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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.
Total Items in Store: 938
Items Sold: 18
Gross Sales: $723.40 (including eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Net Sales: $434.49 (minus eBay fees, shipping, and taxes)
Cost of Items Sold: $54
Highest Price Sold: $110 (Pumpkin string lights new in box)
Average Price Sold: $40.19
Returns: 0
Money Spent on New Inventory This Week: $70ish
Number of items listed this week: 46I tried to list at least three of my craft kits each morning with bar codes before my daughter got up. I suspect the more consistent listing did help with sales.
This week I had a troll buy something and I got the feedback removed. I’m hoping it’s not from posting here on SL since I haven’t had a beef with anyone. Weird.
Have a mountain of laundered textiles to photograph and I just need to get down to that. Saturday I went to a Halloween pop up and an estate sale. I didn’t do great avoiding hunting last week but I’m pretty caught up on recent hauls except for the craft kits I’m doing over time and fabric that has draft listings.
Great idea! Last week I tried to list at least 3 items in the morning before my kid is up. I think it did help my sales.
@Craig the Halloween retail window is short and though people are looking for those brands, the lines PB and WS release each year are pretty limited for this holiday so the old stuff sells well. Christmas is a bit trickier – people like it but a lot more of it is produced. Easter seems meh.
I love the angle of RA and reselling. The retailers need to worry about producing a whole line of great stuff and getting their ideas executed well in Asia. We can just come along and cherry pick the best of their items, wait for it to no longer be available from the retailer, and sell at a premium. Sometimes I have to wait until the other resellers sell out first. Once in a while people send me a frustrated message about how they could have bought it for much less back in the day. Those are not my customers.
@Craigrex https://www.ebay.com/itm/175878253822 These are the type of books I picked up. They are large and have beautiful illustrations. I’ve got a lot of paper backlog and never seem to get to listing it. But definitely needed to save these from the landfill.
I think shipping is just having the right materials. I use protective foam and mainly large bubble. I think my packages tend to get larger than some sellers but my breakage record is pretty good. This will probably take about 10 and I’ll use tissue or packing paper around all the random metal. The worst part is finding the right box. I try to keep them organized by size but it gets a bit out of control.
Yeah, in my case I was really forced to quit. Her situation is pretty chronic. But I feel very fortunate to be able to do so and make some money on Ebay as well.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335027862143 This scavenge of the week from last month sold for $116.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235231011438 This sold in a day or two for $40. I paid $2 at the old lady thrift store. My daughter and I discussed the superstition of finding and then passing on a lucky guardian. Hope it works out ok for us not keeping it. 🙂
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235232044257 and https://www.ebay.com/itm/235232045914 You can bet I got the term outsider art from the podcast. These I got for a buck in the garage of an estate sale. I also bought a big stack of 1960s large art magazines. The person was not at all a good painter but I thought these etchings were interesting.
My other favorite item was this 70s boat sculpture https://www.ebay.com/itm/235232304766 that I got for $10 at the flea market.
