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Just 13 items for me. I was away for a 4 day weekend. Didn’t list any death pile items last week.
@Julie I started the 2024 selling guide by that guy. He is advocating for the faster nickel and I compares your storage space to a parking lot that you can rent out. The faster you flip you can rent the same spaces more – and use the same money to make money. It’s a compelling argument. Also applies to basic store listings for me right now. Still need to finish the episode.It looks like baking soda may work on thin metal. I’ll try a test of that first. Then white vinegar is an option.
Thanks. I gently rinsed the wings and will leave those. It sounds like those are brass and the base is steel. I’d like to try a test of cleaning the steel. It looks really horrible. I found this smaller one and a very large one.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235429463327 Pieced together a set (most of it Mercari outlet dealer with a bundle offer) and an extra sham from Ebay. I’m into it for about $70. Need to add more photos today of my items.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335252653423 I thought this guy was really interesting. I like him better than the comps so I priced up a bit. Paid $8 at local chain thrift.
My best rummage sale find next to the paintings. https://www.ebay.com/itm/235426460809 sold 4 sets already to a lady for $100. She must have had a search out.F
Finally, sharing this very large bowl. I’m a sucker for 50s-60s pottery like this. https://www.ebay.com/itm/235426548736
https://www.ebay.com/itm/334920608020 This took quite a while to sell but finally got a good offer. I thought the design was striking, and later found the artist. It was in the death piles for years. Paid $3-6
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235412996502 From the kids’ bedding box of death piles I did last week. Buyer was thrilled. Paid $5-6 at Indy thrift.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/334913103836 Sale of the week. This is my last one by this artist to sell. I found almost the whole 12 month set at Goodwill a couple of years ago for $3.99 apiece.
Sure. It’s a large rummage sale at the fairgrounds. The line with the fee for this one was maybe 75 people (probably 100% dealers) and an hour later hundreds. $20 is the highest fee, $10 is more common. All the big book sales and rummage sales have a presale. These are big charity fundraisers for a good cause – kids, planned parenthood, etc. Everything, and I do mean everything costs more here. We just got reported as the city with the 5th highest cost of living in the US I think. We pay for those year round garage sales. But there are deals if you know where to look.
Total Items in Store: 1249
Items Sold: 20
Gross Sales: $1,046.35 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $720.38 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $121
Highest Price Sold: $119 (80s Art Plaque)
Average Price Sold: $52.32
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $280 (RA, thrift, big rummage sale).
Number of items listed this week: 39Pretty good week. Most of my sales are coming on the weekend. I think I was helped when I remembered to run a markdown sale. I’m doing that as opposed to increasing my promoted percentage. Gearing up to review some older listings and sell similar. Hopefully I can muster up the discipline to look over prices and sell through rates.
My immediate family had some issues this week so I’m glad I was able to still do that many listings. Knock wood, I should be able to get a lot done this week while I’m watching over my doggie who just had cancer surgery.
Enjoyed a lovely rummage sale, one of the big three. It was great because not many people paid the $2o EB cover charge and I made it first to the art, linens and some of the housewares sections. Most of the other dealers were gone to the clothes, books, etc. I got everything listed except the larger art work and sold a couple of picks already. I mostly listed new purchases, some of the Mercari RA that just came in and late Anthro deliveries from the post-Christmas sales. Need to limit the sourcing and hit the listing.
I have about 50 listings cross posted to Niknax and had no sales last week. I’m add a few themed listings in grouping and then putting a link the chat. It doesn’t seem like sales are going to well on the platform but they are accepting fewer sellers and still adding members. The live sales seem to do better plus cheap items. I had a couple more of my items featured by the Crazy Lamp Lady so that helps to get views.
I made 39 new listings.
I am steadily approaching 1000 so I’m going to need to start thinking about some low dollar stuff that I’d like to purge and not pay 25 cents on to carry. I copied or moved a little bit of that and all of my Mercari vintage over to Niknax but haven’t sold anything on there last week. I’m not alone in slow sales on that smaller platform but I keep posting the chat and Crazy Lamp lady picked some more of my items to feature last week.
@craig thanks! I’m definitely considering some of these. Sales are super slow for me.
I’m really torn between getting up new listings vs going back and revising things (spending time). Also a bit torn on lowering prices and allowing lower offers and counters. I don’t get offended but I do kind of get annoyed. Right now everything is either auto accepted or rejected. If my phone makes a noise it’s a sale. But, I’ve been listening to others on podcasts say it’s kind of a time where you need to take deeper discounts. I tend to go with a one size fits all approach to things and forget it but since I carry both new and used, I should probably allow lower offers on the used items. I have gotten a boost in markdown sales and I’m due for that and sell similar.
Nice sales @Sharyn. I love the soap sale. 99% of resellers would have passed on that. I’ve sold Crabtree & Evelyn before for that money. My husband is like “who is buying this???” He jokes about me ripping people off.
I would do something like:
Vintage Studio Art Pottery Coffee Mug Cup Men Businessmen Networking Faces Office City
As to style I’m not really sure what you call this. Maybe Ryanne will chime in.
@Craig I’ve sold similar items by the artist before and they are easy to spot
Games more slowly for me, which is probably due to big retailers offering free shipping. I should probably reduce prices but I try to think of good keywords.
The retailers put their outlets in the middle of nowhere towns or list deep discounts online at 5 am so their usual shoppers won’t see lower prices. The people who get to shop that get incredible deals on discontinued merch and then post online. They can afford to take less than full retail and probably want to recoup their outlay. I am willing to wait for a close to full retail price on EBay. I try to cherry pick the best designs that stand out online.
I did run into a problem of one of the outlet sellers being out of stock ( probably cross posted) and another sending the wrong item. Their listings aren’t great but perhaps they’re organization is not great either.
@soozies not sure about your returns issue but wanted to share this video about slow sales. It echos some of the advice above. https://youtu.be/l3LT9mwwAyg?si=tAHAsCa43xx6VCyA
I found Mercari buyers to be extremely cheap so even though it’s pretty fast to cross post, you might want to focus on one platform and being very consistent there, or just cross post to posh.
I don’t sell clothes but February is always my worst month for sakes.
