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@Craig sales were definitely not great for me either. According to Youtube we are not alone in this.
I had two sales of about 6 items from my parents’ set of china. https://www.ebay.com/itm/335095724486 sold for $35 and https://www.ebay.com/itm/235276361817 well used plates sold for $30. I’m proud of myself for getting this listed, as I brought it over to my house last year about this time and did not get it up.
I am still catching up from the two estate sales. I only went to the flea market last week. At one of the estate sales I found a rare antique plate similar to this one by this British artist. https://www.carters.com.au/index.cfm/item/1296491-royal-doulton-plate-dog-and-pipe-titanian-glaze-ware-cecil-aldin/ There are not a lot of comps where I can see the sold price but one sold on Ebay for $275.
I listed 46 items this week. @Amatino way to go with the regular listings. I don’t have my day job anymore, so my numbers are not like my old part-time numbers.
@Julie one of our local thrift chains went bananas a while back. They hire college kids who research everything online. They do markdowns but it’s annoying to shop there. No fun when there aren’t treasures lurking that nobody knows about. We only have one Goodwill and it’s heavy volume, with certain categories just removed and sent to the online center. The manager changes quite frequently but I like the current one and the hard goods vintage prices are actually ok there. I believe most clothes are fairly high for resale, but that’s true around town on clothes.@VT Congrats. Two boxes is great progress!
@Craig thanks. Yes, Ebay has the flexibility I need.
Oh my goodness. Well you are moving product so that’s good. If I stopped buying for the next 6 weeks or so then I could probably get by until after the “Fourth Quarter rush”. But I actually like organizing so it will be a good break. I also need to reorganize my boxes since that’s kind of annoying right now.
@Retro fun to see yours and Craig’s numbers from these giant hauls. Way to go!
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!
