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Total Items in Store: 1,037
Items Sold: 16
Gross Sales: $753.27 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $467.63 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $80
Highest Price Sold: $90 (Mid Century tile, paid $1.99)
Average Price Sold: $47.08
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $180? Target RA Xmas and Anthro clearance.
Number of items listed this week: 56Happy to see the numbers because it felt slower than this and I would have bet on a lower ASP. I hope you get an opportunity to give a lot of offers R&J once you do sell similar. Enough voices and personal experience have convinced me that it’s a thing.
Had a nice weekend off in LA. Most thrift stores I’ve tried down there are surprisingly not great. I’m staring down a bunch of haul backlog that I need to clear. More linens, needlecraft kits, Target, Christmas vintage ornaments. Sounds like I don’t really need to thrift much this week, but will probably go to the flea market. It’s fun.
Ps. I feel like people’s ethics have gone down the toilet. Sorry about the renting.
Late to post. I listed 56 last week. Was out of town this weekend.
Julie I’m glad you are on the other side of that surgery and the anticipation is out of the way. Hope your healing continues to go well.
@Retro congrats!
I sold a Pottery barn kids sheet set for $49 and a Pendleton wool throw for $109. Both sold within hours of listing. The throw was in good condition without holes but had a lot of teeny tiny fibers or grass bits that I had trouble fully removing with a lint roller. Hope the buyer is happy. I was checking out at Goodwill and spotted it at the last minute, literally stopped the cashier after almost missing it.
@Craig good for you. I need to curb shopping as well as I’m doing a little carryover from the week and not getting back to my piles.
@Sharyn those are cute glasses. I’m always looking for the patterned juice glasses. Strangely I never find patterned glasses at all, at least not a set.https://www.ebay.com/itm/235251537649?
A fun thrift find this week for $12.
At the flea market I also found three interesting wooden signs from the 1970s but apparently didn’t get them up before I left home. I don’t know what the seller was doing with them since all her other stuff was new. I negotiated paying $6 for all three. Here’s someone else’s listing.@Sharon I am hearing on some of the people I follow that sales are not great and you have to work twice as hard as pre-pandemic for the same sales. I also believe that over time they have changed the algorithm to emphasize freshness. I do sell old items but a lot of times my item sells right away now. One of the podcasts suggests being willing to take lower offers, which I am doing if I get one shortly after listing. Still blocking offers lower than around 70% of asking. I’m wondering as my store gets bigger if I should rethink that percentage a bit for older items. The overall feeling is things are a bit tough right now when you are selling things people don’t really need, with the exception of holiday stuff. People maybe are looking forward to the holidays.
Total Items in Store: 1,010
Items Sold: 18
Gross Sales: $683.46 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $398.79 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $74
Highest Price Sold: $100 (2 New West Elm Pillow Covers (paid $7.98))
Average Price Sold: $24.53
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: ~$200ish RA + Flea Market and Thrifting
Number of items listed this week: 42Made it up over 1000 this week. Helped by another small Target RA experiment with multi-quantity listing. I’ve been listing pretty consistently. A drafts bank with a daily push out would be a good goal, as there are a few days I don’t get anything up. Expenses have calmed down a bit but really trying to crank out as many sales as possible before the next slow season on Ebay hits. I’m hearing consumers were pretty frugal during the Amazon Prime days, staying away from larger items and buying home goods and clothes. I took advantage of some sales and promotions at Target.
Glad to hear about your current project R&J. It’s been amazing to watch you become local business owners and I’m sure the community needed you. We miss having your primary focus on Ebay but I’m very excited about your success!
Wow, a little opulent for my taste but I love the aquatic creature candlesticks! I wonder if you could get the linens as well as the clothes? I would try to get anything new in the packaging especially.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235244274493 paid $2. https://www.ebay.com/itm/335057048869 Paid $10. Vintage and discontinued bedding for the win this week. I was pleasantly surprised at the Shabby Chic Target comps.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335008693806 My most interesting sale of the week was this scrap art bird. Paid $3 at the old lady thrift and I’m sure they hated it. They have a section for what they consider the worst stuff and this was over there.
42 items listed for me.
Good luck VT and congrats on 900. Today Ebay says I’m at 979. Maybe I’ll make it to over 1000 in the next couple of days. We will be away this weekend and I hope to reach that. I got some of the fabric done but have more big duvets and coverlets to photograph. Sigh.
@Craig Thanks I hope so. My Ebay listed bounces around and it doesn’t seem to just be due to things selling.
Re the negative feedback, it was false (clearly given the messaging) from a sexually explicit user name. Trust me it was weird. Ebay of course had no problem removing it. The lady made me spell it out with call letters. LOL. Then the rep was foreign, so I wasn’t sure she got the reference, but she did.
There are actually hardly any vendors I can buy from at $3-8 an item. It’s small and mainly produce, new stuff, tool and metal people, and antique dealers. There is a cool wood artist but his prices are too high for resale. Every now and then a random person shows up selling off family stuff and I buy multiple things in a bundle.
This guy was not in a chatty mood. Most of his booth was tools, parts and garage stuff. He had two friends helping who took over later and all three were very negotiable.
Poland is the most used origin for the name. Also Google translate comes up with something in Polish. I thought it might be like from a shaming bench. Not too sure. I decided to just call it European.
They are marked CYPEK on the inside edges – would be consistent with coming off a chair (marks facing the interior. Still looking.
Awesome! I think annually is right for me on refreshing. I’m hoping Ebay’s beta social media experiment will allow you to pin multiple listings to a pinterest board at once. Right now, you can only pin one thing at a time.
I changed some prices on my listings coming up for renewal with no views this week. Thanks for your suggestion on that.
