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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.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.
