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Total Items in Store: 1,109
Items Sold: 17
Gross Sales: $717.94 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $480.64 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $70
Highest Price Sold: $125 (Large pottery vase)
Average Price Sold: $42.23
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $50 (estate sale 1), $36 (estate sale 2), $20ish thrift
Number of items listed this week: 14Sales felt super slow but weekend was better. I sold some pretty stale listings this week and I’m grateful for that. I’m pretty backed up on my recent purchases, but started at clearing that yesterday. Lots of listing work to be done. My goal is to clear last week’s hauls by Friday. I might take a break and reorganize a bit by weekend. It’s getting a little chaotic in the garage and I have some empty bankers boxes.
I picked a Sunday morning to liquidate a bunch of items I got super cheap for my daughter’s movie night party. Everything sold that day at a small profit. I really don’t like selling on Facebook Marketplace, but wow. I just have people do porch pickup so I don’t really want to get into buying for FB and meeting up with people or having extra people come to the house though.
My big kids are both beyond stressed, struggling and it was an emotional week. Hanging on by the fingernails and providing an ear for them. It is one time it is good to be an older parent with life experience. I didn’t get a lot of listing done but hope this week I have more freedom for that.
Glad to hear about the bustling cafe business. I’m reading about some Airbnb city challenges but hopefully it’s still great in your neck of the woods. Plus your cafe helps make it a destination. Way to go!
Thanks. That’s pretty much what I’ve been doing. I was thinking if saving time by skipping more of them in the categories where the list is super long.
I did see some kind of banner recently where EBay said they are going to reduce the number of item specifics at the request of sellers. They are working on it but we’ll see how long that takes…
I noticed Etsy is running a smart unique gifts campaign. I’m grateful for EBay but I wish they would embrace their identity as a unique item seller with an army of talented people ready to ship unique gifts.
Right. I was just wondering not about required but recommended. Are people taking the time to fill all that out routinely?
https://www.google.com/shopping/product/1?hl=en&q=versace+pillow+gold+black+lyre&prds=epd:4797752365579522250,eto:4797752365579522250_0,pid:4797752365579522250&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwji2c-s2p6CAxWFH0QIHZoEA4EQ9pwGCAU I found strangely enough this exact Versace Pillow for $6.50 at the old lady thrift store. I don’t think it will fetch $350 on Ebay, but still an interesting find.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/186105722799?hash=item2b54c3f7af:g:pJ8AAOSwuOtlG~3i&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4JzL1a3OP%2F5V8NUU8RbYKoAZ4zljHLRHLISI6FzHyQbF6XtHlxd6DrRbUZigiE5vj%2FQmvszE3k8OOwBCYuwtfjgxrUAfuebwBxMqFCOj6k7nPW%2BuuKshQigY4wP0yz1AmRynX24IWN%2BlE6Czu03B08Db8E095QGb%2FCUmEkAA%2BjPcBZYiBXZvi9UYXHBgouxalifFKd3csMaXTNHOiDlFBGFYti69caGxTLKv6eisDqVgRSrOwG10KMU3VROQKmkSYF5iWnYhrP%2FQSrzG4koGeOYkEEyHhxJXiDYXAWLnDJnF%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR6a38afwYg I found this cool art. The sold comps are lower than I expected, even for BIN. Sad.
I bought a lot of items at the estate sales but they are in the bread and butter $20-30 range I believe. Paid less than $1-2 for each item if I count all the household products I bought. I did pay up $20 for a heavy art pottery cat figure. It’s signed but I can’t make it out. Need to research that. Google images could not find it but I went with my gut.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/334913103860 I’m super excited about this $125 large pottery sale. It’s been in my store a loooong time and wasn’t fun to pack but it’s off. I did do at least one price reduction on this item when I did sell similar. Happy to see it go.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235051397131 Runner up is this very expensive random bedskirt. The quality was beautiful and finally the right buyer came along. It took maybe like a year and a half. Exactly what she was looking for apparently.
Are you guys thinking you need to fill out most of the recommended item specifics to get better visibility? I guess it’s a black box but would like to hear your thoughts.
19 items listed last week.
It felt completely dead until weekend, which saved my bacon a bit. Just looked and small sales were a little better than I thought but it sure seemed quiet during the week.
I noticed Ebay had some glitches last week so I’m hoping the quiet had something to do with that.
I made it over 1100 listings this morning. Yea!
It’s so fun to make the finds. Otoh, you kind of get a sense of the person(s), their interests and final struggles. I’m kind of an empath but I also look forward to letting other people enjoy the items again. The houses need to get cleared.
Late posting again. I listed 44 I think. Sadly sales were very disappointing but I did get a bunch of Christmas stuff posted that I hope with pay off later.
Thanks for the Mercari tip. I have a few bins of our clothes sitting in my room to list, but I’ve been trying to get sales going on Ebay and I have some other stuff going on so I probably won’t get to Mercari this week.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335080224921 Sold immediately quantity 2 to someone who had a search out. I paid $6 at the flea market last week. This lady sets up late and I apparently missed a bunch of Dept 56 stuff. The other buyer left these behind. I have done well with these random accessory sets (non people non buildings like trees, rock walls, etc.). They sell reliably and quickly. I think some other resellers dismiss them.
I did less sourcing as I intended last week. I just went to the flea market with a very small haul and an elementary school sale. The elementary school sale did not have any dealers. Most of it was clothes and kids stuff. However, it was associated with a church and they had at least one old lady donate. The best score was a Roseville (my first time ever finding in the wild) bud vase set from the 1930s. https://justartpottery.com/products/roseville-ferella-1930-vintage-art-deco-pottery-tan-handled-ceramic-vase-497-5 One of them was lying in the grass and I paid a dollar each.
I’m still doing 4% for everything at listing time. It would be interesting to try promoting older items or low view items at a higher percentage. I have a new few clothing items for example that have been sitting and I know clothing has become so much more competitive since I listed those. If I had a crystal ball, I would look in it to see if changing the price would work better than upping the promotion percentage.
@Ebaymom I too wish there was a way to bulk auto decline. I have mine set pretty high because lowball offers annoy me and I find they usually don’t buy it if they start that low. I usually price at the highest 2 year Terapeak sold and then do a 15-25% auto decline, and largely set auto accept there also. It also keeps people from doubling up if I am running a 10-20% off sale. I would like to reset this lower since I feel like sales are a bit disappointing this Fall and sometimes I get the used items now at very low cost. If Ebay takes into account the sell through rate in Cassini then mine is probably not helping me out, especially as my store grows larger. About one-third of my items sold by best offer so far this year.
On my traffic page, I’m getting 20% of my page views from outside Ebay. So I can’t end and relist any more often than annually I think, though I could start thinking about doing it for items with zero views. I have linked my Pinterest account and Ebay has the new social Beta, but so far I can’t pin multiple items to a board so that does me no good at all until they fix that. I have made the suggestion on the new social page. If that were to happen then I could rework my Pinterest boards without having to delete sold items and stop pinning each item after listing. Plus, I would be able to redo after a bulk sell similar.
I only have a handful of repeat buyers. I have heard coupons don’t work well so haven’t tried them. It’s a little tempting to try them since you get another change to for your buyer to get a message in their phone about you.
