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Total Items in Store: 1,143
Items Sold: 32
Gross Sales: $1,138.88 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $634.67 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $151
Highest Price Sold: $100 Jonathan Adler Needlepoint pillow, sold immediately
Average Price Sold: $35.59
Returns: 1 – Returned to sender
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $45
Number of items listed this week: 52Well it was a pretty good week though no big dollar sales except the pillow. I did sell 8 items of my Target RA stash this week to one buyer, but there are more items left. All my RA items have been sold out at Target.com and in all my nearby stores. We’ll see if people will pay up extra for some of that this week or after Christmas. Overall the Target RA experiment I think will be a success but all may not liquidate this season.
I have been running a sale and will start another today, probably going down to 20% off. I’m grateful for my Ebay business but we have a lot of extra expenses so I’m trying to crank out all the sales I can. I’ve been pricing a little more competitively, while leaving room to make offers as much as possible. Thinking a lot about next year and definitely looking to move to more of a faster nickel than maximim price. I think this is also suited for the economic conditions and consumer sentiment.
R&J Happy that things are going well. Reflect on your amazing accomplishments! Miss the podcast as always.
Finally, I wanted to share something I found by Justin Resells for those of you who source on Facebook Marketplace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW6W1qZ6zQI
I got back on the horse and listed 57 items. Hoping for a good week this week as well. I thought I got through every last little Christmas item, and then looked over and saw a few tablecloths left. Feeling unmotivated to list those, but maybe I’ll grin and bear it today.
I have a lot of vintage fabric I’d like to get listed in January when people might be crafting more. Also have a lot of contemporary linens to list. Like 3 or 4 boxes waiting.
@Sharon, I am hearing on a podcast that I listen to that upping promoted is working better for them than sales. I had good sales this week but I’m running a sale this weekend and it’s not great. So you may be on the right track. I’m holding at 4%.
The same podcast had an interesting nickname for stale items – anchors. They are encouraging going through old items and looking at prices, which I intend to do after the Christmas slow down. I think I am due for a sell similar also in January.
A while back I had a few of those but luckily I did see it before the item shipped.
Speaking of weird messsges, I’ve had two emails from EBay saying the buyer filed a chargeback on the cc, then quite a bit later saying don’t worry it was resolved in your favor. One customer had just left good feedback so I messaged her and she said she did it because EBay made it look like a subscription charge?
@Julie congrats! I think you are one of the few on Mercari. They just got 12 oz $5.99 shipping. I went through all my listings and found some crazy shipping prices. Some didn’t have weights. It was pretty easy to update but you need to go to the select carrier stage. UPS smart post is an extra stop for me $7.99 over a pound but I went ahead and put it on. I’ll probably clean out some of that stuff pretty soon
I really need to do this or at least stop paying my shipping labels from my balance. We are traveling a lot more than we used to since the kids are bigger.
Total Items in Store: 1,087
Items Sold: 22
Gross Sales: $931.51 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $588.25 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $79
Highest Price Sold: $90 (Pendleton throw that had been returned for color resold)
Average Price Sold: $42.34
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $130 (Big needlepoint kit haul, 2 small thrifts runs and small flea market haul)
Number of items listed this week: 12Well last week was a hard week outside Ebay and I needed some thrift therapy out of the house. I got lucky and scored some valuable needlepoint kits one time at Goodwill. Really enjoying the little flea market as a weekly outing. The $1 clothing and linens guy was there in the shade who gets his items from the college kid overpriced thrift. There are very few vendors cheap enough to buy from so it’s pretty safe. So fun.
Low on listings last week so need to step that up and take photos of the needlepoint kits and a few Christmas items I have left to list. The Christmas throw up at the thrifts I did not get to first or they were pricing too high on some items I wanted.
I listened to Ebay for Business seller response guy and I think I saw yesterday that I can change categories after clicking sell similar without losing some of the entered fields. This was one of the fixes he was talking about, so that’s nice. I also saw on my home selling page that they are now doing automatic % offers. Since I’ve started running sales again, I don’t know if I want to do a blanket one if they can double up discounts, but otherwise I like the idea.
Hope it’s a good week for all on Ebay.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/334909535678 Bread and buttery week but I love this set of vintage Otagiri mugs I sold.
I found NIP 1970s sheets in the above pattern. (Not my listing) My friend had this color scheme and I had the light blue. So fun to see them again.
Had a goodwill haul of Christmas stocking kits. The most valuable has sold for over $250. This is the second most valuable that I got listed already. https://www.ebay.com/itm/335147270986
I only listed 12. Have a bunch of photos to take this morning after shipping.
@Ebaymom that came up in a sell similar listing another seller wrote. I thought it was genius but use it sparingly.
@Craig I wish you were closer because our comic book shop owner just passed away. I have a feeling they will be holding a liquidation sale soon.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235305794431 I was neglecting my favorite thrift store for a while due to the line to get in. Went a couple of times lately and scored this lovely lady for $14. This was purchased two weeks ago but listed last week.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335126962696 Also thought the glass technique on this vase was really nice. Paid $14. They seem to price at this price point if they know it’s nice, but unlike the college kid thrift I think they only look up certain things online.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335029373208
Kind of bread and buttery this week but I sold this kids’ quilt from Pottery Barn. It had quite a bit of wash wear but was in good shape. $5 at the flea market. Happy to get it out of storage.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335047384999 Sold this very cool tiki shirt that I grabbed right as it came out of the back at Goodwill for $12. Too hip for my hubby.
I sold a couple of really old items.
