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When I tried I couldn’t get anywhere with a real agent on chat, it was just a bot. Maybe it was due to the topic.
Good luck Joe. It does suck that Ebay took away the call me function. I had a chargeback a little while ago and it was puzzling because the buyer had left really good feedback too. I messaged her and she said the description of the charge from Ebay looked like a subscription fee that she worried would reoccur. Later on, it got resolved in my favor without me doing anything. Hopefully it’s just something like that. If Ebay is no longer handling things for us that would be disappointing. More fees for less service is no bueno.
I made 14 new listings. Mainly this was my RA from the Target Magnolia winter-spring transition line that is now sold out. Did list a few things from my recently acquired items sitting around the desk. It felt good to get back to listing and Ebay decided I could have a few sales. I hope to find a few pockets of time during this week. Next week should be much better.
@VL yes I will price everything and thanks for your input. I ordered some tags with my info but I think you are right that it would be easier to remove them. If it’s a better dollar item I might leave it on and write it down. Then I have heard that $5 baskets do really well for sellers at these events. I bought a few clip on signs for those and the fabric / woven shopper bag racks. The middle stuff I intend to type up sticker labels with a description to put on the paper tags. That way I could adjust prices by either reprinting or marking them down with a pen. I’m a very fast typist and printable white labels are always easy to pick up at the thrift store.
I’m glad I have a lot of time to prepare. I’m picking up metal display racks pretty easily and inexpensively. I think I might use some heavy cardboard produce boxes to keep things off the ground and haul. There are trunks listed for $35 on FB marketplace so if it goes well I’ll pick up a couple of those probably. Looking for some inexpensive wooden crates. Having fun watching videos of set ups and not finding much about pricing. Some people said there is a 3x your cost rule, some say 3-4x. I plan to go down to a bigger sale about an hour away in North LA in May and that should give me a good idea. I watched your husband walk around one of your indoor shows on Youtube. 🙂 There is a lot of coverage of the Palm Springs vintage market. I like how one vendor used a lot of trays on a table to place things on. I plan to use solid tablecloths in the same color but will find a way to work in prints that I love here and there.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335333116973 Bolo. I love these coffee mugs and find them from time to time. If I didn’t have our personal vacation mugs I would be collecting these arts and craft mugs. This got caught up in my sale and sold immediately.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235510722798 Can’t recall where I even got this but it sold immediately. I only picked it up because it was NIP Vineyard Vines. That brand I only see once in a while over here in the West.
No notable scores this week and it’s super busy outside Ebay so not much sourcing. However, I’m like a little schoolgirl when I locate display items for my live booth on the cheap. Got a great magazine rack for $2.99 yesterday.
Update: Mercari is reportedly sponsoring the return labels. So no free returns for sellers. Super interesting. The podcasters I heard were kind of keeping things as is and had a bump in sales due to the publicity. Everyone is wondering if buyers will accept the difference at checkout.
@VL I will be getting a 10×10 canopy for my Mothers Day present. It would be potentially hot uncovered. Our weather has been wacky and rainy for us, but soon we will be into the high 70s-80s. The organizer is very friendly and he said I could go to a spot along the fence so I can put up large art that I don’t want to ship. He even has easels I can borrow. Depending on the turnout I might be able to get more than the 10×10 allotted.
I’ll have a chance to attend a couple Saturdays this month and check out others’ pricing if I do things in May. My friend brought up a good point that the young people are hunting the clothes mainly. They might like some of my linens and smalls. Should be some tourists too by the time I go. Then this is an area where a lot of young professionals hang out – wineries, craft breweries, etc. So I don’t have a handle yet on who’s shopping there. My flea market friend – a little German lady – told me to be able to let things go… 🙂
One more question if you will bear with me. I’m trying to decide about price tags. I’d like to track what’s selling and either remove the tag at check out or do a tag that will rip in half – with price and description x 2 stuck on the back. Someone on Youtube had business cards (with shop and insta info) done with two sides and I could just cut half off at checkout and the buyer could take home the other side with info. How are you doing things? This might be too much work and maybe I should just jot it down during slow times and give out cards. I also like the idea of having some types of items at a generic price with a clip on sign.
<p style=”text-align: center;”>I downsized to a Volvo xc40. I was sooo happy to be done backing up that huge van after 10 years. Love it but did not anticipate selling in person. 😬. My husband has an older Subaru Forester so we’ll have to make it work.</p>
I have over 250 in collectibles to play with. I may end some items too and move them to the district platform, which is pretty fast to do.
Last Friday I was randomly leaving my dad’s house at 8 am and my steering wheel turned to an estate sale. Then I found a moving sale three blocks from my house. The people offered me a gorgeous high end blonde leather couch for free. Sadly I don’t have my minivan anymore and no place to put that large piece. They also had an amazing cane softback table. It was going to rain and they weren’t prepared. I wished I could teleport them to you guys. They just wanted to get rid of stuff before the house sold and the dealers came and took all their smalls right before I arrived.
Someone is giving me a handmade wooden cabinet tomorrow from Nextdoor. Possibilities…
I made just two listings. Oof. My goal is to clear some recently acquired things. I have like 35 listings that just need pictures. I may try scheduling those to go daily this week. Unfortunately the death piles will have to wait for me. My daughter is back at school today and I have high hopes.
Good call. Honestly, since I am listing sell similar and they didn’t carry over item specifics until recently, I wasn’t paying enough attention to the category. Occasionally, I will look up and realize the category I’m copying from is no good.
Yeah, word salad is still an issue with descriptions. It’s in beta I think.
Thanks so much Sharon! Unfortunately I am just seeing this post on the first, but I’ll see if I can figure out another way to see what I have left. I totally forgot about that collectibles exclusion.
PS. I haven’t had good luck at all with auctions in the past. I haven’t ended and sold similar in a long time. However, I am closing in on the 1000 basic store listings so I don’t want to incur .25 fees to do so.
Our dads have both been hospitalized in the past couple of weeks. I’m a bit distracted by wanting to try some live selling and learning about that… I have sold a few items on the District platforms and went to a few estate and rummage sales in the past couple of months. I even went to the bins yesterday with my daughter because she’s on spring break and wanted to go prom dress shopping down there… So I’m all over the place. Lots going on outside Ebay. I’m opening my mind to being a multi-channel seller. I hope this week (and month) I am able to focus better and think about strategy more.
At least I got the taxes done! It was a good time to reflect on what’s done well on Ebay while working on my COGS.
Overall, I have a LOT of sourcing available to me, so I really should focus on the mantra “better to get some of the money all of the time than all of the money some of the time.”
