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I’m working on a true death pile. I am organizing in the guest room and inside the side table I had stashed a bunch of breakable random picks that I had apparently tried to sell at a garage sale and then held on to for some reason. I have Google lens now, so was able to decide on donating several items. Then as I got to listing the remainder, found several had small flaws. Ugh. I’m going to take pics but price down and hopefully move them out quickly 🤞. It’s probably a bankers box worth.
I forgot to mention that there is new data available in the beta Ebay social page. Some of it doesn’t make sense to me but I can tell I’m averaging about 25 clicks of traffic from Pinterest per month. Unfortunately it doesn’t indicate whether those people bought the item or not or say which listings drove traffic.
You’re welcome Jay. I hope you continue to be able to find great employees. My cousin outside of Bend opened and closed a day care. Plenty of customers but good employees were hard to come by and she had to work it herself a lot. It sounds like in Luray you have done ok and the new city is larger and younger. 👍. Hopefully your housekeepers are solid. Excited to see photos of your new cool place! Glad EBay is doing well for you too. All balls in the air! Way to go.
Total Items in Store: 1,163
Items Sold: 25
Gross Sales: $1,120 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $637 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $120
Highest Price Sold: $87 New teapot, paid $19 on 12/25
Average Price Sold: $45
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $60
Number of items listed this week: 12Tough week last week. I got my first negative feedback ever from a new Ebayer. Claimed it was not authentic. I’ve done all the things and she hasn’t returned the item. I need to call Ebay and follow up. Then, I was organizing and somehow a tiny little horse figurine I had nearby inside a basket went flying and broke so I had to cancel that $40 sale. I think there is something else I forgot. Not a terrific week for the fam either. BUT we did go to the Eagles Goodbye concert.
On the upside I organized all of my shipping boxes. I’m cleaning out our guest closet to accommodate listed inventory. I kind of hate this time of year since I have to sit for a day and a half and do my COGS when I’m really in the mood for physical organizing. I’m a weird person who likes that kind of activity. Haven’t been shopping much or listing enough. My daughter dumped a bunch of clothing out of her room. The better stuff I think I will just go ahead and try on Ebay. I don’t really want to deal with learning Poshmark.
Congrats R&J for being on the home stretch. Very exciting but I’m sure stressful as well.
Apparently this has already been a thing since earlier in 2023.
Passing on the Stanley cup craze. It’s not even a thing here and the buy in is too high.
@Craigrex I love listing on Mercari. It’s very quick, no nonsense, and straightforward. Much better than the EBay app. There is also no social stuff like Poshmark to deal with. The buyers tend to be younger than EBay I think but very cheap. Mercari was going ok but they were originally supplementing the shipping prices to help w their US launch. Then over time I think they failed to cut deals with the shipping services quickly so their shipping was high. Currently shipping prices are better and they cut a deal with the very slow UPS version of smart post. Their timing wasn’t great I think due to clothing becoming oversaturated and all of the competition. I think they also struggled a little bit because many US sellers don’t do what they are supposed to like the Japanese sellers do. Mercari is harsh to those sellers. In the flip side, US buyers want to get their way with forcing returns.
Overall I personally really like the straightforward functionality of Mercari but the prices are just lower than I like to get. My listings are very stale on there now. I don’t think Mercari hides anything but appearance is in order of freshness. Mercari is a great app for people just selling stuff around their house.
@Retro how do snow clothes do on EBay for kids and adults? We are 3-4 hours from the snow and I do see better brand clothes show up at the thrift stores. I’ve considered picking some of that up in the future. Much of it is in really great condition.
Last week was very bread and buttery but I’ll find a couple of things I haven’t posted before.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235351295624 I usually now avoid sourcing used baby stuff. But I got this at the bins and then found some blogger who made it look fresh. Serena and Lily is a great upscale brand to look for.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335170092169 This is one example of a large lot of push pin ornaments I bought at a garage sale for $10. I divided them up into sets, some pairs and larger lots that made sense. Over half the bag sold and I didn’t get them listed until just before Christmas.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/234971367901 Sale of the week was this little guy I got for free at the flea market and flipped to a local dealer. I’m noticing I needed a manicure.
I didn’t scavenge much last week but look forward to seeing your items. I did list some of my daughter’s better clothing on Ebay since Mercari has become dismal for sales. She did another purge.
Only 12 new listings for me this week.
Challenging and maintenance focused week on Ebay, which I will post about in the main thread.
Happily school is finally back in session. My son leaves for study abroad this Friday, so after that I’m feeling like I’m really going to be chugging along IF my daughter can stay in school regularly.
When I had the last garage sale in 2023 I went through every single death pile box. I think I got rid of most things that were less than $10. Still much that I would not buy today but I am determined not to donate anything unless it’s damaged. This week I plan to organize listed and unlisted inventory boxes. Yesterday I managed some loose inventory.
1. Consolidate listed inventory. Continue to avoid sourcing large items for the time being.
2. Organize and make a list of unlisted inventory boxes on hand.
3. Limit sourcing outings to 2 max times a week for at least a few months.
4. Review old listings’ price and sell through rate. Sell similar listings 6 months old plus.
5. Get a travel benefits credit card for shipping.
Sorry I’ve been posting items and I was MIA on Ebay and this thread for a while. Anyway, I will make it listings going forward. I do list variations as well but not often. I do RA this time of year and in the late summer usually. Most of the time it’s one offs. I’m not really competitive at all but I like having to report in weekly. Also I have more time since I joined the group because I retired. So feel free to just track my numbers for the records and leave me out of the competitions. 🙂 I’d be thrilled with that.
I listed 70 items but to be fair this week that included many multiples and items where I used stock photos. So, I’ll remove myself from the running this week.
Good luck to everyone with the DP challenge and Happy New Year. My whole family is sick so I’ve been waiting on people mostly.
@Julie I also have to make more money this year. I hope to be more consistently listing so sales are not so boom and bust.
