but it’s tourist season on the ground here. I hope to shed some death piles that way this summer.
Not much scavenging this week at all. Super busy. But there is PLENTY of hoard waiting for me to list. An old scavenge from my trip to the Bay Area is a covered casserole dish in this pattern, paid $16 https://www.ebay.com/itm/375065283274?itmmeta=01J01AWCADNTETZSEAE98PXD2X&hash=item5753a20aca:g:quIAAOSw-GJlWP23&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA8KWQ7UyiQ%2BfAFxsZnLv%2FFb9%2FJsaGh8SS6WDW%2Bv1HIL%2F3G5O0QilwtlydtSMqfSZARII4ZtJttgb8XSrvyvIKe7Ry8OLBIIndzPGbGzXILkKqvpz4KxYEsWJ%2FuAt5v5BN0st5gSJN3xGJ8QW9Cf0S849LN0TpmP30wLPku9hvRRjjjRtmtTrmgOZntn5Am97jeDEdMWVqhfd4Fnv7JF2ntrSycAckr1iut53MIERHhVg19nGzWEChrtmHOqokVdO16hrxkkkvtxFDKw0gKPzqZChxfVvqpLmbODlHUrrrrS%2BIQdS5VGyBhXq2ZQ6fDB8KKg%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABFBMpsXxqoBk
VERY slow week for me. I’m glad others are having ok sales. I have a bunch of drafts that just need photos and I started a sale.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335095755267 I sold Mary Poppins without her umbrella. 🙂
@Craig Rex you are so sweet thanks. It’s hard watching your kids struggle even though sometimes it’s good for them in the end.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C796kvsSGCL/ Here is yesterday’s daytime market booth. Sold about $600 gross, so pretty happy with that. There was a steady stream of people and a better age range of shoppers. Bring on the summer. Still obviously Ebay is more profitable with no overhead but there are a lot of non-financial pay offs for doing live sales. It’s great to be outside connecting with buyers and vendors. Mainly, I sat at a desk for my regular job and it’s hard to just sit and list sometimes. I’m also trying to shed some things I would possibly never get around to listing. At the end of the summer I might do a flea market or yard sale to clear out more stuff I don’t feel like selling on Ebay. Then, I’d be able to go to estate and yard sales without guilt perhaps.
Didn’t do much scavenging last week but I did pick up a single Pottery Barn outdoor chair cushion that goes for about $40-50. I picked up a lot of 6 Pottery Barn items for $80 from an outlet reseller on Mercari. The pair of drapes alone have sold recently on Ebay for $120 and have a great sell through rate. When I was going through my inventory I realized how great my PB items are moving and I’m going to go with that… I found 3 new mop refills ($33 value) and picked them up in honor of my new favorite scrappy youtuber https://www.youtube.com/@tuitionaintcheap along with some face cream going on Mercari.
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.
