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https://www.ebay.com/itm/235426554135 I had started picking up skeins of yarn and it seems to be a good seller though the thrifts really are charging more than I want to pay. I paid $10 for this but it sold immediately. The Nurse Flipper did a video and I look for mohair, alpaca, cashmere but do not find much of that.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335236723426 This sold quite quickly. One time years back we decided to have a Western theme party and it was surprisingly hard to find a basic check tablecloth for sale. So I pick them up when I find them, especially new.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335230696428 Fresh from the death piles. I cleaned it up and dealt with it. No longer picking these wool blankets up.
Congrats R&J! I’m glad it’s open and starting to make money for you guys. The menu looks amazing and it’s great you can make money in the evenings as well. My favorite restaurant formula here in Cali is a smaller comfort food chain where it’s industrial style with counter service and you choose your dish and sides. https://urbanplates.com/order/categories/?store_id=001&service_type_id=2 My husband and I aren’t big on being old school served. Great for the staff too because they pretty much get tipped the same by most people I imagine. The old school thing I do like is comfy booths. Many trendy restaurants have the most uncomfortable metal chairs now!
I’m doing the sandwich generation thing right now and did not get a lot of listing done the last two weeks. Too much shopping and not enough listing. My daughter still is not driving and has a new later school schedule. So, I have a daily routine of thrifting certain places each day of the week after drop off. If I want to do that I need to list more often in the evenings or early morning. February is always poor, but my sales have been super slow and I’ve not been running a sale event to help things along. I’m also due for sell similar.
I hit a good Presidents Day sale at one of my regular retailers but got all of that listed last week. I found some deep discount bargains at Macys.com on premium high thread count bedding. It’s a small experiment since I don’t usually sell those brands but the discount was 90% off.
@Retro congrats on your great sales and pregnancy. Just for you I bought 3 pair of shoes and 3 mens Ripcurl trunks from the $1 guy at the flea market. Lord knows when I will get that listed. I admire you and @Ebaymom for going through your old listings before selling similar. I need to find the discipline to do that.
I did some cross posting on Niknax and I’m up to 95 items. Sales seem poor for all but the very active live sellers. We’ll see. I’m also approved to sell on a Disney District site that has a much better buyer/seller ratio than Niknax. It seems like a lot of people are dumping cheap stuff on Niknax but they do have some amazing items as well. I’m kind of just going with the theme of the week and one more weekly chat post over there. I’m hopeful it continues to grow and she features me as a seller eventually.
Store Week February 18-24
Total Items in Store: 1286
Items Sold: 11
Gross Sales: $402.47 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $235.67 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $48
Highest Price Sold: $70 (Two NOS valances)
Average Price Sold: $36.59
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $250 +/-
Number of items listed this week: 23The week prior was nothing to write home about either. Time to list!
@Craig you’re welcome. I’m sure Philly has great food too.
We have a some very wealthy people and a lot of old people. Mainly older people moving here too from colder places. We also don’t have a lot of big box stores. So it makes for good picking in my city. Now that I am not working my day job, I am lucky to source on the weekdays when many people are working because the competition is increasing like everywhere. When I first started it was mostly men looking for records and metals.
23 new listings for me on Ebay. I had some personal stuff going on but also indulged in shopping a bit too much and not enough listing to be sure. All were newer purchases. Hoping to get back on track this week and there should be fewer interruptions.
I crossposted a few to Niknax and I’m up to 95 over there. Sales not really happening over there but I’m hoping things pick up.
Great job Julie!
@Craig lots of great food here. Where I live and the rest of So Cal is excellent Mexican, great Asian food in the cities. Sourcing while traveling is hit and miss. In places where sourcing is considered cool and it is crowded, sourcing can be very poor. Also places with a lot of big box stores. Luckily we have a lot of older people where I live and many others have to work a lot to live here. I find sourcing during the week is great. The young people are showing up a lot these days but they are mostly after things out of my niche.
Like Santa Cruz is picked over, but the mountain town where we stayed nearby was fun. It was crowded in the store. San Diego is tough with high prices but they have much larger stores. SF I imagine is pretty picked over. Places like SF and the Pacific Northwest large cities there are many people who are ok with buying second hand and know the value of things. All those chain stores have their own Ebay and auction sites. LA can be good maybe depending on where you are. Orange County I tried a little bit and found it disappointing.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235432235527 https://www.ebay.com/itm/335255595928 Out of my usual area, but I’m still checking Goodwill for new Christmas presents.
Sourced near Santa Cruz and on the central coast on the way home. Only bought a few things but it was interesting. Will hopefully have all of that listed by next week. We were up in Silicon Valley too but didn’t have time to source there. Probably is fab.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335252280714 This was fun because I found the shortie and online arbitraged the companion, making an offer to a newbie seller. Didn’t make a ton but they sold right away. I have this pair listed now with the same approach: https://www.ebay.com/itm/335231819891 I thought this was so cool but had only found one. The other one was cheap but had to be shipped from Australia, so I hope someone else agrees.
No high dollar sales but some death pile items going out the door. Hurray! https://www.ebay.com/ship/single/235107262369-2155014442013 https://www.ebay.com/ship/single/335230696428-2108675583014 https://www.ebay.com/itm/334941266880 Good riddance.
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.
