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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…
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@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.
I very much enjoyed shopping the community sale in my own neighborhood instead of hosting like I did the last two years. I went to about 30 sales. It was a good exercise in quality not quantity. I sourced maybe about $300-400 of inventory but also bought a pair of supposedly real ruby earrings for $5 for my daughter. She sold me a suede Coach wristlet for $5. It’s funny because I drove by that one at first due to their limited inventory, but stopped on my second pass. I also found this for $3 at the old lady thrift (not my listing). https://www.ebay.com/itm/203698453013?itmmeta=01HYE85Z74EV8H7S0J9MAXVJSB&hash=item2f6d5fba15:g:becAAOSwgXhhkf9-&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA0LAQTUq%2Bn1zjLar2ovjiQE8NKowMmQCXkla3HhGzrE1dS2%2B8K4TpsmBgNIZbtmoqpmCRszp%2BzZawHDJJKyw6rjQy3mklPXgPut9KG7YYSXw%2FCBBnUrRtOT3WP8glo44IGJ7MWuwGkD%2B4Lxnr%2FMCnkhHO2rt8ms2lC8bjpQXxUu8FEtC1KRp4b9%2BiFJvPiwCYfL%2FkJPb9Jyt6Q%2FAC%2FT6%2BJlbQGyid6bYR%2BwDfEq2ebJkBZe54URVyDNo4NmhRFwYPitnT2PihMYBqd418J1P%2F1u4%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR9Tzl8jzYw There are no solds, so hard to price but it’s beautifully made and soft.
Just 1 new listing for me and 1 day’s worth of sell similar on ending. Still recovering from being sick and slept a lot.
Anthropologie ran a lot of sales last year. I think they are struggling a bit more than before. Certainly is a lot available on the second hand market. Still have some great items to cherry pick once and a while but like an employee told me a while back when I missed out on something – they are always putting out similar lines.
Yes, when I first started I could ship a mug from California across country for $6. I bought a lot of coffee mugs at first to build my confidence packing, shipping and selling. Rates have gone up so much since then. A lot of these lower dollar breakables aren’t compelling enough to pay current rates unless close to seller.
Agree. Re patches I am seeing on Instagram the hippie ones are going on denim. People are also filling in Levis holes with vintage fabric.
PS. I don’t regret trying out District platforms because it’s nice to escape the Ebay algorithm and competition. However, BIN sales are slow, and it seems to be working out as more of a live platform mostly. It’s not great for sourcing because higher than Mercari prices. The first Youtuber to launch made the mistake of letting way to many types of products and sellers in. I’m on two other platforms with limited sellers and applied to one more.
The nice part is the time is quick to list or cross-post from Ebay and you can switch listings easily to stores inside the District “mall”. Also the later Youtubers and Facebook groups have way better ratios of sellers to buyers and each has a different flavor – kitsch or 70s groovy, Disney, etc. I’m probably going to try some more cross-posting of lower dollar items.
@Sharon I know right? I took a turn for the worse 3-4 days ago so I went to urgent care. Could have been two things. The mom was having flu like symptoms while staying here, which I had in the beginning and then it went up to my head. I did go outdoor sourcing in between and could have caught something I guess. My husband had the flu this Spring and the cough especially lasted a long time. I think some things might be getting more potent. Thankfully, I’m improving now. Just frustrating. Super glad I’m retired from my day job.
Sorry about Ruby Lane, that’s frustrating!
@Julie – bummer!https://www.ebay.com/itm/334905752489 Ps I also have these travel prints listed. I often look for big white envelopes with sets of prints. I feel like these aren’t done justice online and might take them to my vintage market booth if I can find suitable covers.
