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Total Items in Store: 1,148
Items Sold: 31
Gross Sales: $1,256 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $826 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $201
Highest Price Sold: $130 (4 New plates, paid $27 on clearance 12/23)
Average Price Sold: $41
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $100
Number of items listed this week: 70Very interesting week on Ebay. I sold items sourced at the flea market, estate sale, Target, Mercari, Anthropologie, Pottery Barn, a Goodwill bins trip, and various thrifts around town. I notice what they have in common is they are all quite recently listed. Makes me wonder some more about staleness and the algorithm.
I also made some interesting connections this week. I sold a Midcentury figurine (I got for free from a guy at the flea market) to a local dealer with a shop who asked for local pick up. She wants to meet up for coffee or I can go by her store in the cool gentrified post-industrial part of town. Sounds fun. She sells very high end Midcentury Modern. I also made an offer to fellow Anthropologie flipper for an item I couldn’t get my hands on to complete a set. We ended up chatting online a bit. She declined my offer. LOL I won’t pay the prices we charge.
Finally, to my surprise I was quickly accepted as a seller on Niknax, the new Crazy Lamp Lady platform. They want vintage items 20 years old or older. To tell the truth I’m not sure exactly why I applied. I was a bit late to the party and there are now 1600 sellers and 16k items. I’ll have to take a look and see what kind of stuff sells on there or see if I can find other people who have written reviews or posted about selling on there. I have zero interest in doing live sales but thought I might piggy back on the popularity of the Youtubers on there. The subscribers often overpay for items they sell live. I’ll let you know how the listing experience is if I go forward. https://district.net/niknax
Over on Mercari, I did a little sourcing. Under the new function of bundling offers as a buyer, you don’t have the usual 20% off limitation. I had one offer accepted for half off and combined shipping and I have another out to a different seller. These are outlet sellers in the middle of the country. Mercari has been very dead to me in the past year as a seller of our used clothing. People will like an item that is priced under $10 and still not buy it when you offer or promote. My daughter wants to try Depop.
Hope everyone has a very happy new year. I have a lot to do here at the house and some reselling organizing and maintenance to do. I’m also contemplating what I should be focused on going forward. Really it’s a little bit of a 2025 plan since I have quite a backlog left.
I noticed yesterday on the app that the photos loaded much faster. I had heard about that change coming on the Ebay for business podcast. A welcome improvement.
Ugh I have one box of ephemera and two boxes of flatware. I find ephemera interesting but so many individual listings required. Might be the last boxes I attack along with the random smalls boxes. Ack!
I’m plotting for next year and still working out a strategy. It makes sense to put up fabric and yarn soon plus the linens. I’ll probably take breaks with some hard goods as I don’t like listing the linens.
@Sharon I got hit twice today with that quantity problem. I wonder if something somehow reverted, because I thought they fixed that issue and I haven’t seen it in a long time.
Anthropologie was having great sales. My Target strategy is to cherry pick and resell new full but lower price ($2.99-6.99) items from the Magnolia Hearth and Hand collections. For some reason Target doesn’t make enough for the demand and it sells out online and in many stores. The cheaper items I buy from her collections usually don’t ever last until the sale time. However, Target did one day specials before Xmas and it went 40% for one day. I only flip Target colab items, not house brands. Hearth and Hand single items also show up at Goodwill on occasion and I scoop them up if they do.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235341157455
I recognized these as Pottery Barn because my husband and I had the silver ones in the 90s. Good bolo, more modern than the current version PB has and I like them better. Paid $15
Not full sets but found several NIP sheets at a thrift for $6 apiece by the fantastic designer Vera Neumann. Buyer was very happy https://www.ebay.com/itm/335162101512
BUT it’s vintage Christmas craft kits for the win! Paid $2-5 each, estate sale and GW. https://www.ebay.com/itm/235329533726
Mostly RA for me this week.
I did score a couple of items from people who live near the Pottery Barn outlets over on Mercari and relisted them on Ebay. One I got for $6 with free shipping! and this one for $15 https://www.ebay.com/itm/335162533304
I almost forgot that Goodwillfinds was running their 50% off clearance sale. I did buy two items but almost didn’t since their shipping is much more expensive now than I experienced before. I should make money on them but it was a close call.
P.S. On my app this week, I had a large banner about someone I follow using a coupon. It was very prominent. I’m thinking of trying it while I’m not running a sale, maybe this weekend.
Total Items in Store: 1,237
Items Sold: 42
Gross Sales: $2,205 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $1,390 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $227 + 2 family items
Highest Price Sold: $212 (Vintage Christmas Stocking Kit, paid $4.99)
Average Price Sold: $53
Returns: 1 – one item broke
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $600+
Number of items listed this week: 51Well I’m certainly glad I decided to leave my store open this year. I didn’t get any desperate messages or complaints or problems printing shipping labels on Ebay. A lot of people were buying ground on Tuesday and Wednesday after the cutoff for priority and I went to the post office 3x one day to try to get it there on time. I felt very productive this week. Running a 30% off Christmas sale since Christmas day. It’s been pretty quiet the last couple of days.
One of my 4 RA sources was in early (panic?) sale mode and I went in deep on the 23rd and online the last few days. I have sold these items from them in the past but they could take a while if people really go into pull back spending mode. I immediately listed most of those items and have a few more coming. Two other retailers don’t really have great prices yet.
I also went in deep on a follow up Target RA for mid-winter / early spring collection lower priced items. I got my share at the suburban Target near my home and someone else cleaned out the larger Target nearby. If these were toys I would feel bad but they are wine drinking middle age moms missing out so I’m good with that. Ha. My Christmas Target experiment was a good success. I have just a few remaining Christmas specific items left. A few more are winter theme left and I’m hoping they will sell off soon.
I ordered a lot of supplies this week. Have a lot of reorganizing and COGS for taxes to do soon. I’m thinking a lot about my business in 2024 and how I want to go forward. I still have a fair amount of piles around to deal with this year but I made very good progress last year until Fall when I started thrifting too much and going to a few estate sales. A correction is needed. Hoping for good sales until about mid-January when it falls off until March typically for me.
I should join you guys. Most of my pikes are sorted by category but I have two boxes of random smalls – those are really deathly because they have a lot of small ransoms and would take a while to list unless lots make sense. I also have probably 8 large bins of random family ceramics, metal items and I forgot what else on my gorilla rack unlisted. I’d be a little torn vs getting my linens up in January for nesting / white sale season though. Since I tire easily of linens, perhaps I’ll go back and forth. It would be awesome to finish the gorilla rack by mid-year.
I listed 51 items. I was thinking I was really progressing on my death piles by summer, then did too much shopping in the Fall. In the new year I need to fix that. On the upside I did finally list my parents’ china set before Thanksgiving in lots and have sold almost all of it. There is more family stuff in the death piles to go.
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